Driven to Abstraction ... A Watercolour journey
Tutor: Jackie Devereux Course Code: 0826-07
Summary
If you ever thought that abstract painting is an easy option, hold on to that thought. This course will help guide and unlock ways to discover pathways to success, creating small dynamic compositions loosely based on reality.
Description
An extraordinary experience as ever working in liaison with Artist, Jackie Devereux, renowned for her contemporary works on paper - original and experimental in nature, and carefully crafted. She will encourage you to develop ideas as you create unique watercolour samples and print from paper to paper. - a complete hands on experience with Watercolour. The introduction of permanent black Indian ink will be an option which is always a bonus on Jackie's courses. She is always working and experimenting as she creates work for exhibitions, and each of her courses contain surprise elements as she works alongside you throughout the course.
Please bring with you
Bring a few of your favourite tube colours, palette and your preferred brushes (preferably not too small!)
Water jars x2
Low tack masking tape or Magic tape.
Watercolour paper 300gsm of your choice (I tend to recommend Bockingford based on price and durability)
If you have colour pencils and/or fine liner pens do bring them along.
(This is not intended as a shopping list but as a guide – bring what you have and experiment also with some of my brushes)
Level
Suitable for all levels
Course Location
CIM Business Centre Cookham
Moor Hall, Cookham, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 9QH
Tutor
Jackie Devereux
Jackie is a full time professional artist as well as qualified and very experienced adult tutor, whose unique work is greatly influenced by Japanese art as well as the light of southern France which was her home for over twenty years. Jackie’s award winning work ranges from pure large contemporary works on paper, to delicate pencil, to expressive pen & ink and mixed media - all experimental in nature. She has travelled the world, always with the intention of capturing people and places as she goes. As drawing is an integral part of her work, Jackie enjoys working with groups and sharing her ideas and techniques, encouraging others to develop their own potential. Jackie’s work is well published and collected internationally. She has been a regular contributor to The Artist Magazine, has exhibited widely throughout the UK and France, as well as in the USA and Japan. She has shown with the RWS, RI and with the Society of Graphic Fine Art, variously in Menier Gallery, Southwark; in Mayfair, Bankside and The Mall Galleries in London, and was elected and served as President of the SGFA for five years. Her work is shown in Mandells Gallery, Norwich; The Gallery at Waterperry House, Oxford, and often in Babylon Gallery, Ely and Gallery Holt, Holt, Norfolk.
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Tuesday to Thursday
Enrol on this Course
- Payment by Deposit available during checkout
Timetable
| Tuesday | |
| 9am | Coffee on arrival |
| 9.15am | Welcome and tutor introductions |
| 9.30am-1pm | Teaching session |
| 1-2pm | Lunch for all |
| 2-5pm | Teaching session |
| 6.45 for 7pm | Dinner for residents |
| Wednesday | |
| 7-9.15am | Breakfast for residents |
| 9.30am-1pm | Teaching session |
| 1-2pm | Lunch for all |
| 2-5pm | Teaching session |
| 6.45 for 7pm | Dinner for residents |
| Thursday | |
| 7-9.15am | Breakfast for residents |
| 9.30am-1pm | Teaching session |
| 1-2pm | Lunch for all |
| 2-5pm | Last teaching session |
" Great course as usual, always fantastic"
"A truly fantastic weekend, Jackie is a wonderfully inspiring teacher. I have learnt so much."
This was a brilliant, inspiring course with a tutor who was really helpful and full of ideas.