Drawing & Painting En Plein Air in Oaks Park

5 August 2020

Over two days of sunshine at the end of July 2020, Sutton College students took part in the art department’s first and highly successful Drawing & Painting En Plein Air Courses at Oaks Park in Carshalton. The course was designed to bring students together safely to engage with their practice following the gradual easing of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions and Sutton College is proud to share some of the results.

Working en plein-air is a French term that means ‘in the open air’ and refers to the act of painting outdoors in the landscape. Plein Air artists capture the spirit or essence of a scene with a far greater authenticity than can be achieved when working from a second-hand image by incorporating natural light, colour & movement into their works.

The high point of plein air drawing & painting came with the emergence of impressionism which was a movement known for paintings that depict the transience of light, and to capture scenes of modern life and the natural world in their ever-shifting conditions. Radicals in their time, early impressionist painters changed the relationship of the viewer to painting from that of passive acceptance of political or religious content to an active participation in the creation of meaning through the activation of memory and personal experience.

Our students never fail to surprise and delight with the quality and ambition of the work that they make. Some of these drawings & paintings and much, much more will be on display in the Art & Craft Summer Show opening in the first week of September.

 

To find out more about our new Drawing & Painting Courses please follow the link below:

http://www.suttoncollege.ac.uk/category/art-craft/drawing-painting

To find out more about our new Art History Courses please follow the link below:

http://www.suttoncollege.ac.uk/category/art-craft/art-history

To find out more about Oaks Park please follow the link below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaks_Park_(London)

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