Mentoring Services
Struggling with where you’re going? Unsure what you’re ‘saying’ with your work? Feeling uncertain about your practice? My one-to-one mentoring sessions help you unlock what you’re trying to communicate. Implementing writing exercises, practical workshops and a series of informal interviews, I help you reconnect with your practice, write your statement and understand how to go forward.
The three tenants of your practice are interior inspiration, exterior inspiration, and methods & materials. My tailored mentoring sessions lead you through these three themes, leaving you with a clear knowledge of both why and how you create.
In the Studio.
Visiting your studio helps me get under your artistic skin, to understand how you create. In the studio we will undergo a series of exercises, both written and practical, to unlock what you are trying to communicate. This is sometimes through working alongside you, so I can see your process and thought patterns in action. Other times this is through considering your work through a written lens, by undertaking poetic exercises or ‘reviewing’ a specific painting.
Daniel Turner, Borne by the Fog, oil on panel, 31 x 25.5 cm
Out There.
I’m interested in understanding your exterior inspiration and experiencing it with you. If this is the landscape, we will take some time exploring places that influence you. If it’s the body, then we’ll go to a life-drawing class. If it’s the materiality of paint, we’ll spend time exploring pigments.
Whatever we do, wherever we go, I will always be asking the question ‘why?’
Each mentoring session is tailored entirely to you. My main aim is for us to discover, together, how and why you create.
More information.
My day rate starts at £240.
For dates and travel radius, please email me.
If you’re looking for a longer-term mentoring course which covers all elements of your art practice, I highly recommend The Newlyn School of Art. I currently guest mentor on the Mentoring and Professional Landscape courses.
