Insight School of Art aims to provide a ‘grown up’ Art School experience to children of all ages. Our classes bring together children who love making art and want to learn and achieve more. It’s not necessary for children to arrive with excellent painting and drawing skills but a passion for art is essential.

We write new lesson plans each term, covering our own syllabus of essential painting and drawing skills, techniques and knowledge. Children are introduced to a range of drawing material, watercolour and acrylics paints, with older children also using oils.

Children up to 14 years old produce work based on a broad range of subject matter, including still life, people and places, working from direct observation, photographs and imagination and incorporating different artistic styles including Realism, Impressionism, Surrealism and abstract work. Students 15 years and over follow a similar syllabus but focus on just one subject area each term to produce a unit of work; either Objects (Autumn), People (Spring) and Places (Summer).

At the end of each term all children exhibit their work to their parents before taking their portfolio of work home.

All of our teachers are highly qualified to teach art and have had experience teaching in schools or collages as well as running their own art practice. All teachers have up to date CRB checks which we apply for ourselves and all teachers are supported in class by one or more studio assistants.