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Information
about Sunningwell tutors
Diana
Bell MA Fine Art
Teaches mixed media courses in both 2D and 3D with an emphasis
on contemporary art practice. Her own work is sculpture, mixed
media installation and public art. Diana has exhibited in
the UK, France, Germany and Romania and has helped co-ordinate
several European exchange projects. She has a wide
experience of artist residencies and examples of her public art
can be seen in the Oxford area. Fore more information
www.dianabell.co.uk
Christine
Burgess
Trained at Manchester College of Art, has taught in Wiltshire
and Oxfordshire for many years. She has exhibited regularly in
the Oxford area and more widely in London, Bristol, Birmingham,
Bath, Cheltenham and Wales. She has work in collections in France,
Holland, Ireland, Japan, Sweden and USA She is a past chair of
Oxford Art Society and currently co-ordinator of Oxford Confederation
of Artists & Makers (OXCAM) which campaigns for better exhibition
facilities for artists in Oxford. E-mail: Christine@adhunt1.freeserve.co.uk
Davina Chapman
Graduated from De Montfort
University with a B.A.(Hons) degree in Fine Art. She has
exhibited work in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Davina
has many years experience working within the education department
of the Museum Service where she facilitates and organizes arts
based workshops and activities.
Susan
Drew
Studied at Central St Martins School of Art and Design, (BA
Hons) Ceramics, followed by a Masters at Cardiff College of Higher
Education. After graduating she moved back to Oxfordshire and
set up a workshop producing decorative wall pieces and thrown
decorative domestic-ware exhibiting widely through galleries and
craft shows.
Neil Drury
For over fifteen years he has worked and exhibited as a painter
and printmaker mostly in and around Oxford. Whilst his output
is varied in style and medium, his one creative constant is the
expressive use of colour. In his teaching at museums, art schools,
abroad and at his studio, enjoying and understanding colour is
again very much a keynote. A keen interest in art history informs
all his work and travel schedules to galleries, museums and exhibitions
at home and abroad.
Pam Foley
Pam maintains a sculpture studio practice in Farthinghoe, just outside of Banbury, and has been involved in art
for over 25 years. Her background is in teaching to children
and adults at schools in her native USA (San Francisco and the Bay
Area) as well as in the UK. She is originally from New
England USA, but now lives in Jericho, Oxford. Although her
artwork is synthesis of traditional representations depicting the
human form her particular interest is in artefacts and archetypal
imagery, and it's relevance to contemporary times. Pam has
exhibited, and has work in private collections in the USA, France
and in the UK. She can be contacted at email:
pfmail@btinternet.com
and www.pamfoley.co.uk
Ron Freeborn
Retired Head of the Art Department, Didcot Girls' School after
30 years. Currently teaching life drawing at St Mary's Wantage
and Sunningwell School of Art. He has exhibited in Newbury, Henley,
Blewbury and Oxford. Paintings in private collections in all 5
continents and is represented in the Government
collection. His work can be seen at shopart.uk.com.
Ron Freeborn organises trips for artists to Venice annually.
Pauline
Gibson
Studied painting and ceramics at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham.
She has exhibited work in ceramic, ceramic mosaic and paint. Her
work used to be abstract, is now based on observation and reflects
her interest in colour, perception and light. She taught ceramics
and art in secondary schools and adult education and has been a
tutor at Sunningwell for 13 years.
www.paulinegibson.co.uk
Pat
Gove
Graduated from the University of
Wales, Aberystwyth with a degree in Fine Art. Has been
teaching water colour painting in Oxfordshire for the past 15
years, latterly at Cumnor and Kennington Community Education
Centre, Abingdon & Witney College and Denman College.
Exhibits during Artweeks and at other venues in and around Oxford.
Patrick
Jeffs
Studied at Oxford School of Art and Hornsey College of Art. Teaching
experience includes working at Hornsey College of Art, London
College of Printing and Berkshire College of Art and Design. Patrick
Jeffs is a painter who has been involved in many exhibitions and
projects in this country and also in France, Germany and Poland.
Individual exhibitions include exhibiting at the Stables Gallery,
Oxford, Christ Church Picture Gallery and at the X-Change Gallery, Oxford.
