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Colour, Texture, Abstraction In The Garden 3 day Drawing and Painting with Katie Sollohub

* THIS EVENT HAS NOW FINISHED *

Wednesday 18th September 2024 - Friday 20th September 2024 | 9:00am - 2:00pm

Colour, Texture, Abstraction In The Garden 3 day Drawing and Painting  with Katie Sollohub

This is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the Prairie Gardens at their best. Spend a day making large drawings with charcoal, followed by 2 days working with ink and paint. Looking for structure, colour and texture, listening to the sounds, you will be guided through drawing processes preparing you to make expressive paintings by building up layers of transparent colour, with marks evocative of the multitude of textures and sounds of the garden. Painting with acrylics/ink/gouache with glazes and mixed media, you will make large scale, layered, compositions. Each day you will be guided with meditation to tune into your senses, and given warm up exercises to draw and paint directly from the garden, sometimes literally in the flower beds, increasing your sense of connection to the visual and sensory world. The larger scale drawings and paintings can be made inside the studio or out in the garden, depending on the weather and your preference. Cost: £240 includes garden entry fee, tuition, refreshments and studio space 9am – 2pm.
Access to the garden, and limited studio space available all day until 5pm

*NB this course is non-residential but I can help you find accommodation nearby if you are not local. Treat it as your own personal retreat.

Booking: katiesollohub@gmail.com or phone 07905244623 for more info
“It is amazing the marks that just appear. I have a yearning to paint dancing trees. I love the wind inviting the branches to dance together. The different moves. Fascinating. Exciting.” GLEN – Drawing and Meditation 2024


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Sussex Prairie Garden

Morlands Farm, Wheatsheaf Road (B2116),
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, West Sussex, BN5 9AT

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    1. Sussex Prairie Garden
      4.7
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      Fraser BishopFraser Bishop
      10:50 11 Jul 22
      Wonderful garden well worth a visit. Great variety of plants showing so many ways of portraying a garden layout. Must comment on the great tea and cakes selection, our dog loved the doggy ice cream!
      Joan DaniellJoan Daniell
      15:13 06 Jul 22
      Beautifully planted area, in which you are encouraged to walk along paths between the plants so can be completely surrounded by foliage - a lovely effect.
      Peter WardPeter Ward
      08:40 28 Jun 22
      Beautiful garden, very relaxing, and bigger than you might think. Cafe is nice too
      Mike CleggMike Clegg
      16:07 08 Jun 22
      Tea room not brilliant nice cake but coffee in paper cup. No other options other then tea coffee and cake. Opening times short 1 to 5 but gardens beautiful
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