The Arty Teacher

If you are looking for an alternative to Georgia O’Keeffe I would definitely suggest the beautiful, dissected images photographed by globe-trotting botanist Robbie Honey. In fact, if you were doing a project on still life, flowers, collections or arrangements (popular GCSE themes here in the UK) Robbie Honey is an artist worth knowing about.  “When […]

Is it really possible to create an art teacher work-life balance? Regularly on social media, I see teachers writing that they can’t take it anymore, that they’re at the end of their tether: burnt out. If you are feeling that you are heading in that direction, you need to stop and take the advice below […]

Antonia is a British student who completed this project aged 16 as part of her AS Level qualification.  She was given the theme of ‘Chiaroscuro‘ as a starting point. She started by looking at the work of South African artist Solly Smook. She created an artist analysis of one of his paintings so that she could […]

Students had a choice of different starting points.  Jess, aged 16 chose the theme ‘Close-Ups’. Above, on her title page, Jess has shown a wide range of artists that have created close-ups.  Jess then decided to concentrate on Domenico Gnoli.  Presenting pictures of his work (see below) and information on a double page spread she […]

‘Close-Ups’ is a theme many Art Teachers present to their students.  It encourages students to look at the world in a different way – from different perspectives and angles.  Arranging, zooming in, cropping and observing detail are all part of the creative process.  I was pleased to speak to the following artists to learn a […]

I’ve written this for J.  She’s told me that she’s an NQT who’s really struggling with managing behaviour in the art room at the moment and feels like giving up.  She feels unsupported which isn’t right.  During my teacher training, I worked in a really tough inner-city school and felt really isolated and unsupported.  I […]