English Coaching for Art & Design Presentations

 

 

Express Yourself to Success

This page is for artists and designers preparing for an interview, talk, or presentation in the coming months.

If your needs are less urgent or more exploratory, we offer other coaching options that may suit you better.

Interview & Presentation Coaching for Art & Design Professionals

How do you prepare for a job interview or an Artist Talk in English?

You get help.

You practice with an expert who can help you make a whole range of answers so automatic, you can concentrate on what you want to say – and not think about how you need to say it.

Find a specialist.

Choose an English teacher with experience in your field of expertise; someone who knows exactly what good performance in your industry looks like.

Art and Design professionals, choose interview and presentation coaching for art and design professionals.

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You have an interview for a job or an opportunity to present your creative work to the public.

It’s will be a life-changing opportunity – if you can only say what you need to say – in English!

Take the pressure off. Get our help to work out what you need to say!

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Presentation Perfect Interview Coaching

You can do this!

No one knows your work or life better than you!

The only difficulty is that you want to choose the right word with care and delicacy  – and the interview itself is not the time and place to be doing this for the first time in English.

We are offering you a practice run.

Spend 1 afternoon rehearsing:

 

Presenting images

Telling the story of an artwork

Describing your creative style and objectives

Describing past experiences

Expressing future plans/intentions

Responding to Q & As.

Get A Helping Hand

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The Format

We are offering you a 3-hour coaching experience with:

3 x 45 minutes (Zoom Calls) followed by 3 x 30-minute self-guided study after we have given you our pointers.

It’s not overwhelming.

Or scary.

It’s just really good practice!

YOU chose the topics. YOU chose the questions.

We’ll send you a 5-7 point follow-up report too.

 

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Is This You?

When you speak in English, you are well beyond the stage of having to translate everything in your head before replying.

You can respond quickly enough.

The problem is that sometimes you don’t say the right thing.

I don’t mean that you get your words or grammar wrong.

I mean that there’s still a gap between somebody saying something and you responding as you would in your first language.

Afterwards, do you replay the conversation in your head and think, that’s not exactly who I am?

 

It is common to choose the linguistically easier path over accuracy of meaning.

Like water flowing, words come out the easiest path. 

It will make you more black and white in English.

Less nuanced.

It’s a problem because in art, nuance really, really matters.

The Solution?

Just practise.

In general – more exposure to relaxed conversations will give time to stretch the parameters of what you can do and expand your range of automatic answers.

Of course, time is a luxury you don’t have with a job interview.

Increase your chances of success by rehearsing over and over with an expert from your field – so that there’s no blurt in contexts where everything that you say matters.

Invest in your English.

True Voice English Founders

Jennie Reed (right), a pronunciation specialist and Neurolanguage Coach®, and Ruth Pringle (left), a real-world English specialist, will be collaborating to deliver your training.

Book Your Presentation Perfect Coaching Session & Get your English Ready for Your Big Day

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Step 1 & 2

Chose and pay for your time slot

Step 3

Complete the worksheet we send you BEFORE your appointment.

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Free Audio interview.

We produced this audio to help art school candidates, but it will help any creative with an interview or presentation. 

Experience real interview timing, surprise, and space to answer out loud.

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For your Future… 

We also run an annual  6-week Presentations for Creative Careers Course beginning in October.

Working on your English for interviews consistently over a couple of months is far more effective than last-minute cramming, especially when you’re already under pressure.

Interview English isn’t about memorising answers — it’s about thinking, responding, and expressing ideas clearly in real time.

That kind of fluency develops through repeated use, not urgency.

When you practise little and often, your language becomes more automatic, your timing improves, and your confidence builds naturally.

Cramming, by contrast, adds stress at the exact moment you need calm, presence, and clarity.

Regular practice allows your English to settle into your thinking, so in the interview itself you can focus on your work — not on searching for words.

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