Painting Problems: Only Black and White

10am - 1pm

  • Venue Attenborough Arts Centre
  • Price £160 / £120
  • Event type Creative Courses
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Description

See the world in black and white with acclaimed artist Jenny Grevatte.

This course is aimed at experienced students looking for new challenges or anyone wishing to experiment and take risks to move their practice forward. Taking the limitation of only working in black and white, various problems will be explored, with tutor guidance at every stage.

All students should bring an A4 sketchbook, which will be used for recording and experimenting every week. Optional extra work will be set at the end of each session for students to do at home. Some ideas will be taken from the world around us and digital sources, and others will be led by instinct and mood. Some of the topics covered will be: experimental drawing, monochrome painting, mixing blacks and whites, gesture and mark making, tonal gradations, reductive collage and large, charcoal self-portraits. Artists we will refer to will include: Piet Mondrian, Pierre Soulages, Hans Hartung, Frank Auerbach, John Virtue and William Kentridge.

Tutor Jenny Grevatte is an established artist of international renown represented by the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham. Her work is in national and international collections, including Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, the Women's Art Collection, Murray Hall, Cambridge and the Johannesburg National Museum.

All materials are provided.

Participants must be aged 18+.

This 8-week course will run on Wednesday mornings, 10am-1pm, starting on 9 October with the final session on 27 November 2024.

Please ensure that you agree to our updated Terms & Conditions before booking as courses/workshops are non-refundable in some circumstances.

We aim to make all our sessions as accessible as possible and carers/PAs are very welcome – just remember to book their free place when you book your session. If you'd like to talk to us in advance of booking or attending your sessions to discuss your access needs, our Box Office team is here to help! Email arts-centre@le.ac.uk, pop in or call 0116 252 2455, open 7 days a week.

We have four blue badge parking spaces outside Attenborough Arts Centre, plus double yellow line roadside parking very close to the building for blue badge holders for up to three hours if our parking spaces are occupied.

Free parking for all customers is available after 5pm on weekdays and all day at weekends in the University of Leicester car park next door to Attenborough Arts Centre on Lancaster Road. The closest public car park for parking at all other times is Victoria Park, 5-10 minutes walk from us.