Short marks, bright colour and no black on the palette. An evening spent painting light rather than things.
Twelve people, one very warm room, and a lot of orange on the palettes.
The surprise of the evening was how differently everyone read the same reference — two people painted the same photograph of a garden path and produced pictures that had almost nothing in common.
Nobody left before eleven.
Photographs of participants are published with their permission.
I booked on my own on a Tuesday and spent the whole evening talking to strangers about colour. I have not switched off like that in months.
Pick a date, reserve a place, and spend an evening making something.
Night light and deep blues
An evening built around night pictures — lamplight, wet streets, windows from the outside. Deep blues, warm points of light, and no need to draw anything realistically.
Objects, shadow and quiet
Fruit, glass, a folded cloth, an ordinary jug. An evening on the oldest subject in painting, and the one that teaches the most.
Sea, weather and thick paint
Put the brushes down. An evening of thick paint, wide horizons and weather, made almost entirely with a palette knife.
