Francis is a trained and well-established artist, practising and teaching in Oxford. In a range of weekly, monthly and annual classes of varying lengths he teaches you to observe and to draw. All his classes have professional models, and he welcomes all levels of student. His method is quite different to those in books, and very effective - as the before and after pictures on his website attest. Classes take place in Francis' studio, and materials and paper can all be supplied/borrowed. He has also published a paper in the Journal of Optics about self-portrait techniques used by Rembrandt involving concave mirrors.

The picture shows Francis teaching a student during the Portrait class, with Francis' painting of the same model in the background.