ART
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ARTIST LABORATORY
Over 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 and group discussions, you will be encouraged to respond open-mindedly to your own questions and ideas around your medium/media, conceptual approaches, and subject matter. Steve
FULLY BOOKED: BOTANICAL ART USING COLOURED PENCIL: CAPTURING THE GLORIOUS COLOURS OF SUMMER
Summer 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. Observing nature’s details, you can produce a single study or create a composition of smaller subjects to record this colourful season. This course is suitable
3 events,
STILL LIFE PORTRAIT
Create 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 composition. For inspiration, we will look at work by artists who have used this unusual approach to portraiture. There will be a presentation and plenty
1 event,
SKETCHBOOK: FAST AND LOOSE COLOUR
Relax 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, recording your impressions and using your sketchbook so it becomes an essential resource to support your creative thinking. Pam Grant Residential: £350 Non-residential: £245
1 event,
NATURE PRINTS
“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 prints were for centuries used to reproduce plants and build up study collections of flora and fauna; during the 19th century they were the precursor
3 events,
PAINTING THE SEA
Cumbria'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 locations for inspiration. Sharpen up your skills sketching and painting en plein air and learn some useful techniques to capture the look and feeling of
DRAWING FROM THE EARTH
“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 slate have been mined in Cumbria for centuries and are still used to make artist colours such as Egremont red, St Bees yellow and Kirkby
3 events,
DRAWING AND PAINTING BUILDINGS
Have you ever wanted to draw or paint buildings but not sure how to start? Then this course is for you. Learn the tricks of the trade looking at perspective, how to accurately measure and transfer what you see and bring character to your drawings using watercolours. Step by step demonstrations throughout. This is your
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY
This course is about exploring ideas and themes in visual form. We will take inspiration from personal and universal stories both big and small. We will work in a sketchbook format through short exercises and group activities. Rather than a focus on completed pieces, we will make explorative pieces - the course is aimed to
PRE-RAPHAELITISM: DREAMS OF AN EARTHY PARADISE
Following 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 aspirations of Victorian society. This course will investigate attitudes to women, men and relationships through the key preoccupations which emerged in painting and literature of
4 events,
NORWEGIAN ART: THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN
19th century Norway was culturally impoverished by 600 years of foreign control, but by the mid-1800s art was becoming a potent expression of national pride, culminating in the realism of Christian Krohg and the exuberant celebrations of Norwegian landscape of Harald Sohlberg and Nikolai Astrop. Tim Stimson Residential: £350 Non-residential: £245