A day to discover the art of paper-cutting through time and hone your skills with a craft knife and a single of paper.

Sarah will show you the techniques and tips you need to know before embarking on your own artistic journey in paper. Learn how to use a craft knife with confidence and discover the types of paper that work best for this intricate art form.

She’ll provide a template to help you practice and refine your cutting skills. Then, you’ll develop your own design sketch ideas on the day, or come up with one in mind. Sarah will guide you in your composition and design; all abilities welcome

The room opens at 9.30am. Session starts at 10:00am.

Location; The Art Rooms, Clevedon School, Valley Rd, BS21

Bring your lunch and drinks.

Members £40- Click to Book Here

In the Studio with Margaret Micklewright. This half day is for those curious about inks. A beginners foundation class.

Using ink to explore ways of drawing and applying washes.

Focus on mark making with pen and ink using different tools and techniques. Use line drawing and develop ways of varying line quality.

Experiment with different techniques for applying ink to wet and dry paper, discover the different types of ink and their limitations.

Ink and non-latex gloves supplied.

See her website…https://margaretmicklewright.com/

Venue; Clevedon School, BS21 6AH

Bring your own drinks.

£26 Members……click here to book now and pay

Materials to bring along

An apron or old shirt…its messy!

300gsm watercolour paper, rough or smooth. 3-4 sheets A3.

Synthetic brushes, mainly smaller ones.

Deep dish palette (about 8 sections) or maybe 8 small pots for mixing inks.

Water sprayer

Pencil

An a3 sized box or bag to bring dampish work home.

In this workshop we are first going to consider lots of compositional ideas and guidelines, arranging and lighting our fruit on a transparent plate with different coloured backgrounds.  We will be looking to create interesting and unusual compositions, shadow shapes and colour relationships. 

We will then sketch out our composition on canvas, before applying the paint in a dynamic and interesting way: Focusing on colour mixing, brushwork and how to paint shadows effectively.

Check out her gallery on www.lucyburtonart.com

The room opens at 9.30am. Session starts at 10:00am.

Location; The Art Rooms, Clevedon School, Valley Rd, BS21

Bring your lunch and all drinks required. (…no kettle)

Members £40: To book your place…… click here

Level: All levels welcome

Check out Lucy Burton.  www.lucyburtonart.com

What will be supplied:

A selection of fruits (or vegetables)

Coloured backgrounds

What to bring:

A canvas or board min A4, max A3, rectangular or square

A selection brushes eg. Rosemary Ivory Short Flats nos. 2,3,5, Ivory Filbert size 0

A selection of artist quality paints oils or acrylics eg. Daler Rowney starter set

A black sharpie and a ‘fine liner’ pen (or similar)

A spotlight or anglepoise desk lamp and extension flex.

Palette knife – eg. Winsor and Newton size 22

Paper Palette and a box to take your work home in

A phone or IPAD for taking photos

if working in oils: A jar and some low odour thinners/ white spirit substitute for cleaning your brushes, some rags or plenty of tissues to wipe brushes clean. 

Optional extra items

‘Liquin’ painting medium if working in oils

A ‘Stay-wet’ palette if working in acrylics

Aimed at beginners and improvers.

This workshop is aimed at those who don't often attempt portraiture but do use oils, acrylics, gouache, watercolour or pastels.

Portraits usually take longer than 5 hours, so in this 5-hour workshop we’ll short-cut the initial drawing process and concentrate on painting and colour, eg. representing the fall of light & shade across your chosen face, and mixing skin and hair colours.

Each tricky aspect of painting a portrait Bill will demystify and demonstrate (briefly).

You may chose a face of someone close to you to paint, or someone you’ve never met (which does away with approval anxiety!).

Although the day won’t be spent practicing drawing, later on we will stand back from our painting and check for drawing and likeness errors.

Bill's own paintings can be seen at …. https://www.billguilding.co.uk/

Members £40; Click HERE to book your seat.

Materials to bring:
Bill will provide a variety of good photographs of faces for you to use, carefully-chosen as ’nice-to-paint’ from.

However, if you prefer to use your own colour photo (of someone you know maybe). You will also need to bring an A3-size black&white enlargement of it.  If bringing your own, you’re advised to choose a very clear photo, and ideally with strong shadows.

Your usual painting equipment including a small fine pointed brush, a soft pencil and eraser.

Particularly useful colours: Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber, a bright orange, and of course white.

Oil painters also bring: A3 canvas or painting paper, and low-odour thinners – not turpentine or white spirit please.

Acrylic painters also bring: A3 canvas, painting paper, grey cardboard or heavy paper (c.300gsm)

Watercolourists also bring: A3 white water-colour paper ready stretched, or very heavy ie. at least

300gsm plus masking tape.

Pastelists bring: A3 pastel paper, or as a cheaper alternative eg. sugar paper or even wall-lining paper. But not smooth drawing paper.

Pastel crayons/pencils are useful for tiny details eg. around the eyes.

A fine-tip erasing device, eg. a Tombow MonoZero propelling eraser.

