May Workshop @ Capability Brown’s gardens – Thursday 18th and/or Friday 19th May* at First-View Gallery, Stourhead near Mere/Warminster (details below)
*discount for 2 days.
Email me for details and a booking form, Best wishes, Catherine
Cascading landscapes
What excites me as a painter is the gorgeous behaviour of flowing watercolour pigments. By experimenting freely with rich, running paint, I have developed a technique I call “gravity painting”. This cascading method of applying paint directly to the paper without prior mixing, preserves the paths of mingling pigments in your painting. It’s a sure way to create subtle passages on paper as paint flows and reacts within generous amounts of water.
To free up your own watercolour painting style, why not try thoroughly wetting your support and then dropping in tube paints (diluted to a thick, single-cream consistency). Using deep colours, insures against watercolours paling during the drying process. It also allows you to thoroughly focus on the behaviour of the paint on the paper, rather than concentrating energies on mixing within the palette.
I share my painting techniques with art groups and hold Watercolour Workshops in Bath: Trees & Landscapes (Thursday 9th March 10.30-3) and Beautiful Bath Slopes (Wednesday 5th April 10.30-3) Stourhead Landscape Gardens (Thursday 18th & Friday 19th May).
New workshop schedule
chose to improve in 2017?
Wanting to improve or kick-start your painting skills in 2017? Let me help you with a broad choice of adult watercolour workshops this spring, including ever popular “Beautiful Bath Slopes” from a heritage building in Bath and painting the landscape at First View Gallery in Stourhead Gardens.
Click here for all the dates: spring-2017-a5-workshop-flier
and Email me for a booking form.
Catherine
Bath Dreaming – giclee print available
Temple on the lake, Stourhead Gardens (detail) watercolour
New workshop dates!
Improve or kick-start your painting skills in 2017 with these watercolour workshops:
“Beautiful Bath Slopes” Wednesday 5th April (10.30-3) – ever popular, this fantastic subject celebrates Bath’s stunning buildings whilst allowing you to escape into your imagination. Learn how to protect whites whilst embracing fully flowing watercolours to create hillsides studded with fairytale architecture.
“Capturing water” Tuesday 16th May (10.30-3) – one of watercolour’s most successful subjects which can also be one of the most tricky to pull off. Control pigments to match the quality of water – from the mirrored surface of Bath’s canals to waves breaking over Cornish rocks.
Full schedule of workshops: spring-2017-pdf-a5-workshop-flier
Email me for further details and a booking form.
Bath Dreaming – giclee print available
Landscape workhops
society of women artists call for entries
It’s time once again to consider applying to the wealth of art competitions and open exhibitions accepting entries this winter holidays. Why not try the Society of Women Artists? We are a professional and friendly group of female artists creating a large body of work, some of which is on show at our annual exhibition in London’s Mall Galleries each year. This year’s exhibition runs 4-9 July 2017 and opens first thing in 2017. Good luck!
Article in The Artist Magazine
This December’s issue of The Artist Magazine (pages 58-59) contains my article “Try something different: Waterfalls of Watercolour” – a description of my watercolour painting techniques.
