Clare Shepherd
Artist and Teacher
Artist led Art Classes

...looking for whole shapes of groups of objects, finding 'lost' edges, painting the in-between shapes.

In this lesson I'm asking my students to set up a very neutral, simple still-life. I would like them to see both the shape of their whole...

... stage one - loose watercolour representation of a jar of flowers, stage two, a layer of drawing by use of a continuous line linking...

...back at Chettle for the morning. Flower paintings with loose paint and a fluid line - lovely stuff.

...wonderful work from Wednesday's group - working from flowers in a jam jar.

I won't be able to be with my Thursday group, however they are going to continue without me - they have a worksheet and I will email...

Clanwilliam In Clanwilliam we stayed in a traditional Dutch thatched longhouse. The rooms were dark and cool and flag-stoned and had dark...

We've been on the road a few days now, all six of us in a mini van. Load shedding has been more of a problem in the areas in which we've...

South Africa is in the grip of a lack of energy and the way they deal with it is by 'load shedding'. There was a committee set up to come...