Everyone except watercolourists: Choose whether you want to work on a coloured or white substrate and come prepared accordingly. Both are fine – it’s a matter of style and look. A dull colour is safer than a bright one.

Mina will be showing how to plan your painting, so that you have time to add layers to create a beautiful landmark with radiant sunset colours. Her kaleidoscopic effect won our People’s award at the Open 2025; her iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge painting being voted the best in show by our visitors.

Mina will guide you though the basics and help though out the day. ‘Bring your acrylics and be prepared to be dazzeled!’

Suitable for everyone.

As part of our new series called the ‘Peer to Peer Sessions’ which enables some of our Club Members to show their skills, tips and tricks to other members.

The room opens at 9.30am. Session starts at 10:00am.

Location; The Art Rooms, Clevedon School, Valley Rd, BS21

Members £40…..CLICK TO BOOK HERE

Bring your own lunch and a drink.

Suggested Materials:

Acrylic paints etc

24mm Green frog tape/ low tack masking tape- and I get through a lot, so people need to bring enough for the day’s work.

Acrylic Matt Medium ( Mina will bring some with her if you don’t have any, but if people have their own that would be good.)

* A few acrylic pens- Posca etc if people have them, for fine detail.

Pencil

Flat Brushes- small and medium

Water pots, rag etc

A3 paper for sketches

Board A3; primed and ready to paint

Silhouettes: Please bring any drawings, photos, that you may wish to paint from.

Masterclass. We will look at how one might begin on a ‘blank canvas’, how to build up a work paying attention to tone and colour, how to spot problems along the way and some possible finishing touches. This alla prima approach will mean that you hopefully go home with a finished oil painting at the end of the day.

The skills learnt in this class could then be applied to plein air painting as well as further independent work in the studio.

Hester’s practice is rooted in traditional representation and methods, but she constantly challenges her understanding of “painting” and explores ways paint can represent effects such as light, time, movement and climate. She was Shortlisted for 2015 Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year.

The room opens at 9.30am. Session starts at 10:00am.

Location; The Art Rooms, Clevedon School, Valley Rd, BS21

Bring your lunch and drinks.

Cost: £40 for Club Members….Click here to book.

Materials to bring along… TBC

****Landscape photographs with dramatic light and skies****.

Oils only.

One small canvas/board/piece of oil paper, primed and then prepared with a ground. This ground should be applied at least a couple of days before the course so that it is dry. It consists of a thin coat of brown oil paint (I suggest a mixture of yellow ochre, burnt sienna and french ultramarine, or aim for a warm soily/sandy colour), thinned with Zest-it or turpentine. It doesn’t need to be neat, just to cover the naked white of the primer. Boards should be a size you are comfortable working on for just 2.5 hours, the tutor suggests (roughly) A4/ 9 x 12”, but this depends on how fast you work. You could also bring a pad of oil paper so you have extra. 

A photo of a landscape to work from (printouts are fine, but an ipad or phone is often better), or you can follow along with my photo

Oil paints – Titanium White, French Ultramarine, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, yellow (I suggest a lemon yellow and a warmer yellow such as cadmium yellow deep hue), a magenta, Pthalo/Prussian Blue/winsor blue green shade (a greener blue than ultramarine), Sap Green/Terra Verte, Viridian – also any extras you have or would like to try. 

Paint brushes, a selection on widths – a ¾" flat/chisel brush, plus one smaller and one bigger to hand

Palette knife

Zest it/turpentine/preferred brush cleaner/dilutant, linseed oil/ poppy seed oil and other mediums you like to use.

A flat palette (this could be a sheet of glass or Perspex) 

Learn to paint studio landscapes in oils more freely within a shorter space of time, mimicking the effect and drama of painting outdoors. Gain confidence and skills to paint landscapes/ seascapes from within a studio in the fast and loose ‘plein air’ style.

Improve your colour mixing and application of oil paint, reacting more instinctively to create a lively and fresh landscape paintings. This class is designed to give confidence working quickly and immediately for those painters, who are looking to embrace a ‘plein air’ approach but in the comfort of the studio. Learn valuable techniques to help you simplify a scene and respond quickly, yet accurately with a focus on mixing colours from a limited palette.

​Please bring along your own art materials, photo references of beautiful Westcountry Devon scenery will be provided but feel free to bring any high quality references of your own.

Maria Rose ROI has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil painters, South West Academy, the Chelsea Art Society, the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the New English Art Club and the British Plein Air Painters. Maria has written articles for The Artist Magazine and was a contestant on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2018.

Maria was elected a Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) in 2023.

The room opens at 9.30am. Session starts at 10:00am.

Location; The Art Rooms, Clevedon School, Valley Rd, BS21

Bring your lunch and drinks.

Cost: £40 for Club Members…..to book your place click here

Materials to bring along… TBC

Bring your own reference images if preferred but I will provide high quality A4 prints of landscapes and seascapes for you to paint that you can use on the day.

