Year 7 Cardboard Relief Portraits

Aled

Tilly V

Thomas 

Lyra

Year 6 Eyes

Inspired by the famous 1946 work by M.C Escher, titled simply 'Eye', the students then designed, drew out and then painted their own version of the work. 

Emi

Barney

Elysia

Skye

Tabitha

Piece's from Ella's and Hermione's scholar portfolios

Hermione and Ella both created a scholarship portfolio as part of an all-rounder scholarship to their next schools. They both worked incredibly hard, and created varied and exciting portfolios. They were both successful in gaining scholarships. 

Ella's final piece created in acrylic 

A page from Ella's sketchbook

Hermione's Georgia O'Keefe inspired piece in watercolour and pencil 

One of Hermione's final pieces created using watercolour 

Year 8 Portraits

Inspired by the work of M.C Escher, Year 8 worked from a fish-eye photo of themselves to draw and paint  portraits of themselves based around one or two colours and black and white for the lights and dark sections. 

Jemima W

Minnie 

Jake

Maya

Year 8 Wire and Modroc Colour Psychology Character Dolls

Jack

Freddie

Alfie

Vinay

Year 6 Tight Sculptures

The students began by creating a continuous line drawing of toys from life, before using a view-finder to select a section of their drawing. They then copied and enlarged this section before abstracting it by changing the colours, inspired by the work of Kandinsky. This section was then used as a starting point for their sculpture. 

To create the sculpture they bent the wire around the outline of their enlarged section before drilling two holes into a wooden base and glue-gunning it, to make it secure. They then used a leg from a pair of tights and stretched it tightly over the wire and base before having it staple gunned at the bottom. The sculptures were then painted white, before drawing on their design and painting it. 

Zoe 

Barney

Georgie

Aggie

Year 5 Dorothy Dehner Inspired Sculptures

This term Year 5 have been exploring the work of the Action Painters and looking at 20th Century sculptor, Dorothy Dehner. The students began by using different objects from home and nature to create experimental marks onto cardboard using poster paint before cutting shapes from the cardboard and slotting them together.

Archie  

Esme 

Oliver 

William 

Pottery Activity

This term has been a new beginning for the Pottery Department as Bethan Jones has taken over as the pottery teacher from Allan Peacey, who ran the department for 27 years. 

The children in Year 4-8 are lucky enough to have the opportunity to join pottery activity run on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. 

Year 6 Arcimboldo Inspired Watercolour Food Portraits

Evie 6F

Lyra 6DS

Mary 6DS

Max 6DS

Phoebe 6C

Saskia 6DS

Savannah 6C

Tilly 6C

Selection of Art Work by Scholar, Jemima K

Skull still life - pencil on paper

skull still life - acrylic on canvas board 

Self Portrait - mixed media on paper 

Year 5 Art Day

On the 16th June Year 5 were lucky enough to have a day packed full of Art. The children had the opportunity to try out their cartooning skills with cartoonist Oliver Preston; experimental mark making with fine art textile designer Lizzie Weir; outdoor nature drawings with artist Gemma Waters and pottery with potter and poet Alan Peacey. 

Year 7 Art Workshop with Illustrator Emma Dibben

On the 9th of May Year 7 were lucky enough to have illustrator, Emma Dibben carry out workshops for the day. Emma is well known for her illustrations of food and food packaging, particularly for Waitrose. First Emma taught the children how to draw out the fruit and vegetables using pencil, then applying watercolour, using washes of paint and splatters before adding finer details. It was a great day, with an impressive level of work created by the year group and I hope some of them may have been inspired by Emma to become illustrators one day. 

A selection of pieces created by the year group: 

Anna  7JLB

Georgie 7JLB

Hannie 7D

Harry 7JLB

Hermione 7D

Jemima 7T

Lawrie 7T

Rosie 7D

Sam 7D