6 week watercolour painting course with Gail Astbury

Class details

The focus of this 6 week watercolour painting course is Art and Gardens. You’ll take inspiration from the art and design gems at the Garden Museum in Lambeth Palace. There is currently an exhibition by Jean-Marie Toulgouat titled Gardening Giverny which runs until the 24th April. Then we will revisit figure painting through the eyes of John Singer Sargent at Tate Britain before heading back to the Garden Museum to explore the gardens of the Bloomsbury group starting on the 15th May and continuing throughout the summer.

Tuesdays

16 April – 21 May

2 – 4.30pm

Course Fee : £110

Weekly Pay As You Go Fee : £20 per week

Course Outline

16 and 23 April : Gardening Giverny

We start with artist Jean-Marie Toulgouat (b1927) who had the good fortune to be born in
the lovely surroundings of Giverny- Monet’s physical garden masterpiece. He was a great grandson to Monet through marriage and spent much of his life restoring the gardens to their former glory alongside creating many vibrantly
coloured oil paintings. The exhibition will also feature photographs of the garden by Andrew Lawson.

30 April and 7 May : Sargent and Fashion

Beneath the irresistible glamour of Sargent’s sumptuous paintings, there are subtle clues to changes in attitude at the end of the 19th century. We will take a closer look at posture and setting when staging a portrait as well as
revisiting proportions of the body and composition when making paintings of family, friends, or people of significant interest.
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/sargentand-fashion

14 and 21 May : Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors

Back to the Garden Museum for a look at four
extraordinary women and the green spaces they
surrounded themselves with: writer Virginia Woolf and her garden at Monk’s House; her sister artist Vanessa Bell, whose garden and studio was at nearby Charleston; arts patron and photographer Lady Ottoline Morrell, who presided over Garsington Manor; and garden designer and writer Vita Sackville-West and the
gardens at Sissinghurst Castle.
https://gardenmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/gardeningbohemia-bloomsbury-women-outdoors/

We look forward to seeing you for this short watercolour painting course.

Materials

We supply the following equipment and materials

Watercolour Paper for the preliminary class and colour mixing exercises

Palette

Water Jars

Kitchen Paper

Cotton Buds

Sponges

You will need to bring:

Watercolour paints

Watercolour pencils

Brushes (various shapes round/flat/mop and sizes ranging from 4, 6, 8,10 and 12)

Watercolour paper for the final class painting

Watercolour sketchbook

Your Apron

About the tutor

Gail Astbury

Gail Astbury has a B.A. (Hons) Fine Art Painting from Wimbledon UAL and has recently gained an MA in Contemporary Arts Practice from Goldsmiths University and Tate Galleries 2014. Her work has featured in many prominent locations such as London’s Trafalgar Square, the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Academy and she has works held in the collection of the MMSU Museum of Modern Art in Croatia.

Gail makes series of paintings and watercolours in her studios in London and La Péruse, southwest France. Her work starts with her immediate surroundings, taking photos, sketching and amassing a picture library to draw reference from. She then plays with the imagery, using scale, colour, edits and zoom to select and highlight interesting focal points. She uses a range of techniques from renaissance lighting and brushwork to the colour and decorative compositions of 20th century modernism through to contemporary mass media image making and production. The resulting paintings are celebratory, they tell visual tales and proclaim societal hopes and fears. http://www.gailastbury.com

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6 week watercolour painting course with Gail Astbury

Gail Astbury

16 Apr - 21 May

Where:
OPEN Ealing Arts Centre W5 2TD

Course Fee £110

Class details

Course Outline

Materials

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Course Details

Where:
OPEN Ealing Arts Centre W5 2TD

About the tutor

Gail Astbury

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