Colour and Shape in Nature: 1-day workshop with Clare Haward: Online

5 July 2025 
Overview
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PRICE: £80 Online, 10am to 4pm

An online workshop exploring the pictorial possibilities of plants in a still life set up. 

In this intermediate/advanced workshop, students will work from a still-life arrangement in their own home or studio. This is a friendly and practical class, with a group of up to 9 students. Students can work either in monochrome or colour.

 

Clare will introduce a series of exercises encouraging students to see differently and discover the abstract qualities of our compositions. Considering core elements such as tone, line, light and shadow, colour relationships, and edge quality, we will explore ways to represent what we see with paint. Please note, this is not a course in botanical illustration!
 
Online tuition will be given via Zoom with live demos, one-to-one discussion, individual work and group discussions. Individual feedback will be given, with students uploading images of their work to a Padlet page. Video recordings will be uploaded to YouTube after the workshop (private account) and resources will be uploaded to Padlet.

 

ABOUT YOUR TUTOR  

Clare Haward is an artist based in South London. She teaches regular classes at Dulwich Art Group, with the Penn Studio School, and Croydon Adult Learning. She is represented by 155a Gallery in East Dulwich, and has had several solo exhibitions, with work included in the Threadneedle Prize, the ING Discerning Eye and in 2015 was a contestant on Sky Arts 'Landscape Artist of the Year'. In 2018, Clare was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Scholarship, and elected a member of the NEAC in 2019. She studied at Camberwell College of Art, Leeds University and the Jerusalem Studio School. 

 

SUGGESTED MATERIALS

Students can choose to work in monochrome or colour. Clare suggests using charcoal if working in monochrome, or oil paints if working in colour, but if you prefer to paint in acrylics or watercolours that is fine too.

  • Charcoal - A4 or A3 cartridge paper, a rubber, a chamois leather, medium or thick charcoal, stanley knife.
  • Oil - a number of canvas/boards to paint on (up to A3 size), oil-paint solvent and jar for it, range of hog brushes, 
    Oil colours: either limited palette of: Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna, Ultramarine Blue, Yellow Ochre, Titanium White
    Or split primary palette: Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Lemon, Ultramarine Blue, Phtalo Blue
    Additional colours: Viridien / Phtalo Green, Dioxodine Violet, Ivory Black
    Please don’t buy a whole new set of colours, bring what you have as long as you have at least the primary colours and white.

 

DATE AND TIME

Saturday, 5 July 2025

10:00 – 16:00

 

LOCATION

Online via Zoom

 

A reminder email with further information is sent to attendees a couple of days before the workshop. If you have booked a place and don't see the email in your inbox please check your junk folder.