Art Course
with Richard Box 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
This course is for all of you who long to paint in watercolours but have been deterred by the erroneous myth that they are supposed to be ‘difficult’. Richard will dispel that myth and teach you, step by step, how to paint a simple still life and achieve marvelous effects with numerous layers of translucent colours without ‘getting mud’!
Most problems about painting are concerned about mixing colours. So the course will start with exploring the nature of colour with coloured pencils.
This will give you the confidence to transfer your newly discovered knowledge to watercolours. If you follow Richard’s ‘recipes’, you will be thrilled at what you can achieve.
Course Cost
Members: £80
Non-members: £100
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners
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Artist’s Profile
Richard is an artist who paints and draws, but who is also known for his textile work. He has been teaching for 51 years and has a missionary zeal to convert students’ terrors of drawing and painting to an enthusiastic desire to continue practicing these disciplines because of their discovery that they are calming, rewarding and therapeutic.
www.richardbox.co.uk
Art Course
with Yvette Green 10am-5pm
Maximum Participants: 8
Garden mosaics are designed to interact with their environment, reflecting and refracting light so that they change throughout the day.
On this 1-day course you will produce a stained glass bird mosaic which can be used to brighten up your garden or pot plant in the winter months. You will be able to make a bird of your choice .
Skills covered on the course will include mapping out your initial design, basic glass
cutting, stained glass mosaic techniques and grouting techniques.
This course is ideal for all levels, although glass cutting skills are a bonus.
Course Cost
Members: £40
Non-members: £50
Course Suitability: Beginners – Advanced
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Materials List
Apron
Sealable jar or container to take home grout powder if needed.
All other materials will be provided by Yvette Green, at the cost of £6 per participant, payable directly to her on the day.
Artist’s Profile
Yvette Green is a stained glass mosaic artist working from a small house studio based in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
Yvette trained in Botany and Education before working in mosaics for the last 8 years. She works primarily with stained glass and glass inclusions and produces mosaics for all areas of the home, specializing in garden mosaics.
Her work is inspired by the intense colours of nature. She has taught a number of courses in the Gloucestershire area.
www.baobabtreemosaics.co.uk
Art Course
with Mike Amphlett 10am-5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
If you still haven’t read the camera manual or, if you have, but cannot comprehend much of the ‘jargon’, then this 2-day course is for you!
On day 1 Mike will run through the menu systems and settings of your camera, particularly those that are of most concern to new users, but specifically focusing on those settings which are of most use to those working with natural subjects. He will also cover how to use different lenses/focal lengths to best effect. There will then be time during the afternoon to practice what you will have learnt about menus and settings, followed by a Q&A session.
On day 2 Mike will add some more ‘depth & breadth’ to what was covered on the previous day. Weather permitting, you will be able to start taking some images using the experience you will have gained from day one. After lunch, there will be the opportunity to have Mike review and critique what you will have done and, suggest ways in which you might improve your technical and creative abilities.
Course Cost
Members: £80
Non-members: £100
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Improvers
Materials List
Notebook and pens
Your camera and accessories and, most
importantly, your camera user-manual
For both days, laptop PCs would be
extremely useful
Mike Amphlett will provide course handouts for you to keep.
Artist’s Profile
Mike has been photographing since 1978, beginning with insects for his work at Oxford University’s Zoology Department – he then ran the department’s photo-unit until 1991. In 1982, he was seconded by the RSPB as field-assistant on a film about Pink-footed geese in Iceland. In 2004, Mike moved to digital and, in 2005, acquired his first D-SLR. 20 years of tutoring photo-classes helped him understand the often simple things which prevented many camera users from progressing. He is a good listener and a patient instructor.
Art Course
with Ann Swan 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
In this 2-day course you will learn how to create deep, vivid but clean colours without compromising the form of the plant. You will be able to say ‘goodbye’ to muddy colours, as Ann will show you how to choose accurate colours for layering and shading without losing the brilliance of the colour.
You will also learn in which order to apply techniques such as resist, underpainting and embossing and the importance of planning your approach to coloured pencil work.
By the end of the course you will be able to use the techniques demonstrated, to tackle
multiple coloured and textured plant material with confidence.
Course Cost
Members: £80
Non-members: £100
Course Suitability: Beginners – Advanced
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Artist’s Profile
Ann is an internationally acclaimed botanical artist and teacher, passionate about drawing and the use of coloured pencils for botanical portraits.
She is also the author of ‘Botanical Painting with Coloured Pencils’. With four RHS Gold Medals, she is an accomplished teacher always evolving and incorporating new techniques into her work which she is happy to share with her students.
www.annswan.co.uk
Art Course
with Liz Robertson 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
The aim of this 2-day course is to produce a triptych landscape, based on a photograph or sketch of your choice. Triptych is a popular format for depicting landscapes and will add dynamism to your work.
