It’s not everyday that you ruin £260 worth of digital camera. But that’s exactly what I did to my Nikon P7000 in a winter blizzard on Rhinog Fach, in North Wales, a couple of weeks ago. It was a long time since a camera had died on me, the whole £25 of it: my...
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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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In the competitive and fast moving world of art exhibitions and artistic reputations, it is easy to get ignored or forgotten. A number of belated biographies were published last year that bring to the public’s attention some of these artists:
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This post features music composed by Edinburgh based music student Jamie Dunnett. He writes as follows.
“Night Music was written specifically for OCA tutor and professional flautist Carla Rees to play at the composition workshop in November 20
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Listen to this fascinating piece about writing good quality reflective commentaries. OCA tutor and Creative Writing assessor, Liz Cashden, explains what makes a good creative commentary, and reads out some revealing samples by John Wrigglesworth, wh
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OCA student Amano Samarpan will be familiar to many students from his frequent attendance at study visits. He has recently had published a new edition of his successful award-winning book Birds of India. For this 4th edition Amano travelled to In
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There's an Edward Burra Retrospective at the Pallant House Gallery, Chichester West Sussex at the moment. One of the first times I encountered the late work of Edward Burra was at the huge exhibition of British Painting at the Hayward Gallery in 19
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