Painting Workshops: Places & People
12 July & 19 July | 10:00 – 16:00
We are delighted to welcome Angela Brittain to host her three-part painting workshop ‘Places & People’. During these workshops you will be taught how to draw and gather pictorial references, which will result in the creation of a vibrant painting in the third and final workshop.
These workshops are suitable for all ability levels, all that is required is a sense of fun and the ability to think laterally. Angela will help you produce an imaginary scene using Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens as the backdrop. There are no rights or wrongs, the only thing that is essential is your imagination and playfulness.
During each workshop, a break for lunch will be taken with afternoon tea provided by our Clocktower Café. This includes scones with cream & jam, a sandwich, a slice of cake and tea or coffee. Please email info@Leonardsleegardens.co.uk if you have any allergies or dietary requirements.
Find out more about what to expect and the materials required below.
£225 per person for all three sessions
Garden entry and afternoon tea included for all session | 10% off for Leonardslee members
Limited space available
What to expect
Firstly, you will be producing initial line sketches of external or internal vistas using fine-line pen and water-based coloured pencils for close-ups of trees, plants and flowers for later reference. Students will need to find images between workshops two and three at home. However, Angela will provide guidance and demonstrations during the workshops to help you with this.
These will then be put together to create an imaginary scene with found images of people, animals and birds. This is not a landscape painting of what you are looking at but a compilation of stimuli and visual impressions you have felt and seen.
The final workshop will take place in the Courtyard Café where your references will be brought together to create a final painting which will be produced in acrylic paint.
Materials participants must bring
Fine black drawing pen
Water soluble crayons
Waterpot with lid
Watercolour brushes – small & large
2B pencils x 2 & sharpener
Rubber
Camera or camera/phone
A4+ hard backed sketch book
Fishing stool or light collapsible chair
(Full course students only)
Prepared canvas & acrylic brushes. Sizes to be discussed.
Acrylic paint
Apron
Materials provided
A3 tracing paper
Magic tape
Tear-off palettes
Kitchen paper
About Angela Brittain
Angela starting her career as a graphic designer in advertising agencies in London. She later went on to teach art and design to adults in college whilst continued to work as a designer and illustrator with her own company and as a freelance.
When she moved from Buckinghamshire to West Sussex twelve years ago, she focussed her work on fine art. Since then, she has painted and exhibited from her studios in Horsham and Abruzzo, Italy. She was made a member of the Society of Women Artists in 1997 and continues to paint and sell her paintings throughout the UK, Europe and the USA.
She has run painting workshops and painting/drawing trips to Italy for adults, always putting the enjoyment of the creative process front and centre.
Her work is narrative, expressionist where emotions and feelings are supported by places, people and animals.
