Lewis Noble

1st - 3rd October

£470.00

Sketching and Collage

Thrilled that Lewis will be joining us again in 2024! This inspirational workshop includes drawing and sketching out in the landscape, followed by studio work. The course is suitable for all abilities and is designed to provide a solid working practice that will help you to develop as an artist. During three days of highly productive and creative work, students can expect to end up with a sketchbook full of imaginative and stimulating visual ideas.

The format for the three days is usually, mornings outside sketching followed by lunch, then studio work.

Lewis is running only a few ‘in-person’ courses this year so this opportunity to spend three days working alongside a small group of like-minded people is not to be missed!

About Lewis

Lewis Noble has lived and worked in Derbyshire since 1996. Over this time he has built a reputation as one of central England’s foremost artists. His focus lies in the physical and emotional impact of the landscape on the senses. The result is a body of work that speaks to the very heart of what it means to be part of the environment around us. This work is drawn mostly from the landscape near his home in the Peak District.

"It’s essential for me to paint outside, as the main theme of the paintings is the experience of being in the landscape so all of the smaller paintings are completed on location. The atmosphere of the place is the real subject. I will often return to the same location many times, reworking paintings, until they start to give back some of the feeling I am looking for. Sounds and other sensations can also be very important in the work and sometimes the titles will refer to and these and are usually references to things which occur to me as I am painting.

I work using a mixture of watercolour, gouache and acrylic, using the different properties of each to build up a layered surface which can be worked into, scored and worked over. I think of the process of applying, removing and reapplying paint as similar to the way the landscape itself is laid down over time, eroded and rebuilt by natural forces.”

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