Portrait sculpture is an immensely absorbing and enjoyable discovery with every new sitter. This 2-day course aims to build upon your previous experience (Intermediate/Advanced) to further how to observe and translate your observation through drawing and modelling into a clay portrait sculpture from a life model. Refresh, renew or find alternative ways of looking through group and individual discussion with your tutor, Suzie Zamit, a member of The Society of Portrait Sculptors. Whether setting out a head from a structural point of view with a clear path of constructive method and/or searching for a more expressive manner of approach you will benefit from exploring with a professional sculptor to help build upon your own sculptural expression. Focus is on understanding measurement, anatomy, architecture, form, high-points and contours, texture and clay application as well as character and expression of the model in the sculpture.

This 2-weeks long masterclass provides a rare opportunity to work on a life size torso; a course that will enable development of the skills required to produce large scale figure work. Whilst learning to make creative choices associated with cropped figures and creating focus in their pieces, students will have space to experiment with surface texture, modelling flesh and bone. The course will have a strong approach to figure work, with teaching in anatomy and structure whilst allowing room for personal choices, style and artistic impression. Students will develop technical skills of measurement, plumbing, anatomy and clay application, to capture a true likeness, whilst being encouraged to view their sculpture as a work of art rather than a direct copy of a physical form in front of them. Working on such a large scaled piece will enable students to hone their creative and personal skills, to develop an understanding of their own sculptural style and capture individual expression. This course is ideal for those who are at at least intermediate sculpture level. Students will be offered an opportunity to mould and cast a fragment of their sculpture during the weekend 31st July - 1st August for an additional fee.

Portrait sculpture is an immensely absorbing and enjoyable discovery with every new sitter. This course aims to build upon your previous experience [Intermediate/Advanced] to further how to observe and translate your observation into a clay portrait sculpture from a life model. Refresh, renew or find alternative ways of looking through group and individual discussion with your tutor, David Klein, member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (MRBS) and the Society of Portrait Sculptors (SPS). Whether setting out a portrait head from a structural point of view with a clear path of constructive method and/or searching for a more expressive manner of approach, you will benefit from exploring with a professional sculptor to help build upon your own sculptural experience. David Klein hopes to impart a few of the tools he has learnt and explore on this course that wonderful tension between finely rendered form and unworked chaos. Portraiture is a search. This search for form, truth and personality requires tools. From the force of the neck into the weight of the head, which in so many ways defines and marks exceptional sculpture. This course will explore the structure, turning points of form, emphasis and simplification.