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10 Mar

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Scroll down for the video. Below is also the full *Transcript*  Art Therapy course (Psychotherapy) Queen Margaret University. "Before I discovered Portfolio Oomph, I was really unsure how to go about putting a portfolio together. So I had a goal in mind, which was to apply for a specific course [art therapy course], and I...

14 Sep

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]When the best schools in UK are announced every year and the school league tables are published my heart sinks. 🧡 For the schools. 🧡 For the kids. 🧡 For the parents. 🧡 For the teachers. The Scottish school league table 2023. Full list of the "best-performing" high schools in Scotland (google search for best schools in UK). The...

16 Nov

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Yesterday I finally made it to see Grayson Perry's exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, 'Smash Hits'. Perry is an artist that I've admired for years - his work and approach to art is very much celebrated in my portfolio preparation course and my own ethos around creativity. The project that students study...

10 Nov

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="Banksy art at Gallery of Modern Art" font_container="tag:h1|font_size:20|text_align:left" google_fonts="font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal"][vc_column_text]The Banksy art exhibition "Cut and Run" was a real feast of delights. If you're in school there's no doubt that you will have studied the work of Banksy at some point. This is usually in National 5 art and design or GCSE art and design. And...

20 Feb

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]It's assumed that if you're planning to apply to art college / Uni that you'll be considering careers in the arts. But it's a little unknown, myself included when I was 18, what you might end up doing if you go on to study in the Fine Arts particularly. So that's Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Intermedia...

08 Nov

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]This is a case study of a student who studied on the PLAN CREATE SUCCEED portfolio preparation for art college course to go on to receive 3 offers on animation courses university. I wanted to highlight this student and her experience because it was one of the more unusual applicants that I've worked with. Occasionally...

18 Feb

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="Art courses in college." font_container="tag:h1|font_size:20|text_align:left" google_fonts="font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal"][vc_column_text css=""]Now that most, but not all, applications are in, how do you feel? Are you confident? Nervous? Do you feel deep down you'll possibly not get a place? I think most of you have probably read my story of rejection - but I honestly never saw it coming. I had done...

20 Jul

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="Leith School of Art" font_container="tag:h2|font_size:20|text_align:left" google_fonts="font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:300%20light%20regular%3A300%3Anormal"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="10623" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=""]I was delighted to receive this student testimonial over the weekend. Fiona was about to start a course at Leith School of Art after the summer and she felt quite unprepared and nervous. She wanted to produce more finished pieces but was unsure what actually...