Art East Anglia
Art East Anglia provide courses in Norfolk. Our courses explore subjects such as portrait painting, printmaking, Plein Air landscape and drawing. We host art classes, short painting courses and workshops.
Our tutors include Andrew James RP, Ian Rowlands, Tom Stevenson ROI, Claire Haward NEAC, Patrick Byrnes, Mark Chen, Anastasia Pollard RP, Adele Wagstaff, Julia Hawkins, .
Character and Mood in Portrait Drawing
Julia Hawkins
22nd 23rd March 2025 Drawing
Drawing a live model has always been and remains one of the most difficult subjects for artists, since in a portrait it is important not only to reflect the anatomical features of the sitter, but also to convey individual character and mood. The path to successful portrait drawing lies through mastering the basic aspects of the work and the artistic and emotional development of the student himself.
Over the course of two days, artists will examine the anatomy of the human head and shoulder girdle, the laws of composition in the selected format. Artists will also discuss common mistakes in drawing and how to overcome them, they will also be using a clear sequence of working with the live model. In addition to the theoretical and practical parts which will include tutor’s demonstrations, original examples of students work from the teacher’s personal collection will be shown.
In two full days, artists will be able to create a longer analytical pencil drawing and a shorter tonal drawing on coloured paper using charcoal.
£230 Hindolveston NR20 5DD
All Levels
FULLY BOOKED
Tone and Temperature
Claire Haward 3 Days
12th 13th 14th April 2025 Oil Painting
An intermediate/advanced three day still life oil painting workshop in which we will explore working with 'tone' and 'temperature', working from a series of 'neutral' compositions. We will look at how tone can be used to create light, drama, contrast or subtlety, how the addition of colour leads us to ask questions about 'temperature'. Clare will introduce a series of exercises working with limited palettes and complementary colours to help you to tune into the tonal relationships within your compositions and experiment with how temperature can alter the light or atmosphere.
£240 Hindolveston NR20 5DD
Intermediate/Advanced
FULLY BOOKED
Making oil paint and developing a painting
Ian Rowlands
17th 18th May 2025 Painting
This course focuses on the key underpinnings of painting, which are: drawing, composition, tone and colour, but also the role that materials can play. During day 1 students will learn how hand ground oil colour is prepared fostering an understanding of how oils work. There will also be the opportunity to experiment with various painting mediums.
Day 2 Students will use the paint created, along with their standard palette of colour, to develop a painting either from their sketchbooks or from a still life.
Materials for making one tube of oil colour and a range of mediums included in course price.
£200 Hindolveston NR20 5DD
Intermediate/Advanced
Portrait Drawing - Dynamic Charcoal
Mark Chen
24th 25th May 2025 Drawing
This course will focus on developing the ability to depict the structure and proportion of a portrait in an dynamic way using charcoal. We will explore composition, rhythm and experiment with a range of drawing materials, such as charcoal pencil, willow charcoal and liquid charcoal toner. There will be demonstrations at the beginning of each session with a compositional study on the first day and a long continuing pose for the rest of the course.
£240 Hindolveston NR20 5DD
Intermediate/Advanced
Three Day - Painting Plein Air Landscapes in Oils
Tom Stevenson 3 Days
27th, 28th, 29th June 2025
Painting outside and working from life is both an exciting and challenging experience. The feeling of finding a subject and getting to work, creating a painting on the spot is hard to beat, and these paintings often have a feeling of originality and freshness it is hard to replicate.
Over three days this practical course will cover a range of aspects of working outside, including kit, materials, colour, tone, drawing and techniques for working fast to respond to changing light and weather.
£290 Wells Next The Sea, Morston.
Intermediate/Advanced
FULLY BOOKED
Intermediate/Advanced
Portrait Painting Masterclass with Demonstrations
Anastasia Pollard RP Oil Painting
5th, 6th, 7th July 2024
A three day portrait painting Masterclass where we will work on one portrait from start to finish through a highly structured approach. The focus will be on how to achieve likeness through drawing with paint, careful observation of the flow of light and how it reveals form and precision with colour mixing. There will be both demonstrations of both portrait painting and colour mixing.
