Open College of the Arts group

The Open College of the Arts was founded to cater for people who wish to develop their abilities and understandings in this sphere. People who see no present way of engaging in the traditional pathways of full-time and part-time education.

To make this provision, the college has developed a series of courses contained in book form that can be followed at home. Each course book is the work of individual, practising artists. The writers engage students in methods, materials and ideas as seen from their own perceptions, beliefs and experience. Following the course adjusts students’ minds to problems that have to be encountered whatever part they eventually play in the development of their own work.