Meadow Landscape Painting Workshop
26 September | 10:00 - 16:00
Join Jo Starkey for a fun and inspiring day creating a beautiful meadow landscape!
Spend a creative and inspiring day at Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens learning how to paint a beautiful meadow landscape in this relaxed acrylic painting workshop.
Guided by a professional artist throughout the day, you’ll create a sunlit meadow scene complete with hedgerows and distant trees, using simple yet effective techniques designed to make painting both enjoyable and rewarding. Working step by step alongside demonstrations, you’ll explore expressive brushwork, layering, texture and light while building confidence with acrylics on board.
To bring your landscape to life, you’ll experiment with a variety of exciting tools and materials including paint rollers, silicone spatulas, stencil brushes, sea sponges and shimmering metallic highlights, creating depth, atmosphere and beautiful texture throughout your piece.
Whether you’re completely new to painting or already enjoy creative workshops, this welcoming session offers the chance to slow down, learn new techniques and leave with a finished artwork to proudly take home.
What to Expect:
Step-by-step artist demonstrations throughout the day
Create one finished meadow landscape painting
Learn acrylic layering, texture and expressive mark-making
Explore a range of creative tools and materials
Plenty of one-to-one guidance and support
A relaxed and welcoming atmosphere suitable for all abilities
All materials are included. One painting will be completed during the workshop.
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.
£125 per person | 10% off for members | Over 16s only
Garden entry included | Tea & coffee will be provided throughout the workshop | Materials included | Free parking for Leonardslee members | Parking Information
About Jo Starkey
Jo Starkey is an established local and worldwide selling artist. Working from her studio in Ditchling, the inspirational portrayals of meadow flowers, windblown grasses and trees, originate in her lifelong passion for nature and her experience of the Sussex landscape.
Growing up in a rural environment, gave her a great appreciation of the natural world and the countryside, which along with her love of art enthused her to become a floral and landscape artist.
Jo’s intention is to distil the essence of nature and its magic into her paintings, which she creates using acrylics and mixed media. She uses a layering process, incorporating a range of different materials, which lends itself to the scenery that she paints, creating depth and texture.
Jo likes to play with colour, and this can dictate the composition of a painting. She spends all the time she can walking in the Sussex countryside, and always has her camera to hand which allows her to capture a tableau as and when it happens.
She says: “There are those moments where the sun creates a beautiful light, glinting through wild grasses or meadows, or other times when it can be grey and mysterious, with light shining through the trees. I am drawn to colour and light, and I love the way nature is affected by the seasons and is constantly shifting and changing.”