Painting at The Royal Albert Memorial Museum

Two Year 9 students, along with their teacher Mrs Emily Parr, Head of Art at Dawlish Community College were given a fantastic invitation to go along to The Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter to work and learn from one of the major exhibitions ‘The Road to Rome’, with which the newly refurbished Museum will be re-opening. Focusing on the European Grand Tour, the key work is an Italian eighteenth century portrait of Exeter nobleman, John Rolle Walter by Pompeo Batoni.

Mrs Parr, Chantelle Brown and Jack Henderson were also joined for the day by some local Devon Schools, key curators from the museum and the artist Sara Dudman.

Mrs Parr reports:

Our day began with a personal tour of the exhibition; with some fascinatiting facts about Botoni’s painting of ‘John Rolle Walter’,  this was a real treat to find out so much information and facts about the artwork and the artist.     We were then taken to the educational work rooms where we were introduced to the artist Sara Dudman.  Sarah gave us a few demonstrations on using paint to create tone, form, texture and colour with particular focus on skin tones and draped fabric.  Both the students and I really enjoyed this process and produced some experimental pieces linked to the painting of ‘John Rolle Walter’ – photos of one of our experimental outcomes are below.

It is great to have the museum back for public use and the long awaited opening is well worth it,  I would advise anyone to go along and see the displays and exhibitions, all for free!

Thanks to Chantelle and Jack for their company on this workshop, it was a real pleasure spending a day with them.

For further information about the museum and future exhibitions  - The Royal Albert Memorial Museum

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