Watergate Farm spans 5 acres and is a truly beautiful location in West Cornwall.
Creative 3-day retreats in collaboration with artists Laura Menzies & Melanie young. Set in a beautiful location in West Cornwall participants will explore their creativity through a variety of guided exercises that will allow them to loosen up their approach and develop their own style. The 3 retreats will each have a different focus and will draw inspiration from nature and the retreats stunning surroundings.
The retreats are open to anyone with a passion for creativity and expression that would like to learn new skills in a safe and supportive environment. Capped at just 8 places on each retreat they will be intimate experiences with plenty of 1:1 guidance and opportunity to make meaningful artistic connections.
Exploring Printmaking: May 11th - 13th
Explore a creative and experimental approach to a variety of printmaking techniques including collagraph, mono-printing, lino and drypoint. Through a fun and hands on approach you will learn how to successfully combine printmaking methods to create prints that are dynamic and explore subtlety and depth. All methods covered are highly versatile and lend themselves particularly well to a multi-layered approach.
The studio is fully equipped with 2 printing presses suitable for all of the techniques taught.
Working with Colour: July 13th - 15th
This exciting course explores how to capture, mix and combine colours with artistic flair. Starting with exploratory studies you will learn how to balance tone, composition and colour to maximum effect to create bold and dynamic paintings inspired by the colours you discover on the retreat. Much of the course will be hands on with many pots of mixed paints shared between the group so you can switch back and forth between colours easily. The course will also include work with collage and ink and includes experimenting with coloured paint applied to different surfaces including paper and board.
Acrylic & Mixed Media: September 22nd - 24th
Explore acrylic painting through a variety of guided workshops that will allow you to loosen up your approach and get started in a fun and accessible way. Explore how flexible acrylic can be by working with it thin like watercolour, to thick and impasto with a palette knife. The mini workshops will focus on aspects of texture, mark making, collage and mixed media and will draw inspiration from the retreats stunning landscape and how this can be used to create beautiful, loose paintings that look at shape, form and colour in new and exciting ways.
£290 (materials & lunch provided)
Watergate Farm, Helston, Cornwall. TR13 ONG
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