ARTIST'S BIO

Dan Whiteson is a professional artist specialising in figurative & portrait painting/drawing. His work has been exhibited at numerous solo and group shows, and his work is held in collections across the world. His practice investigates the impact of digital media on physical lived experience, and what he sees as a 'Disintegration of the Self'.

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

I created my life drawing classes primarily as means to translate my passion for creativity and drawing to others but also in response to my own, negative experiences of life classes & creative education in general. I didn't want to focus on technique, or 'right' or 'wrong', but instead to encourage, through an informal approach to teaching and an emphasis on experimental techniques and exercises, an environment in which students ,regardless of ability, could feel relaxed and inspired, and thus be able to fully (re-)engage in the joy of creativity. Whereas I had often felt, even as a confident draughtsman, that an emphasis on realism and 'copying' our observations had caused my enjoyment of drawing to diminish, I wanted to give people the opportunity to create real, genuine and personal figurative art, by using the human form as an inspiration or a starting point for creation, as opposed to a constraint.

CONTACT

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