‘Mire’ is the visual outcome of a three year research art/science project by artist and Open College of the Arts Tutor, Liz Douglas. She has been researching diatoms found in pools at Murder Moss, one of the Whitlaw Mosses in the Scottish Borders. Whitlaw Mosses are a National Nature Reserve, a site...
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OCA painting and printmaking tutor James Willis on his new exhibition and experience of India....
My trip to India was made several years ago. During a hectic tour of Agra, Jaipur and Delhi I managed to sketch all the time and even make a few
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Eileen Cooper is a painter and printmaker and Head of the Printmaking at the Royal Academy Schools. Her unique style is one that penetrates the mind and stays with you long after you have visited an exhibition of her work. See life laid bare as w
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A recent piece in the magazine Frieze about the concerns contemporary artists have caught my attention, and made me wonder what preoccupies those OCA students who are striving to be better artists?
The article contends that artists' main preoccupa
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Yes, the analogy is not inappropriate. By the end of a long weekend of exhibition visits at Brighton Photo Biennial, OCA's Director Gareth, photography tutor Clive, a selected group of students and myself felt very much intoxicated with photograp
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The Business Design Centre in Islington is a great venue for designers to show their flair, with 65,000 square feet, a graceful iron arch originally designed as the Royal Agricultural Hall, opened in 1862. Now a thriving conference centre, the venue
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Modern Times: responding to chaos at the De La Warr Pavilion, a workshop that offers an opportunity to work with the exhibition of 20th century drawings held at the De La Warr pavillion. With a consideration of how artists think through drawing as a
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