Summer School 2024 Summer in the Garden - Online

Course Dates June 24^th - 27^th (Monday - Thursday) 2024.

Online Course Time: 10am – 12.30pm. Sitting in the garden at the height of summer is heaven. Whether you have a beautiful garden of your own or you love to visit a garden for your inspiration, this course is a celebration of the abundance of the summer garden.In May and June the shoots and buds are urgently pushing forward, gathering pace. Spring melts into Summer and flowers become centre stage with their splashes of colour jostling for attention. Colours are luminous on the blousy petals of flowers, the bird song is shrill and excited, the shadows are deep, cool and inviting. To find a quiet, shady spot to sit, watch, listen, wonder and draw is the first part of this course. As you sit and make studies it gives you time to notice the foliage, the shapes of shadows and the dance of colour as your gaze meanders through the spaces. A month before the date of the live online sessions you will be sent a collection of short films that give you demonstrations of ways of working. These that will help you make lots of studies which you will need in preparation for the live classes. During the live online sessions Emily and Katie will show you how to unpack and select from your many studies and create expressive paintings that bring back the glorious riot of colours, patterns, mood and memories of being in the garden.

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Inspiration

Pierre Bonnard, Patrick Heron
Geoffroy Pithon, Anne Griffiths
Hurvin Anderson, Joan Snyder
Joan Mitchell, Joe Packer
Miranda Bolton, Adrian Berg
Tricia Gillman, Emma Biggs
Ivon Hitchens, Elisabeth Cummings
Claude Monet

Feedback

"I am so grateful to have been part of the recent magic of the summer school. What you did was unpack the whole process of working outside on studies, bringing them into the studio and then how to put together a painting. You couldn’t have broken it down for us more or facilitated our creativity better."

Sophie Bartlett