Workshops:

Full day workshops :10am - 4pm

Half day workshops : 1.30 - 4.30pm

Once again we have a selection of half day workshops alongside our usual full day and multiple day workshops. Half day workshops are held the day before a full day workshop, usually on a related topic. Students can book in for a half day, a full day or both the half day and full day workshops together in order to gain a better understanding of the particular topic or technique.

**Students attending a half day PLUS a subsequent full day workshop will receive a free lunch from Cwtch Cafe at the full day workshop - worth £15 pp**

Title: Simple Landscape in pastels

Tutor: Jantien Powell

Date: Saturday 9th Sept ‘23 Cost: £75 pp

Time: 10.00 - 16.00

Learn how to create your own simple landscape scene in soft pastels. Including tips for composition, creating distance and focus and different methods for working with soft pastels. Suitable for all abilities but aimed at beginners or those new to the medium.

Title: Experimental Seed Heads in mixed media

Tutor: Alison Board

Date: Friday 15th Sept ‘23 Cost: £40 pp Time: 13.30 - 16.30

In this exciting mixed media workshop students will be experimenting with the balance between abstract and realism with an expressive representation of the ever popular seed head, using a combination of watercolours as well as other medium and some unusual tools for application! Suitable for all abilities.

Title: Ring Tailed Lemur in watercolour and inks

Tutor: Alison Board

Date: Saturday 16th Sept ‘23 Cost: £75 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00

In this workshop students will be experimenting with watercolour and inks to create an expressive portrait of a ring tailed lemur. Ali will be looking at ways of creating life and energy in the painting through the method of application. Suitable for all abilities.

Title: Semi-abstract Landscape in acrylics

Tutor: Feona Ness

Date: Friday 22nd Sept ‘23 Cost: £35 pp Time: 13.30 - 16.30

Developing various painting techniques & applications as well as looking at light, reflection & colour. We will create a semi abstract landscape that feels peaceful and calming. Suitable for all abilities.

Workshops:

Full day workshops :10am - 4pm

Half day workshops : 1.30 - 4.30pm

Title: Revealing Layers - abstract workshop

Tutor: Feona Ness

Date: Saturday 23rd Sept ‘23 Cost: £65 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00

Creating an abstract painting in Acrylic. We will build up layers of gestural paint that will reveal and conceal. Starting with a vibrant background to a calming mid ground and finally bringing the composition together with the foreground. Suitable for all abilities.

Title: Sunlit Path in acrylics

Tutor: Mark Warner

Date: Saturday 30th Sept ‘23 Cost: £85 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00

Within this full day acrylic painting workshop, you will have the opportunity to experiment with colour, composition, brush strokes and texture. A path in the landscape can create a great sense of perspective and depth within a composition. We will look at how contrast in a painting can bring it to life and how harmonious colour can add to this. Suitable for all abilities.

Title: Painting Trees from drips! in mixed media

Tutor: Scott Eudon

Date: Friday 6th Oct ‘23 Cost: £45 pp Time: 13.30 - 16.30

Using a dynamic and thoroughly enjoyable process, Scott will set your expressive self alive with a method of painting the most intricate of natural objects, using a loose, informal and dynamic style of painting. A process that will enable everyone from the complete novice to the experienced artist, create beautiful imagery of trees within the landscape. Suitable for all abilities.

Title: Trees as motif in mixed media

Tutor: Scott Eudon

Date: Saturday 7th Oct ‘23 Cost: £75 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00 Using varied approaches, this workshop will delve into the beautiful world of trees. Looking at ways to observe, record and recreate these natural structures from different perspectives. Everyone will be guided with processes that will enable your personal expression to develop and create some beautiful imagery. Suitable for all abilities.

Title: Characterful Animals in mixed media

Tutor: Jude Lowery

Date: Saturday 14th Oct ‘23 Cost: £65 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00

In this workshop participants will produce a lively portrait of their chosen animal. We will explore portrayal of the character, developing body language, facial expression and media application to suit the nature of the animal represented. Suitable for all abilities.

Workshops:

Full day workshops :10am - 4pm

Half day workshops : 1.30 - 4.30pm

Title: Winter Trees in watercolour

Tutor: Peter Cronin

Date: Thursday 19th Oct ‘23 Cost: £75 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00

Spend a day learning how to draw and paint winter trees. Winter trees come in many guises, solitary hedgerow giants, copses and ivy clad oldies. We shall take a look at how sketch them and how to paint a winter tree scene in watercolour. Suitable for all abilities.

Title: Harbour Sunrise in pastels

Tutor: Richard Suckling

Date: Friday 20th Oct ‘23 Cost: £40 pp Time: 13.30 - 16.30

In this class we will create a Harbour scene depicted at sunrise. Starting with a quick sketch to plan our composition and tonal arrangement, we will then take this sketch and work it up to a finished pastel painting together. We will look at composition, colour choice, mark making and how to simplify complicated subject matter to maximum effect. Suitable for all abilities.

Title: Be Bold with your pastels!

Tutor: Richard Suckling

Date: Saturday 21st Oct ‘23 Cost: £75 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00 This full day course will concentrate on encouraging a bolder approach to pastel painting. We will discover how being more daring with our mark making, colour choices and compositions will help us to push our pastel painting beyond the purely representational approach to the medium. This course will be suitable for all abilities.

