The Arty Teacher

Is it really possible to cut down on marking?  With a little forethought and planning the answer is most definitely yes.  The following are 6 strategies I use all the time which keep me on top of my marking workload whilst still supporting and moving students forward. 1 – A Double Page Spread With Several […]

I have a collection of art books that I’ve enjoyed building up throughout my career. If you are at the start of your art teaching career, the following 5 books would be a good start to your art library. I’ve turned to these books again and again. I remember the first time I saw the […]

Anyone who follows my Facebook page knows I’m a huge Grayson Perry fan. I was delighted to get the opportunity to see ‘Julie Copes Grand Tour’ which is described as ‘The Story of a Life by Grayson Perry’ at Abbot Hall Art Gallery yesterday. (Abbot Hall is in the North West of England). Julie Cope […]

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 […]