Spring Landscape Painting

What to expect

This is a four day oil (or acrylics) painting course. Surrounded by the fells and dry stone walls, blossoming hawthorn and roadside daffodils, of the beautiful Kentmere valley in spring, this course will offer you the opportunity to develop ways to communicate your own personal response to the landscape. Whatever your focus, you will be encouraged to explore the language of markmaking, composition and colour to express your ideas, whilst learning how to use or improve your use of oil/acrylic paints. Taking inspiration from the great landscape artists of the Lakes and other upland landscapes, such as Sheila Fell, Winifred Nicholson, Beatrix Potter, JMW Turner and William Gillies, we will start the week with lots of sketching en plein air, finding our own way to gather visual material for more sustained and ambitious work towards the end of week. 1:1 tuition and group discussions are central to this course which should equip you to approach landscape painting with renewed freedom and excitement.  This course is suitable for everyone - beginners to experienced artists. Please bring suitable clothing and footwear for being outdoors. We will try not to let the weather deter us.