People

Alison Packer

Alison is a keen painter of the human and animal form and also a highly effective organiser. With Simon she runs the Dulwich Art Group and makes sure that everything works. Alison teaches draughtsmanship and life drawing.

Simon Dunstan

After fooling around in digital image making for half a life time Simon fell back in love with analogue media. He runs the Dulwich Art Group with Alison and paints pictures of people places and things. He also supports others on their creative journey as a tutor and demonstrator.

Berenice

Berenice is a documentary photographer who runs our social media and website along with managing the studio and workshops. Along with pursuing her own creative projects she also happens to be an excellent life model.

TUTORS

Clare Haward

Clare is a highly accomplished painter whose work has a numinous intensity somewhere between figuration and abstraction. Between painting trips around the world she is a strong educator with a great affinity for her students.

Alex Tzavaras

Alex is a portrait artist whose work is esteemed for its great fluidity and panache. He unerringly finds his likeness and is keen to share his rigorous method with others through his courses and workshops.

David Sawyer

David is a much celebrated landscape artist with a no-nonsense approach who fills his work with architecture and colour.

Audrey Fattouche

Audrey is a full-time practising artist with a passion for drawing. She believes that improving one’s drawing technique is the key to self-expression and seeks to help her students develop their observational skills in order to produce more dynamic, powerful work.

Freya Tate

Freya is an artist and musician who teaches drawing for us. She is a true creative who brings her playful nature to her expressive image making and left field music production. Her approach with students is very liberating as she helps them to plug into their creativity.