JANE OSTLER

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TEACHING - FACILITATING

Being given the chance to share one's love of art by teaching is a privillege.

I started out as part of an artist's co-op running workshops on demand with community groups, and finding funding and sponsorship from local councils and charities, like the King's Fund and running art projects in our studio.  
My first teaching job was at City and Islington College, Whitecross Street, London EC1 in a Mixed Ability class, where the adult students were a diverse mix of abilities.  
 
   

If you have the time, this video gives you my work experience. LOOKING BACK.

 

 

   

January 2025 Holiday Fun People Portraits workshop @firstsite, Colchester, Essex.

October 2024 Holiday Fun Mop Shelter workshop @firstsite, Colchester, Essex.

September 2007 - October 2024, Art & Gallery Project Lead, Art Development Officer/Artist in Residence at the ArtCafe, 3 Culver Street East, Colchester, CO1 1LD, at Art-Co, a Level Best not-for-profit Social Enterprise, The Dacon Trust Ltd, Colchester, Essex CO1 1LD Level Best Enterprises

May - June 2007 Frinton on Sea Primary School, Art and Maths: Finding patterns in chaos.

July 2005 CSV Clubhouse, Ipswich, Suffolk
C & G 7500 Diploma in Media Techniques: Level 3 Unit 12: Web Page Design

March - July 2005 CSV Clubhouse, Ipswich, Suffolk
Web Page Design in Macromedia Dreamweaver on a PC (Microsoft Windows XP) CSV Clubhouse, Ipswich, Suffolk

March - July 2005 CSV Clubhouse, Ipswich, Suffolk, Editing Digital Images: Introduction to Photoshop Techniques on a PC (Microsoft Windows XP)

December 2004 CSV Clubhouse, Ipswich, Suffolk MacromediaMX4 Dreamweaver for Beginners

November 2004 Harlow Arts CD Cover/Disc Design Workshop, Harlow Old Town, Essex

Sept-2004-March 2005 duckegg.org
Painting Class, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex

2003 Colchester Borough Council
Artist in Residence for National AIDS DAY,

June 2002, 2003, 2004 Frinton-on-Sea County Primary School, Essex.
Talk & workshops : School Alphabet/ “What an Artist Does” /Clay Cats
Art & Grounds Week, Sets for “Cinders”.

2001 Firstsite @ The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester
Half-Term Workshop for children re. “Trauma” Exhibition” : 3D plaster & paint reliefs

2000 – 01 Connecting Cultures Placementee at Bromley by Bow Healthy Living Centre, London E3.
Artist in a health setting generating insights into the experience of artists in such employment environments for under graduate syllabus for Art students. Worked with a trainee health net-worker using art as a focus to develop her confidence, educational potential and ability to provide cross-cultural assistance on health matters to ethnic minority groups. An initiative of the Colchester Institute.

1997 to 2000 Career break to focus on raising a family.

1996 to 1996 The Chequer Centre, City & Islington College, London, EC1
Tutor Grade 5
Oil painting for adults.

1990 to 1996 The Chequer Centre, City & Islington College, London, EC1
Tutor Grade 5
Painting and drawing, mixed level adults, LOCF accredited.

1992 to 1994 Chequer Centre, City & Islington College, London, EC1
Tutor Grade 5
Art for older people. Created stage backdrops for music show at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, during 1992 the European Year of Older People, as part of our regular class work.

1988 to 1993 Workshops on Demand, 49 Ellington Street, Islington, London
Art Tutor
Co-member of six artists committed to working with disadvantaged groups and implementing equal opportunities within the art-workshop arena. We shared administration, fund-raising and teaching. The workshops resulted in the exhibition of work by our clients in art galleries and libraries.

1990 Whitechapel Art Gallery. Oil painting and reminiscence with pensioners in conjunction with "Arshile Gorky", work toured.

1989 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Photocopy collage using reminiscences. Pensioners.

1989 Serpentine Gallery, London. Workshop with homeless adults to build a giant pinhole camera and darkroom with wheel chair access. Work toured.

1988 Haggerston Centre, Hackney, London. Sculpture. Adults with
learning difficulties.

1987 Shape & London Borough of Hackney, Space Studios, Belsham Street, Hackney Painting workshops for adults with learning difficulties.


1992 to 1992 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London E1
Artists' workshop
Painting workshops in conjunction with "Richard Diebenkorn". Primary, Secondary GCSE and adults. Life drawing for GCSE students.
1991 to 1991 Chequer Centre, Islington Adult Education, London, EC1
Tutor
Life drawing, watercolour and mixed level painting for adults

1988 to 1988 Newham Community College, East Ham, London
Sessional Tutor, Fine Art Dept. Foundation
One-to-one studio-based tutorials to art foundation students.

1987 to 1987 Peterborough General Hospital, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Printmaker in Residence
Motivate and instruct clients in psychiatric day centre with theme of Pot Garden, using stencilling and sponge painting techniques. Work bought by the Friends of Peterborough Hospital for the permanent print collection.
   
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A lot of my teaching has really been 'facilitating'. This means getting inside the needs and wishes of your student, and helping them to do what theychoose to do, (not what you think they should do). Facilitating someone with special needs is not always as easy as it sounds. When facilitating adults you are there to support and be their physical and emotional prop and cheer leader. They are adults afterall. Occasionally, very occasionally, you get to do something that helps them, by showing by example: by making your own drawing or demonstrating a process, like paper making, or just sitting down and making a drawing.
 
   
 
 
 
 

 

 
  Rice drawing with primary school pupils.