ART
ST IVES YEAR 10 ART RESIDENTIAL
MARY JO DOHERTY
Year 10 student Dexter McChesney paints in the studio once occupied by Francis Bacon and Patrick Heron
‘I DON’T THINK MY SHAPES ARE FORMED BECAUSE OF THE WEAR AND TEAR OF THE ELEMENTS. I THINK THEY ARE MORE THE SORT OF FORMS WHICH EXPRESS MY FUNDAMENTAL SENSITIVITY TO MY POSITION IN THE LANDSCAPE….A LANDSCAPE TO ME HARDLY EXISTS WITHOUT A HUMAN BEING IN IT.’ BARBARA HEPWORTH T he philosophy for the St Ives adventure was to take students on a journey from realism to abstraction and to experience the creative process as an artist on location. Learning Harvey Byworth Morgan and fisherman Chris
beyond the classroom while immersing ourselves in the landscape, reinvigorates, challenges, engages and helps nurture the lifelong love of the arts that we want all our students to develop. The landscape of Cornwall provided a stunning backdrop for Dulwich boys to absorb themselves via their sketchbooks, drawing the rugged cliffs, mesmerising seascapes and delightful details that could be found in and around the town. Barbara Hepworth’s museum and sculpture garden was a beautiful experience as students responded to an array of her work in the bliss and serenity of the gardens. The St Ives School of painting, originally founded by Leonard Fuller (OA and Dulwich College Drawing Master) offered us an excellent workshop, arming boys with the St Ives legacy as we took to the hills again. After two days the boys’ sketchbooks were already bursting with expressive landscapes, a diary of Hepworth’s garden utopia and an idea of how artists live and work collaboratively alongside the fishermen of St Ives - once famous for its pilchards - at the Porthmeor Studios. Here Dexter McChesney (Year 10) bravely stepped up to the challenge to paint in the same studios in which Francis Bacon and Patrick Heron had once been so prolific, while Harvey Byworth Morgan (Year 10) helped make nets with seasoned fisherman Chris.
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