Taking inspiration from the beautiful Bell House gardens, Liz Charsley will lead a series of three outdoor drawing sessions.
Learn how to create, or improve upon your skills in, compositions from a natural environment. Learn new techniques in drawing media - pencil, charcoal, ink and watercolour. Liz will be on hand to guide and advise on the use of a different media at each session, so participants can either try something new or develop existing skills - feel free to bring your own favourite materials.
This course is open to all abilities.
The ticket gives you access to all three sessions where use of different media will be demonstrated each session. All materials will be provided, including paper and drawing boards.
Refreshments such as tea and coffee will be also provided during the sessions. There will be a short break halfway through each one.
Please bring your own stool or folding chair if you have one!
Should the weather deteriorate, we will take photos of these compositions and work indoors in a room with views of the garden.
A few sessions are available this Saturday and you can book a place for £20 using the code LASTSAT
About Liz Charsley:
Liz Charsley is an artist with a fondness for wild spaces. Born and raised in Canada, Liz has always spent as much time outdoors as possible. Moving to London upon completion of her BA in Fine Art, Liz has become familiar with most of the parks in South London, cycling through them and along the Thames, gathering ideas for drawings. Liz works on paper, using charcoal, oil pastel, ink, or watercolour to make large drawings of wild, unpopulated landscapes, or wildflowers and weeds. She has also produced hundreds of cyanotypes of weeds and grasses.
Liz was appointed Canadian Artist in Residence at Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2011, to support the exhibition Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, and stayed on as Teaching Artist until 2019. Liz led workshops in drawing and painting for children and adults, and now teaches 2 weekly classes for adults in her home in Herne Hill (and on Zoom since the beginning of Covid). Liz was also Artist in Residence 2018-2019 at Winton and Hugh Myddelton schools in Islington, teaching a different aspect of drawing to each class in the school throughout the year.
Ticket fee:
£60 for all three sessions, materials included.
Session One: Saturday 11th September 10am-12.30pm
Session Two: Saturday 18th September 10am-12.30pm
Session Three: Saturday 2nd October 10am-12.30pm
Use the code LASTSAT to book the class on Saturday 2nd October.
All three sessions take place in the garden of Bell House; 27 College Road, Dulwich SE21 7BG. Ticketing will be split 50:50 between Liz Charsley and Bell House
This event will be following government guidance on Covid-19 measures.