Alison
Jones
Graduated from Camberwell College of Applied Arts, London with
a B.A. Hons degree in ceramics. Since then has become a member
of the Oxfordshire Craft Guild and has set up her workshop in
South Oxfordshire. Alison explores the human form and exhibits
figurative drawings, collages and ceramics. Teaches pottery and
figurative sculpture courses at Sunningwell and is a tutor in
a variety of education establishments, as Artist in Residence
and Arts Youth Worker.
www.alisonjonesceramics.co.uk
Gillian Langley
An experienced and enthusiastic
Artist and Art Teacher who has recently moved to the area.
She has a BA (Hons) in Art Design and Media, specialising in
Illustration and a Certificate in Education and has had successful
solo exhibitions and also exhibited and sold paintings from venues
in the Hampshire area. She has also undertaken various
illustration commissions for magazines and publications and
paintings for private clients. She specialises in drawing
and painting working with a wide range of materials and
techniques.
Anna
Lever
Became Director of Sunningwell School of Art in 1995 after many
years of experience working in course administration. Over the
past fifteen years her interest in sculptural ceramics has led
to many exhibitions locally and in London. She is a member of
Oxford Art Society and the Royal Society of British Artists and
was the winner of the RBA Annual Sculpture Award in 1990. In 2001
she exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Flora McLachlan
After an Art Foundation course at
Brighton, Flora graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford, with an
MA degree in English, then studied illustration at West Herts
College. In 2000 she joined Oxford Printmakers Co-op and is
now a full-time artist making etchings, lithographs and monotypes.
Her work is inspired by poetry and folklore, and portrays the
ancient English landscape with its wild and magical creatures
roaming under the risen moon. She has shown at the RA Summer
Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Barn Galleries in Henley, Glyndebourne
and art fairs in London and Brighton.
Francis O'Neill
Francis O'Neill is an Oxford based
artist. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art and has
successfully completed several residencies including two year long
positions at Chenderit Visual Arts College, Middleton Cheney,
Banbury and at St. Mary's School, Wantage, as well as others
abroad. He is primarily a figure painter who works in oil on
canvas from his studio in Binsey, Oxford. He has exhibited
widely and currently teaches at several locations in the
Oxfordshire area.
Beth Palmer
Beth Palmer
was born in Oxford, grew up in
Nigeria and returned to the UK at the age of 16. She studied Art
at Epsom Art College followed by London University, at Whitelands
College (part of the Roehampton Institute) where she completed a
combined degree in Art and Religious Studies. She gained an
Honours in 1980, specializing in ceramics, and then completed a
Postgraduate Certificate in Education.
Beth has spent much of her
spare time in her ceramics workshop concentrating on handbuilt
ceramics made in stoneware fired crank and porcelain, many based
on the landscapes and colours of West Africa. Recently she has
been working in crank, white earthenware and mixed media, in
particular combining handmade paper, textiles, wood and ceramics.
Jane
Pollard
Her creative experiences and interests have mainly been in
two-dimensional art forms. Since obtaining her degree in textiles,
she has enjoyed working with surface design in mixed media and
exhibiting in group events. Has considerable teaching experience
with students in secondary education and is currently involved
with teaching art and design in further & adult community education.
Sarah
Wenden
Studied at Hornsey, Central & Slade Schools of Art, London.
She was a Junior Fellow at Cardiff School of Art and then taught
at various art schools. She is a landscape painter living in Oxford
who has exhibited widely in London, Oxford & elsewhere.
Anthony Wilder
Gained a BA degree from Bath
Academy of Art and a PGCE from the University of Reading. He
taught Art at Theale Green School and then spent thirteen years as
Head of Art at Denefield School in Reading. During this time
he enjoyed a sabbatical year painting, part of it in Italy.
Since 1994 he has divided his time between part time teaching and
painting. In 1998 he left school teaching for tutoring in
adult education and to continue painting and other business
interests. His painting, which is predominantly in
watercolour, is about feelings for particular places. In
November 2006 he published a book on a group of Victorian artists
who lived in his home town of Wallingford.
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