Information About Ridgestone John - Chatham teacher -
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Ridgestone John offers a discount of 25% on their first / introductory lesson!

Painting	Price Guide
Beginner	£30.00
Drawing	Price Guide
Beginner	£30.00

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Training
Art Educated @ the then Thanet Schools of Art & Ravensbourne College of Art & Design (the same art college David Bowie went to). 1967 to 1970

Work
Art working @ Gillingham's then community Arts project "Spiral Arts" & then as a team member of Mural Artists @ the Historic Dockyard Chatham. During this time I also taught art for a short period @ Lordswood Junior School and held a total of 7 small one man exhibitions through out the Medway Towns & twice featured on Radio Kent from 1992 to 1994

Exhibitions
Continued exhibitions of my work at various local venues over the years.

On line gallery for viewing
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Art work available for sale @ a modest rate

Teaching Experience:

20 years Freelance Tutoring Guitar & other Musical Instruments, One to One, School & Group Sessions.
Currently Running an after-schools club in Art @ Cecil Road Primary School
Private Tutoring one to one for an 11 year old residing in Bearstead near Maidstone

Teaching Approach:

Being inspirational & encouraging the pupil to develop their own style, to learn from mistakes and trial & error

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Native Language: English (British)
Availability: Weekends / Weekdays (all times)
References Available: Yes (✔ On File)

Qualifications:

Virtual College Ltd. (2017) - Safe Guarding Children V4 (School) (✘ Not On File)
UCHECK (2015) - D.B.S (Other) (✘ Not On File)
Thanet Schools of Art (1969) - A Level Art Grade B (College) (✔ On File)

Ridgestone John's Feedback

Total Amount Of Feedback:	3
Total Positive Feedback:	3 Av. 4.67/5.00

From Steve (5/5): John is a nice friendly guy he has a very good knowledge of his subjects and puts it over to his students very well I find our lessons fun and interesting.

Reply from: Ridgestone John:Thank you kindly

From Stuart (5/5): John is a fantastic teacher. I am learning harmonica and he is both very knowledgeable and patient. I am allowed to go at my own pace, while always having something new to learn. I would recommend John as a top class music teacher,

Stuart Read

From Monica (4/5): John is a very patient and enthusiastic guitar/mandolin teacher which is good because I'm a novice musician and my playing probably hurts his ears. He has taken on board my inspirations and musical preferences and he prepares appropriate pieces of music for us to try out in our lessons. I would gladly recommend John to anyone.

Reply from: Ridgestone John:Its a pleasure to teach Monica. On the second session I was much encouraged by her positive step foward in her mastering the instrument. Understandably on the first attempt/lesson Monica couldn't hold the strings down sufficiently in order to get a clean sound. Second session though was, "perfect".

In order to compliment the Mandolins tone, I use a well used accompanying procedure on accoustic guitar which makes an attractive sound combination. I think my student will agree. We are concentrating on "first position/open" chord shapes to match favourite songs which went very well. When Monica, to her satisfaction, has fully mastered all the "Open" chords I would like, with her permission, to progress further onto the second position chords and some soloing in the Country and Western style. All this would be done @ a comfortable pace.

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