Art Scholar Trip to Oxford

On Thursday the Year 8 Art Scholars, Miss Dismorr and Mr Waters visited Oxford for a day of culture! Our first stop was the Ashmolean where we visited on the opening day of the new Andy Warhol exhibition. It was wonderful to see Warhol's work up close, especially as the exhibition displayed work spanning his whole career and was from a private collection, so rarely seen.  This was followed by hot chocolate on the roof-top restaurant followed by a quick lunch opposite the Bodleian Library. The afternoon was spent in the Pitts Rivers Museum and the Natural History Museum where everyone enjoyed sketching a range of anthropological curios, (although I'm not sure anyone was brave enough to tackle the shrunken heads!) 

Year 8 Surreal Shoes

Ginny - 8JB

Tom  - 8JB

Eric - 8JB

George - 8

Griffin - 8

Eloise - 8

Year 5 Chuck Close Style Paintings



Evie 5lR

Lyra 5MB

Max 5MB

Molly 5MB

A Selection of Work from the Pottery Studio

Rosalind 5M

Flora 5MB



Hector 5MB



A selection of work by 5MB

Recent work by some of the Art Scholars

The Art Scholars have been working hard at home and in the Thursday night scholar sessions in order to build up their portfolio. Here are some examples of some of the pupils' recent work. 

Willa    8B

Lena  8SM

Eric 8JB

India 8JB

Zara  8B

Year 5 Self Portrait Studies

Year 5 are exploring self portraits this term and spent a lesson drawing a detailed study in their sketchbooks using pencil. They were asked to focus on correct facial proportion and the different details of the face, such as eye lashes and freckles. The students are now embarking on their final pieces which will be painted in the style of the artist Chuck Close. 

Hector 5LR

Poppy  5M

George  5M

Hannah  5M

Mary  5LR

Year 8 Experimental Shoe Paintings

Year 8 spent a lesson creating experimental shoe paintings using the end of paintbrushes and swatches of cardboard dipped into black acrylic as their method of mark-making. 

Lena  8SM

Arabella  8JB

Ellie  8B