CERT HE Fine Art: Painting, Drawing & Printmaking

The staff are professionals with ongoing and international exhibition profiles. Our art school offers you individual workspaces and specific studios for life-drawing, painting, and a dedicated print studio for woodblock, stone lithography and etching.

The course supports the development of your studio practice with an emphasis on craft and skill. Lectures and contextual dialogue enables you to position yourself and your practice in terms of art history and contemporary critical thought, so that you will be equipped with the tools to map and research your own interests. Opportunities for public exhibitions and events prepare you professionally for a wide range of potential careers. All these skills are transferable across a range of professional contexts.

A skills based year delivered through a series of workshops, including Painting & Colour Theory, Painting and Mixed Media, Printmaking, Oil Painting Processes, Developing Visual Language, Learning in the Digital Era and a Creative Project.

Once you have successfully completed the Certificate of Higher Education, you could progress to level 5 of the full degree if you chose to do so.

Upon completing the full BA (Hons) Degree (years 2 & 3) students have gone on to various employment routes such as self-employed artist, entrepreneur, educator, scene designer, art therapist, public sector worker, exhibition curator, art critique / journalist, art-researcher, post graduate study (MA, PhD), philosopher, innovator etc.

Assessment is on-going through workshop plenary-sessions, critiques, formative and summative assessment including aural and written feedback.

Tariff score points accepted: A minimum of 96 points or equivalent portfolio ability for mature applicants.

All full time applicants need to apply online through UCAS.

Part time students apply through the college application system https://www.colegsirgar.ac.uk/index.php/en/application-form 

Programme Directors interview every applicant and discuss your portfolio of artwork and ambitions with you. This is a vital part of our selection process to ensure that the course is right for you and you are right for the course. 

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There are no additional studio fees. However, it is likely that you will incur additional costs for specialist materials, printing and for course related excursions.