• Please bring a couple of small canvas boards or primed wooden panels, in a selection of different formats and sizes, bearing in mind smaller sizes are best suited to working fast like we will be e.g. 20 x 25cm, 24 x 30cm and 30 x 40cm. It helps to add a coloured mid-toned ground to work on, acrylic or thinned oil, to tone the panel. If toning the panel with oils, please do this a few days prior so that it is dry.

• For oil painters- studio-safe thinners and any mediums you might usually use and dipper pots to pour them in. 

• A palette: sturdy wooden palettes are better than small plastic or paper ones.

• Oil paints (it is fine if you don’t want to invest in artist quality to start with as they are expensive, but I generally find the tinting strength and colour depth better with artist quality). Acrylics are ok too, if that’s what you have. You will want a warm and cool of each primary, white, and some earth colours. My usual palette is generally as follows: Titanium White, Michael Harding Warm White, Naples Yellow, Cadmium Lemon, Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Scarlett, Alizerin Crimson or Rowney Rose (quinacridone magenta), Viridian, Oxide of Chromium, Ultramarine, Cobalt Blue, Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna. I also have Winsor Blue (Pthalo) and Cerulean on my palette but these aren’t essential.

• Rags and/or kitchen roll

• A variety of brushes

• A mixture of sizes in both hog and synthetic in long flat, filbert, small round and a couple of watercolour riggers for detail. You can’t go wrong with a few filberts in sizes 2-6 if you want to keep it to a minimum

Not essential but bring if you have them:

• Sketchbook and pencils

• A palette knife

Expressive Animals Pen & Watercolour Wash Class - Developing an illustrative sketchbook style - using reed pens (supplied by Tina) and ink as well as drawing pens with watercolour washes.

We will draw various animals in a loose and expressive way; Tina will demonstrate how to confidently capture the subject to create animals full of character!

Venue; Clevedon School, BS21 6AH

Bring your own drinks.

£22 Members……click here to book now and pay

Materials to bring along…

• Photos of your favourite animals, wildlife or pets.

• Watercolour paper

• Drawing pens such as fineliners, felt pens, fountain pens

• White gel pen (if you have one b

• Watercolours, 2 x water pots, brushes, pencil and a rubber

• Bottle of black ink

• ….and (if you have any) dip pen, reed/quill pens 

• Small water sprayer (optional)

• If you have a drawing board that will be useful too

This abstract session will explore and put into practice the importance of being able to combine instinct with process. Sally will work with you to help you develop a clear concept, create a mood board for your painting and then lead you step by step through her process of creating abstaction.

She will cover topics such as composition, focal point, mark making, proportion of space, shapes, brush strokes, glazing and tonal colour. We can always throw in a little mixed media too if you are feeling adventurous! We will cover as much as we can!

This approach will draw on your instinct as an artist but will be nestled in process. Sally will demonstrate and lead you though different techniques and then be available to help and have conversations throughout the day. It’s a chance to really let your inner instincts and creativity loose!

Pre work – please bring a canvas that has a base colour already painted (one colour & cover the whole canvas including sides) – if you are feeling brave choose a colour you would not typically use – I often use pyrole red or pale blue as my ground.

The room opens at 9.30am. Session starts at 10:00am.

Location; The Art Rooms, Clevedon School, Valley Rd, BS21

Members £40…..CLICK TO BOOK HERE

Bring your own lunch and a drink

MATERIALS

• A blank pre painted canvas or two – 60cmx60cm (min)up to 100cmx100cm (max)

• If you work from an easel normally please bring along- optional

Acrylic paints:

4-5 key colours of choice for each key colour bring

• 1 x dark tone

• 1 x mid tone

• 1x light tone (or you could use the white)

Brushes:

• - A couple of 1 and 2 inch paddle/mottler brushes (using a wide brush can loosen up the work

• - Some long handled brushes

• - Selection of others you like to use, maybe a palette knife or two)

Waterpot / Kitchen paper roll

Pencil and pen (for writing mood board)

Paper plates or mixing palate

Overalls / apron

Optional extras: Oil pastels (big fat ones are great if you have any) / polymer (for glazing)

My workshop would be about my current methodology: landscapes, working in acrylics on MDF board, from my own site photos and plein air sketches, and small abstracted drawings. I do quite detailed 'underpaintings' in pastels, to establish accuracy, tonal values etc.

- I am drawn to simple agricultural landscapes, with modern industrial elements. I abstract as much as I can. but never as much as I want!

- I will bring in some of my paintings, with some books on artists who have inspired me (Van Gogh, Kyffin Williams, Sandra Blow, Bay Area Artists, Hockney, Fred Ingrams). 

Lois won a Selectors’ choice award in our 2025 Open and also won an exhibition prize in 2023. She is a retired Architect living in Bristol.

A Peer to Peer Session.

Venue; Clevedon School, art rooms. Doors open at 9.30.

Bring your lunch and all drinks.

Members£40….click here to book your place.

Materials to bring along.

A couple of 50 - 60 cm square boards / MDF: Prime boards with two coats of white emulsion. Bigger is better!

Acrylic paint kit and brushes, all sizes incl a used decorators 1” brush.

