Our Watercolour workshops with Helen Clarke have been so popular that we sold out within a week!
If you would like us to hold more of these workshops at Glasswells please let us know.
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About Our Art Workshops
Come and discover the art of watercolour painting - perhaps for pure pleasure, or to satisfy your creative aspirations. Take part in our small, in-person workshops in store at Glasswells Bury St Edmunds, where learning a new craft is a perfect stress-relieving remedy.
Led by Helen Clarke, a local artist, each workshop includes all the materials needed, plus some enjoyable refreshments throughout the session, offering a delightful and relaxing learning experience in our beautiful showroom.
Both workshops are being held at our Bury St Edmunds store:
Saturday 19th October 2024 'Autumn leaves' in Water colour - SOLD OUT
Saturday 16th November 2024 'Winter Stems & Berries' Water colour and ink - SOLD OUT
Both Sessions from 10.30am until 1pm
Tickets are limited and need to be booked.
All materials and refreshments are provided and the session is suitable for all levels of ability.
£50 per person.
(Please arrive 15 minutes before the event and have your ticket/order confirmation printed or available to show on your electronic device. The ticket is non-refundable and not to be resold for profit. Unauthorised duplication of this ticket will render it void.)
We will be painting beautiful leaves from life and learning different watercolour techniques in order to reveal their glowing colours. The addition of ink is an attractive way of defining leaf edges as winter approaches.
Painting from life, we'll use watercolour in various ways, to show the beauty of seed heads and colourful berries with and without a background. Sepia ink will also be introduced, which is very effective for depicting berry stems and seed head shapes.
About Helen Clarke
Helen has always had a passion for art and has been painting in watercolour for over 40 years. She creates paintings which lift the spirit and enhance life. The wonderful flowing quality of watercolour is the ideal medium to achieve this.
Working from her Summer House Studio in Great Wilbraham, she overlooks an inspiring wild flower meadow with adjoining fields. Her subject is the natural world of flowers, landscape, still life or wildlife, freely capturing the essence of their natural beauty with a free, expressive style and sometimes incorporating mixed media.
Designing original watercolour greetings cards is a speciality and many are sold locally and internationally.
She has participated in Cambridge Open Studios since 2001 and has exhibited in various galleries. Her paintings and cards are exhibited at EJR Creative in Hasketon, Suffolk and her original cards are sold by Cambridge Contemporary Art. As a member of the Cambridge Drawing Society and the Society of East Anglian Watercolourists, she takes part in various group exhibitions
Small workshops are taught in her Summer House Studio to a wide variety of people and she is a regular tutor for Tindalls Art Shop in Newmarket, as well as EJR Art Creative in Hasketon, Suffolk, teaching a range of subjects.
www.summerhouse-paintings.co.uk
helen@summerhouse-paintings.co.uk
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