Sat 23 Jan
|Westbury Arts Centre
Abstracting the Landscape: A One-Day Painting Workshop
A one-day workshop where you'll explore how to create expressive, contemporary landscape paintings
Time & Location
23 Jan 2027, 10:00 – 16:00 GMT
Westbury Arts Centre, Foxcovert Road, Shenley Wood, Milton Keynes MK5 6AA
About the Event
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
This one-day workshop explores how to create expressive, contemporary landscape paintings by moving beyond literal representation and responding to the atmosphere, mood and feeling of a place.
The workshop aims to help participants loosen their approach to landscape painting and develop greater confidence in using colour, tone, composition, mark-making and texture to create a sense of space and atmosphere.
Helen Simms will demonstrate her approach to abstracting the landscape, sharing practical techniques and insights from her own painting practice. Participants will then work through a series of guided exercises before developing their own landscape painting from photographic reference.
The emphasis is on experimentation, personal expression and responding intuitively to the landscape, rather than creating a technically perfect or realistic representation. Participants will be encouraged to make confident decisions, experiment with mark-making and embrace the unexpected qualities of the painting process.
The workshop will be demonstrated in oils,…