Finding Your Colour Voice - GLASGOW - May 2025

This weekend workshop is one of a series taking place at venues around the UK. All events have the same aim: to explore and strengthen personal experience of colour, both as an art medium and as a way of living in the moment.

Structured using the same principles, methods and mindsets, each date and location will offer something different to participants. Tangible and transient sources of inspiration will vary as the workshop moves from place to place. Local stories, artefacts, and vernacular environments will change, as will class dynamics, seasonal light and weather. Suitable for all levels of experience and ability.

DATE: Sat 3rd & Sun 4th May 2025.
TIME: 10am - 4pm each day.
VENUE: Mackintosh at the Willow (the Original Willow Tea Rooms Building),
215–217 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow, G2 3EX, UK.

WORKSHOP FOCUS: Mindful watercolour painting. This practical yet meditative studio-based workshop will lead you through the slow art of intuitive watercolour painting.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Introductory exercises on mindfulness and colour theory. Experimental mark making using traditional and novel methods of application. Exploring watercolour characteristics, such as opacity and granulation, and the effect different papers have on painted marks. Composing pictures, including: layout, abstraction, value, layering, colour palettes, proportion and interaction.

Art supplies and light refreshments will be provided. Please bring your own lunch (a café or supermarket is walking distance from all venues).

Supper at a restaurant in central Glasgow on the Saturday evening will be optional (not included in the workshop price). Tansy will communicate with you via email about this sociable extra nearer the time.

Any questions? Please email [email protected].