Original Artwork from The Drawing Year 2024 graduates

The Dance That Swallowed Time | Zoe Andrews, £1,820.00
Egg yolk on porcelain tiles, 59 × 59 cm

The Drawing Year 2024 End of Year Exhibition offers a range of work, rich in observation, imagination and storytelling. The 31 graduating artists come from a variety of backgrounds and creative disciplines, including painting, printmaking, animation, illustration, product design, architecture, textiles, sciences, and languages. 

This is a unique opportunity to buy an original artwork, and support an emerging artist at the start of their career.

Inheritance / Vito Walker, £90.00
Etching on paper, 18 × 24 cm, 1/5

Dog Man At The Villa | Will Powers, £1,665.00
Ink on paper, 61 x 56 cm

From Branch to Branch | Maj Lisa Dörig, £325.00
Pen and coloured pencil on paper, 20 X 20 cm

Prices start from £70 → Shop in-person at the Royal Drawing School from 4th to 19th December or online until the 5th of January.

A Royal Drawing School Gift Voucher

Our gift voucher is the perfect way to give someone a little creative space in their week. With over 100 courses starting in January 2025, they can explore drawing from models, art, or imagination - online or in-person. Available in five denominations, vouchers can cover a full course or contribute toward one.

The certificate arrives to your email instantly as a PDF.

Cost: From £24, Buy online here

Creative jewellery

VA bird in flight, the ring by Hilfreich Jewellery, takes inspiration from Victorian era toys. The cylindrical Zoetrope and the two-faced Thaumatrope are both comprised of multiple images of the same object. When spun, they give the illusion of movement.

Hilfreich Jewellery is a brand by Willa Hilditch, Drawing Year alumna 2018.

Cost: £210, Shop here.

A scarf designed by artists

Discover a collection of Highgrove scarves, a collaboration between Highgrove and Burberry, featuring designs by British artist Sammi Lynch. Sammi is the Royal Drawing School Alumna 2021, she employs a variety of techniques, including painting and printmaking, to express lived experiences of the landscape, emphasizing space, texture, and light.

Cost: £150, shop here

Alice Shirley, the Drawing Year graduate 2010 creates designs for Hermès. This scarf design is based on the Sous le charme d'Orphee (“Under the spell of Orpheus”). A tiger, a peacock, a bull, and a python, along with a centaur and winged horse… all the animals of Greek mythology form a joyful ring around five ancient trees: an olive tree, bay tree, pomegranate, apple and Aleppo pine—each one charged with symbolism. Some dance, while others sleep under a starry sky.

Ideal for this chilly weather, this cashmere scarf is £1090, Shop here.

Hand-crafted Ceramics

These egg cups from Alice Macdonald, The Drawing Year alumna 2017, are the perfect gift for an egg lover in your life! (also work for holding salt and pepper). Glazed earthenware, each one of them is unique and hand made! 

Cost: £23 each, buy from Alice's Instagram

These fashionable lamps with ceramic bases are created by Sophie Edwards, Drawing Year Alumna 2021. Her work abstracts and weaves together fragments from observed and imagined places, often dense with obsessive marks and rich in tone.

Cost: £700, Buy here

Hand-painted Dreamer's baubles

Beth Rodway, Drawing Year alumna 2018, creates these wonderful Christmas baubles. Each is hand-painted... Horses, florals, snakes, and figures painted onto a blue ground. All baubles are slightly different. Finished with a decorative bow.

Cost: from £25, shop here

An Art Book

Ways of Drawing: Artists' Perspectives and Practices (Thames & Hudson) is a lavishly illustrated collection of reflections and in-practice sessions on drawing by contemporary artists and teachers from the School – at once inspirational and instructional. 

Cost: £25 Buy now

Children's Book

Wondering how to develop your child's love for drawing? Look no further, Louise Yates', Drawing Year alumna 2009, 'Dog Loves Drawing' is here to help you:

Dog loves books, but one day he receives a strange one in the post - it's blank! Soon, Dog realises that this book is not for reading, but for drawing, and before long Dog is doodling and drawing himself into a new world, full of friends and surprises.

Cost: £7.51 Buy here

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We look forward to seeing you back in the studios in the New Year!