£290 Hindolveston NR20 5DD
Life Painting in Oils
Adele Wagstaff 3 Days
12th 13th 14th July 2025
This course will cover all aspects of making a well composed painting of the nude, from drawing to setting up, colour-mixing, and exploring how tone and colour temperature can be explored to describe the structure, shape, form and anatomy of the human body.
Our model will hold one sustained pose throughout the three days.
Through drawing, and the making of a small-scale tonal study participants will begin to refine their ideas of composition during day one, before beginning to work on a painting using the extended palette on days two and three. We will introduce basic colour theory, mixing and laying-out a palette. There will be one-to-one tuition throughout the two days, alongside group feedback as we look at how all the paintings are progressing, and the course will end with a group discussion as we look at each others’ work.
£ 230 Hindolveston NR20 5DD
Intermediate/Advanced
Portrait Painting In Oils
Andrew James RP NEAC
19th 20th July 2025
This intensive portrait painting workshop is for a small group of students, allowing time for personal guidance to develop individual’s skills in accordance to their ability. The course is built around aspects of expressive portraiture. Disciplined observational work will be pursued whilst looking to simultaneously develop the formal qualities of oil paint in order for it to become a more explicitly descriptive medium.
£240 Hindolveston NR20 5DD
Intermediate/Advanced
FULLY BOOKED
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Perceptions & Senses
Suzon Lagarde
6th, 7th, 8th September 2025
A 3-day workshop for beginners and advanced artists, curious to question how we see, and therefore how we paint. Painting life? Painting reality? Sounds like a beautiful yet impossible quest - how could one ever grasp on a flat surface, through fixed colours and shapes, an experience that is of multiple dimensions, woven through the senses, referencing an outer world as much as one’s inner consciousness? And yet, astounding paintings have been created - some that feel just right. What is it then? Those paintings which managed to go beyond representation. Visual poems which move away from what we see and believe to know, connecting us instead with the mystery of our felt experience. It’s our chance to get curious about those fleeting and singular experiences, always with us yet most of the time over-looked and replaced by projections.
If you too feel curious, let’s get together for this 3-day workshop, dive into the here and now…and see if we can paint it! Through a range of playful and ambitious exercises, we’ll put our habits to the side for a moment (or forever!), observing anew, getting intrigued by how our vision works, how our inner mental world works, and explore ways to challenge our senses. Expect to paint a lot, and above all to feel a lot. Working in a group will offer us the chance to discuss our varied experiences and get inspired by one another. The exercises we will have explored together will be in our artist tool box for life, whether with a brush in hand or just sitting on a bench, observing the world anew.
This course includes working from a model on day 3.
£220 Hindolveston NR20 5DD
All Levels
Portrait Sketch En Trois Crayons
Patrick Byrnes
11th 12th October 2025
In this two-day workshop artists will a portrait drawing from the live model using the technique of trois crayons: red, black, and white dry media on paper. Dating to the Renaissance and continuing in popularity today, trois crayons has been exploited to masterful effect by artists such as Parmigianino, Rubens, Boucher, Watteau, and more recently Anthony Ryder and Robert Liberace. Typically, black is used for the construction lines, shadows, and cold tones, red for the warm tones, and white for the highlights. Instruction will include a comprehensive demonstration from start to finish, as well as in-depth personal critiques with a particular focus on cultivating an organized, rational process. Two distinct steps will be emphasized throughout: building an
accurate linear block-in, then interpreting values, hues, and chromas to effectively to create a sense of sculptural form and a strong aesthetic point of view. Cranial anatomy, color theory, materials, line quality, resolution/abbreviation, edges, and the physics of light will also be discussed throughout the course. Beginning to advanced artists are welcome; instruction will be customized to all levels of experience.
£270 Hindolveston NR20 5DD