Soft Pastels… for Lois’ underpaint technique; although students can use anything - graphite, coloured pencils, oil pastels (which will resist overpainted acrylic to a degree, but that could make for a lovely effect...)

Hairspray for fixing pastels!…outside.

Water pots

Easel (…or you can work flat on the tables)

Lois will provide you all with A4 copies of some landscape photos for you to use.

Anna is doing another foundation paint class!

(If you have booked a ticket for the February session please do-not buy this ticket, as we want as many artists as possible to benefit from Anna’s ideas.)

Get loose and play with paint. ‘This session will help everyone no matter what style or medium you usually use; it allows you to just “see what happens”!” Anna has some taped exercises you can explore, that allow you to discover more about tone and colour combinations.

Anna will be on-hand and will articulate her passion for paint!

She will be bringing 300g Mixed Media paper for you to purchase on the day.

As part of our new series called the ‘Peer to Peer Sessions’ which enables some of our Club Members, who are Commercial Tutors and Artists, to show their skills, tips and tricks to other members.

The room opens at 9.15am. Session starts at 9.30am.

Venue; Clevedon School, BS21 6AH

Bring your own drinks.

Cost: £22 Members……click here to book now and pay

Materials to bring along…

Acrylic paints, masking tape, variety of mark making tools eg. large paintbrushes, silicone wedges/old credit card, sponges, acrylic pens and pencils.

Contemporary Acrylics.

Join Artist Sarah Boden for a fabulous workshop ‘filled with mark-making and creativity’. In this painting workshop, Sarah will guide you in crafting contemporary pieces through her experimentation and exploration ideas.

Sarah’s work is exhibited far and wide, but you can see some locally, at the Rodney Hotel in Bristol. www.sarahbodenart.com

Sarah will provide a small aluminium panel for everyone to work on for their final piece. (In addition please bring other MDF/canvas panels listed below.)

‘I love sharing my passion for art through workshops.’

‘If you have any questions message me on …’ SarahBodenArt@gmail.com

Venue; Clevedon School, art rooms. Doors open at 9.30.

Bring your lunch and all drinks.

Members£40….click here to book your place.

Materials to bring along.

Please bring couple of canvas boards or MDF sealed with gesso/ house paint. And multi media paper / paper for acrylic paint.

Acrylic paint kit and brushes

* Frog tape/ low tack masking tape

Pencils, any marking tools, charcoal or pastel, and stencils can be useful

Water pots

Easel (…or you can work flat on the tables)

Paper for sketching ideas or taking notes

Sarah will supply images to work from, but, feel free to bring your own landscapes/ graphics/pictures.

Michelle majors in detailed realism, though a mix of pastel layering, blending, and use of pastel pencil.
She either works from life or photo reference.

A keen sea swimmer and photographer, Michelle draws on her own reference photos and immediate experiences of the sea and swimming to recreate and convey the emotions and narrative of water, using both realism and scale, and capturing light and movement, to draw the viewer into her paintings.

(Award-winning Contemporary Pastel Artist)

The room opens at 9.30am. Session starts at 10:00am.

Location; The Art Rooms, Clevedon School, Valley Rd

Members £40…..CLICK TO BOOK HERE

Bring your own lunch and a drink

Materials to bring along…

Your soft pastels, such as Sennelier, Unison or Rembrandt.

(Not Oil Pastels!)

Sanded pastel card: Sennelier La Carte, Canson touch, Uart or Pastelmat (either single sheets or pad form but preferably not smaller than 24cm x 32cm)

Pastel Pencils if you have them ( Michele will bring some to try out)

Easel + Drawing board and bull dog clips

Fixative

Wet wipes/ rag

Masking tape (25cm)

Stiff haired paint brush

Kitchen roll

3 seats for re-sale….email…mail@clevedonartclub.co.uk

As promised, Anna is taking a foundation paint class!

Get loose and play with paint. ‘This session will help everyone no matter what style or medium you usually use; it allows you to just “see what happens”!” Anna has some taped exercises you can explore, that allow you to discover more about tone and colour combinations.

Anna will be on-hand and will articulate her passion for paint!

She will be bringing 300g Mixed Media paper for you to purchase on the day.

As part of our new series called the ‘Peer to Peer Sessions’ which enables some of our Club Members, who are Commercial Tutors and Artists, to show their skills, tips and tricks to other members.

The room opens at 9.315am. Session starts at 9.30am.

Venue; Clevedon School, BS21 6AH

Bring your own drinks.

Cost: £22 Members……click here to book now and pay

Materials to bring along…

Acrylic paints, masking tape, variety of mark making tools eg. large paintbrushes, silicone wedges/old credit card, sponges, acrylic pens and pencils.

I will be showing some of my methods of collecting information through a collection of sketches and then planning your painting so as to be able to paint "spontaneously" with confidence.  This will involve first choosing your subject and designing the structure and composition.  

‘I primarily paint expressionistic landscapes of the West Country and wherever my travels take me. All of my paintings begin en plein air and the larger works are then completed in my studio. My paintings are concerned with balancing close observation and structure with emotional, visceral responses to the landscape. My goal is to make paintings which are physically exciting and therefore, involve experiment and risk taking’.

