Two-Day Course: Spring Landscape Painting
21 & 22 May | 10:00 – 16:30 each day
This two-day practical workshop gives participants the opportunity to develop sketchbook studies and to produce their own personalised landscape painting, or paintings, in acrylic on canvas working both outdoors and in the studio with guided instruction. The workshop is suitable for artists with some previous artistic experience, but all abilities are welcome and individualised feedback will be tailored to each individual’s needs. Participants will explore a variety of approaches to drawing and painting including direct observation en pleine air and working from photographs of the magnificent Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens.
Please see below what you will need to bring & how the two days will be structured.
A break for lunch will be taken with afternoon tea which includes scones with cream and jam, a sandwich, a slice of cake and a tea or coffee per person. Please email info@leonardsleegardens.co.uk if you have any allergies or dietary requirements.
£120 per person | 10% off for members | Must be 16+ | Tea, coffee and water available in the room | Lunch included each day
Course Schedule
Day 1
10:00 Introduction and illustrated talk
Coffee break
Sketching and photographing in the grounds
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Group review followed by continued working in the gardens
Day 2
10:00 Studio-based sketchbook development
Coffee break
Practical painting demonstration and begin canvases
Lunch
Continue paintings
16:00 Group critique
Please Note
This workshop involves walking and standing in the gardens. It is best suited to guests who are comfortable moving around the site without assistance.
Course Details
What to bring
Please bring the following:
A4 sketchbook with good quality cartridge paper (140gsm recommended)
Artist’s viewfinder
Drawing pencils
Charcoal
Putty rubber
Fineliner pen
Pritt Stick
Any preferred colour media such as pastels, coloured pencils or watercolours
Materials Provided
Canvas
Acrylic paint
Easels
What you will create
A series of exploratory sketchbook studies
One completed acrylic painting on canvas
About Colleen
Colleen has taught Art for 38 years and led an Art Department for 24 of them. She retired in 2020 to focus on her own work and has since exhibited regularly, being selected for several prestigious National Exhibitions. Colleen teaches Seasons Art Classes in Billingshurst and Reigate and has run workshops at Blue House Art Space, Escher, Parham House, and the Montague Gallery Worthing. She is a member of Horsham Artists and a committee member of the Association of Sussex Artists with whom she shows her work. Colleen has extensive knowledge within the field of Art History and is widely experienced in a range of practical Art disciplines including ceramics, printmaking and life drawing but is principally a Landscape Artist and has undertaken several commissions in recent years.
Colleen’s work is a record of the changing light, forms, and colours of the
landscape through the seasons. She paints while her experience of a place is still fresh, by making sketches and taking photographs which are then developed further through studies exploring composition, light, and colour. The resulting paintings are produced in series and executed quickly to retain the immediacy of the subject with expressive, gestural brush strokes.
Colleen is currently represented by the Fowey River Gallery, Cornwall, and Artologie Gallery, Cuckfield, West Sussex.