Local Art Classes

New for 2008: special "stay all day" rate*

Wednesdays, 11am to 4.30pm

*when you sign up for either the acrylic class or the art workshop

When you enrol for any of David's classes, you will receive David’s discount card, entitling you to 10% to 20% reductions on art materials at selected retailers in the area. For more information or for advice on equipment, contact David.

My local classes are now in their fifth successful year and it is thanks to my students both past and present that community art in the Frome region is alive and well

"Drawing and painting is not a hobby. Being able to visualise our ideas and thus communicate them to others is an essential life skill, of equal importance as reading, writing and arithmetic. The desire to depict our world and our relationship to it, is natural to us all and has been so since early man first smeared wet earth onto the walls of his cave or traced a finger in the sand. Through drawing and painting, we are able to possess beauty, assimilate challenge and ameliorate shock. This is how the child negotiates his or her world, before the sophistication of language is acquired and self-conciousness sets in. Regrettably, for many of us, those childish scribbles, executed in innocence and freedom are the last time we have anything to do with pencil and paper. The lucky ones, however, realise that to sit with those two magical items before a man, a mango or a mountain, is an act of intimacy, contemplation and study that repays the effort a thousandfold."