Ella Clocksin
9th - 11th April
£450
Anything But Green: Abstract Colour Landscapes
Experiment with abstract colour palettes in watercolour by eliminating green altogether, because landscapes don’t have to be green. Removing green from the palette is also a cunning ruse to escape the comfort zone and find exciting new colour combinations.
Once set free from the inner demand to colour-match your paint to the subject matter, you’ll experience how to:
• Use useful parameters to enable more expressive and adventurous abstract colour use in painting.
• Use the colour wheel as a launch pad to generate colour relationships that just ‘work.’
• Deepen your sensitivity to colour nuances, and relationships between the main colours in a composition.
• Explore infinite colour variations within a limited palette.
What to expect:
I teach in watercolour and mixed media with some drawing to develop paintings.
• A daily introduction and short demo of specific processes.
• Working in and out of the studio.
• Reference to the work of other artists, including my own.
• Generous individual and group feedback. I don’t do my own work when I’m teaching. I’m there for you.
Lunch and refreshments included.
Days run from 10am - 4pm-ish
About Ella
Ella has run independent art workshop programmes for nearly 25 years. As a tutor, she demystifies the building blocks of painting by drawing on a deep practical understanding of colour mixing, composition, loosening up, working from observation to abstraction and best practice for glowing (un-muddied) watercolour.
This is her second year at the Lund. Ella was formerly Visiting Lecturer in Life Drawing at Winchester School of Art, and Visual Arts Therapist at The School of Life, London.
Now based in her Oxford studio, Ella studied MA Fine Art and BA hons Textile Art at Winchester School of Art, after a Foundation at Oxford Brookes.
As a professional painter in contemporary watercolour, recent work incorporates abstract notations for sound as well as vision. This developed with support from an Arts Council grant through Jelly, Reading in 2020, and two on-site residencies to research sound in painting in the Jelly space, Reading, and The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford.
Ella exhibits widely, including national opens such as the Royal Watercolour Society. Recent exhibitions closer to home include Darle and the Bear, Woodstock and RonaPainting Gallery, Oxford.
