Finding Your Colour Voice - OXFORD - Feb 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, stimulating unique responses to Tansy’s input, which will be tailored to each venue. Suitable for all levels of experience and ability.

DATE: Sat 8th and Sun 9th February 2025.
TIME: 10am - 4pm each day.
VENUE: The Community Works, 21 Park End St, Oxford OX1 1HH, UK.

INSPIRATIONAL VISIT: Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2PH, UK. We will visit the museum during day 1 of the workshop (no entry fee, but a £5 donation is included in the workshop fee).

On Day 1 we will start at The Community Works then transfer to the museum (10 minute walk) during the day. On Day 2, we will remain at The Community Works all day, immersing ourselves in slow painting as we respond to notes and sketches made on Day 1.

WORKSHOP FOCUS: The overarching aim of the weekend is to explore your personal response to different colour palettes. At the Ashmolean, you will explore galleries (freely or with suggestions from Tansy) hunting for and recording combinations of colour that evoke a response in you. Your interest may lie purely in colour, or you may find that cultural, historic and material differences in exhibits are impossible to detach from their colour. During the Ashmolean visit you will observe, analyse and make notes (visual and written) on a variety of colour palettes and other usages of colour. These will be used as starting points for mindful watercolour painting during Day 2.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Mixed media sketching and annotation (dry materials only on Day 1 in galleries) and watercolour (in the studio on Day 2).

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 Oxford on the Saturday evening will be an optional extra (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].