Art Course
with Karen Coulson 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
This 1-day course is a wonderful introduction to the world of coloured pencil techniques.
Learn the art of layering different coloured pencil strokes to create the ‘realistic details’ of a Barn Owl, using Derwent Coloursoft Pencils on a dark coloured Mount Board.
A line drawing will be provided to trace if you do not wish to draw the image free hand.
Course Cost
Members: £42
Non-members: £55
Course Suitability: Beginners – Improvers
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List All materials will be supplied free of charge to use during the course by Karen Coulson.
Artist’s Profile Karen is a self taught award winning coloured pencil artist and tutor, painting mostly wildlife subjects. She is a Gold Signature member of the UKCPS (UK Coloured Pencil Society).
She exhibits nationally and has won many awards for her detailed pencil work. She runs regular workshops in the Pencil Museum, Keswick as well as many classes in Hampshire, where she currently lives.
Art Course
with Karen Coulson 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
This 1-day course is a wonderful introduction to the world of coloured pencil techniques.
Learn the art of layering different coloured pencil strokes to create the ‘realistic details’ of a Red Admiral Butterfly, using Derwent Coloursoft Pencils on a dark coloured Mount Board.
Course Cost
Members: £42
Non-members: £55
Course Suitability: Beginners – Improvers
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List All materials will be supplied free of charge to use during the course by Karen Coulson.
Artist’s Profile Karen is a self taught award winning coloured pencil artist and tutor, painting mostly wildlife subjects. She is a Gold Signature member of the UKCPS (UK Coloured Pencil Society).
She exhibits nationally and has won many awards for her detailed pencil work. She runs regular workshops in the Pencil Museum, Keswick as well as many classes in Hampshire, where she currently lives.
Art Course
with Jackie Garner 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
During this course we will take inspiration from Nature in Art’s special exhibition of paintings of trees on display at the time and from the trees in the Nature in Art grounds. Over the two days we can immerse ourselves in the subject, exploring structure, texture, colour, shape and composition. Sketches can be developed towards realism or abstraction, and participants may use a variety of media.
Course Cost
Members: £84
Non-members: £110
Course Suitability: Beginners – Improvers
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List Please bring whatever materials you like to use.
Jackie is very happy to discuss the course with students in advance. Visit her website for contact details.
Artist’s Profile Jackie Garner trained at Medway College of Design before becoming Nature in Art’s first education officer. She is now a professional artist who specialises in portraying wildlife, taking inspiration from encountering wildlife in its natural habitat.
Jackie teaches and lectures regularly, and is a contributor to Artists & Illustrators magazine. She has exhibited with many art societies, including the National Exhibition Wildlife Art, the Society of Wildlife Artists, BirdScapes Gallery, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and has held solo exhibitions in London and Gloucestershire. Jackie is the author and illustrator of The Wildlife Artist’s Handbook.
Blog: http://garnerwildlifeart.wordpress.com
Art Course
with Trevor Hamlett 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 10
This step by step course will guide you through all you need to know to give you the professional skills for using Lightroom and to take your photography to the next level.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, or just Lightroom for short, is a complete toolbox for professional digital photographers. It consists of five separate modules, each focused on a specific phase of the photographic workflow.
Lightroom provides photographers with a rich set of tools for every day photographic tasks like importing images to the computer, organizing and sorting them, making edits and adjustments, and finally outputting them for a wide variety of mediums.
And all of this is done in one single program! Lightroom’s beautiful and user-friendly interface, ease of use, powerful database management features and non-destructive editing capabilities make it the preferred choice for many photographers all around the world. Plus, it has a close relation and integration with Photoshop – the most popular professional image editor on the planet.
Course Cost
Members: £84
Non-members: £110
Course Suitability: Beginners – Intermediate
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List A basic knowledge of photography and computers would be helpful.
Participants must bring their own laptop PC or Mac. Lightroom software will be provided on the day (via a trail 30 day version).
Artist’s Profile Trevor says: ‘Photography is the magic of freezing time and this process has taught me to become more aware of my environment, the way light falls on a subject orscene and to notice the moment between moments and how to anticipate what will happen next.
I have taught photography in Spain ( at the Marbella Design Academy ) and I have also run courses on Photoshop and Lightroom and Digital SLR photography for beginners to advanced.’
Trevor is a full time professional photographer and videographer and has been involved in the media industry for over 20 years.
http://www.sacredvisions.co.uk/photography/
Art Course
with Tony O’Hare 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
This course will introduce the student to the art of origami (paper folding) to create natural forms & subjects from nature. Suitable for total beginners through to improvers, Tony will introduce students to, and explore with them, a wide range of origami techniques, styles and paper types and their application to the art. We will cover wet-folding, using foil & tissue-backed paper, craft papers, napkins, paper of different sizes, shapes and textures to suit the subject matter. Tony has a particular interest in “upcycling” paper products such as tourist leaflets, flyers, post cards etc. We will also cover using origami to make gift cards, decorations, scenes and pictures, and multi-piece or modular origami. Expect a hands-on and fun course and leave with a boxful of paper creations including animals, birds, fish, flowers, abstract and geometric forms and more.
Course Cost
Members: £42
Non-members: £55
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Advanced
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List The cost per person will be £3 which will be paid to the tutor on the day of the course.
Participants may also bring along any paper or potentially “upcycle-able” materials that they have which they would like to use on the course.
