Studio Hugo Grenville is in The Chocolate Factory, the artist’s studio complex next door to us here in East London. If you visit him come by and see us!

Hugo Grenville

For the past ten years, Studio Hugo Grenville has successfully run courses designed to help artists of all levels to break barriers and move forward within their studio practice. Highly regarded as a colourist painter in the Romantic tradition, drawing on such influences as Bonnard and Matisse, Hugo Grenville has built a reputation as an excellent tutor to students of all ages and backgrounds, with an ability to maintain sensitivity to individual interests and passions. There is an emphasis on understanding what it means to paint tonally, experiment with visual language, and re-interpret colour with relation to subject matter. In 2010 Hugo will be running 3 courses from his North London studio, housed in a converted former chocolate factory, with artists, ceramicists and designers working in the adjacent spaces. The large studio is light and airy, and well equipped with an extensive selection of monographs and exhibition catalogues, easels, and objects that make for fascinating subject matter.

Later on in the year Studio Hugo Grenville decamps to the Olhao Art School, Portugal. The art school is a converted townhouse, with studio spaces surrounding a cobble-stone courtyard. Mediterranean seascapes, Portuguese fishing markets and beautiful rustic coloured houses line the nearby streets; there is no end to the inspiration that this setting offers! It is testament to his strengths as a teacher that many students of Studio Hugo Grenville return year upon year to learn more about the painting process, and look back on their time in his company as ‘inspirational , challenging and really helped one to make big steps forward’ (a student of the ‘Understanding Colour ‘course, 2009)

Courses for 2010:
An Introduction to Oils,
9-11 June 2010 (lead tutor Lisa Freeman, mentored by Hugo Grenville)

The Nuts and Bolts of Picture Making: Tone, Composition and Visual Language
14 – 18th June, 2010

Understanding Colour
21-25th June, 2010

Portugal Courses: Colour in the Landscape
Part 1: The Figure in Landscape
2-8th October, 2010

Part 2: Interpreting Colour
10-16th October, 2010

One Day Workshop: ‘Structuring Your Life as an artist’
Held at Gallery 27, Cork Street, London on the 29th November, 2010

For more information please visit www.hugogrenville.com or call Lisa Freeman on 07764 500397 to request a brochure. The Hugo Grenville blog.

Hugo Grenville course

Hugo Grenville course