The Course

This Weekend Workshop will look at placing the figure in an invented space to examine and deconstruct the basic elements of figure painting. Starting with the fundamental practice of drawing and painting a figure, students will move on to deconstruct their observational work and find their own way of abstracting what they see. The course will cover how to create an illusionistic space and integrate the figure into it. There will be a focus on each student finding a visual language that connects the figure and surrounding space and exploring how the artist can reveal elements of an image’s construction. On the first day students will use acrylic and mixed media while on the second day students will work with oils as their final passage of paint.

All necessary materials will be provided and light lunches and refreshments will be available. Please notify us at time of booking if you have any dietary requirements.

The Tutor

Kenneth Le Riche attended the University of Dundee graduating in1986 in Mechanical Engineering. In 1990 he attended classes at the 369 Gallery in Edinburgh under the guidance and tuition of Callum Inness, Moyna Flannigan and Olivia Irvine before attending the Foundation Course at the Leith School of Art and enrolling at the Edinburgh College of Art where graduated in 1998. He subsequently studied at the New York Academy of Art for the MFA where he graduated in 2003 with a distinction.

Kenneth has taught at the Leith School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, Bridgehouse Art, Amagansett Applied Arts (USA), and The East Harlem School USA). Kenneth is a professional member of Visual Art Scotland and has featured in a number of group exhibitions at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh and has exhibited extensively - in Scotland, New York, Barcelona, Amman and Jerusalem. He has been artist-in-residence at Villa Arson in France, Odd Nerdrum’s Studios in Norway and the Mohtaraf Remal For Arts in Jordan.

Kenneth lives and works in Forres, Northern Scotland and teaches peripatetically as well as a Studio Practice Course for artists at the Moray Art Centre.

Art Statement:

There are two related strands in Kenneth's artwork: observation and imagination. They inform each other.

The observational work is figurative often depicting the experience of painting or drawing itself and its process of creating.

The second strand is of imaginary spaces and forms using perspective and, sometimes, arbitrarily constructed

symbols, like letters, arrows, arches, aqueducts and animals.

Both strands are concerned with the relationship between the abstract surface and the illusion. Overall a theme of latency pervades and the tension between form and completion is intrinsic to the work.

Within each work there is vulnerability where a thing's existence could still be taken away from it.

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