Liz will firstly teach you several methods of printing and you will be able to make print blocks to your own design. You will then have the chance to embellish your print with different types of stitch techniques. To finish, you will then have the option to add beads and other small objects to your piece.
Course Cost
Members: £80
Non-members: £100
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Improvers
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Materials List
Please bring a photograph or image that you wish to base your landscape on.
All materials will be supplied by Liz Robertson, at the cost of £5 per participant, payable directly to her on the day.
Artist’s Profile
Liz Robertson is an exhibiting textile artist. Her work uses a variety of textile media and techniques. The inspiration for Liz’s work comes from her love of natural landscape.
Liz is a teacher with over 35 years teaching experience in schools, colleges and adult education settings. She delivers textile and art workshops at various locations throughout the UK.
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Art Course
with Trevor Smith 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
This 2-day course will focus on the sketching, drawing and painting of birds, with the emphasis on working from life.
The course will cover topics such as basic sketching techniques, simple anatomy, and the use of watercolour in sketching. For the more ambitious, there will be the opportunity to have a go at sketching birds in flight, which is more of a challenge.
This course is aimed at a range of ability levels, with Trevor on hand to demonstrate particular techniques and to help you develop and improve your observational skills
when sketching birds.
Course Cost
Members: £80
Non-members: £100
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Advanced
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Materials
A range a B grade pencils (eg 2b – 6b)
An A4 or A3 cartridge paper pad
An eraser ( if desired)
A colour medium such as watercolour
pencils or a field box of watercolours with a couple of brushes (perhaps a number 4 or 5, and a 10 or 12 round)
A container for water
Artist’s Profile
Trevor’s deep interest in wildlife dates back to childhood and grew concurrently with a
desire to record the birds and animals he encountered on his visits to local nature
reserves and wild corners of Worcestershire.
Trevor has been teaching students the essentials of bird art for over twenty years now, but still get a kick from seeing people thrill to the subject and often surprise
themselves with hidden latent ability. He has also published a book Sketching Wild Birds in 2001 as a means of encapsulating my experiences of recording images from life.
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, that the effect of fur, the texture of skin and the glassy look of an eye can be achieved.
The subject for this art course will be: a Rhino.
Course Cost
Members: £80
Non-members: £100
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Advanced
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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 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.
www.jamieboots.com
Art Course
with Furzie (Michelle Hickman) 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 10
On this 1-day course you will learn how to needle-felt with wool.
You will be introduced to the basics of needle-felting, taught how to make a wire armature to form the basis of your sculpture and how to mould the wool to the frame.
You will be amazed how the wool sculpture seems to develop a character of its own. Once you have become confident in using the basic skills and techniques you are only limited by your imagination!
Course Cost
Members: £40
Non-members: £50
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Advanced
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Materials List
A materials pack will be supplied by Michelle Hickman, at the cost of £15 per participant, payable directly to her on the day. The materials pack will include a felting kit and tools to keep, plus all the wool and materials required.
Artist’s Profile
Michelle taught herself needle-felting and, for several years now, has been selling sculptures and commissions of her animals all over the world, as well as running courses and workshops.
She enjoys passing on her love of wool and needle-felting and is keen to share what she has learned.
www.furzie.co.uk
Art Course
with Sharon Foley 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 9
Glass fusing is joining two or more layers of glass through heating in a kiln.
There are several techniques that can be adapted to this basic principle some of which give surprising results. This 1-day course will teach some of those techniques alongside glass cutting (if you are new or in need of a refresher) and consist of glass layering, use of glass frits, powders and encapsulation between layers of glass.
The course will guide you in designing and making either 4 glass coasters or a larger, flat piece of art glass. These will then be fired in a kiln and ready for collection after the course.
Course Cost
Members: £40
Non-members: £50
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Beginners
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Materials List
All materials will be supplied by Sharon Foley, at the cost of £25 per participant, payable directly to her on the day.
Artist’s Profile
Sharon Foley began working with glass in 1999. She started making stained glass panels and quickly used lots of different processes to obtain various effects. Once she had acquired her own kiln she began experimenting with more 3-dimensional forms.
Sharon completed a Masters degree glass course at Wolverhampton University which gave her the freedom to use this transparent material in other ways. She now expresses her ideas by combining kiln formed glass with other media.
www.sharon-foley-glass.wix.com/sharonf#!
Art Course
with Karen Coulson
Maximum Participants: 12
This 2-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 Cheetah, using Derwent Coloursoft Pencils on a 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: £80
Non-members: £100
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Improvers
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 (United Kingdom 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.
www.karencoulson.co.uk