This month’s blog is an update on my studio practice.
Whatever I am making art about, to some extent I am always asking myself and the work: ‘why it is necessary that it is made?’ Some ideas are better written down, or danced, or written off. I am looking to make visual art, and I...
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OCA student Lucie Bromfield recently completed a level 2 OCA painting course and submitted a suite of work that demonstrated such thoughtfulness and integrity that we just had to review it for the blog. Lucie's mark reflected what the assessors felt
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This week we are featuring Nigel Roberson's learning blog for his Photography 2: Landscape course. It is an exemplary example of a carefully structured reflective learning log, showing clearly how Nigel has developed his work, selecting ideas, re
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It is becoming increasingly hard to keep track of all the things OCA students are doing, with growing numbers blogging their learning logs, setting up informal meetings, etc, but this is something special. Student Penny Rowe has got together with
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Our second 'blog of the week' this year is by Graphic Design student Sarah Pease. I particularly liked this postcard design from her first assignment, with Sarah's explanation of the design choices 'I used the green of Gordan’s gin bottles of w
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As we all know, the web provides a great array of wonderful stuff, but it is a challenge to sift the good from the indifferent and downright bad. But now an initiative based on a philosophy of collaboration in the arts community is beginning to bear
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My students always find it strange, but amusing that their EFL teacher also studies, and have to 'take tests'. Of course, for the teenagers, it is always impossible to understand that their teacher 'wants to study'. Living, working and studying in Ch
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..... and a loss to art. Ian Simpson, born in 1933, has died.
Jim Cowan, long time OCA tutor, who knew and worked with Ian, writes:
Many OCA students will know Ian Simpson’s book ‘Drawing, Seeing and Observation’ which has become a st
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This is the final post for 2011 from the OCA and if you are subscriber to the Weekender eBulletin you should receive it tomorrow. We will be back in 2012 with more articles, videos of student work, learning blogs and study visits. For now, we leave
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Last week I had the latest in my regular catch up meetings with Pat Jones of the Prisoners' Education Trust. These meetings are always a pleasure. Pat shares her understanding of where education in prisons is going and I marvel at her calm demean
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