The room opens at 9.30am. Session starts at 10:00am.

Location; The Art Rooms, Clevedon School, Valley Rd, BS21

Members £40…..CLICK TO BOOK HERE

Bring your own lunch and a drink.

Suggested Materials:

1. SETTING UP: Please bring a plastic drop sheet and/or old newspapers, etc, to cover the floor area.

2. PORTABLE EASEL: -optional

3. PAINT: For demonstrations, I use acrylics because of the faster drying times, however if you wish to use watercolours, oils, ink, gouache, pastels, etc. that is absolutely fine. I also use acrylic medium (gloss or glazing) for making transparentlayers. It is not necessary but you may wish to try it.

4. BRUSHES: I suggest bringing several sizes, including 1 or 2 large (1 or 2 inches wide) brushes.

5. JARS: Please bring a large jars for water

6. Board/PAPER: Whatever you wish to use is fine (paper, canvas, board, etc.). If you choose to use acrylics, I recommend using heavy ( 200 + lbs. or 296+ gsm.) watercolour paper or mount board

7. DRAWING, PHOTOS, ETC.: Please bring any drawings, photos, sketch books that you may wish to paint from. Also, bring collage materials if you want to try adding texture to your work.

‘Adding dynamism to your work’

Join 2023’s overall winner of the Ilminster Open to explore using oils to create atmospheric and expressive seascapes. In this workshop, Annie will focus on how to use the effects of light to add drama and dynamism to your seascape.

With the extensive coastline of the south-west within easy reach we have plenty of moody seascapes to choose from. Over the course of the day, you will learn how to start from an image to abstract key elements and add depth to your compositions resulting in your own unique response to the landscape. Annie’s approach is to encourage experimentation; mark making and play to push the boundaries of your work and give you confidence in making a start on new work.
’Annie will demonstrate her approach to oil painting using palette knives, rags, sticks and other materials and share many hard-won lessons on composition and technique. Annie is an experienced tutor and will give plenty of hands-on help and discussion time. So, ​whether you are a complete beginner or an artist looking for a different challenge you are very welcome.’

A selection of Annie’s work can be seen on www.anniemusgrove.co.uk

The room opens at 9.30am. Session starts at 10:00am.

Location; The Art Rooms, Clevedon School, Valley Rd, BS21

Members £40…..CLICK TO BOOK HERE

Bring your own lunch and a drink

Materials:

Bring your own oil painting kit/ or your water-based oil paints, brushes, etc

Masking tape and charcoal.

Plus tools such as palette knives, rags, old credit cards. 

Annie will also bring materials to help people out if they are short. Annie will be working on paper, painting from an image. A selection of images will be available but it would be good if you brought your own images to work from. The more dramatic the better.

Annie will supply sheets of paper suitable for painting using oils. These sheets are 50 x 65 cm @ 250 gsm and are available for £1 a sheet.

Castles, Cathedrals and Edifices!

Get your fix of Charcoal in January. Tina will share her love of the medium and take a long look at some big buildings: Discuss perspective and how to add drama.

Get sketching with charcoal ‘‘These materials help me achieve the wonderful contrasts of light and dark: building drama.”

Tina will demonstrate and articulate her passion for drawing.

Venue; Clevedon School, BS21 6AH

Bring your own drinks.

Cost: £22 Members……click here to book now and pay

Materials to bring along…

• Charcoal

• A4/ A3 heavyweight cartridge paper

• Rubbers

• Table or floor easel if you have one

• Drawing board

• Masking tape

• Rags

• Spray fixative or greaseproof/tracing paper to protect your drawings

• Black and White photos, magazine pictures etc. of DRAMATIC MONUMENTAL BUILINGS  (Tina will also provide some images to work from)

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“Be bolder with your Pastels"

This full day masterclass will concentrate on encouraging a bolder approach to pastel painting. We will discover how being more daring with our mark making, colour choices and compositions will help us to push our pastel painting beyond the purely representational approach to the pastel medium.

‘My workshop will encourage students to step out of their comfort zone for the day and to embrace their pastel wild side! ‘

The room opens at 9.30am. Session starts at 10:00am.

Location; The Art Rooms, Clevedon School, Valley Rd

Members £40…Well, its early Christmas Present to yourself!

…..CLICK TO BOOK HERE

Bring your own lunch and a drink

Materials to bring along…

30-40 half stick selection of soft pastels, such as Sennelier, Unison or Rembrandt

Sanded pastel card: Sennelier La Carte, Canson touch, Uart or Pastelmat (either single sheets or pad form but preferably not smaller than 24cm x 32cm)

Drawing board and bull dog clips

Fixative

Wet wipes/ rag

Masking tape (25cm)

Stiff haired paint brush

Kitchen roll

Sketchbook and soft pencil or marker pen

…2 seats left!

Coast. A mixed media approach to painting the sea.

In this all-day workshop you will be shown practical ways to create seascapes that are expressive and exciting. We will explore and combine a range of media and methods to capture the sparkle of the sea, movement of weather and the textures of the coastline.

