Year 1  Piet Mondrian

Year 1 learnt about the artist Piet Mondrian who was born on 7th March 1972, in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. His father and uncle were both artists, this meant that he was exposed to art from a young age. He began to study drawing at the age of 14.

Year 2   Banksy

Year 2 learnt about the artist Banksy who is the most famous England-based, street graffiti artist, political activist and film director whose real name and identity is not known.

Year 3  Esther Mahlangu     

Year 3 learnt about the artist Esther Mahlangu who is a South African artist. She is globally acclaimed for her bright, bold, large-scale contemporary paintings that are inspired by her Ndebele heritage. She is one of South Africa's best known artists.

Year 4   Zubeida Agha 

Year 4 learnt about the artist Zubeida Agha who was the first Pakistani Modern Artists. After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, she was the first artist to hold an exhibition of her paintings. She helped bring the modern idiom to Pakistan.

Year 5   Sita Devi 

Year 5 learnt about the artist Sita Devi (1914–2005) who was 

one of the most well-known Madhubani artists from India, and was one of the first to receive national recognition for the art form, receiving a number of awards for her work.

Year 6   Claude Monet 

Year 6 learnt about the artist Claude Monet who was born in Paris in 1840. He grew up in Le Havre, a port in Normandy, and demonstrated great artistic talent from an early age. 

In Paris, Monet and fellow artists experimented with painting the effects of light while working outside (‘en plein air’).