A dynamic tutored life painting course which is suitable for advanced and beginner painters. Advice will be given on how to measure accurately, prepare surfaces, work with mixed media and capture light and shadow on the human form.

This Life Painting course will lead you towards developing your observational drawing and painting skills, when working with a live model.

Georgia will guide you towards measuring the model accurately and convincingly embedding the figure in space (the MAC studio). Capturing light and shadow, skin tone and background tones will be crucial.

Georgia will direct the model to arrange themselves in exciting poses and we will work in response to both quick dynamic poses and longer static poses.

Mixed media painting materials will be provided and experimentation with various tools and types of paint will be encouraged. Working simultaneously on a range of paper/ card types and rapidly in sketchbooks, will help you expand your repertoire of  techniques and processes.

The first 30 minutes of the session will allow time for you to set up, get materials ready and prepare a range of surfaces (perhaps with gesso, if using oil paint for example).

We will then work with a modal for roughly 2 hours (with a break for a cup of tea and a biscuit!) and spend the last 30 mins developing and finalising other areas of our paintings.

• For a mix of beginner and advanced painters.

About your tutor

Education & Teaching experience: 

• 1st Class BA Honours in Fine Art: DJCAD 2009
• MFA in Contemporary Art Practice: ECA, 2013
• Lecturer and Tutor in various institutions since 2014- Edinburgh College of Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Gray’s School of Art, Leith School of Art, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, in China and The University of the Highlands and Islands, Moray.

Awards:

• 2021 Highland Grant to support studio research
• 2020 Exhibition Funding from The British Embassy in Iceland
• 2020 Supported by The Norwegian Artists Association to visit Ny Alesund
• 2018 British Council Sino-UK Grant
• 2016 Scottish International Education Trust Grant to travel to the Arctic
• 2015 Nominated for a Student Led Teaching Award, Dundee University
• 2015 Royal Scottish Academy Guthrie Award
• 2014 Royal Scottish Academy Meyer Oppenheim Prize  
• 2013 Sutherland Trust Award
• 2012 Andrew Grant Award
• 2010 Royal Scottish Academy Prize for Landscape Painting  
• 2009 Sandra McNeillance Memorial Prize for Painting and Drawing, Dundee University

• I have exhibited in the UK since 2009 and internationally since 2017. More information about all of my work and research outputs can be found on my website: https://georgiarosemurray.com/biography/