Reef Make & Do

One Day Workshops

Workshop details:

Full-day workshops, 10am–3pm

£80 per person

Maximum 12 participants

Please bring your own lunch.

29 April 27 – Drawing for Painters

Discover the joy of drawing

Explore how drawing can strengthen and enrich your painting practice. We'll look at keeping an artist's sketchbook and experiment with ink, charcoal and graphite. Using a simple still life arrangement, we'll discover different ways of observing, drawing and developing ideas for larger paintings.

27 May 27 – The Colour Laboratory

Discover how colours work together

Inspired by the colour studies of Josef Albers, we'll explore how colours interact, influence and transform one another. Through a series of practical colour exercises, we'll train our eyes to see colour differently before creating a colourful still life painting of our own.

8 July 27 – The Art of the Painterly Mark

Experiment with expressive brushwork

Inspired by contemporary painter Cecily Brown, we'll explore energetic brushwork, movement, texture and expressive mark-making. Taking inspiration from an Old Master painting, we'll experiment with reinterpreting a traditional image in a fresh, contemporary way.

25 November 27 – The Quiet of a Few Objects

Finding stillness through painting

Discover the beautiful world of Giorgio Morandi and his quiet arrangements of everyday objects. We'll explore simplicity, subtle colour relationships, repetition and composition, discovering how a few ordinary things can become extraordinary subjects for painting.