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Less is More!

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Assessor Jim Unsworth shows us how to crop a painting to improve it. He mentions artist Milton Avery in his explanation, someone worth looking at, who said of his own work: ‘I always take something out […]

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A Study visit year

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. We have just reviewed a year of study visits at OCA, to see what worked and to get an idea of improvements we could make. The good news is that they have been a great success, with […]

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Study Visit: Ken Currie and Man Ray in Scotland

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. On Wednesday 21st August 2013 OCA tutors Olivia Irvine and Jane Mitchell will be leading a study visit to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, to see the first major retrospective of Man Ray’s influential photographic […]

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How can we democratise art?

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   A recent BBC article: Isn’t it time to democratise art? grabbed my attention. Tom Shakespeare proposes that we, the public, should be allowed to borrow works of art from our national collections in a recent article in the […]

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Crowdfunding to prepare for OCA's Fine Art MA

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   OCA student Judith Farr, who lives in Northern Spain, is joining OCA’s MA Fine Art in September. She has come up with a clever plan to get her studio in a fit state to work in […]

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Becoming A Successful Illustrator

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   OCA is delighted that Jo Davies, Associate Professor in Illustration, and OCA tutor, has a new book, Becoming A Successful Illustrator launched at the end of this week. Co-authored with Derek Brazell, project manager of the AOI […]

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Caulfield & Hume visit

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Here is OCA tutor and art guide Gerald Deslandes with a happy band of OCA students outside Tate Britain, where he ran a study visit to see the Caulfield and Hume exhibition the other day. ‘Patrick […]

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Mature students stand out

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   My colleague Alison Churchill and I went to see this year’s Creative Spark degree show at Sheffield Hallam University last week.  What struck us was that overall the quality of the work was higher than the […]

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Student work uncovered: a painting by Rachel Ashby

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   OCA tutor and assessor Emma Drye takes a close look at a single painting by level one student Rachel Ashby. Don’t miss what Emma has to say. She gets under the skin of the painting and […]

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Student work uncovered: Emily Fowke and Christine Gutsell

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Here is Jim Unsworth, assessor and tutor, talking about moving from drawing to painting by looking a a couple of OCA students’ work.

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