Ivon Hitchens' Winter Garden
5 Week Course

Fridays 9.30am - 3pm
13th, 20th, 27th  Jan & 3rd, 10th Feb 2023

Tutor - Esther Donaldson
£380

​Fully booked!  Please contact:  enquiries@paintboxartclasses.com to be added to a waiting list.

Since graduating from Edinburgh College of art in 1993, Esther has exhibited and sold work regularly in galleries across Britain, including the RSA, SSA the RSW, the RBA, Mall Galleries and most recently in the Royal Academy summer exhibition, London, where her work was selected to be in the Academician’s favourites list.  She was  elected as a professional member of the Society of Scottish Artists in 2018.

She was awarded the ‘House for an Art Lover Award’ in the RSW at the RSA in 2018 and has received a VACM Award from East Lothian Council in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Her portrait paining 'Yellow Top' was awarded the 'Winsor Newton Award' at the Royal Watercolour Society at the Bankside Gallery, London.

Website - www.estherdonaldson.com
Instagram - @estherdonaldsonart

This 5 Week course will focus on capturing the essence of the winter garden with the low winter light.  Taking inspiration from the works of acclaimed painter Ivon Hitchens , we will consider the space, light and colour, unique to the wintery garden world.   

Exploring the colour, form and semi abstraction, we will venture into the studio garden to gather information before returning to the studio with our findings in order to begin making a series of mixed media pieces that explore the bold simplicity of his works, while emphasising your own artistic language.