To find out more details about the transfer to The Open University see A New Chapter for OCA.
Explore #WeAreOCA
Skip Navigation
My choice is the Judith Nesbitt’s book on Chris Ofili. Inside the pages we are taken on a journey that includes exuberant mixed media colour work on canvas and watercolours to fine drawings and photography. In this book we see the vibrancy and potency of Chris Ofili’s work, page after page of exotic colours and […]
Read More
OCA tutor and assessor David Winning talks about student Anne Flowers work for her printmaking course. David touches on developing ideas using sketchbooks, the essence of printmaking and illustrates points using examples of Anne’s Chine-collé pieces
Read More
Continuing our series of tutors and assessors talking about student work. Here Jim Unsworth talks about Margaret Maclean’s work for the Drawing 1 Course
Read More
Having paid a visit to the North-East of England over the week-end, I made time to visit the Baltic Gallery for Contemporary Art to see the Anselm Kiefer exhibition. He is described as being one of the foremost figures of post-war painting. This is the largest exhibition of Kiefer’s work seen in the UK for […]
Read More
Back in the last century, when St Petersburg was still called Leningrad/Petragrad and mobile phones were still a dream, the OCA commissioned a hugely expensive nine hour series of videos on Art History. These videos were sent to students who enrolled on the Understanding Art 1. We have now rewritten the course and it is […]
Read More
In this slide show OCA tutor and assessor Linda Khatir talks about a painting by Anne Linehan, which she produced as part of her work on her level one painting course. we think the audio on the slide show is worth listening to twice. The first time while looking at the close up detail in […]
Read More
I’ve recently been fortunate enough to have a trip to California and visited a number of art galleries exploring the art scene and cultural life in that part of America. First gallery on my hit list was the Fine Art Gallery in the Bellagio Hotel Las Vegas (where they filmed Oceans 12 with George Clooney […]
Read More
This was the first of hopefully many study visits arranged for OCA students in Edinburgh. ‘Another World’ is the major summer exhibition at the Dean Gallery, running until 9th January 2011, and the show offers a fascinating overview of Surrealism, one of the most important art movements of the twentieth century. The Gallery owns a […]
Read More
Introducing Rhonda Fenwick, OCA tutor, artist and blogger I began working as a tutor for the OCA in 1998 facilitating a range of drawing and painting courses, often meeting students in my studio for their tutorials. I also work as an artist in the community working in the voluntary, community, public and private Sectors. This […]
Read More
A visit to Madrid recently meant an opportunity to see Picasso’s great anti-war statement “Guernica.” Painted in 1937 the painting was commissioned by the Spanish Government for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World Fair. The subject matter was to become Picasso’s reaction to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica, which was attacked […]
Read More
