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Workshops and exhibitions
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Workshop: Take 3 colours!
Level: Intermediate (some experience with oils is useful)
Creating a still life with limited palette in water-mixable oils
April 2026 (2 hours)
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Participants will be using flat brushes, a smooth board, water-mixable oils and only three colours to explore the potential of a limited palette.
This approach not only helps you improve your painting by forcing you to think about colour and how you mix it, it also creates a harmony in your work with paintings feeling balanced and harmonious, with all the colours naturally relating to one another.
Hopefully you will be inspired by your results to try this limited palette approach in your own work.
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You will be working from life. Your subject will be an apple (interesting subject when cut in half) or other piece of fruit or vegetable that inspires you. Your painting will fill the smooth gesso board provided.
Type of medium used: Water mixable oils (traditional oils are not allowed in the venue).
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Materials provided: canvas covered board and water-mixable oils
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What to bring: A red skinned apple or other fruit or vegetable. A few flat synthetic brushes (eg 0, 2, 4), not bristle brushes. A palette knife. A paper palette and a box to take your work home in. A roll of paper towel. A jar for water.
Venue: Woodley, Berkshire
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​​​(Booking opens in the New Year and a link will be posted here)
Looking back....
In 2021 I was lucky enough to be selected to take part in one of my favourite TV shows, Sky Landscape Artist of the Year. It was a last minute application - I've always thought it would be fun if you were chosen to be one of the 'wild card' artists, who look as though they are having such a good time (even though it does always seem to be raining).
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It was quite an experience and although I had a bad case of imposter syndrome, I really enjoyed the whole process; the production team were so friendly and bent over backwards to make the contestants' experience as positive as they could.
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It was amazing to make it through to the final.
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At the semi-finals in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - it poured with rain!
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