The Society runs regular 3-day portrait sculpture classes for sculptors of all levels. To assist in the selection process, applicants are asked to complete an application form and send photos of recent work. For 2025 there will be three separate classes taught by members of the SPS.

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Equipment required for students - Metal wax modelling tools would be good, callipers, knife, drawing equipment and small mirror.
 

Classes for 2025​

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Etienne Millner – 2 courses 5th, 6th and 7th April and 22nd, 23rd and 24th November 2025,

at his own studio  London SW8 -  Portrait head in clay all levels £300.00

 

Marcus Cornish - Course in July at Heatherley’s – Dates TBC

 

Andrian Melka - 26th, 27th and 28th September 2025

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Please read the following for biographies of each tutor:​​

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Marcus Cornish gained a first class honours degree in Sculpture from Camberwell School of Art followed by an MA from the Royal College of Art. In 1993 Marcus was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. He won a scholarship to India to study the work of Ayanar Potter Priests and was awarded a Henry Moore scholarship to pursue ceramic art. He was artist-in-residence at the Museum of London in 2005-6 and at an Ibstock brick factory for a year. He was also invited to be official tour artist on a diplomatic tour to Eastern Europe with HRH The Prince of Wales and as tour artist with the British Army in Kosovo. Recently, Marcus carried out commissions for the Watts Gallery and The Royal Society. His work has been recognised in a number of awards both nationally and internationally and covered in The Times, Independent and Sculpture Magazines.

 

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Andrian Melka is a British-Albanian figurative sculptor. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana and moved to England with a Getty scholarship to study at the Building Crafts College in London where he was awarded the City & Guilds Silver Medal for Excellence and Freedom of the City. He became a QEST scholar in 2008, winning the QEST Award for Excellence in 2020, and is a member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors and the Art Workers' Guild. 

Andrian’s work can be seen in The Royal Gardens at Highgrove, at St Mungo’s Church in Glasgow, Bamburgh Castle War Memorial and the gardens of Chiswick House where he worked with English Heritage. His first over-life-sized bronze figure, of Captain Sir Tom Moore, was exhibited at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2022 and now welcomes visitors to Leeds Chapel Allerton Hospital.

 

 

 

Etienne trained at Goldsmith's College in the 1970s where he was greatly influence by one of the teaching staff, Ivor Roberts-Jones who is best known for his Winston Churchill sculpture in Parliament Square. Commissions have included monumental portraiture, figure groups, busts of politicians, writers, musicians, and his well known portraits of children. He has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Peoples Portraits 2000, New Faces at the NPG and has had a one man show at Cadogan Contemporary. His work is held in a number of public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, as well as in numerous private collections at home and abroad. He is President of The Society of Portrait Sculptors.

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