beautiful studios with plenty to inspire your creative journey. 

These painting workshops will be focusing on developing your authentic voice.  Through a series of playful experiments and more rigorous testing of art theories you will gain confidence in listening to your intuition.  This will enable you to gain confidence and enjoy using your discoveries in your artmaking.  We will be using mixed media to develop your ideas and introduce you to a range of techniques.  You will be able to understand the properties of the materials we use and discover ways that they can best be harnessed to create your desired outcomes.  We will be working initially on paper and then progress to developing a series of small paintings on panels.  The processes you will be learning will be applied initially to abstract ideas but can be incorporated into more representational work at a later stage.  We will be learning about Design, Value, Colour, Texture and finishing your work.  You will be introduced to ways in which you can critique your own work in a constructive way to help you develop as an artist.

“I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.” – Frederick Franck

• This ten-week drawing class will be studio based and allow to take a deeper dive into your drawing practice.

• We will be using charcoal, graphite, and inks.  We will explore how artists use drawing to develop their thinking and build on their ideas.

• Drawing improves by honing hand eye co-ordination and gaining understanding of how you feel about what you see and then discovering ways to make marks to express these feelings and ideas.

• You will learn about the different qualities the materials offer and how to make tools to broaden your mark making vocabulary. 

• We are fortunate to be working in a studio surrounded by beautiful countryside and the village of Linton.  Weather permitting, we may wander out of the classroom for some observational drawing exercises.  In the studio we will be able to create still lives and you will be encouraged to bring objects that hold meaning to you to include in your compositions. 

• You will gain a better understanding or line, tone, value, composition, and form and how these can enrich your compositions.

• The Drawing studio is aimed to help grow your confidence you’re your enjoyment of drawing. 

• Drawing represents our thoughts; we express our ideas and emotions through the marks we make. We each have a unique way of seeing the world and our drawing, much like our handwriting demonstrates our individuality.

• You will be able to share your discoveries in a relaxed friendly environment.