Artist’s Profile Tony O’Hare is an origami artist living in Bristol, but originally from South Wales. He has folded paper since childhood, and is currently Chair of the British Origami Society (BOS). He has created hundreds of his own designs, of various subjects and had 4 booklets of his original work published by the BOS. Tony tends to focus on the natural world and subjects close to home, often with a humorous angle to them. Currently subjects are origami scenes of Bristol and associated subjects such as Wallace & Gromit. Tony’s origami motto is “Keep folding, Keep Smiling”.
Over the Bank Holiday weekend (27th -29th May) TWASI will be running a series of workshops taught by artist members.
Saturday 27th:- Paint a Bird on a Feather with Mandi Baykaa-Murray
Sunday 28th:- Big Cats Coloured Pencil Workshop with France Bouduin
Monday 30th:- Space to Breathe. Design, Space and a Touch of the Abstract with Gregory Wellman
Find out more HERE
Workshops will run from 10am – 5pm with lunch included
Please contact John Horton for further information and to book your place.
Tel: 01905 381605 Email: johnhorton47@hotmail.com
Art Course
with Cath Hodsman 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 11
Dragonflies and Damselflies are the biggest of British insects and also the most mystical. They are great survivors and date back as far as the dinosaurs. They are notoriously shy, but are skilled and ruthless hunters. In this water colour painting workshop, participants will have the chance to study and paint these beautiful creatures in much greater detail.
Cath and the course participants will discuss how these insect leviathans fly, hunt, reproduce and why they are so colourful and powerful. As with Cath’s other courses, each student will have access to their own high powered microscopes and specimens to study the anatomical beauty of these impressive insects.
Participants will then use a mix of microscopes, specimens and macro photographs to produce a detailed and unique painting.
Course Cost
Members: £84
Non-members: £110
Course Suitability: Beginners
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List The full materials list can be supplied to you, please ask at the shop or email:
education@natureinart.org.uk
Artist’s Profile Cath Hodsman is a skilled and widely acknowledged British wildlife and natural
history artist and an enthusiastic and encouraging tutor. She is also one of the most technically accomplished and accurate entomological (insects) artists – and as such, the Natural History Museum sells her work. Cath believes that, in order to pay homage to insects using art, it is necessary to capture their anatomical intricacy and she therefore strives for 100% accuracy.
To help conserve and preserve the future of insects, she works closely with many relevant organisations, such as the RHS, the Wetlands Trusts, the Wildlife Trusts and the National Trust.
Art Course
with Jamie Boots 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
On this 2-day course you will learn all about working with graphite pencil from experienced artist Jamie Boots.
Graphite pencil can be used to produce so much more than just a sketch.
Jamie will show participants that. whether or not you are using a pencil that is blunt or sharp, pressing lightly or hard, or using a variety of tones, the realistic texture of skin and the glassy look of an eye can be achieved.
Course Cost
Members: £84
Non-members: £110
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Advanced
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List All materials will be supplied free of charge to use during the course by Jamie Boots.
Artist’s Profile Originally from New Zealand, Jamie is a renowned, but self taught, artist whose work is produced in graphite pencil. Jamie first exhibited his work in 2004 and has won a number of awards for his artwork.
In a very short period of time a hobby became a profession and with a limited number of originals being available each year his drawings have become highly collectable.
Art Course
with Claire Billingsley 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
Students will cut out clay tiles from pre-rolled clay, (clay will be pre rolled ready for the course so that it is at the correct firmness)
Using a white slip, students will coat the tile and this will be either be blow torched or left to dry whilst students enjoy their tea/coffee
Students will either scraffito first onto the clay and/or paint directly onto the clay tile using underglaze slips.
The theme of the image could be pets or any other image of bird or animal. A selection of images should be brought along to the course.
Finished tiles will be taken away, biscuit fired, glazed with a transparent glaze, fired again and returned to Nature in Art for collection
Course Cost
Members: £42
Non-members: £55
Course Suitability: Beginners and Improvers
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List All materials (and firing) are included.
Artist’s Profile Claire lives in Ledbury in rural Herefordshire and works predominately in clay, but she also has a passion for drawing and painting. Form and colour dominates her work which is inspired by nature and her love of art history, (particularly late 19th century onwards). Claire has been teaching Art and Design, full time for the past nineteen years, but has recently become self-employed to enable her to focus on her own creativity. However, she enjoys teaching workshops in both two and three-dimensional media, in addition to working on commissions in either paint or clay.
Art Course
with Claire Billingsley 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
Influenced by organic forms, students will create stoppered bottles using one of two techniques, slab building and/or coiling, working in stoneware clay.
Students will have a selection of organic forms available to influence their design. We will start the session with drawings, using a variety of drawing media, pens, pencils and charcoal. Students can bring their own drawing materials with them, including sketchbooks, but materials will also be available to use.
From the drawings created students will choose a design they wish to translate in clay. Advice will be given as to which technique would better suit the building in clay.
Students when they have completed the form will add white slip onto the vessels on areas they would like glaze added in a colour of their choice. (Glaze examples will be brought to the class so choices of colour can be made). Stoppered bottles will then be biscuit fired, glazes added and fired to stoneware and returned to Nature in Art for collection.
Course Cost
Members: £84
Non-members: £110
Course Suitability: Beginners and Improvers
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List All materials (and firing) are included.
Artist’s Profile Claire lives in Ledbury in rural Herefordshire and works predominately in clay, but she also has a passion for drawing and painting. Form and colour dominates her work which is inspired by nature and her love of art history, (particularly late 19th century onwards). Claire has been teaching Art and Design, full time for the past nineteen years, but has recently become self-employed to enable her to focus on her own creativity. However, she enjoys teaching workshops in both two and three-dimensional media, in addition to working on commissions in either paint or clay.