Art, Design and Crafts

Pastel Portraits

Start date: 15th Sep 2025

Time: 14:45 - 17:00

Cost: £108

Day: Monday

Duration: 6 weeks

Tutor: Martin Kerrison

Course code: 25AU003

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Learn how to use oil pastels and chalk pastels to create portraits. Learn how to create portraits, working from historical and contemporary artists, demonstrations and group discussion. This course teaches portrait drawing, exploring the representational and expressive potential of chalk and oil pastel. The course is open to all abilities and levels of experience.

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Martin Kerrison

I am an artist and educator, having extensive experience as a senior school and adult education teacher. I teach drawing, painting, life and portraiture classes to all ages and abilities, exploring a wide range of materials and approaches. I believe art benefits all and everyone has creative potential.
My art practice focusses on figurative and magical realist painting and I have exhibited widely, most notably at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions in 2022, 2020 and 2015.
Graduating from Northumbria University with a degree in Fine Art, I took a PGCE at Oxford and an MA in History of Art at the University of London. I taught art for many years in the London area, working as a Teacher of Art and Art History, Adult Education Tutor and Head of Art and Photography, before relocating to Yorkshire in 2021.
When not at the easel or in the classroom, I can often be found enjoying countryside walks, historic buildings, singing in local groups or playing cricket.

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