Two-Day Course: Autumn Landscape Painting
8 & 9 October | 10:00 – 16:00 each day
This two-day practical workshop gives participants the opportunity to develop sketchbook studies and create their own landscape painting in acrylic on canvas, working both outdoors and in the studio with guided instruction. Suitable for artists with some previous experience, all abilities are welcome, with individual feedback tailored to each participant. Explore drawing and painting through direct observation en plein air and photographs of the magnificent Leonardslee Gardens.
Please see below for what you will need to bring and 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.
£160 per person | 10% off for members | Must be 16+ | Tea, coffee and water available in the room | Lunch included each day
Course Schedule
Day One
Illustrated talk exploring landscape composition and relevant modern and contemporary artists.
Introduction to Colleen’s sketchbooks and work-in-progress, followed by Q&A.
Outdoor sketching and photography around Leonardslee Gardens.
Group review after lunch to discuss work, challenges and ideas for developing imagery.
Day Two
Use photographs from Day One to develop a final composition.
Tutor demonstration introducing the painting process and use of acrylics.
Begin painting with guidance and supervision.
Continue paintings after lunch with one-to-one tutor support.
Finish with a group critique and feedback.
Course Details
What you’ll need to bring
A sketchbook with good quality paper (at least 140 gsm)
A phone camera or digital camera with the ability to print images at home before the second day
A viewfinder is highly recommended
A non-permanent fineliner pen
A variety of drawing media such as oil/chalk pastels or water-soluble graphite
Materials provided:
Drawing boards, pencils, charcoal, canvases, acrylic, watercolour and gouache paint, palettes and brushes are provided.
What you will create:
Several sketchbook pages of landscape studies
Photographs taken during the workshop
1–2 personalised landscape paintings in acrylic 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.