Saturday 29th – Sunday 30th April from 10am – 4pm each day Storth Village Hall, Milnthorpe, Cumbria, LA7 7PH A water based mixed-media expressive drawing and painting workshop inspired by botanical shapes and structures. Geometric or painterly, solid or fluid, repetitive or freestyle, this workshop is all about devising and using organic motifs and … Read More
Big and Bold Watercolours @ Hare Hill Barn
Tuesday 1st November 2022 10 – 4pm Hare Hill Barn, Cartmel Fell, Grange-over-Sands LA11 6NZ You will not fail to be impressed by the setting of Hare Hill Barn. The open light filled space of the the barn, with its full length picture window overlooking the fells and Morecambe Bay, will really encourage bold, expressive and fluid responses. Come … Read More
On Show with the Lake Artists Society
I am so pleased to share a new collection of my fluid watercolours at Rheged in their light filled gallery space. Following my third painting trip to Iona in September this year I indulged myself with oceans of turquoise, inky blues and purples as I sought to capture the qualities of light and space there on this picture perfect Hebridean … Read More
‘Drawn to Paint’ at Hare Hill Barn
Friday 3rd September 10 – 4 Hare Hill Barn, Cartmel Fell, Grange-over-Sands LA11 6NZ A water based mixed-media expressive drawing and painting workshop using Wallace Seymour’s ancient drawing materials in combination with ink and watercolour. The workshop fee includes cartridge paper, a set of Wallace Seymour drawing stones plus a small pot of ink. I am pleased to announce that … Read More
Coming to a screen near you…
I suppose that lockdown has made us all embrace technology a little more hasn’t it? I know that I had been thinking of creating films of my painting process for a while now in order to help my students understand the techniques and materials that I use. But actually a lot of feedback has focused on the calming and peaceful … Read More
A Creative Spring Reset at the Finca El Cerrillo in 2020
Here is an amazing opportunity to join me in Southern Spain next April. An inspired week of drawing, painting, walking and yoga will await you in this beautifully restored farmhouse with optional trips to nearby villages, Malaga and the coast. For further details please click here… Places are limited so do get in touch now if you would like to … Read More
Fabulous Watercolour Florals
Come and join me on a fantastic day of play and creativity. What could be better than being given permission to be as fast and loose with fluid watercolours as you want! Working in a room full of inspirational seasonal flowers and foliage you will be encouraged and cajoled into developing your own repertoire of marks, washes and painterly responses. … Read More
Pip Seymour Demo
I would like to say a big thank you to Pip Seymour and Rebecca Wallace-Jones for coming along to my studio at The Factory this afternoon and enlightening us in the process of creating paints, mediums and many other drawing and painting materials. Their enthusiasm for their products came across well and everyone who came along went away with a … Read More
The Artist Magazine Article
I am impatiently waiting for my copies of the May issue of The Artist to drop through my letterbox. Released on March 28th this issue has my tutorial article based around a painting which evolved from creative time spent next to the pool at Arte Umbria last September. There is a step-by-step demo alongside a little bit about my own … Read More