Sussex Art and Printmaking Studio

Our Studios offer a diverse range of stimulating, artist-led courses in a friendly and creative environment. Our aim is to encourage students of develop confidence in their own artistic abilities and ideas, helping them start to further their own artistic practice.

Our courses are attended by people of all levels of ability, from independently practicing artists to complete beginners. This allows us to cultivate a unique space that is both innovative and supportive where students harbour a genuine drive to produce quality artworks and realise their individual outcomes. In this way we are able to connect to a wider artistic community through our regular exhibitions and further establish ourselves as a new and exciting centre for artistic practice.

We offer a wide range of courses comprising of both traditional and contemporary approaches. At Sussex Art and Print Studios work is focused in two dimensions and involves painting, drawing and printmaking techniques such as portrait, still life, life drawing, gum arabic transfer printing, etched lino Printing as well as classic collograph and etching processes. We offer a strong figurative tradition in the Drawing, Painting and Sculpture Studios that can be used as a foundation for students to move on into other artistic avenues, or that can be developed as an end in itself to produce work within a figurative genre. At Sussex Sculpture Studios we continue to cater for all levels of experience and ability in a variety of media including wood, ceramics, stone, ciment fondue, plaster and resin.

Students are encouraged to consider a number of start points such as working directly from the model, on Figurative Sculpture or Portrait Head courses to developing individual projects on the Free Form course. We aim to continue to work with professional artists in Sussex to expand the range and quality of our art courses ensuring that each academic year will differ from the previous with the addition of interesting and original courses encompassing both 2D and 3D art practice.

Gary Goodman:
Painter and printmaker Gary Goodman also makes 3-d constructions and artists books. In addition he is a poet, winning several prizes at spoken word performances in the UK, Norway and the USA.

Bernard Lord:
Has studied Fine Art (Painting) in the UK, Italy and the USA. He was awarded a Post Grad Fellowship, and a Teaching Fellowship. Bernard had 40 yrs of teaching experience at College and University level, in the UK and abroad, before retiring as HOD in Visual Arts and Design. He has exhibited extensively throughout his teaching career and continues to be a practicing painter.

Nicola Rose
Painter Nicola Rose is a qualified teacher also with an MA in Fine Art Printmaking, Brighton University. She exhibits widely in the UK and has exhibited in Norway and Amsterdam.
www.nicolaroseartist.com

Marji Talbot
A founder member of Sussex Sculpture Studios and Sussex Printmaking Studios, Marji has studied sculpture, painting, and printmaking at the City and Guilds School of Art in London and completed an MA in Sequential Art and Design at Brighton University.

David Tolley
BA Hons (Oxon) MA (Oxon) is a tutor in Fine Art at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, the Fine Art department of the University of Oxford. David is an artist, writer and photographer. He exhibits in London, New York and at Modern Art Oxford.

Clive Vosper
M.A. Fine Art Printmaking Brighton University, Clive is an experienced printmaker and tutor who has shown work extensively and has work in many private and public collections throughout the UK. He has also exhibited in Wisconsin, USA
www.clivevosper.com