| Your
tutors - experienced and
qualified teachers/artists
Your Drawing and Painting tutor:
Your
resident tutor is Brian Rusher, who is an experienced and
qualified teacher as well as an exhibiting, professional artist.
Originally
trained at Art College, he pursued an accomplished career
in Grap hics,
Advertising and Visual Communication where he won national
Design awards, returning to personal work and Fine Art some
years ago to create pastel drawings, mixed media collages,
and paint in acrylics. This developed into a naïve/primitive
style, with also occasional expressionist renderings, reflecting
particularly his empathy for people and places encountered
on his extensive travels, and some of this work has been exhibited
in galleries and privately in the UK, Holland, Canada, USA
and France. 
Brian
lectured intermittently at Berkshire College of Art and Design,
before qualifying as a teacher. He taught Art on a part-time
basis in England for some years, having success with students
of all abilities in mixed media and on multi-disciplined projects,
covering: Drawing, Fundamentals of Painting, Watercolours,
Pastels, Acrylics, Oils, Collage, Impressionism, Expressionism,
Abstraction, Naïve Art, and Art Brut. He has taught both
in Colleges of Further Education and in schools.
Click
here to see Brian's exhibited art work.
Your Sculpture tutor:
Your
tutor is Marie-Claire Touya, who is an English-speaking, experienced
and qualified teacher as well as an exhibiting, professional
artist. She is an accomplished and well-known sculptress and
artist in the region, who works from her own studio nearby
in the village.
Your Printmaking, Art Therapy, Creative
Writing and Inner Peace and Harmony tutors:
Please
refer to details on ‘Course format’ page or request
further information on individual tutors.
Of course our tutors are committed and passionate about teaching,
creating structured and individually tailored courses, but......
......What
exactly makes a good Art tutor?
Certainly
a tutor with artistic skill on it's own just isn't enough,
if a student is serious about his/her art! It's a disturbing
fact that many course tutors, especially in residential art
centres, haven't actually been formally trained - and therefore
don't know how to really teach! The following points
are taken from an article written by Nicholas Corder,
published in Leisure Painter and The Artist
magazines.
| In
no particular order, good tutors… |
- are
warm and generous
- have
a sense of humour
- listen
to you and your opinions
- make
you think
- help
you to understand what you are doing
- negotiate
the content of the course with you
- use
their own experience to help you, not to show off
how good they are
- are
generous with praise and tactful with adverse criticism
-
reassure you when you make mistakes
- are
well prepared
- set
sensible tasks
- are
patient and encouraging
- vary
the activities in the classes
- ask
for feedback all the time
- value
you as a person and as an artist
- see
education as a two-way process - the tutor can also
learn from the student
- need
some praise from their students from time to time
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The
complete article can be seen here.
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