Fine Art at ArtEZ and Royal Academy of Art, Netherlands

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ArtEZ Fine Art

Before I discovered Portfolio Oomph I was like really struggling with understanding what colleges really wanted to see on my portfolio.

So, but I wanted to I wanted to kind of branch out of that. I wanted, I wanted to go into other fields of the arts kind of more like conceptual art and making video arts and making installations and all that.

And I didn’t really know how to start or how to get into the development of that.

You know it’s, I think it’s always better to learn from someone who has the experience like first-hand experience, those are like the best teachers or professors.

So working together with Julie has been, really it has been a journey.

I think I changed a lot, not only as a person but also grew a lot into my art and what I wanted to do with my artwork while working with Julie.

I think Julie is like a really, really patient person and yeah she was really accommodating and gave me like awesome tips also from me being you know out of the country and international. So she’s really accommodating with her times and it really helped me like just bouncing ideas back and forth with her it’s like a really good thing to do.

Some of the, like, the things I learned with Julie you know something that I really struggled with was to formulate ideas and then put them like on paper or getting that idea that idea from my head and then getting them into a physical space.

So that’s one of the things where I learned like strategies to help me with that and you know, to just like develop my own strategies because not everyone like formulates ideas the same.

I also learned you know, again what different art forms were. For my portfolio I did like some video arts and I found out that I really like video art.

Uh like, one of the things that I really appreciate working with Julie and some of the things I learned; I don’t think you realise how much feedback that can help you or like receiving some criticism, it really helps you.

It really helps you it helps, it helps thing puts things in another perspective. So yeah, I think her tutorings were really, again really, helpful.

So, as of right now I have gotten two places at the Royal Academy of the Arts in the Netherlands in the city of Rotterdam and then another one also in the Netherlands in, it’s called ArtEZ Fine Art.

I got another place so I’m really, happy about that’s the one that I decided to go to because it’s been like my dream college [ArtEZ Fine Art].

I’ve been applying to that one [ArtEZ Fine Art] like a lot of times and with Julie I finally got a place so that’s amazing I’m really, happy about that. I will be starting this September.

So now that I finished working with Julie you know, I feel like an overall sense of accomplishment not only because I finished my portfolio and I really like the way I worked on that but also because you know I’ve really changed – it really changed my perspective on arts and what I wanted to do.

I really, I feel great, I feel like things are looking up for me in life and I’m doing what I really want.

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So to the people who want to consider or like, want to work with Julie I will tell you, you know I think Julie is a really amazing person and she’s really good, she’s really cool.

So when working together with Julie  I mean my life has done I think a complete 180 I was, I was literally in one place when I started working with her and then in another completely different place.

You know working with Julie I work with her for a long time, for a really long time and she was really patient of me she gave me the opportunity to retake the course like one year after I took a really long break.

But you know that, that break, really it helped me, it get it teached me life experiences that I didn’t have before and that’s when it finally clicked for me and I was like ‘no, I really I really want to do arts’. You know it really, I think I rekindled my love for art and you know I feel like, I reconnected with a little kid inside of me who kinda went you know….when you’re a kid you’re like oh, ‘I want to be an astronaut’, ‘I want to be this and that’

And I remember I wanted to be an astronaut then I wanted to be a palaeontologist and then I said I want to be an artist and I got a sketchbook, like my parents got for me a sketchbook that I filled and I have filled that sketchbook and many more sketchbooks.

This article was written by Julie Read, a leading educator in the Creative Industries, as featured in The Guardian newspaper, on a mission to create a legacy to ‘unlock your creative genius’.

My passion and mission is your art portfolio, to help to get you that place at college or university.

CLARITY, in particular around the creative process, sketchbooks, and what the Colleges actually want to see are the founding principles.