ART
FULLY BOOKED: WATERCOLOUR LANDSCAPES FOR BEGINNERS
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomLearn how to paint a simple but effective landscape including skies, hills, trees, hedgerows and other landscape features. This is suitable for beginners and for intermediate level painters who want
PASTELS PURE AND SIMPLE
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomLearn and develop a mastery of chalk pastel on its own, delivering vibrant colours across a wide range of tones. Work from landscape and still life under guidance of an
FULLY BOOKED: BOTANICAL ART USING COLOURED PENCIL: CAPTURING THE GLORIOUS COLOURS OF SUMMER
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomSummer is a time of vibrant and exuberant colour in the gardens and countryside. Learn to imitate nature’s rich and varied palette exploring colour mixing and matching using coloured pencils.
ARTIST LABORATORY
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomOver six days in the studio this mentored programme, centred on your own practice, will foster experimentation, enquiry, and artistic development. With Steve’s knowledgeable and considered support, and utilising individual
STILL LIFE PORTRAIT
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomCreate an unconventional ‘portrait’ using objects or images which describe that person or place. A great way to convey the essence of someone while developing your imagination and skill in
SKETCHBOOK: FAST AND LOOSE COLOUR
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomRelax and enjoy getting back to the basics with artful games to get creative inspiration flowing, all in the privacy of your own sketchbook! Explore new ways of seeing objects,
NATURE PRINTS
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom“When we observe nature, the guiding feature seems to be a kind of permission to exist, a capacity to co-exist amongst the countless forms of life” Gustav Metzger (1992) Nature
PAINTING THE SEA
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomCumbria's west coast has a wide variety of shoreline subjects for the painter, from dramatic cliffs to sandy/pebbly beaches and tidal estuaries. Join landscape painter Lionel Playford visiting two different
DRAWING FROM THE EARTH
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom“Nature, from the Latin nasci means to become, to come from, that is to say, all that by its own force develops, forms, moves.” (Kurt Schwitters 1924) Iron, sandstone and
PRE-RAPHAELITISM: DREAMS OF AN EARTHY PARADISE
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomFollowing on from last year’s course on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, we look at some of the later Pre-Raphaelite pictures which proved to be the perfect vehicle for the dreams and