The Society runs regular 3-day portrait sculpture classes for sculptors of all levels. To assist in the selection process, applicants are asked to complete an application form and send photos of recent work. For 2023 there will be three separate classes taught by members of the SPS.
Marcus Cornish class - at Heatherleys Art School in Chelsea, London - 3 days
Portrait head in wax, all levels £250.00 - 27th, 28th, 29th July 2024
Etienne Millner 2023 class at his own studio - 23th, 24th and 25th November 2024 - London SW8 - Portrait head in clay all levels £250.00
Buyers will receive links to download their Appliaction, in the Thank You page of the Checkout, along with an emailed link that will last for 30 days: (2024 classes), then follow instruction on its completion and how to submit.
If you would prefer a paper form please contact PA Anywhere by emailing
Fiona@pa-anywhere.co.uk
Please read the following for biographies of each tutor.
Ellen won the Founders Sculpture Prize in 2015 and the Heatherleys prize in 2018. She exhibited with Messums Wiltshire in their prestigious ‘Heads’ show 2018 and was on the panel for their Brian Taylor retrospective discussion. She has work in international collections.
Ellen was a student of Brian Taylor at Camberwell Art School and worked with him for many years as model, assistant and on her own sculpture. She works with the ‘pointing’ measuring technique he developed from stone carving. She is the only one of his Camberwell students who is still working in this way.’
Ellen Christensen studio address:
Studio 98 (door 3 corner Rolt St)
ACME Studios
Childers Street, London
SE8 5JR
Tutor: Marcus Cornish
Marcus Cornish gained a first class honours degree in Sculpture from Camberwell School of Art followed by an MA from the Royal College of Art. In 1993 Marcus was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. He won a scholarship to India to study the work of Ayanar Potter Priests and was awarded a Henry Moore scholarship to pursue ceramic art. He was artist-in-residence at the Museum of London in 2005-6 and at an Ibstock brick factory for a year. He was also invited to be official tour artist on a diplomatic tour to Eastern Europe with HRH The Prince of Wales and as tour artist with the British Army in Kosovo. Recently, Marcus carried out commissions for the Watts Gallery and The Royal Society. His work has been recognised in a number of awards both nationally and internationally and covered in The Times, Independent and Sculpture Magazines.
Tutor: Etienne Millner FRBS
Etienne trained at Goldsmith's College in the 1970s where he was greatly influence by one of the teaching staff, Ivor Roberts-Jones who is best known for his Winston Churchill sculpture in Parliament Square. Commissions have included monumental portraiture, figure groups, busts of politicians, writers, musicians, and his well known portraits of children. He has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Peoples Portraits 2000, New Faces at the NPG and has had a one man show at Cadogan Contemporary. His work is held in a number of public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, as well as in numerous private collections at home and abroad. He is President of The Society of Portrait Sculptors.