About this Event
Estelle Lovatt's illustrated lecture, workshop, art history exchange and book ‘How To Artist’ shows you how you can be your most original, imaginative, inventive, ground-breaking, creative and productive, inspired by great Artists’ working methods.
Tickets include copy of Estelle's acclaimed book, ‘How to Artist’.
Estelle draws upon over 35+ years research, to appreciate the most motivational, compelling and effective creative ideas that empower, build and guide skilled habits Artists live and make decisions by, from the Renaissance, through the 'isms', to today’s Contemporary Art.
Looking at great artworks, inspired by the Artist's studio daily life practice, from cups of coffee to rockin' horses, sharks, bricks and unmade beds, with Macaulay Culkin 'Home Alone', the first Moon landing and....
Estelle is engaging, enlightening and entertaining in her educational performance. Showing how, "Great Artists have always, always, had Artists inspire them because it’s not easy being an Artist. I’ve spent 35 years + researching the habits and ideas of great successful Artists throughout art history, to learn how they manage their day, their time and studio, which inspire and motivate decisions about their artwork, their creative process, technique application and artistic process.
Georgia O’Keefe understood, 'Great Artists don’t just happen....they have to be trained in the hard school of experience...The notion that there is nothing but genius and a dash of temperament in artistic success is a fallacy!'
And as Constable said, 'tracing the links in art history show no great Artist was ever self-taught.'
Estelle Lovatt FRSA has the unique experience of working on both sides of the canvas. Having trained as a Fine Artist, she is an Art Critic, Art History Lecturer and Professional Artists’ Mentor...Seen and heard on BBC TV and radio inc Front Row and Today; SKY News; CNN International; Al Jazeera....Read in exhibition essay catalogues ‘Henry Moore at Work’, Halcyon Gallery and The Royal Parks ‘Serenity, Sculptor Jane McAdam Freud, Portraitist Kelvin Okafor, Contemporary Master McAlpine Miller, Queen of Pop Deborah Azzopardi and others...Collaborating with The Reduced Shakespeare Company, writing the ‘Reduced History of Art’ skit. Features in Artists and Illustrators magazine. Expert contributor with Andrew Marr ‘Great Paintings of the World’ Ch 5 TV. TED Talk - art/art history. Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (the Sunny Dupree family award and female artist prize) Judge....
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Photobookcafe, 4 Leonard Circus, London, United Kingdom
GBP 40.00