Current teaching activities at Swains Yard Studios Woodstock
Paul Birchall
Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays (Mornings 9.30am - 12.30) and afternoons (1pm - 4pm)
2022: This year I will be teaching open sessions in my new studio at the Palms centre in Woodstock. Students under guidance can work on their own themes to develop their own personal artistic ideas.
Classes are charged a R1800 PCM Fees payable before or on commencement of the month make up slots are available for missed classes
For a list of dates for the current year please contact me o +270823633046
Payment
Please note fees for each Month must be paid for prior to the beginning of each Month.
Participants must provide all their own materials. Some basic materials ar provided for beginners
Occasionally specific material will be provided and charged accordingly.
Places are limited to 7 per session
People wishing to join classes There is an option to make up sessions missed, but not carried over indefinately.
The studio is equipped with easels boards and tables, tea & coffee making facilities.
Student Just starting or New students can opt to pay a small extra fee to have material provided until you decide what you prefer or need.
For further information contact me on 0823633046 or e-mail me at pjbirchall@yahoo.co.uk
Other teaching activities
My ideas around teaching
For a number of years, I worked in a commercial art studio alongside a talented group of artists. The exchange of knowledge and practical techniques across all mediums has given me a wide base of skills to use in my own work and to pass on to others.
Combined with my more formal training at art school, I try to engage students in exploring both techniques and intellectual ideas about the images they create.
I try to help students to fully realize their ideas.
I believe that even with a limited skills base, students can create interesting work by engaging their intellect with the learning process.
Most people that I have worked with seem to think that they need to learn to draw before they can create something they might consider a finished art work.
Learning to draw is a discipline that takes many hours of dedication, trial and error, exploring different techniques. I was taught to draw in a very logical and practical manner, using the point and line technique. This has underpinned everything that I have done as an artist. From time to time, I run a structured drawing program based on this technique. Anyone interested in finding out more can contact me at the above address.
What I try to do as a teacher is to enable students to develop individually creating a diverse interaction of styles and ideas. I try to combine learning skills with developing ideas and to make finished pieces of work and individual artists.