Since 1969 the Cyprus Summer Studio (also called the Cyprus Summer

        School) has been offering artists and art students from Britain, Ireland and

          elsewhere the chance to spend a month enjoying the Cypriot sunshine at an

                affordable price.

 

                            Building on this we are now offering artists and art students the  

                              opportunity to spend short periods of time at the Cyprus College                                  of Art on a new Cyprus Studio School programme at other times

                                of year, including throughout the Winter.

 

                                Like the Cyprus Summer Studio, the Cyprus Studio School is    

                               not a course, and the number of participants will be much lower

                              than on the annual Cyprus Summer Studiuo, but you will still be

                             in the company of other artists and art students (as well as the

                          occasional design student, poet or musician) and

                       have access to the studios of the Cyprus College of Art  (Paphos).

 

You can book for anything from two weeks.

upwards. Our accommodation is simple

youth hostel style accommodation,

with shared bathroom and cooking

facilities, and everyone chips in to

keep the place clean. It is simple, but

pleasant accommodation which you can think

of as being a bit like camping, but you should

imagine stone tents.

 

The ethos of the Cyprus Studio School today is the same as motivated the celebrated Cypriot artist Stass Paraskos to found the Cyprus Summer Studio back in 1969. The Cyprus Summer Studio (or Cyprus Summer School as it was called in 1969) was set up to provide artists and art students with a place in the summer sunshine where they could live, work and produce interesting and innovative art.

 

The sense of freedom has always been central to what we do, so that although many universities and art studios might pay lip service to the idea of artistic freedom, very few of them practice it in a

meaningful way. We try to. That does not

mean there are no rules, but there are no

prejudices or preconceived ideas.

 

​Most of all the Cyprus College of Art has

always been about living and working as a

community of artists. This seems very idealistic in today's money minded art world, but we are idealistic. The Cyprus College of Art is a simple place, a bit ramshackle and rough around the edges, but it points to a future ideal world where art is valued not for its financial value, but for its intrinsic quality. It points to a utopia where artists are considered important because of what they make, and not because they are a brand name or celebrity always filling the media.

 

If being an idealitic, utopian artist living simply in Cyprus for a while appeals to you, then get in touch or enrol on the Cyprus Studio School now if you like. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For full terms and conditions of your booking click here.