Guest blog post written by Jenny Betts, all images appear with her permission, thanks Jenny!
Whilst Jenny was a student at TRC she was part of the team which came first for the 2012/13 Forgotten Spaces Competition and also won a place for her work in the Sixth Form Colleges Parliamentary Exhibition.
Jenny Betts
University: Newcastle University
A2 Fine Art
Straight to university
Fine art helped me an unbelievable lot,
especially when we get fine art lecturers in and get told to do experimental
drawings of a space and draw our feelings towards it. The experimentation that
we did during A level prepared me a lot, compared to others who had just come
straight from A level courses which weren’t art (or just not as good as TRC haha - thank you Bev and Sarah).
There’s a lot of
observational drawing involved in my course - especially in the first year, but
there’s also lots of
technical drawing involved as well, so get used to different line weights, it’s the difference between a fail and pass.
There’s also a lot of good
old fashioned model making, which means we’re still looking in skips - that skill never leaves.
I would love to have my name stamped over loads
of important buildings and structures and basically be the next Norman Foster
whilst having all my structures be completely eco friendly and sustainable and
save the planet. Aim high!
First project I handed in - Measured drawings
Non-life drawing class
VERY rough first model in second project, (I
would show you the slightly more impressive finished version however I’m not there yet)
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