Trevett Allen

Artist, educator, and founder of ApoKrino. Trevett teaches ideation as a practice — the step before execution — one-to-one, one hour at a time.

Trevett Allen is an artist, art educator, maker, and the founder of ApoKrino, based in Spain. He has taught drawing, painting, creative technology, and portfolio development for more than 25 years at independent schools in the US and international schools in Hong Kong and Spain, including a year at the Smithsonian, with students placed at RISD, SAIC, Ringling, UPenn, Stanford, the San Francisco Art Institute, and Illinois Wesleyan. He mentors students one-on-one on art school portfolios and on tech and innovation portfolios — building apps, devices, and contest-winning projects for university entrance — and writes Notes on the Living Arts on Substack.

Practice and teaching

Trevett’s work is a practice: studio drawing and painting, teaching, writing, and the slow design of creative tools. Twenty-five years of teaching — including a year at the Smithsonian — became the ApoKrino method: a way of finding the signal already present in an artist’s own work, and building the next project from it. Students have gone on to programs including RISD, SAIC, and Stanford, but the method is a practice, not a promise.

Work with Trevett

The way to work with Trevett is one hour, one-to-one, online — €150. Bring what you’ve been making — or not making — and leave knowing what’s yours in it and what to do next. If you want to keep going, further sessions are the same rate. Book an hour.

Ongoing writing lives at Notes on the Living Arts.