Nigel's work primarily begins with looking and drawing. Everything builds from this. starting point. For him drawing is an investigation, a method of recording an experience and expressing ideas and emotions.

Venue; Clevedon School. Doors open at 9.30.

Bring your lunch and all drinks.

Members£40….click here to book your place.

Materials

Bring painting equipment with you, brushes, acrylics, watercolours etc. Waterpots, tape etc

You should also have drawing materials, pencil crayons, graphite etc.

I will also provide oil pastels if needed.

If you wish to work with an easel that would be fine.

You should have 3 or 4 surfaces to work on, this could be paper, board or canvas.

I will supply images, but you can also work from your own source materials.

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‘My approach is relaxed – sitters tell me they have found being painted to be a fascinating and enjoyable experience, even those who were initially a little unsure. Everyone is uniquely interesting and I enjoy the thrill of capturing the essence of an individual in paint’. 

She will do demos of our two sitters during the day.

Tilly has exhibited with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and has competed in the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year in 2014 and 2023. She also takes commissions.

Tilly’s famous sitters include comedienne Dawn French, para-olympian Ade Adepitan and Wimbledon champion Sue Barker.

Check out this video….

https://www.tillywillis.com/portraits/2020/5/13/t3yax30kvhaqjpt7401hb7dz9p267f

Bring lunch and all drinks.

Members £40…click here to book your place

Materials

She suggests a board approximately 40x50cms though it’s really personal preference if people want to paint bigger or smaller, i.e. just the head, or, the full figure, so it might be worth bringing at least two boards if you want to paint both sitters. Primed, ready to go.

‘I usually keep my pallet limited with alizarin crimson, cadmium red, ultramarine blue, chrome and lemon yellow, viridian green and titanium white, again alternative colours are fine, it’s best not to be too prescriptive. Acrylic or oil is fine, though acrylic is easier to handle for the inexperienced.’

‘I advise against bringing flesh tones, blacks and greys as I will teach how to mix those.’

Brushes should be a variety of sizes, but not too small as it tightens people up.

Rags, water pots/ oil-painting gear

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Sketching Majestic Trees: Focusing on things like lovely bark textures, utilising negative spaces for winter trees, Tina will show you how to draw leaves without drawing every leaf!

Get sketching with charcoal, pencils, graphite sticks, and ink! ‘‘These materials help me achieve the wonderful contrasts of light and dark that I see in the landscape.”

Tina will demonstrate and articulate her passion for drawing

Venue; Clevedon School, BS21 6AH

Bring your own drinks.

Cost: £22 Members……click here to book now and pay

Materials to bring along…

•  I'm thinking charcoal, pencils, graphite sticks, ink! (What ever you have to hand.)

• A4/ A3 heavyweight cartridge paper and, if you are bringing a bottle of ink, you'll probably be better off with watercolour paper

• Rubbers

• Table or floor easel if you are working with charcoal.  2 x water pots, brushes & reed pen/dip pen/quill for working with ink.

• Drawing board

• Masking tape

• Rags

• Spray fixative or greaseproof/tracing paper to protect your drawings

• Black and White photos, magazine pictures etc. of TREES!  (Tina will also provide images to work from)

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Come and learn the art of image transfer on the gelliplate using a range of materials and techniques, including photos*, magazine images or text and drawn images using different media, including charcoal.

**** If you want to try photo transfer please bring black and white photos ( use editing tools to remove grey tones)  printed on business paper or digital silk paper on a laser printer on a  colour setting (approx 5” by 7” in size).***

Create stencils to enhance or build on top of the image transfer inspired by artist Rex Ray or your own ideas. 

Learn how to layer and pull your print.

The image transfer process can be fickle, but Julia will be sharing the best tips at hand to achieve more consistent results.

Julia is a great hands-on tutor!

Location; The Clevedon Craft Centre,
Moor Lane
Clevedon
North Somerset
BS21 6TD

The teaching room is up some stairs, in an old listed building. (Look out for the double height building - door above ‘Needle & Nail’ Studio Unit 9A) Apologies that there is no lift.

Parking is free on site. Cafe on site also.

Doors open at 9.15

Part of our series called the ‘Peer to Peer Sessions’ which enables some of our Club Members, who are Commercial Tutors and Artists, to show their skills, tips and tricks to other members.

Members £28….to book your place click here

Materials

Julia will supply all paints, gelli plates and equipment and refreshments.

Please wear warm, old clothes that you don't mind getting paint on!

A guide to impressionism using Monet as our inspiration and soft pastels as our medium

Suitable for anyone who likes painting in soft pastels as a mark making tool. Beginners welcome. We will look at how colour was used to create light, which was very innovative at the time of the impressionists.  We can do this without having to use oil paints as soft pastels can mimick the marks made in Monet's paintings. Morning - use one of Monet's pictures to discover techniques and paint in pastels.  Afternoon - paint your own landscape (photograph supplied or bring your own) in Monet's style.

Venue; The Sailing Club, The Beach Clevedon, BS217QU

Bring your lunch and drinks.

