“The atmosphere is always very friendly and it is a pleasure to attend each class. Even though painting and drawing is an effort if someone wants to progress, I leave each class with more knowledge and a sense of achievement. Nothing is forced, the tutor is very approachable, open and enthusiastic which helps to achieve better results.”
“You always make sure you have time for everyone and try to devote an equal amount of time to all students.”
“I have a passion for life drawing and it informs the other art stuff that I do but I have felt that I have been on a plateaux for a while. This course has well and truly pushed me off the plateau and I found the course challenging and very rewarding. Thank you”
“Thank you for a very enjoyable course, I feel I owe a lot of my recent progress to your interventions and tuiton. I really appreciated the stimulus and your technical knowledge too.”
“Mark is very good at striking the balance between leaving you time and space to get on with your drawing, and giving individual attention and help. His comments are always constructive, encouraging you to be self critical and improve, and never leaving you feeling belittled or embarrassed by your efforts!”
“It was great. The whole group seemed to thoroughly enjoy it and feel inspired to take it further.”
“I just wanted to say thanks for the portrait course on Sunday, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and really learnt a lot. Its got me fired up for oil painting.”
“I’ve never felt so pleased with my work before!”
(Please give an overall assessment of the course:) “Excellent – a good balance between enabling people to feel confident in their skills and pushing students beyond these to another level – I think there were points when I (and others) came to a block and you helped us push through it to come out stronger – we could easily have given up at that point.”
“The Portrait workshop was hard work but beneficial. As ever, your patient encouragement allowed me to complete the painting in the time available. I am now enthusiastic and hope to carry on with Portraiture. I can only say thank you for your knowledgeable support and instruction over the last four years.”