Henry Yan SEPTEMBER Workshop
September 4 days drawing, 3 days painting. Henry Yan is a regular contributor to London Fine Art Studios academic calendar. He originally trained in China and is now based in the USA where he teaches at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Yan is a master draughtsman whose work is characterised by attention to anatomical detail and powerful gesture.
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David Shevlino Workshop
Upcoming one: 28th October – 1st November 2025
Each year, David will hold a 5 day Figure/Portrait Painting workshop at the studios. Please check our ‘Upcoming Courses & Events’ to book.
David graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania. He also studied at the Art Students’ League in New York. As a teen David developed a love of traditional figurative painting. Later he began exploring a looser paint application which straddles the line between representational painting and abstraction. He has exhibited his work throughout the US and regularly teaches workshops in the US & Europe.
Email: info@londonfineartstudios.com to enquire or register.
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LUCA INDRACCOLO WORKSHOPS
Students will do a long project for the full week, painting from one life model. It aims to give students time to push their artworks and see how the process changes from block-in to subtly finishing the piece.
Luca Indraccolo was born in Naples and worked for 15 years as an art director with major advertising agencies across 3 countries before pursuing a career in fine art. Luca studied artistic anatomy in New York, drawing and painting at the Florence Academy of Art, and in 2009 he completed his academic training at the London Atelier of Representational Art where he taught for around a decade.
Email: info@londonfineartstudios.com to enquire or register.
DANIELA ASTONE Workshop
Over the workshop, students will work in charcoal, before being guided through the process of practicing a sight size oil painting. Daniela will begin with a demonstration of the sight-size method, showing students how to map a simple visual impression. This will be followed by some shorter demonstrations focusing on colours and paint application.
Daniela grew upon in the sea-town of PortoSanto Stefano, Italy. After graduating in 1998 she moved to Florence to study Illustration at the International school of comix.At the age of 21 Daniela decided to change direction and to re-start studying at The Florence Academy of Art under the direction of Daniel Graves, where she began to teach, and now she continued to work as a principal teacher and director for FAA.
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PATRICK BYRNES Workshop
Alla Prima Portrait Painting: Abbreviation, Colour and Form
This five-day painting workshop is designed for realist painters looking to gain confidence, speed, and accuracy in their alla prima portrait work.
Following a lucid step-by-step approach with an emphasis on strong drawing, simplification, form analysis, and rational colour mixing, participants will paint a series of abstracted colour studies as well as finished portrait sketches of five different live models using a limited palette of seven colours.
Patrick was born in Busan and raised in Illinois. After a year studying drawing at the Florence Academy of Art, Patrick moved to New York in 2010 to train under Jacob Collins at Grand Central Atelier, where he subsequently worked as an instructor of painting and drawing in the atelier’s full and part time programs. His work is exhibited at galleries in New York and Massachusetts. www.patrickbyrnespaintings.com
Email: info@londonfineartstudios.com to enquire or register.
SUSAN LYON WORKSHOPS
Thank you for the pastel & oil painting workshop this summer 2023 with Scott Burdick. We are looking forward to welcome you back soon!
Next workshop TBC
Susan Lyon runs pastel and oil painting workshop with her husband Scott Burdick. Students are welcome to choose to work in oils or pastel, charcoal, etc.
Susan Lyon studied painting at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, and participated in Chicago’s Palette and Chisel Club. It is there she first began exhibiting and selling her work. Her technique is to paint wet on wet to start and then wet on dry for her finishing touches. She occasionally thins her oils with mineral spirits to obtain a balance of scratchy brushwork against thick opaque strokes for the lights.
Susan works with Oils, Pastels and Mixed Media.
Email: info@londonfineartstudios.com to enquire or register.
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Lucas Bononi Workshop
Next Workshop TBC
Lucas will run a 5-day Figure painting workshop, where students will have the opportunity work from one life figure model 30 hours from start to finish. Short demonstration and Q&A will be offered in the workshop.
Lucas Bononi (b. 1991 | Los Angeles) is a contemporary painter living and working in New York, NY. Lucas reflects the sensation of nature through the lens of the modern world in his paintings with nuance and subtle visual splashes of colour and light that tell the story of living in a city while expressing natures unrepeatable beauty. It is in this way that he invites us to question the relationship between beauty and chaos, as well as, figuration and abstraction. His participation in leading museums, galleries and press stretches worldwide.
Email: info@londonfineartstudios.com to enquire or register.
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Felicia Forte February Workshop
Felicia has run a 3 day Still Life course, followed by a 4 day Portrait workshop. In the workshops students received individual critiques and demos to get a greater understanding of her techniques.
Felicia’s articles: https://www.feliciaforte.com/felicia-forte-about
Email: info@londonfineartstudios.com to enquire or register.
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