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An interview between Mike Lawson-Smith, working in Digital and Time-based Fine Art at Plymouth University and arts educationalist Victoria de Rijke from Middlesex University, where they discuss Mike’s schooling at Michael Hall Steiner school in the UK Sussex countryside. Topics include Mike’s dyslexia, his memories of being taught with the Steiner approach, his growing skills and techniques across the arts, and how these came together to allow him to work in arts institutions and on collaborative and community arts projects.
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The PNEU or Parents’ National Education Union was an educational movement which believed that ‘children are persons’ and that teachers and parents should treat them as individuals who need to be stimulated an early age by a broad curriculum, not simply to be trained to read, write and count.
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Michael Hall is the largest and longest running Steiner school in the UK, starting in London before the war and moving south of East Grinstead in a small village called Forest Row.
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Veil painting is often watercolour or gouache, using reduced colour washes where ‘slow transparent veil by slow translucent veil’ organically emerges on wet paper.
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For example, 85% of arts graduates were in paid work or further study in 2013 and 85% reported satisfaction with arts courses, broadly comparable with Science subjects.
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In 1888, Van Gogh actually painted a series of sunflowers in all stages of life, from full bloom to withering.
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Lawson-Smith, M. (2019). “Steiner and Me” an Interview with Artist Teacher Mike Lawson-Smith. In: de Rijke, V. (eds) Art and Soul: Rudolf Steiner, Interdisciplinary Art and Education. Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17604-4_8
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