School
School
An old boat yard on the harbour arm, four studios, a foundry, a darkroom and one very long wall. Since 1997.
How it started
In 1997 a painter called Coraline Thornquist rented a leaking boat store on the harbour, put four easels in it and advertised for students in the local paper. Three came. One of them still teaches here.
The school grew a studio at a time, as the boat yard emptied out. The print shed came in 2004, the foundry in 2011, the darkroom in 2016. We never grew the class size.
The rooms
North light, twelve walls, the life room behind a curtain.
Three presses, a screen room and the type wall.
Modelling stands, a plaster room, two kilns and a foundry.
Forty metres of plywood, repainted white every summer.
What we believe
- Small rooms
Twelve to a studio, so a tutor can know every piece of work by name.
- Hands first
Every process is learned by hand before a screen is allowed near it.
- Say it out loud
Work gets better when it is talked about, kindly and honestly, every week.
- 12students in every studio
- 1997the year we opened the yard
- 60+crits in two years
Applications open
Pin your work up with us
Applications for September close on 30 April. Send a few images of what you make, then come in for a conversation.