This course offers you time to connect with the landscape through conversation, mark making and brush work techniques. Building on your confidence in colour theory with oil paints over three days.

We will begin outside, finding inspiration from details in the landscape; looking, drawing, collecting. The weekend will offer an opportunity to move from quick, playful pencil exercises onto creating a composition on a wooden panel with oil paints inspired by the walks findings.

Meredith Owen is an English artist living and working in Cornwall. Brought up in an old converted chapel built into the side of a cliff. Surrounded by wildlife, and the daughter of two artists; her upbringing instilled in her an appreciation for nature and its astounding, intricate beauty. Meredith’s work explores a relationship with the landscape, more specifically interactions with nature when on foot. She works in a detailed manner on wooden panels, usually ply. Employing rhythm with the strokes made that echoes the rhythm of the steps walked in the landscapes she paints. ‘My paintings take time; I build layers with small brush marks, developing each scene until it captures the essence of the place I have walked through’.