My classes for sketching/drawing and watercolour are on Thursdays in Tring, 2.00 – 4.00pm and 7.00 – 9.00pm, and roughly follow the school term times, we return on 5th January 2023. I teach beginners to intermediates, and cover – How to see more clearly, materials, composition, colour mixing, and various techniques to name a few. My goal is to find out, with the student, their preferences, then gradually help them develop their own recognisable style. For more details please contact me at – email [email protected]
Andy Lee GalleryOpen Door, 360-364 High St, Berkhamsted HP4 1HU, UK
Tuesday evenings 26th September for 4 weeks
£65 for the 4 classes, materials & refreshments included
Make art with water based mediums by exploring a variety of techniques and learning to mix colours. Create your own art piece each week (two in acrylic and two in watercolour over the course), on themes based on landscape/waterscape, floral and still life.
Drawing skills are not necessary as these sessions are guided and outlines of the drawing are available to transfer onto your paper ready to paint.
These workshops are ideal for complete beginners or those returning to painting.
Group size up to 10. (Please note that in order to enable a small group size payment for the full course is required)
Also takes place on Zoom on the same dates, 1-3pm.
Classes are organised by myself through my email address [email protected].
Join Katie from The Canvas Crew to explore the medium of acrylic paint. In this fun and relaxed workshop, you’ll work through several mini projects to explore different tools and techniques. You’ll come away with more confidence and hopefully a painting or two that you’re proud of! No experience necessary.
9.30am-1pm, Friday 27 January
At Open Door’s Community Pottery Shed
£40 including materials and drink from Plates
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“The art of Brigid Marlin describes a visionary world of almost unlimited dimensions and self-sufficiency … The sense of a clearly realised poetic universe, in which every detail, however modest, was accorded equal attention, was what most gripped my imagination. Surrealism, which had played a large part in forming my own view of the world, had seemed to falter with the death or old age of its greatest practitioners — Max Ernst, Magritte, Dali and Delvaux — and here in Brigid Marlin was a painter who might be the first of the next generation. ….The surrealist dream of remaking the world and revealing its true nature seemed to live on in the work of this woman painter … in the best and most ambitious of her paintings we see clearly her dramatic and visionary remaking of the world, but this regeneration of life and space and spirit is present even in her smallest and most dome.”
-J G Ballard
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My work revisits a classic era of Railway poster design, recreated in the vibrant tones of 1930’s travel art. I was born and bred in Berkhamsted, Herts, but now live just up the road in Tring with my husband, son and dog, ‘Julian’. acles are blended perfectly!
I went to Watford School of Art, followed by taking my degree at Portsmouth (2:1) Fine Art.
My style has been influenced by the artists who were famous for creating the pre-war advertising travel posters for the Railways. I particularly admire the work of Norman Wilkinson, who I have recently discovered was an old boy of Berkhamsted
These views in and around Berkhamsted, Tring, the Chilterns (and thereabouts) have proved popular.
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I’ve been drawing and painting since 2002, and producing and selling greetings cards from my art for about 10 years. I print my own cards using high-quality matte photo paper, which gives amazingly vibrant colours and a surface which is a pleasure to write on.
I love painting! I use a variety of media, including watercolour, acrylics (inks & paint), pen & ink, charcoal, pastel, collage and mixed media. I am inspired by the colours and shapes of nature: plants & flowers, wildlife, the sea; I also love to draw & paint boats, townscapes & seascapes. I prefer to draw & paint from life, but use my own photos as inspiration too. I also enjoy life drawing.
I have a passion for colour. I hope you will love my art too!
I am an artist exploring and celebrating the seasons of the year, inspired by the Chiltern countryside, and the wild sea coasts of the West Country.
My paintings are dynamic, bold, full of colour, energy and movement.
My customers are international, and my paintings are to be found in homes and boardrooms in many parts of the world.
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I have a strong bias towards tactile effects and a sensuous expression where visual dynamics and structure are being explored.
Some of my watercolours are painted with a surfeit of water where I allow accidents to happen which I can incorporate in my image.
My subject matter is landscapes, townscapes, flowers and abstract. In this I am influenced by the Fauves and Expressionists like Kandinsky and Nolde
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