Delivery method: In person teaching in Newport Memorial Hall. 

This course will work on the distillation of the landscape imagery to abstract and simplify the painted landscape through a series of exercises that other artists have followed to abstract their own work. The course will encourage experimentation and developing your own voice with your work and we will look at the work of other artists to inform your creative journey. 

Abstracting the Landscape can be studied as a stand-alone course and it is an optional course for the Certificate of Higher Education in Art and Design at Aberystwyth University.

Course Description

This course will work on the distillation of the landscape imagery to abstract and simplify the painted landscape through a series of exercises that other artists have followed to abstract their own work. The course will encourage experimentation and developing your own voice with your work and we will look at the work of other artists to inform your creative journey. 

This module will enable students to develop skills in picture-making by means of studies made out of doors, on location, on a landscape theme. Students will be encouraged to develop their responses to colour, mood and atmosphere, memories, the effects of light and multiple views. They will apply drawing and painting skills to gather information from different sources and process them into a resolved work of art. The module will encourage students to try and retain the freshness of their first impressions of seeing the landscape and provide an opportunity to study the changes in the landscape due to atmospheric conditions and seasons.