About

The Useful Art Class offers a series of workshops designed to equip you with essential skills in drawing and painting, taught by practicing artists with over 30 years of combined experience. These sessions provide practical knowledge to support and enhance your art practice in a vibrant, inspiring studio environment.

Our offerings include weekly life drawing sessions at Hampton Works in Stirchley, Birmingham, led by internationally renowned portrait artist Stephen Earl Rogers, and oil painting classes at The Other Studios in Leeds, taught by acclaimed landscape artist Lucy Fiona Morrison. Each session is crafted to provide foundational skills and expert guidance, immersing participants in the techniques and artistry of drawing and painting.

Meet the Tutors

Gain valuable insights and skills by learning from practicing artists who bring real-world experience to their teaching.

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Stephen Earl Rogers

Stephen Earl Rogers creates striking, contemporary portraits and paintings for both public and private commissions. Painting with incredible realism, Rogers captures physical likeness with clean precision whilst at the same time achieving a powerful presence and depth of character in his subjects.

Regularly shown at the National Portrait Gallery in London, his work has featured in exhibitions representing the very best in figurative and contemporary art practice worldwide.

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Lucy Fiona Morrison

Morrison has established a reputation as a painter renowned for capturing the character and essence of the land. Driven by a desire to remind viewers of the beauty of the landscape and inspired by the diverse vistas of the UK, Morrison is compelled to translate the breadth of colours, shapes and forms onto canvas. Morrison’s gestural oil paintings are composed of expressive colours and richly textured brushwork, offering abstract representations of the British Isles. Morrison’s paintings are held in private collections internationally.