Small groups or individual tuition offered. Learning to paint or draw or work with clay is rewarding relaxing and fun. whatever your ability you will be able to progress and learn more about the pleasure of making and doing.
Watercolour From classic to experimental techniques ..a beautiful and versatile medium to explore life and landscape. Particularly good for away day and outdoor sketching
Acrylics From large scale to small scale, acrylics offer many possibilities for realism or abstract. Working either from dark to light or light to dark with layering and glazing. Expressive work or fine detail possible.
Floral and botanical painting Loose and creative or fine and analytical. Express the beauty of flowers and learn more of their structure, form and colour through your work. Many different mediums can be used from watercolour to pastel and watercolour pencil.
Dogs Cats and Horses etc Favourite pet ? ...or just beautiful animals. Learn to paint form, texture and capture character. Any medium from watercolour to oils or acrylics
Interior decorative techniques From walls to furniture...learn how to ragroll, marble, grain and gild. ..even try the fine art of trompe l’oeil….very creative, relaxing and fun...anything is possible!
Simple hand bookmaking Use hand printmaking techniques, and all the creativity you have, to make beautiful books. Wonderful for holiday memory books or create your own simple story book. Combine computer work with hand painting, printing or collage...in fact anything!!
Basic handbuilt ceramics Non wheel techniques for handbuilding ceramics. Coiling, slab building and simple sculpture...very relaxing !!!
Art with art therapy A different way of combining relaxation and meditation while exploring your responses to colour shape and form based on the study of natural forms. Any medium including clay …..deeply relaxing and stress reducing...lovely..!
**All courses contain a grounding in the understanding of the basics of colour, form, observation and composition...and, if you like, an art history lesson or two.
Please contact me for further details..
