The Higher course is made up of three different units.

• Expressive

The expressive unit focuses on your ideas and imagination, your observational skills (drawing etc) and your ability to explore and handle a variety of media (charcoal, inks, pastel, paint, etc).

The main area of study will be Still Life and Portraiture.

• Design

The design unit focuses on problem solving and experimental ideas and solutions in response to a design brief which you have evolved.  This can include computer generated work.

The design brief is based on Fashion Design – (Show Design).

• Art & design studies (A&D Studies)

The Art & Design unit helps to support the Expressive and Design units.  The Art & Design studies focuses on the work on painters, sculptors and designers.

Assessment 

Practical assessment

– Expressive (portraiture, still – life)

– Design (Fashion)

Written assessment

– Two Art & Design Studies (Expressive, Design)

– One Art & Design exam – 1.5 hour duration, externally assessed.