''Our aim is to allow each individual's imagination and
creativity to flourish through their own visual expression.
The basic skills of drawing and painting are central to
our courses coupled to a fostering of each student's personal
response to their environment and inner worlds."
Our department has:
Three highly
experienced and successful teachers, supported by a technician.
Four well-equipped
studios with individual workspace for sixth form students
- open after school for those in exam classes
to continue with their work.
Regular trips
to art galleries in Cambridge and London.
Excellent
results at all levels
with many students continuing with
this subject when they leave Friends' School.
Pottery, sculpture,
textiles and photography offered as subsidiaries to all
the main fine art areas.
An 'Artist in Residence' each year,
whose good practice is inspirational throughout the school.
Regular exhibitions
in our gallery which is also open to the public.
Art clubs,
life drawing classes and art and craft weekends.
Albert Einstein "Imagination is more
important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited, while imagination
embraces the entire world".
By Dorothy Yeung - There is a musical instument in each panel!