Cost: £40 for Club Members…..to book your place click here

Materials to bring with you.

Soft Pastels (not Oil Pastels)

Paper for pastels (different colours if you have them) or any paper with a tooth such as cartridge paper or sugar paper

Masking tape

Blending stump or cotton buds

Two L -shaped pieces of white card (to zoom in on the Monet paintings)

Fixative or greaseproof paper to protect your work

Drawing board and table easel

Wet cloth or baby wipes to keep hands clean

Plus (Optional)

Favourite Monet paintings from a calendar, book or online

Your own landscape photographs to work from after lunch.

Juicy Acrylics - a good subject matter for this are expressive flowers. 

Tina will demonstrate how to choose colours that work well together, plus her ideas for using different brushes, palette knives and other tools as well as how to make marks and washes before embarking on a painting. Everyone will go away with something they are pleased with even if they are complete beginners. Lots of tips and ideas.

Please bring some garden flowers with you. Tina will bring some stems along for the groups to share too.

Venue; The Sailing Club, The Beach Clevedon, BS217QU

Bring your lunch and drinks.

Cost: £40 for Club Members…..to book your place click here

Materials to bring with you.

Your Acrylic Paints

Acrylic paper, Canvas Boards, Mount Board or Watercolour Paper to paint on

A big palette for mixing colours (plus greaseproof paper and kitchen roll optional to make our own 'stay wet' palettes)

Synthetic and bristle brushes in various sizes

A palette knife

2 x water jars

Water sprayer

Paper towels/old rags

Sorry …Sold out.

Pen & Watercolour Wash Class - Developing an illustrative sketchbook style - using reed pens (supplied by Tina) and ink as well as normal fineliner drawing pens with watercolour washes.

We will draw Autumnal Seasonal Produce. Tina will demonstrate how to confidently capture still life elements.

Venue; Clevedon School, BS21 6AH

Bring your own drinks.

£22 Members……click here to book now and pay

Materials to bring along…

• Seasonal fruit and/or veg such as pumpkins & squashes, a bunch of carrots/beetroot with their stalks, onions, cooking apples with leaves still attached, etc.

• Striped tea towel or fabric!

• A4/ A3 watercolour paper

• Fineliner drawing pens,

• Watercolours, 2 x water pots, brushes, pencil and a rubber

• Bottle of black ink

• ….and (if you have any) dip pen, reed/quill pens 

• If you have a drawing board that will be useful too

Richard will demonstrate his 3 stage painting process. Key themes - simplification, composition, big shapes/ small shapes, focal points, tones not colours and adding final touches.

He will assist each student with their pieces during the day. Break sessions - painting plein air, what good kit looks like.

Richard Neville works in watercolour and loves sketching outdoors in paint, preferably in the sun! He has been a Club member for many years and exhibits his work.

As part of our new series called the ‘Peer to Peer Sessions’ which enables some of our Club Members, who are Commercial Tutors and Artists, to show their skills, tips and tricks to other members.

The room opens at 9.30am. Session starts at 10:00am.

Location: Clevedon Sailing Club, The Beach, Clevedon BS21 7QU

Members £40 ….click here to book your place

Bring your own lunch and a drink.

Materials that Richard uses …..

Watercolour paper - I use Archer 300gsm rough

Core colours - I use Holbein tubes - ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, mineral violet, alizarin crimson, pyrrole red, light red, cadmium yellow, aureolin, raw sienna, neutral tint, raw umber, burnt umber.

Extra colours - lavender, cobalt turquoise, Verditer blue, 

Brushes - I use a small and large mop, plus, size 12 Escoda pearl white synthetic.

2b pencil.

An Easel, freestanding or tabletop.

Sorry…Sold out.

In this creative session, you’ll discover how to turn everyday Tetra Pak cartons into printing plates. By cutting, scratching and peeling the surface, you can produce textures and lines similar to traditional etching – but with simple, safe, and eco-friendly materials.

You’ll also have the chance to print your designs using Rebecca’s professional printing press, giving your work a beautiful, high-quality finish.

To make the workshop personal, you’re welcome to bring along a drawing, painting, or photo from your own artwork that you’d like to reimagine as a print. If you don’t have something in mind, Rebecca will also provide plenty of inspiring images to work from.

This workshop is perfect for all levels – no printmaking experience required. All materials are provided, and you’ll take home your own unique prints at the end of the session.

Venue; The Art Dept, Clevedon School, Valley Road, Clevedon.

Bring your lunch and all drinks.

Cost: £40 for Members…..to book your place click here now.

Glitch now fixed on ticket system!

Materials

Wear old clothes that can get inky!

Lucy is back: Colourful dynamic flower painting!

Choose to paint them in Oils or Acrylics!

We will look at arranging and lighting a jar of seasonal flowers with different coloured backgrounds, creating interesting and unusual compositions and colour relationships. We will then sketch out our composition on the canvas, before applying the paint in a dynamic and interesting way: focusing on colour, brushwork and composition

Check out her gallery on www.lucyburtonart.com

Lucy will supply…

• Coloured backgrounds

• A jar of Seasonal flowers

All day 10-4 pm . Doors open at 9.30.

