[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" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]Here's what my clients have said...
[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...
[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...
[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...
[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...
[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...
[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="Knowledge is key and this student case study demonstrates to you how to get into art school relies on making a well-informed application with strong guidance and support." font_container="tag:h3|font_size:18|text_align:left|line_height:2" google_fonts="font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal"][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]“I'm very glad I contacted Julie, without her I wouldn't be preparing to go to Uni this year!" In September Kirsty contacted me...
[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]Art colleges UK...
[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]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 well...
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