Art and Design for 11 to 15 Year Olds Short Course

Roger Healey-Dilkes

Working as an artist and teacher across the UK for the last 25 years, Roger has taught many creative disciplines such as fine art, textiles, graphic design and fashion. Roger is currently the course team leader for the UAL Foundation Diploma Art & Design at North Hertfordshire College.

Roger is passionate about the idea of getting young people to work creatively and encourages the pursuit and awareness of careers in all areas of art & design. He pushes his students to experiment and make things, to explore further their creativity.

With an MA in Fine Art from UAL's Central Saint Martins, Roger's own work has often been exhibited nationally, most recently he was included in the 'Discerning Eye' exhibition at the Mall Galleries London. You can view his work on Roger's website and Instagram.

Katie Bellinger

Since 2014, Katie has been teaching art, textiles, and photography to students of varying abilities in secondary schools across South-East London. She holds an educational background in Fine Art and Philosophy, complemented by a self-taught expertise in analogue photography. Her current artistic practice encompasses the use of 2D media to portray the human form through textiles, printing, painting, and drawing. In her photography practice, she explores the interplay between harsh light and the environments inhabited by human forms, blending documentary techniques with her artistic vision.

Francesco Poiana

Francesco Poiana, born in Italy in 1990, studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, then obtained a Master of Fine Arts at the Central Saint Martins in London and joined the Royal Drawing School in 2019. He lives and works between Italy and the UK. He has been involved in numerous national and international projects and exhibitions including Campari Creates "N100" at the Estorick Collection, the 7th Guanlan International Print Biennial at the China Printmaking Museum, since 2019 participating with his work at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. He is collaborating with the film production company Rover Dreams Productions and Designwork studios in Italy. His works on paper were recently exhibited by Christie's and acquired in the Royal Collection. Since 2021 his work has been represented by Messums galleries. Poiana's practice is based around drawing, painting and printmaking and is usually concerned with landscape themes. The process often starts from an experience with particular qualities of light, memory and colour. He says that drawing is the discipline he practices every day and in which he expresses himself best since he knows himself. The distance between drawing and printmaking has become short alongside the collaboration with the celebrated Stamperia d'Arte Albicocco in Italy, of whom he has been attending the edition studio since 2018. "Using my hands, heart and mind I wish to construct a language with which one can convey their imagination and find solutions and escapes in different realities. In my work I always feel the need to chase a theme that I have not yet caught, that moves and keeps opening, expanding possibilities. In my urgency to create, I become lost and discover a new self." Poiana's works represent an intimate voyage - towards the image of an intangible place, imagined only in daydreams.

Rochelle Fry

Rochelle Fry is an artist and educator who lives and works in London. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Art in London where she studied sculpture, she has exhibited her work in the UK and internationally. Rochelle is a long standing member of Five Years, an artist run gallery, she curates exhibitions and coordinates collaborative projects. Rochelle has 10 years extensive experience teaching short courses at CSM including drawing and portfolio preparation. She writes bespoke courses preparing and mentoring students for successful art university applications and also teaches drawing at the Civil Engineering Department, City University, London.