Finding Your Colour Voice - PEAK DISTRICT - Aug 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 2nd & Sun 3rd August 2025.
TIME: 10am - 4pm each day.
VENUE: Tideswell Community Hall, Church Ln, Tideswell, Buxton, SK17 8PD, UK.

INSPIRATIONAL VISITS: 1. Tideswell Dale*, local nature reserve featuring outcrops of limestone and basalt, an abundance of wildflowers, and ancient ash and elm woodland. 2. Tideswell Church, known as the “Cathedral of the Peak” due to its size and splendour, 14th-century church featuring stone and wood carvings and stained glass.

*Weather permitting (if rain stops play, we will work from still life arrangements of local materials in the studio).

WORKSHOP FOCUS: Mindful watercolour painting in response to environmentally sourced colour palettes and abstracted compositions.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Mixed media thumbnail sketching on location (including methods for recording colour palettes). Exploring watercolour characteristics, such as opacity and granulation, and the effect different papers have on painted marks. Experimenting with composition. Mindful watercolour painting.

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 Tideswell 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].