Junior artist of the moment 24/25

7 March 2025

Jiaming sketched these beautiful cupcakes as part of his exploration of Pop Art. He then used chalk pastels to add bold colours to his artwork. This was preparation for his upcoming clay project next week, where he will create a clay cupcake.

7 February 2025

Pupils in Upper One have studied sea turtles, carefully looking at the shapes, colours, and textures. Huxley has captured all these elements within in his clay turtle tile. We especially like his attention to detail and fine brush control. Well done Huxley!

10 January 2025

Tobi in Form One has amazed us with his intricate sketch of Notre Dame. Just look at the perspective and detail he has managed to include! Form One children are just starting their topic on buildings and architecture. They have explored lots of different designs and could choose one to sketch. Well done, Tobi, you are a very talented artist!

29 November 2024

Rowan in Upper Two has sketched a very realistic parrot in his exploration of Rousseau’s rainforest compositions. We were especially impressed with Rowan’s ability to refine and add detail and shading to create texture. Well done Rowan!

18 October 2024

Eva from Lower Two has created this monochrome charcoal and chalk drawing of an ammonite as part of her charcoal and pencil topic work. We especially like her attention to the light and dark tones. Well done Eva!

11 October 2024

Honor in Upper Two has worked hard on her rainforest inspired sketch of a snake. She sketched carefully, trying to capture the perspective of the coiled snake. She applied water colours and then used watercolour pencil to add the scales. This is part of a series of pieces of work inspired by Henri Rousseau’s Surprised artwork. Well done, Honor!

4 October 2024

This very cute chalk pastel hedgehog was created by Isla in Upper Two during extra curricular Art club. She has carefully layered her pastels to create the effect of the hedgehogs spikes and given it a cheeky little face! We love it. Well done, Isla!

28 June 2024

Our Junior artist of the moment is Hugo in Form One!

This week, our Form One pupils have linked their maths and art work. They have learnt all about mathematical lines and then had fun spotting them in Wayne Thiebaud’s artwork. They used the idea of perspective, and identified vertical, parallel, horizontal, perpendicular and diagonal lines. Finally, they created their own oil pastel cakes, using their line drawing skills. Hugo’s looks definitely good enough to eat!

Well done Hugo!

17 May 2024

Grace from Upper One and Bethanie from Lower Two are our artists of the moment. Both children entered the Royal Academy’s Young Artist competition and received certificates of participation for their work.

Bethanie sculpted two clay models entitled ‘We love flowers’ and Grace painted her piece called ‘The adventure of the cat and the girl’. Both children have demonstrated wonderful creativity and we are very proud of them, well done!

21 March 2024

This week we celebrate Florence and Yuan in Form One. They have used air dry clay during art club to sculpt these wonderful Easter themed pots. They have decorated them carefully to add detail and then protected them with a clear glaze. We have been very impressed with the quality of their work and their super concentration. Well done!

8 March 2024

Emilia from Upper One has created this stunning oil pastel tree in art club this term. She blended the colours carefully to create each section. Emilia is a talented artist, and this piece demonstrates her creative skill. Well done Emilia!

23 February 2024

Form One have enjoyed exploring the themes of friendship and family in Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. Georgina in Form One has used one of the illustrations in her beautiful sketch of the central characters, and added a very fitting quote.

8 December 2023

Ellie from Lower Two has used charcoal shading to carefully craft this very cute owl.

1 December 2023

Archie in Form One illustrated a bright primary and secondary colour mix gradient fish with intricate zentangle patterns, demonstrating super attention to detail.

17 November 2023

Rory from Upper Two has created this mixed media rainforest piece, inspired by Henri Rousseau’s Surprised painting. We love the vibrant chalk pastels against the textured green background. Well done!

18 October 2023

Benjamin in Lower Two applied his sketching skills to create this beautiful charcoal drawing of an owl. Benjamin enjoyed using the charcoal pencils and charcoal sticks as well as the white chalk to create light and shade to his work. We think it is toot-ally amazing!

6 October 2023

Stephanie in Upper One has made this rather delicious mint choc chip ice cream, showing her colour mixing skills. Her scoops demonstrate different tints of green. Good enough to eat! Well done Stephanie.

22 September 2023

Rosanna in Lower Two worked with a selection of B grade pencils to capture this realistic sketch of an eye. A wonderful piece of work!

8 September 2023

Nathan in Lower Two enjoyed his first creative task of the year. Firstly, he created a very careful observational sketch of an old key. Then he transformed his pencil sketch into a rather wonderful dragon with intricate details. Super work, Nathan!

7 July 2023

Ruby and Jessie from Form One C have produced these stunning Styrofoam prints in art club.

16 June 2023

Emily in Upper One has developed her understanding of Cubism and been inspired by the work of Picasso to develop her own self portrait. She has experimented with line and shape to create her own collagraph plate. Emily enjoyed visiting the senior school to use the printing press , her final print is brilliant!

9 June 2023

Edward from Upper One B has produced this wonderful pencil self-portrait using sketching pencils. He worked hard on the proportions and shading. Well done, Edward!

19 May 2023

This week’s Artist of the Moment in the junior school is George in Lower Two. Linked to the geography topic of Exeter, the pupils in Lower Two have been studying gargoyles in their art lessons. George’s sketchbook research pages are beautifully creative, clearly showing his research. His clay gargoyle has been carefully constructed and painted to accentuate the wonderfully gruesome features. Finally, George has produced an effective pencil sketch of Exeter Cathedral. Well done, George!