Title: Autumnal Still Life in acrylics

Tutor: Martin Truefitt-Baker

Date: Saturday 28th Oct ‘23 Cost: £65 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00

We will learn to construct an interesting arrangement and how to develop this into a finished composition. Along the way we shall be developing a deeper understanding of how to mix and use those difficult natural browns and golds without the painting becoming heavy and how to organise colours and tones in order to explain form and depth. Suitable for all abilities.

Title: Textures in nature in acrylics

Tutor: David “DJ” Johnson

Date: Saturday 4th Nov ‘23 Cost: £75 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00

A very interesting workshop exploring a variety of methods for applying paint to achieve realistic marks and textures, quickly and effectively, using a range of brushes, palette knives, sponges, pieces of wood and sand. Suitable for all abilities.

Workshops:

Full day workshops :10am - 4pm

Half day workshops : 1.30 - 4.30pm

Title: Sunlit Lighthouse in watercolour

Tutor: Howard Jones

Date: Friday 10th Nov ‘23 Cost: £55 pp Time: 13.30 - 16.30

This workshop will be all about creating “Low angle, strong sunlight” one of the most important skills in terms of creating tonal dynamics. Students will also learn how to optimize the full range of colour and tonal effects for maximum impact. The chosen subject matter offers the perfect exercise to help you take your watercolours to the next level. Suitable for all abilities.

Title: Paint a Hare in watercolour

Tutor: Richard Box

Date: Saturday 11th Nov ‘23 Cost: £65 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00

If you, like so many others, have a fascination for hares, then here is an opportunity for you to learn how to paint one in just one day. You will follow a particular system of painting in watercolours which Richard will explain and demonstrate step-by-step and stage by stage. Follow his system and you will be amazed by your achievement. Suitable for all abilities.

Title: Lake Reflections in watercolour

Tutor: Catherine Beale

Date: Saturday 18th Nov ‘23 Cost: £90 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00 Catherine will demonstrate watercolour’s fantastic ability to create soft veils of colour that resemble water. Practice wet-in-wet painting techniques. Drop running pigment and watch it mix on the page to form deep foliage. Use ‘lifting-off’ techniques to create subtle reflections. Suitable for all abilities.

Title: Understanding Tonal Values in oils or acrylics

Tutor: Lucy Burton

Date: Friday 24th Nov ‘23 Cost: £35 pp Time: 13.30 - 16.30

Looking at the theory of creating ‘notan’ (or tonal value) studies and why it is an important tool for artists to explore different arrangements of light and dark elements within a composition before beginning a painting. Focusing on practical ways to create strong designs. We will do some simple loose sketches from photographs before transferring onto canvas in oils or acrylics. Suitable for all abilities.

Title: Floral Still Life in oils or acrylics

Tutor: Lucy Burton

Date: Saturday 25th Nov ‘23 Cost: £65 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00

Take your pick from the selection of seasonal flowers. We will then look at arranging and lighting the flowers with different coloured backgrounds, creating interesting and unusual compositions and colour relationships. We will create a simple tonal sketch on the canvas, before applying the paint in a dynamic way: focusing on colour, brushwork and composition. Suitable for all abilities.

Workshops:

Full day workshops :10am - 4pm

Half day workshops : 1.30 - 4.30pm

Title: Christmas Exhibition & Gift Fair

Date: Sat 2nd - Sun 3rd Dec ‘23 Time: 10.00 - 16.00

You are cordially invited to our Christmas exhibition and Gift Fair. We will have an array of beautiful, hand made Art and Craft items from local artists and makers alongside our annual students exhibition, and of course warm mulled wine and mince pies to help set the mood! The perfect way to make a start on your Christmas shopping and pick up some truly wonderful, one of a kind gifts.

Title: Splashy Animals in acrylic inks

Tutor: Jantien Powell

Date: Saturday 6th Jan ‘24 Cost: £75 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00

In this workshop students will be learning how to create energy and movement to produce an animated animal study using the vibrant colours of acrylic inks. Students can work along with Jantien step by step, or those with some experience can bring along their own animal images to use as reference. Suitable for all abilities.

Title: Garden Birds in mixed media

Tutor: Alison Board

Date: Friday 12th Jan ‘24 Cost: £40 pp Time: 13.30- 16.30

In this workshop students will be experimenting with a range of mixed media to create a delicate yet lively study of garden birds. Ali will introduce tips and techniques for depicting these fragile yet hardy birds including methods for creating subtle background effects and tips for applying line and colour in a way that describes the nature of these creatures. Suitable for all abilities

Title: Golden Daffodils in watercolour and collage

Tutor: Alison Board

Date: Saturday 13th Jan ‘24 Cost: £75 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00

In this workshop students will be using watercolour and collage to create an expressive painting of beautiful golden Daffodils. Ali will demonstrate step by step how to create an expressive composition of flowers with a vignette style background before adding carefully selected collage to enhance the painting and bring it to the next level. Suitable for all abilities.

Title: “Freedom to Express” abstract art in acrylics

Tutor: Feona Ness

Date: Saturday 20th Jan ‘24 Cost: £65 pp Time: 10.00 - 16.00

Taking inspiration from two inspiring American abstract painters

Helen Frankenthaler and Heather Day, you will experiment with acrylic paint to create a series of expressive abstracts. Throughout the day you will be guided through each stage and be able to allow yourself the freedom to express in paint. Suitable for all abilities.