Bring your lunch and all drinks required. (…no kettle)

Members £40: To book your place…… click here

Materials to bring:

A canvas min A4, max A3, rectangular or square

A selection brushes eg. Rosemary Ivory Short Flats nos. 2,3,5, Ivory Filbert size 0, or similar brands.

A selection of artist quality paints oils or acrylics (i.e.. Daler Rowney basic starter set is OK)

A spotlight or anglepoise desk lamp and short extension cable.

Palette knife – eg. Winsor and Newton size 22 or medium size

Paper Palette and a box to take your work home in

A phone or IPAD for taking photos

Oils only: A jar and some low odour thinners/ white spirit substitute for cleaning your brushes, some rags or plenty of tissues to wipe brushes clean

Optional extra items

‘Liquin’ painting medium if working in oils

A ‘Stay-wet’ palette if working in acrylics

Plus….A nice vase or jug from home that you may like to paint your flowers in.

Level: All levels welcome

In this landscape workshop I will introduce you to a fresh and inspiring way to interpret the landscape around us. With demos and clear instructions, you will discover a range of techniques that you can apply to your landscape art to bring movement and energy.

Responsive Drawing: Loosening up your initial drawing skills is essential for laying the foundation for a more abstract interpretation of the landscape. We will use soft pencils and create sketches that explore mark-making and gesture, as well as scale and form. These will begin us on our journey for further ink studies.

Tonal Work: Second, we will explore tonal studies to develop a painterly voice. Transitioning from a sketch to a painting can be made easier by taking small steps and moving to work in black ink. Instead of stressing over colour, we will focus on the marks our tools make and how we interpret what we see.

Colour Studies: Finally, we will experiment with working in colour. This will be our final step and this is where we look at working with a very limited palette. This doesn't mean we won’t have lots of colour, it just means we can easily harmonise the colours we use. We will work on large sheet as well as in sketchbooks and single pieces.

Bring lunch and all drinks. Doors open 9.30.

Members £40 - Book your place …..click here

Materials

Sketchbooks; ‘ I use two - one for ink and pastel work and one or pencil drawing.

Firstly; ‘ I use a sketchbook that can handle water. (Standard cartridge paper often isn't suitable). Alternatively, you can cut sheets of watercolour paper into smaller pieces to take out and work on individually.

Plus another; Any Sketchbook will be ok with pencils. For the workshop bring along any that you enjoy drawing in. They can be any shape and size. As long as you can fit them in a bag! I use these ones made by Seawhite.

Plus large sheets (A3 or bigger) of watercolour 250/300g paper

Soft Pencil 6B-8B grade will make soft dark marks which is what we want. Bring a sharpener too! or. a knife.

Inks ; We will use inks on both days. if you have any at home bring them too! You can bring any type of ink. Drawing, acrylic or watercolour ink. These will all work fine.

I will be using and bringing:

BLACK BURNT SIENNA

RAW UMBER

ULTRAMARINE BLUE

CAD YELLOW

QUINACRIDONE MAGENTA

A few various pastels too.

Brushes; I mainly use a mixture of old brushes that make interesting marks. It’s all about experimenting. NOT new ones!

You will also need: old rags, a back pack, a bottle with mixing water, plastic bag you can sit on if the ground is wet, plastic cover for your table.

Exploring Colour in the Landscape.

This workshop will encourage you to move away from representational colour in landscape-painting towards exciting interpretational work using soft pastel as the primary medium in a mixed media process

Sarah will focus on methods to achieve vibrant and expressive mark-making in landscape painting whilst using soft pastel as the primary medium in a mixed media process. She will guide you to discover the limitless opportunities of interpretational use of colour in the methods she uses.

See her work here …. https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2014/06/05/sarah-bee/

You will work from your own photographs on the day.

Sarah was elected to the pastel society in 2005 and won the 2019 Derwent Award, the 2019 Artists’s publishing company award, the 2019 unison colour award and numerous other awards

The club will supply a set of Inktense Blocks to share (made by Derwent… sticks of hard soluble acrylic ink)….but if you have some please bring them along.

The club will also supply some bright coloured smaller harder Cube Pastels made by Conte a Paris…..but if you have your own please bring them along.

Members £40- Book your place now…click here

Materials

Some landscape photos of trees and valleys/ mountains or wilderness.

Sketchbook and preferred sketching materials

1 x sheets white smooth surfaced mountboard; Mountboard Daler Rowney Studland in Super White... Found on Jacksons Art

A selection of acrylic paints (to include Paynes Grey

Paint palette with several deep wells

Selection of paint brushes (important: include a couple of decorating paint brushes 1 inch & 1.5 ins… the more old and ‘tired’ the better!)

Clear gesso (Must be CLEAR…Winsor & Newton make one…available online at Jacksons)

Pastels (not oil)… incl a selection of soft pastels

Cotton Rags (not j cloths or towelling)

Spray fixative (not hairspray) to be used in a separate room.

Overalls or apron

Masking tape and newspaper for wrapping work to travel home

Large water vessel