UK and international award-winning artist
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Art Holidays and short breaks
Robert is an experienced art tutor with an energetic style of teaching and encourages students to have as many first hand experiences as possible directly in the landscape. Connecting with and experiencing the landscape, really looking and engage with the this most compelling of subjects, students have an enriched learning experience.
Throughout all of Robert's art holidays and short breaks, students confidence grows to new heights. Exciting demonstrations, group and one to one tuition ensure students creative boundaries are extended through relaxed, patient, professional and informative tuition. Helping students move forward with their own artistic direction rather than dictating a particular style is what Robert's art holidays and short breaks are all about.
His wealth of creative experience and knowledge of different media in practice has been recognised by leading art brands. Robert is a highly acclaimed demonstrator and Associate Artist for ‘Derwent’ and ‘Nitram Charcoal’, a UK Ambassador for Canson and works closely with leading art brand Royal Talens from Holland. What is new, exciting and beneficial to creatively use, Robert’s students are the first to find out about and experience for themselves!
Future and current art holidays with renowned holiday and adult education organisations in The Lake District National Park, The Yorkshire Dales and North Yorkshire, Northumberland are featured below.
NEW FOR JULY 2025 - Art Retreat at ‘Well House Haven’, Stean, Nidderdale
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Well House Haven, Stean, Nidderdale
Are you an artist looking for real creative enrichment within your practice?
Do you want to be immersed in painting and be free from distractions and be really stimulating and inspired?
Are you the adventurous type who has a good level of painting and drawing experiences but wants to move up to the next level?
Do you welcome opportunities to be immersed in landscape (whatever the weather) painting and drawing and being enriched by it?
If this is you, read on!
New for 2025 is a fabulous 3 night ‘get away from it all’ art retreat at Well House Haven in the village of Stean deep in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire - a wonderful location in a designated area of outstanding natural beauty AONB. that will definitely inspire!
Suitable for artists with intermediate and above painting and drawing skills who want to develop their creative skills in a unique, exciting and enriching way, this brand new short course for Summer 2025 could be just what you are looking for!
Last 3 places remaining only!
NOVEMBER 2025 - Constructing and deconstructing landscape - Mixed media semi abstract - Higham Hall
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Higham Hall, Cumbria
Studio based semi abstract /abstract course to landscape using acrylic inks, acrylic paints, acrylic auxiliaries and mediums together with soft oil pastels and different drawing media (coloured pencils and graphite), aimed at artists experienced and intermediate level artists in practice who want much less representational aspects in their painting style and who want to become much more abstract/semi-abstract in their landscape painting approach.
Sorry, the course is NOT suitable for beginners as techniques taught are likely to be too advanced and I dont want you to be out of your depth, despite your keenness to learn.
On the course we will be using different visual reference material from a number of sources (YOUR OWN sketches, photographs, drawings and so on) with a semi abstract and a leaning towards more abstract and exploritory direction throughout the week. The exciting techniques you will learn and put into practice yourself provide the perfect creative techniques for your own personal creative development after the course too.