Art classes led by urban sketcher Andy Gray, where participants develop observational drawing skills while The Villiers Quartet performs chamber music.
Andy Gray is running live performance sketching classes at St George's Bristol, with the next session on Thursday 19 March starting at 11.30am. Gray is an urban sketcher and art tutor whose work centres on observational drawing, and he describes himself as being driven by helping people find their own individual styles of expression and tell their own stories through the exploration and documentation of the visual world. These classes are built specifically for drawing in live performance settings, and they're suitable for beginners.
Each session follows a set pattern: an hour of tuition from 11.30am, a one-hour performance while you draw, and a thirty-minute debrief to wrap things up. The performance part is the core of the whole thing — you're sketching a live act as they play, rather than working from a still life or a photo. The tuition beforehand gives you the tools to handle that, and the debrief lets you talk through what you've put on the page.
For this particular session, the Villiers Quartet will be performing chamber music by Ailsa Dixon (1932-2017), a composer whose work they've recently recorded for the Resonus Classics label. The quartet are well known as champions of British music, so this fits right into their wheelhouse. Your ticket includes admission to the lunchtime concert, which would normally cost £9.50 on its own.
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It's a simple kit to bring: an A4 sketchpad, a 2B pencil, a pencil sharpener and an eraser. That's all you need to get through the morning. A single class is £27, or you can book all five for £25 each — a £10 discount if you commit to the full run. The session starts at 11.30am at St George's Bristol.
