Build or enhance your oil painting skills with our Still Life Painting in Oils course, open to beginners as well as experienced artists. This hands-on oil painting course explores both traditional techniques and contemporary approaches to still life, helping you deepen your understanding of design, lighting, color, and form. Still life also makes for the best introduction to oil painting.​​​

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Through practical, studio-based sessions you’ll gain greater confidence and creative control over the painting process. 

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TUTORS: llaria Rosselli Del Turco and Kim Scouller​​

This two-day painting workshop explores the dynamic relationship between colour and form in contemporary still life. Working in oils, you will explore how simplified forms and deliberate palette choices can transform everyday objects into compelling compositions. Through focused demonstrations and exercises in drawing and painting, the course will consider colour as a structural element for shaping space, defining planes, and creating visual rhythm.

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Whether you’re new to oils or looking to develop a more considered and contemporary approach to still life painting, this workshop offers a rich and rewarding two days in the studio. Suitable for all levels.

Take a deep dive into one of these amazing artists....Henri Matisse and his influence on Richard Diebenkorn and Egon Schiele's expressive figure work. They have all been an influence on my work at at some point in my 20+ years of painting. There will be lots of demos and information on the different artist's influences to really allow us to get into their process.

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With fantastic live models, looks and insightful teaching they really promise to be super courses with lots of portrait exploration.

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​Available artist themed recordings: MATISSE X DIEBENKORN, EGON SCHIELE: LINE & EXPRESSION, EGON SCHIELE: COLOUR & PAINT​​​​, KÄTHE KOLLWITZ: RAW VISION​

Join Kim for a brand new four week course of live portrait painting in oils, working alla prima from a different model each week.

Working with still images and at a relaxed but purposeful pace, each two-hour session will explore a different aspect of the portrait process; from selecting colours and establishing the structure of the head, through blocking in shapes and tones, to refining and bringing the painting together.

Kim will paint live throughout each session, demonstrating the process from beginning to end and talking through the decisions she makes along the way. You‘ll work alongside her, with opportunities for feedback, questions and guidance as your own paintings develop.

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All sessions are live and recorded, with a link to each recording sent after each session.

Designed to broaden your approach to working from the landscape, this course deepens your exploration of colour, composition, and tone.

 

We’ll focus on paint handling and explore ways of abstracting the landscape, using simplified shapes to design and build strong, confident compositions.

 

Each week we will look at different artist’s work which highlight these various elements.

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£170 (if booked in advance)

£45 per day (materials list will be provided)

*Class size is limited to 10

This beginner friendly workshop will include a visit to the exhibition and introduce participants to Saville’s prolific oeuvre. You will get the chance to create your own painted portrait, experimenting with Saville’s smearing and distortion techniques.

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All materials provided. All abilities welcome.

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£250 (all materials provided)

£200 (members / concessions) ​​​​​

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image: Jenny Saville, Hyphen, 1999