Resurrecting time tested skills traditionally passed from one generation to the next. LARA is a well resourced and highly professional atelier, established in 2008 in response to the rarity of rigorous, representational art education. We are unique in the UK in our approach to teaching the most fundamentally important aspects of art: drawing, painting and sculpture – from life. LARA’s philosophy supports a return to discipline in art. By employing traditional, time-tested methods, perhaps best described as the grammar of drawing, LARA seeks not to return to the past, but to build upon it.