This workshop is for beginners and improvers focusing on planning your painting, choosing your colour palette and colour mixing with more confidence.

An energetic workshop that combines both drawing and sculpting from life.

In this workshop we will be studying all aspects of the sea from the light and shadows cast on the water from above to the breaking waves and reflections cast on the sand at the waters edge. There will be a focus on colour mixing and brushwork techniques.

In this workshop we’ll be focusing on how to develop your skyscapes looking at the surprising range of colours in the sky and the clouds beyond blues greys and whites. We will also establish how to create energy and movement with your brushwork.

In partnership with Rye Art gallery and their exhibition ‘The Art of British Printmaking’ Nick will be running a workshop in the Print Room at Rye Creative Centre – ‘An Introduction to Printmaking (Monoprint and Dry point Etching)’.

I am running two oil painting workshops in April for anyone interested in building their confidence in oils, with landscape as the subject. The Countryside is the subject for the first workshop and Coastal for the second.

Join Claire Shoosmith to learn about the art of Cyanotype printing and create your own sun-print images on watercolour paper, found ephemera and porcelain in this 4 hour workshop.

I am running two oil painting workshops in April for anyone interested in building their confidence in oils, with landscape as the subject. The Countryside is the subject for the first workshop and Coastal for the second.

I am running two oil painting workshops in April for anyone interested in building their confidence in oils, with landscape as the subject. The Countryside is the subject for the first workshop and Coastal for the second.

Join me for a fun and creative class where we will be rolling inks onto acetate and experimenting with mark making, using stencils and resists, and printing on the press to produce black and white and colourful layered prints.

I am running two oil painting workshops in April for anyone interested in building their confidence in oils, with landscape as the subject. The Countryside is the subject for the first workshop and Coastal for the second.

Join me in a creative printmaking workshop where you will etch a drawing or design directly onto acetate and experiment with inking up and printing the results on the etching press.

Create a simple but elegant ink and wash painting using Chinese, Indian Ink, bamboo pens and watercolour paint.

Join me in a creative printmaking workshop where you will etch a drawing or design directly onto acetate and experiment with inking up and printing the results on the etching press.

Come and sample the joy of botanical casting into Parian clay using native plants from your garden.

In this full day beginners workshop Tara Macdonald will introduce you to the fundamentals of natural dyeing. The use of botanical material; flowers, barks, leaves and roots to colour fabrics, is an ancient and fascinating craft.

With natural dyer, Tara Macdonald -create your own naturally dyed silk or cotton scarf by bundle dyeing with summer garden flowers, leaves and botanical extracts.

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