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The subject of these workshops will be water. We will draw and paint water, and use it as a medium.

We will explore its form and discover how fascinating and present it is throughout daily life. We’ll try out the way artists have imbued water with different colours and examine watercolour as a medium.

Living by and getting to know the Thames has inspired this workshop, so painting the river in perspective and deciphering its colours will be a big part of it. But water in and of itself – the transparency of droplets, the beauty of their form and the patterns formed in their movement – will play a big part also.

These topics will be spread across four sessions (see above attached picture for times). You can book all four sessions or just one. Sessions will last 90 minutes and their subject will depend to some extent on the weather but, inside or out, they will be fun and productive.

This exhibition of work presented at Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery in Wandsworth by Martine Poppe is superb (and well worth a bit of a trek if you are on the other side of the river). Martine herself will introduce us to her paintings and tell us about the magic resulting from a most original dialogue between abstraction and narrative.

Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art at the National Gallery.

Group tours proposed on specific dates (21st April and 5th May 2016). Possibility also to book a private tour for a date of your choice.

Given that Delacroix is not immediately associated with modern art, this exhibition surprises from the outset by showing his crucial role in its development. This is especially true for the Impressionists, who drew from his breakthrough exploration of colour and his famous flochetage.

Delacroix is also known for new and exotic subjects: Moroccan weddings, lion hunts. And his paintings hang beside little-known, intriguing works by Degas, Gauguin, Cezanne, and others that are full of unexpected associations.

For more information, please contact: [email protected]