EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE TEAM
EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE TEAM

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ACADEMY OF INSPIRATION
Atmósfera
Se está estableciendo una academia internacional de arte que se basa en las tradiciones renacentistas. Reúne a los mejores artistas, diseñadores, escritores, poetas, artistas intérpretes o ejecutantes y profesionales creativos visionarios para forjar un nuevo modelo educativo para las generaciones futuras.
SENIOR MASTERCLASS TEACHING STAFF & ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

James Horton MA (RCA) PPRBA
Past President of The Royal Society of British Artists
Senior Tutor Drawing & Painting
James Horton graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1974. He was President of the Royal Society of British Artists from 2009 until 2017. The constant theme in his work is working from life, whether portrait, landscape or interiors. He works mainly in oil, watercolour and pastel, one of his books being 'Pastel Techniques'. He teaches and in 2002 accompanied HRH Prince Charles with ' The friends of Mount Athos' as Artist in Residence.

John Atkin MA (RCA)
Senior Tutor Fine Art & Sculpture - Atmosfera Sculpture Park (Spain)
Loughborough University - Reader in Fine Art
Since leaving the RCA in London, where Henry Moore personally funded John Atkin throughout his MA sculpture course, he has exhibited his work internationally, notably at the Guggenheim Museum in Italy, the Museum of Modern Art Melbourne, the New Orleans Museum of Art and extensively throughout China including his seminal public artwork created for the One World One Dream Cultural Olympiad. John is a prolific sculptor and also a highly experienced educator. He is currently Director of Internationalisation at Loughborough University where he is Reader in Fine Art. Specialties include Arts & Science collaborations, alongside numerous aspects of Fine Art Practice. John has presented keynote Educational Papers at conferences and institutions worldwide, notably in China, Australia, Portugal, USA and the UK.

Thomas Newbolt MA (CCA)
Painter, Draughtsman, Printmaker
Senior Tutor Drawing & Painting
Thomas graduated from Camberwell School of Art in 1974. He exhibited at Roland Browse and Delbanco, Browse and Darby and now at Piano Mobile Fine Art. He was Artist in Residence at Trinity College Cambridge 1979-81 and a Fellow at the University of Virginia 1981-83. He has taught at Camberwell, the University of Wisconsin, Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge School of Art) and the Royal Drawing School.

Richard Sorrell MA (RA) PPRWS RBA NEAC
Past President of The Royal Watercolour Society
Master of Drawing & Painting - Arts Res - Atmosfera Web Academy
http://www.richardsorrell.co.uk/

Calum Colvin MA (RCA) OBE RSA FRSE
Painter Photographer Installation Artist
Senior Tutor Painting & Photography - Arts Res - Atmosfera Web Academy
https://www.royalscottishacademy.org/
https://rse.org.uk/fellowship/fellow/professor-emeritus-calum-colvin-3182/
Calum Colvin OBE is a Scottish artist born in Glasgow, renowned for his innovative constructed photographic artworks. A graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London, he has exhibited nationally and internationally for over 30 years. His work combines photography, painting and three-dimensional tableaux to explore history, identity and culture. In 2001, he received an OBE and a Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award, leading to his acclaimed exhibition Ossian, Fragments of Ancient Poetry. He is Professor of Fine Art Photography at the University of Dundee, and his work is held in major collections, including Tate, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

Anna Mazzotta is a British fine artist of Italian heritage who studied at Wimbledon School of Art, achieving a First-Class Honours degree, before completing a Master’s at the Royal College of Art in London. Known for her expressive paintings and charcoal drawings, her work draws inspiration from cinema, theatre, fashion and the glamour of bygone eras. Exploring identity and human emotion through bold colours and theatrical compositions, Mazzotta won the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 1999. She has exhibited her work extensively in galleries across the UK and internationally and it is held in many international private collections.

Len Massey (RCA)
Artist, Past Head of Drawing at
The Royal College of Art
Senior Tutor Drawing
Len Massey is an Artist and Musician who ran the Royal College of Art Drawing Studio for 17 years, previously working with EMI's head recording engineer at Abbey Road Studios. At the RCA he taught drawing in the widest sense possible as an inclusive interactive behaviour for students and staff. He is renowned for inviting many distinguished international tutors into his inspirational drawing programme.

Peter Lavery MA (RCA)
Photographer
Senior Tutor Photography - Arts Res - Atmosfera Web Academy
Peter Lavery is an MA graduate of Royal College of Art, London 1972. He has worked extensively in advertising and editorial photography, earning numerous industry awards. His photography explores humanity, identity and culture, with many notable projects including Of Humankind. One of his early projects was his striking black & white photographs documenting circus performers and their lives behind the scenes. Circus Work, captures the unique characters and traditions of British circus life.

