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Join Gail for a new 6 week watercolour painting course featuring examples from Autumn’s Art Shows. During the course we visit four exciting exhibitions and investigate the artists’ changes of colour, techniques that have led to their enduring appeal and how other art forms informed their processes.
Tuesdays
12 November – 17 December
2 – 4.30pm
Course Fee : £110
Pay As You Go : £20 per session
Course Outline
12 & 19 November
Vincent Van Gogh Poets and Lovers National Gallery
This show is a must and will leave you in no doubt as to the strength of feelings that Vincent could express through his paints and brushes. It focuses on his last years spent working
furiously in the south of France. We will
investigate his changes of colours within recurring themes.
26 November & 3 December
Monet and London Courtauld Gallery
Continuing with another giant of the impressionist and postimpressionist movement, some ten years after Vincent’s
untimely exit Monet set about painting views of the Thames from his Savoy hotel window which were displayed in Paris in 1904. This is the first time that they have all been shown together in London where they were created. We will compare and contrast the two artists styles and try to understand what techniques contribute to their enduring appeal.
No less ground-breaking in her own way, Dora was amongst the first wave of British female art students accepted into progressive colleges such as the Slade to study and paint alongside their fellow male counterparts. Although nervous about signing her work, she was like Vincent an autobiographical artist painting the people and places she loved throughout her short life. Emma Thompson played her in the film Carrington made in 1985 based on a book written by her lifelong friend Lytton Strachey, another prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group.
17 December
Tirzah Garwood
Beyond Ravilious at Dulwich Picture Gallery
To round off the year we will have a look at a British couple who were leading figures in changing the tastes in art in the UK between the wars. Dulwich is displaying a rare opportunity to view more than eighty of Garwood’s works, alongside 10 watercolours by her creative partner Eric Ravilious. We will look at their
similarities and differences and how they formed their distinct artistic personalities. We will also look at how printmaking informed their processes.
We look forward to seeing you for this short watercolour painting course.
