The Arty Teacher

The subject of comfortable shoes seems to come up on my Facebook home page every few months. It seems we want something super-comfy that allows us to be on our feet all day.  This is one thing where us visual people put comfort before style.  However, I have to say, some of these recommendations have […]

What is cultural capital? In educational terms, it refers to the bank of cultural experiences students can gain from different cultural opportunities that go on to give them social mobility.  E.g. Gallery visits, historic visits, music lessons, IT skills, dance lesson etc)  Families have historically passed down these advantages to their children by providing them […]

For me, this year is going to be all about ‘process’ and this blog post explores 10 experimental drawing processes. What do I mean by that? Rather than concentrating on single media I’m going to think more carefully about creating processes that my students can go through so that they create exciting, experimental work. We […]

This blog post contains Is it too difficult to do Inktober in school?  After all, can we really ask our students to draw every day for 31 days?  I find Inktober so appealing, that I wanted to find a way to do it with my students.  Asking for a drawing every day in October is […]

A few weeks ago I visited Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage in Dungeness. Jarman trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and went on to be a pioneering film-maker, stage designer, sculptor, painter, poet and costume and performance artist. His garden and home have been described as ‘ a living, breathing work of art’ by […]

If you’re about to be interviewed or you’re a head of department who is going to be doing the interviewing, you’ll find the questions below useful.  As an interviewee, you can’t anticipate every question but if you write down answers to the questions below, you’ll certainly fly through a good part of the interview.  Writing […]