Start Date: 17/07/2025
Finish Date: 18/07/2025
Timings: 0930 - 1700
Duration: 2 Days
Location: Online ZOOM Workshop
Places Available: Join Waiting List. No
Cost: £130

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Using the ZOOM online platform, we aim to replicate the format and ambitions of our popular Freedom in Painting workshops. Suitable for artists with some experience. You will need a space to work and a reasonable internet connection and a laptop or tablet.

“I have all my subjects to hand, I go and look at them. I take notes. Then I go home. And before I start painting I reflect, I dream.” 

Pierre Bonnard was a master of colour, capturing transience and beauty in the domestic interior. Rather than working directly from the subject he preferred to work from small drawings that allowed space for the imagination, freeing his heightened and intensified colour and radical compositions from straightforward description.The motif of the window, appears in many of his most iconic paintings, flooding his interiors with the light and colour from outside.  

These works, will be the springboard on our 2-day online workshop, where we look at his methods, colour and brushwork before developing our own studies into vibrant paintings.

THURSDAY - The workshop will begin with an introductory talk & slideshow  followed by a demonstration and group exercise.  The rest of the time will be spent on individual working, with plenty of one to one tuition with Ashley during the two days. 

FRIDAY - There will a second demonstration and group exercise on Thursday morning, followed by individual working.  As always we will end the session with an invaluable Group Critique to start at 3.30pm.

See HERE for gallery and report from the online 'De Stael' workshop...

 See HERE for gallery and report from the online 'Joan & Joni (Mitchell)' workshops... 

 

  • WHAT TO BRING

    A couple of drawings of a view through a window, showing both inside and outside. The interior can include tables, still life, furniture, people even pets! Some general drawing materials and paper. Bring whatever paints you prefer although I will be working in oils. Usual painting materials: plenty of colours including complimentaries, plenty of brushes in a range of sizes, palette, paint mediums, paint-pots  One or two canvases, no maximum size providing you are able to take a photo for the tutorials!

Your Tutor

Ashley Hanson

Ashley Hanson

"Ashley's concern as an artist and teacher, is to unleash the emotional response to the subject matter that enables the painter to take risks, discover a 'personal colour palette that excites' and to provide the fresh vision of Britain's natural beauty that places him within the long tradition set by the masters of the landscape genre." Dr. Sally Bulgin, Editor, ‘The Artist’ magazine, February 2013

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