Clare Shepherd
Artist and Teacher
Artist led Art Classes

You'll choose your subject - I chose to do a still-life but it could be an image or flowers & stems from which you choose to work. This is a day about mixing very specific media, the initial wax resist allows for a lovely looseness with the watercolour. The black pen brings some precision to the loose watercolour. Sunday workshop, November 9 th  – wax resist, watercolour and black pen – subject of your own choice (I’ve used a still-life). Pimperne Village Hall, 10am – 4pm. Yo

Some followed the lesson and others brought their own projects from home. On a wet and windy day it was great to be in a lovely big, warm hall working on landscape negotiations with charcoal.

In this workshop we'll be working with charcoal and a landscape image. It will be a process of negotiation with the charcoal, starting...

We were looking for structure in the painting of the jam-jar as the stems pass through the surface of the water and lovely loose...

In this workshop we'll be looking at the notion of 'lost edges', that every detail of your chosen subject does not need to appear in...

...what a fabulous three days it's been, with so much fantastic work produced. Many have gone away with work to be continued at home...

Great progressions today as working drawings were converted into paintings. Some really good experiments going on and lots of...

We talked about structures in the landscape and how the shapes can help to describe depth and distance. We were looking at different ways...

!3th, 14th and 15th July inclusive, I'm looking forward to seeing all those booked in for three solid days of art. We have a theme this...

Some followed the lesson but quite a few came with their own projects from home (which I encourage). Many students were pleasantly...