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What's On 2022
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Coffee and sketch at the Cosy Club - on the second and fourth Sunday of the month, from 10.00 till 12.30
2022 Workshops
Our workshops are designed to extend and challenge current art practice of members. Workshop leaders will advise on any materials that participants will need for each session.
Please email [email protected] to book a place
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Saturday 26th Feb, 1pm - 3.30pm and
Saturday 26th March, 1pm - 3.30pm Knighton Parish Centre, Church Lane, Leicester LE2 3WG 15 places £30 per session Scott Bridgwood - Life drawing workshops 'Expressive Life Drawing' We will experiment with various drawing techniques and ways to take the drawings on to another level. we aim to push the boundaries of each participating artist's drawing methods. The goal is to be as expressive as possible rather than a mere accurate depiction of a life model. For those of you who participated in February, the March session is planned to offer something different which will build on the approaches we used earlier. For those who did not attend the February session, this workshop is equally suitable to be experienced as a stand-alone session The March workshop is planned so that participants, after starting with some quick warm-up drawings, will spend the great majority of the session working on a single response to a pose using paint. Scott advises that you will need:
Scott advises that ideally you would work on to a light grey ground (or bring grey paper) just to save time. He suggests that personally he would bring a canvas with a grey ground already painted on it, but paper or canvas are both suitable. The workshop will run from 1.00 pm - 3.30 pm at Knighton Parish Centre, Church Lane, Leicester LE2 3WG. There is parking at the Centre (turn into Cademan Close next to the Centre.) You are advised to arrive in time to set yourself up prior to the start of the workshop. Tea and coffee will be available. About Scott Bridgwood:
Scott Bridgwood is a figurative painter, based in Leicester. He graduated from Chelsea Art College in Fine Art Painting in 1991. After exhibiting around London, at a range of venues including The ICA and Westminster Gallery, he moved to Rome, where he learnt to cook spaghetti carbonara and drive on the wrong side of the road. He painted and taught at the BCI (British Cultural Institute) for 8 years and is responsible for many of the murals and signs around the Italian capital. Over the last 3 years, he has exhibited and sold widely across the Midlands and won various prizes, including the prestigious Windsor and Newton, Patchings and Windows On, amongst others. He was recently featured in a national magazine, ‘The Artist’. He currently teaches life drawing at Leicester University and The Ten2 Gallery, Hinckley.He is also soon to be the Artist in Residence at UHL (University Hospitals Leicester-the first since 1946) For more information see @bridgwoodscott on Instagram |
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Saturday May 21st, 10am - 3pm
Art room at Leicester High School for Girls 454 London Rd, Leicester LE2 2PP Robert Dutton - Mixed Media workshop 12 places £55 per session Workshop with North Yorkshire professional artist, Robert Dutton. ‘Spring/Summer landscape fields' In this thrilling and rewarding mixed media workshop with Robert you will learn lots of creative skills combining acrylic inks, watercolour/gouache and soft pastel together to create an expressive and atmospheric landscape scene. Following Roberts popular style with his expert guidance, informative and exciting demonstrations, group and personal one to one tuition throughout the day, you will experience the thrill of multiple layering mixed media with confidence too. An exciting workshop and one not to be missed! You will need to bring your own materials - please download the materials list here For more information about Robert visit his website: https://rdcreative.co.uk/ |
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Saturday June 18th, 10am - 4pm Art room at Leicester High School for Girls 454 London Rd, Leicester LE2 2PP Tom Voyce - Exploring a Sense of Place 10 places £50 per session This workshop will cover aspects of Tom's process, from initial sketches and ideas- to the various stages of paintings, to finished pieces. " My subject matter comprises of a variety of different themes such as interiors and semi abstracted landscapes, often within the notion of place and transit. The artworks consistently demonstrate my interest in the formal elements of composition: structure, perspective, shape, and light. My aim is to not to show a faithful depiction of a landscape, but to explore a suggestion of a sense of place, of being present within a particular space at a particular moment. My workshops are based loosely on my own process wherby each participent explores their own 'sense of place'. With an open and fluid interpretation from other artists and insights, be it landscape, urban, interior or still life- it always tends to be led by my own way of working, sharing my own tools and colour processes, with a basis on drawing, sketchbook work, and other technical aspects that all may be discovered." You will need to bring your own materials - please download the materials list here |
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Saturday September 17th, 10am - 4pm
Jo Sheppard - Experimental Acrylic Techniques 10 places £50 per person Experiment with surface treatment and expand your mark making repertoire through experimentation and ‘creative play’. Most suitable for those with some experience of acrylics. Although some more unusual materials will be provided, you will need to bring your own acrylics, gesso and a selection of wet and dry media such as inks, pastels and crayons, as well as paper and painting equipment. Jo Sheppard graduated in 1991 with a degree in Fine Art from Coventry University and then trained as a teacher to work in secondary education, teaching art and design. She now works as a professional artist working mainly in oils but likes to experiment and develop techniques incorporating other media. She is currently producing a body of landscape inspired work, much of which is based upon her local Charnwood environment. |
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Saturday 8th October, 1pm - 4pm
Indoor sketching - Lily, Burlesque model 15 places £12 per person Mountsorrel Memorial Centre (Billson room) 105 Leicester Road Mountsorrel Leicestershire LE12 7DB This is an untutored session, please bring your own sketching materials |
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Saturday 12th November, 1pm - 4pm
Indoor sketching - Lizzie, model in 40's costume 15 places £12 per person Mountsorrel Memorial Centre (Billson room) 105 Leicester Road Mountsorrel Leicestershire LE12 7DB This is an untutored session, please bring your own sketching materials |
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