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A life in drawing and watercolour: Matthew Rice in focus
As part of the Royal Drawing School’s ‘Drawing Weekender’ at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, artist Matthew Rice shares his lifelong love of drawing as a way of seeing and communicating, bringing the possibilities of watercolour to life through anecdotes and a practical demonstration.
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An intensity of seeing: Francis Hoyland in focus
Artist and emeritus tutor Francis Hoyland reflects on a seventy-year practice in painting and printmaking, and on the quiet intensity of teaching in the Royal Drawing School life room. Through memories of shared concentration and close looking, he explores drawing as both a disciplined art of geometry and proportion and a meditative practice that deepens attention and enlarges self-knowledge.
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Antigua residency: Dexter Orszagh in focus
Artist and educator Dexter Orzsagh reflects on what he learned as he moved between drawing, writing and teaching during his residency in Antigua.
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Artwork gallery: Aerial perspective
Be inspired by this themed collection of artworks by our alumni, featuring images of screens and technology.
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Be inspired by this themed collection of artworks by our alumni, featuring images of dance and movement.
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Be inspired by this themed collection of artworks by our alumni, featuring images of dreams.
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Be inspired by this themed collection of artworks by our alumni, featuring images of fairytales
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Be inspired by this themed collection of artworks by our alumni, featuring images of flowers
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Be inspired by this themed collection of artworks by our alumni, featuring images of hair
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Be inspired by this themed collection of artworks by our alumni, featuring images of home.
Browse all 98 Living Library entries
- Artwork gallery: Love
- Artwork gallery: Machinery
- Artwork gallery: Play
- Artwork gallery: Private spaces
- Artwork gallery: Public spaces
- Artwork gallery: Rest
- Artwork gallery: Shoes
- Artwork gallery: Technology
- Artwork gallery: Trees
- Artwork gallery: Water
- Artwork gallery: Windows
- Artwork gallery: Work
- Artwork gallery: Youth
- Creative Conversation: Angels and Dirt: The Life and Work of Stanley Spencer
- Creative Conversation: Anna Kiff and Timothy Hyman
- Creative Conversation: Chantal Joffe and Ishbel Myerscough
- Creative Conversation: Francis Hoyland
- Creative Conversation: In the studio
- Creative Conversation: Liza Dimbleby and David Dimbleby
- Creative Conversation: The earth's pencil
- Creative Conversation: The idea of a mural
- Drawing as a way of seeing: Ishbel Myerscough in focus
- Drawing Beyond the Classroom: Young Artists at Waddesdon Manor
- Drawing Dialogues: Ali Smith, Chantal Joffe and Ishbel Myerscough
- Drawing Dialogues: Drawing into the future
- Drawing Dialogues: Emma Talbot and Abigail Viner
- Drawing Dialogues: Es Devlin and Merlin Sheldrake
- Drawing Dialogues: George Rouy and Hannah Barry
- Drawing Dialogues: Sir Jony Ive, Charlie Mackesy and Tim Marlow
- Drawing exercise: Colour mixing with pastels
- Drawing exercise: Drawing me, drawing you
- Drawing exercise: Drawing mindfulness
- Drawing exercise: Drawing night, letting go
- Drawing exercise: Drawing outdoors
- Drawing exercise: Drawing paradise
- Drawing exercise: Everything is related
- Drawing exercise: Expanding fragments
- Drawing exercise: The point of perspective
- Drawing in public: Making a mural
- Drawing, memory and the found image: Alexis Soul-Gray in focus
- How the Drawing Year shapes practice
- Inside the archive: Sir Frank Bowling
- It is not exactness, but liveness: Dilip Sur in focus
- Kathryn Maple: John Moores Painting Prize
- Looking, staring, questioning: Charlotte Verity in focus
- Nature in flux: Drawing outdoors
- Putting on a group exhibition: Postgraduate students
- Putting the world into shape through drawn marks: Liza Dimbleby
- Reflections on Antigua residency
- Sir Frank Bowling in focus
- Teaching resource: Action portraits
- Teaching resource: Aerial perspectives
- Teaching resource: Anatomy
- Teaching resource: Animals and people in movement
- Teaching resource: Clothes and fabrics
- Teaching resource: Collage and abstract space
- Teaching resource: Colour wheel
- Teaching resource: Composition
- Teaching resource: Concertina book narratives
- Teaching resource: Costume and collage
- Teaching resource: Drawing a head
- Teaching resource: Drawing from an archive
- Teaching resource: Frottage
- Teaching resource: Gestural life drawing
- Teaching resource: Hands and flowers
- Teaching resource: Liminal spaces and portals
- Teaching resource: Mark-making and self portraits
- Teaching resource: Mark-making outside
- Teaching resource: Masks
- Teaching resource: Observation and description
- Teaching resource: Portraiture and expression
- Teaching resource: Symbolism
- Teaching resource: Tetra pak printmaking
- Teaching resource: The dinner table
- Teaching resource: Thumbnailing
- Teaching resource: Trojan horse
- Teaching resource: Weather
- Teaching resource: Windows
- Teaching resource: Yūgen and ink
- The artist educator
- The Drawing Weekender at Hauser & Wirth Somerset
- The flow of vision and imagination: Sir Christopher Le Brun in focus
- The large-scale power of the mural
- The power of drawing in creative life
- The remnants of drawing: Sir Frank Bowling
- Throwing open the life room doors: Life drawing with young artists
- Timothy Hyman RA in focus
- Tutors share their favourite materials