Rebecca (Becca M-C) Miller-Cheevers
Artist, Past Tutor at Chelsea School of Art,
The Royal College of Art, Byam Shaw School of Art.
Senior Tutor Drawing, Painting, Printmaking
Becca M-C studied Interior Architecture at Chelsea College of Arts and gained a PGCE in Fine Art from Brighton Uni and Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, where she was awarded the Boise Travel Scholarship and went on to live in Gaucín, Spain. A qualified teacher, she has taught at Chelsea College of Arts, The Royal College of Art and Byam Shaw School of Art. At heart her work is abstract, minimal painting often a 3 dimentional wall mounted work. Increasingly, her work reads architecture as a store of memory, the buildings we call home, drawing on her Irish immigrant roots and her fifteen years in Trellick Tower to comment on social housing, class and gender. There she ran community arts projects for residents and founded From Trellick to Tarifa, an exchange programme linking young people of Moroccan heritage in London with peers in Morocco and Spain. Becca has also worked at the Michael Schonke Printworkshops in Berlin and Worton Hall Fine Art Printmaking Studios.


Albert Watson (RCA)
Photographer New York
Artist in Residence - Atmosfera Web Academy
Albert Watson is a Scottish photographer, born in Edinburgh, who lives and works in New York. After studying at the Royal College of Art in London, he became one of the world’s most successful fashion, celebrity, and advertising photographers. Known for his bold, classical style, Watson has photographed iconic figures such as David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Kate Moss, and Naomi Campbell. His work has appeared on over 100 Vogue covers and numerous Rolling Stone covers. From his famous Hitchcock series to high-fashion editorials, he explores a wide range of subjects, including portraiture, landscapes, nudes, and fashion. Watson prefers traditional photographic techniques, creating distinctive images that enrich our perception of the world. Recognised by Photo District News as one of the 20 most influential photographers of all time, he has exhibited internationally in renowned museums and galleries. His photographs are also held in prestigious collections internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Professor Olivier Richon
Head of Photography at
The Royal College of Art
Artist in Resident - Atmosfera Web Academy
Olivier Richon, born in Switzerland in 1956 has been the head of Photography at the Royal College of Art since 1997. He previously taught Photography at Derby School of Art and the University of Westminster. He has collaborated with Art Schools and research groups in Paris, Chicago, Modena and Arles. Olivier is an Artist working with Photography. His work proposes a re-interpretation of the still-life genre.
Richard was born in 1948. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools and is a Past President of the Royal Water Colour Society. He was an Executive member of the New English Arts Club and later a member of the Royal Society of British Artists where he was awarded the De Laslo Medal in 2002. His work is in numerous collections internationally, including the V&A Museum and the National Trust in the UK.

Dr Jacqueline Cockburn
Art Historian
Senior Tutor Art History - Atmosfera Web Academy
Jacqueline did her Art History degree and PhD at London University. She lives in Gaucin, Spain and her specialist field is Spanish Art but she also lectures on European Art 1790 -1950. She lectured at Westminster School, London and Birbeck College, University of London for over 20 years. She lectures at the V&A, Christies Education, The Art Fund, The London Art History Society, Art Pursuits Abroad as well as several other prestigious institutions. She is accredited by The Arts Society working for them internationally delivering lectures on Arts History subjects.

Ian Cockburn MA (CTD)
Art Historian
Senior Tutor Art History - Atmosfera Web Academy
Ian Cockburn lives in Gaucin, Spain and is a specialist in medieval Spanish Art History, with a focus on the Islamic material culture of the Iberian peninsula during the period of ‘Moorish’ occupation, from the initial invasion in 711AD to the completion of the ‘Reconquest’ in 1492AD. He took a BA in History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London in 2012, and an MA in Medieval Spanish Art History at the Courtauld Institute in 2017.

Linda Tubby
Food Stylist, Writer
Senior Tutor Gastronomy - Atmosfera Web Academy
Linda Tubby is a top food stylist, recipe developer and writer. She started her career as a fashion designer, but during her travels discovered a passion for food that she couldn’t resist. Linda has written six gastronomic books among them ‘Cracked’, ‘The Spanish Country Kitchen’ and ‘Ices Italia’. She has worked for a litany of magazines which include Sainsbury’s Magazine, Waitrose Food Illustrated, Food and Travel and Bon Appetit. Freshly sourced ingredients are paramount to her cooking philosophy.
Dr Pauline Frederica Kiernan
Playwright, Screenwriter & Shakespeare Scholar
Senior Tutor Creative Writing & Scriptwriting

Pauline is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and prize-winning short story writer and tutor in Creative Writing.
She took a BA First in English Literature, and a doctorate in Shakespeare both from Oxford University, and an MA in Playwriting at Birmingham University. She has held lectureships and fellowships at the University of Oxford and Reading. She is also a Shakespeare scholar, appointed Leverhulme Research Fellow at Shakespeare's Globe, working
as dramaturge and research resource with Mark Rylance. and the acting companies in its first six years, and has given talks on the dramatist world-wide. She is the author of the ground-breaking Shakespeare's Theory of Drama and the
best-selling Filthy Shakespeare.