Join our new tutor, Emma Burleigh on this 6-week expressive watercolours course. Come and play with paint, learn new skills, enjoy rich conversations and bask in watercolour's jewel-like hues.

Happy accidents are portals into new ways of seeing! Making a mess is very much encouraged, and wonderful failures can become terrible successes!

This course is designed to encourage your creative expression through supportive and relaxing exercises, and to develop your confidence to paint more expressively and intuitively. Get to know the glowing colours and evocative qualities of watercolour, and explore memories, moods, dreams and visions in this luminous medium.

These classes will provide a non-judgemental, friendly place to get to know your own artistic voice, however shy it may currently be. You will gain new skills, have rich conversations with self and others and find an appreciation of colour and of watercolour's jewel-like hues.

You’ll be encourages to develop your creative expression, have confidence to paint more expressively and intuitively, and explore memories, moods, dreams and visions. You will leave having found your own artistic voice.

Emma Burleigh is an artist, art tutor and illustrator. She is interested in how art can bring more mindfulness, wellbeing, soulfulness and self expression to our expereince, and she has a particular passion for the vibrant, and mercurial qualities of watercolour . She is the creator of two published course books: Soul Colour, a ten week watercolour course to cultivate creativity and mindfulness, and Earth Colour, an 8 week mixed media course to enhance nature-connection. Both are published by Liminal 11 in the UK and Union Square & Co. in the USA & Canada.

Emma works on various commissioned and personal projects. She creates large scale watercolour and mixed media paintings that have been exhibited around the South West including at The Royal West Academy in Bristol. Over the last few years she has collaborated on several illustrated poetry publications with the former Derbyshire Poet Laureate, River Wolton, exploring themes of mindfulness and Buddhist 'dharma' practice. Emma is also the creator of a full-length graphic novel that won the LDComics Award for best graphic novel in progress and the Society of Authors John Brooks Award. Publication is presently on pause.

Tutor: Emma Burleigh
Date & Time: Wednesdays, 10am - 1pm
Venue: Spindle Studio, New Brewery Arts
PRICE: £220.00 (£0.00 VAT)

6-weeks

First Class: Wednesday 30th April
No Class: Wednesday 28th May
Last Class: Wednesday 11th June

Please note that this workshop is for those aged 18 and over.

You are welcome to bring a lidded bottle of water with you but we kindly ask that you do not bring food into the studio. 

Our on-site café Blend is open until 4pm each day.

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Who is this workshop for?

Suitable for beginners, rusty returners to watercolours, and more experienced artists looking for fresh, imaginative approaches.

What you will need:

All art materials will be provided and all the key watercolour techniques will be taught.

Accommodation: 
Residential option available. Find out about our accommodation, costs and how to book here.