Revitalise your approach to drawing in these full-day workshops, exploring drawing in the landscape, responding to nature as both inspiration and as material and process.
Come for one or both days and enjoy the glorious setting of High Dalby House, with its many features from wild forest to ponds and streams, landscaped gardens and architectural features, all in the heart of the North York Moors National Park.
Both days will explore drawing in the landscape, starting with experimentation with materials and drawing processes, before moving on to observational and more focused drawing in the afternoon. The workshop will include collaborative exercises, fun experiments to loosen your drawing style, as well as taught activities, exploring materials and techniques. In the afternoon we’ll each do our own focused drawing, inspired by what we enjoyed or what inspired us in the morning.
Led by artists Rachel Welford and Kathryn Welford
Small group: Maximum 6 each day
Materials provided, but feel free to bring your own sketchbooks or materials if you wish.
Lunch included.
Anyone wishing to come for both days are very welcome. Accommodation may be available at High Dalby House on the Saturday evening, if you are interested in staying overnight. Please contact High Dalby House directly to make arrangements for your stay: https://www.highdalbyhouse.com/
Your drawing guides - Rachel and Kathryn Welford
You can find all about me on my about page so I won’t repeat that here! Kathryn is my sister and is also an artist and artist-educator! We will be running this workshop together. Although both artists with lots of shared experience in teaching art and leading workshops, our approach to making art is very different, so we complement each other very well!
Kathryn studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Fine Art & Drawing, Oxford University. She has taught and led education programmes in galleries and museums for over twenty years. She is a painter and also draws, focusing mainly on landscapes but also draws and paints what she sees around her.
She is a figurative painter, but enjoys the ‘painterliness’ of paint and the material quality of drawing. Kathryn is inspired by the textures and ‘messiness’ of gardens and of nature, and of the world around us. She always tries to depict her subjects honestly, presenting what is interesting and beautiful about the world, but being careful not to omit the messier, ugly or just ‘real’ aspects of a scene or subject. She uses drawing to capture a feeling of a subject, creating drawings and paintings from observation but also enjoying the expressiveness of the material and process of making.
Follow Kathryn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/welfordkathryn/?hl=en
Revitalise your approach to drawing in these full-day workshops, exploring drawing in the landscape, responding to nature as both inspiration and as material and process.
Come for one or both days and enjoy the glorious setting of High Dalby House, with its many features from wild forest to ponds and streams, landscaped gardens and architectural features, all in the heart of the North York Moors National Park.
Both days will explore drawing in the landscape, starting with experimentation with materials and drawing processes, before moving on to observational and more focused drawing in the afternoon. The workshop will include collaborative exercises, fun experiments to loosen your drawing style, as well as taught activities, exploring materials and techniques. In the afternoon we’ll each do our own focused drawing, inspired by what we enjoyed or what inspired us in the morning.
Led by artists Rachel Welford and Kathryn Welford
Small group: Maximum 6 each day
Materials provided, but feel free to bring your own sketchbooks or materials if you wish.
Lunch included.
Anyone wishing to come for both days are very welcome. Accommodation may be available at High Dalby House on the Saturday evening, if you are interested in staying overnight. Please contact High Dalby House directly to make arrangements for your stay: https://www.highdalbyhouse.com/
Your drawing guides - Rachel and Kathryn Welford
You can find all about me on my about page so I won’t repeat that here! Kathryn is my sister and is also an artist and artist-educator! We will be running this workshop together. Although both artists with lots of shared experience in teaching art and leading workshops, our approach to making art is very different, so we complement each other very well!
Kathryn studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Fine Art & Drawing, Oxford University. She has taught and led education programmes in galleries and museums for over twenty years. She is a painter and also draws, focusing mainly on landscapes but also draws and paints what she sees around her.
She is a figurative painter, but enjoys the ‘painterliness’ of paint and the material quality of drawing. Kathryn is inspired by the textures and ‘messiness’ of gardens and of nature, and of the world around us. She always tries to depict her subjects honestly, presenting what is interesting and beautiful about the world, but being careful not to omit the messier, ugly or just ‘real’ aspects of a scene or subject. She uses drawing to capture a feeling of a subject, creating drawings and paintings from observation but also enjoying the expressiveness of the material and process of making.
Follow Kathryn on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/welfordkathryn/?hl=en