Clare Shepherd
Artist and Teacher
Artist led Art Classes

We travelled south from Osaka on the bullet trains at about 200mph ( fantastic trains) to a dedicated art island, Naoshima, staying in...

I'm sorry to have missed the snow a 2nd time this winter. However swimming in Antarctic-temperature seas makes up for it! A few pics...

Some of the work still in progress, a lovely day of making working drawings which were then translated into the paintings you see here....

I'm almost home from my amazing road trip! Here is the outline plan of the workshop day below. This workshop day is about the working...

Storm Ashley was impressive and luckily mostly blew at night. The weather has been fantastically changeable! Driving horizontal rain,...

We travelled south from Osaka on the bullet train at a speed of 200mph to an art island called Naoshima where we stayed in a very typical...

I asked my students to choose a landscape image from which to make an initially simple structured drawing. Then they cut out large tree...

In this workshop we're going to look at the structures in a landscape, particularly foreground reference. Above are three examples of...

We'll be using large fragments of magazine image to practice our watercolour technique. The magazine scraps become the colours, tones and...

Sketching in small sketch books, workshop, Pimperne, Sunday 26th January, 10am – 4pm. You’ll need a large variety of media –...