Painting

Watercolour Studio : Autumn’s Art Shows


Gail Astbury


12 Nov - 17 Dec

Where:
OPEN Ealing Arts Centre W5 2TD

Course Fee £110


Class details

Join Gail in the watercolour studio for a new 6 week 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

10am – 12.30pm

Course Fee : £110

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 post impressionist 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.

10 December

Dora Carrington

Pallant House

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 in the watercolour studio for this short, six week 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

Booking

Course Details

Where:
OPEN Ealing Arts Centre W5 2TD

Dates: 12 Nov - 17 Dec
Tuesday 10:00 am
Fees: Course Fee £110


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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