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The Swedish Academy of Realist Art (SARA), founded in 2006 by Hans-Peter Szameit and Sanna Tomac was Sweden’s first school of fine art dedicated to traditional, realistic drawing and painting. SARA was located in Stockholm for 9 years and is now located in Simrishamn. Situated in a beautiful, old building in the old part of the city, just 2 minutes walking distance from the sea, it's the perfect place for painting and feeling creative. The surrounding area is outstanding all year round and know for the many artists and ateliers.

The full-time program runs for three years and the school also offers evening classes, open life drawing sessions and workshops. Enrolment numbers are limited, which allows for intensive individual instruction within an intimate and supportive atmosphere. This unique environment often leads to rapid student development. SARA is not a preparatory art school, but an alternative to the state run art universities. The school is approved for student loans in the Nordic countries as well as for students from the UK.

Students follow a prescribed curriculum, rather than being left to free experimentation. They complete a variety of artistic exercises designed to help them acquire and master certain fundamental skills such as accurate drawing, correct values, edge quality and colour. These skills give students the necessary tools to express their ideas and visions through the medium of realistic painting and drawing.

SARA’s highly specialised education attracts students from around the world and typically, 30 to 40% of students come from other countries. The language of instruction is English.

The student body consists of both amateurs as well as professionals seeking to improve their skills. Students of SARA intend to work in a variety of fields upon graduation including fine art (as portrait, figure, landscape and still-life painters), illustration, and concept art within the film and computer game industry.

SARA is devoted to preserving, promoting and developing the humanistic values, technical skills and craftsmanship that were the hallmark of great art for centuries before the shift to modernism. SARA uses many of the same effective, time-tested methods that were used to train the great artists of the past. This is not a return to the past, but a way of expanding the tradition and moving it forward by building upon the solid foundation of knowledge that has been passed down to us.