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WATCH
Michelangelo –
Love and Death
The final film in Exhibition on
Screen’s fourth series hits cinemas
on 13 June, and delves deep into
the work of Michelangelo. Filmed on
locations including Casa Buonarroti
in Florence, the Medici Chapel and
the Vatican, it captures his
environment and, in turn, delivers a
greater understanding of his work.
http://www.exhibitiononscreen.com/en-uk6
WORKSHOP
Life Drawing – Composition
and the Picture Plane
Improve the composition of your
figure drawings and develop an
understanding of the dynamics of
the picture plane with our regular
‘How to Draw’ contributor artist Jake
Spicer, from 2 to 4 June 2017, at
West Dean College, near Chichester.
http://www.westdean.org.uk8
EXPLORE
Hampstead Art Fair
Summer on London’s Hampstead
Heath is glorious enough but if
you’re all about your art, head to
Whitestone Pond on 25 June to see
and buy work, as well as enjoy
demonstrations and workshops.
http://www.hampsteadsummerfestival.
com/art7
VISIT
South East Open Studios
Explore more than 300
events at 200 locations across the
south east of England from 9 to 25
June. Artists and craftspeople
across the region will open their
doors for a unique opportunity to
meet, talk to and see them at work
as part of the open studios event.
http://www.seos-art.org5
LEARN
Painting Flowers
in Acrylics
This three-day course with Aine
Divine from 2 to 4 June, at Chapel
Cottage Studios, near Abergavenny,
Wales, will cover the still life set up,
the first loose layers, using large
brushes and rags, scumbling on dry
paint and splashing wet paint.
http://www.chapelcottagestudio.co.uk3
ENTER
Royal Institute of Oil Painters
Annual Exhibition 2017
If you’re an oil painter, June is the
month to focus on your most
precious project as open
submissions to prestigious the Royal
Institute of Oil Painters Annual
Exhibition at Mall Galleries,
London, begin on 22 May.
http://www.theroi.co.uk2
TALK
Art in Focus
If you’re milling around on
London’s Millbank, drop in to Tate
Britain on Tuesdays, Thursdays or
Saturdays between 1 and 30 June
for a free talk on a classic work. This
month, it’s Sir Stanley Spencer’s
Swan Upping in Cookham.
http://www.tate.org.uk9
READ
The Extraordinary Life
and Momentous Times
of JMW Turner
For a great long read for the
summer holidays, look no further
than the paperback of Franny
Moyle’s bumper Turner biography,
published on 25 May (Penguin,
£10.99), which
gets right to the
heart of the man
behind the
paintings.
http://www.penguin.
co.ukAINE DIVINE© DAVID BICKERSTAFF AND EXHIBITION ON SCREEN© TATE PHOTOGRAPHYDon’t
miss!
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