The Virtual Figure: Virtual Life Drawing w/ Thomas Golunski

The Virtual Figure fourteen instalment: On this portrait edition featuring Thomas Goulunski, we will have the opportunity to deep look into his artistic process and techniques.

Practicing portrait-painting will help us to focus on how we see people, as it reveals something about the essence of the person that otherwise it couldn’t be captured.

Thomas is an artist based in the south of England, working primarily in Oils and Charcoal. Currently, he is exploring how traditional methods and techniques impact contemporary paintings and the way in which they are consumed within a digital sphere. He seeks to explore the way illumination can be used to aid narrative storytelling and suggests not only the transitory nature of light but also a fleeting moment of atmosphere.

Through the process of deconstruction and reconstruction, he strives to understand how paint can be manipulated. His practice has become increasingly more focused on exploring the different spaces in which contemporary figurative painting occupies in a post digital era.

This session will be spent doing your own paintings from the models, 2 long poses of 1 hour each. Be sure to turn up ready with paint, pencils, canvas and paper.