Our new and exciting workshop programme will help our members to gain new skills and/or improve existing ones by joining in a variety of workshops and member-led tutorials. An overview of professional artist workshops are shown below, but full details, including additional member-led events, are in the downloadable programme.
Waves in Pastel with Sue Kerrigan-Harris
This two-week workshop was themed around Waves. During the workshop, we will learn how to pastel waves, sand, and froth with Sue, including: Aerial View Waves, Crashing Waves, Beach Waves; how to create sand, froth, and realistic waves with water spatter; and learn different blending techniques to create textures, volume, and depth in the waves.
Lino Printing & Block Cutting Workshop with Katherine Anteney
The day covered all the basics of lino cutting. This included choosing your image, transferring to the block, cutting, registering, inking and printing in a single colour. Plus a lot more tips and tricks along the way.
Landscapes in Watercolour Workshop with Alison C Board
A relaxed and experimental workshop covering landscape techniques using watercolours but with a twist of mixed media in Alison’s signature style.
Gallery of Art from the workshop
Joe Dowden Workshop
We studied an image of the landscape of Lathkilldale, Derbyshire. Using watercolours the group produced a finished painting following step by step instructions from Joe.
Helen Dowse Workshop
We studied an image of a cat, looking at eyes, ears and fur detail. Using acrylic inks the group worked on producing a cat portrait under Helen’s expert tuition.
