Wild Abundance - The Garden in Summer​
Tutor - Kittie Jones
​24th - 27th July 2023
9.30am - 3.30pm 
£340 inc VAT and materials

​​​Course full!  To join a waiting list, contact: enquiries@paintboxartclasses.com

​Kittie Jones is a fine artist based in Edinburgh.  She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University in 2008; she currently works from her studio at Coburg House Art Studios in Leith and regularly exhibits around the UK.  Kittie was elected as a professional member of the Society of Wildlife Artists in 2016 and has been a professional member of Visual Arts Scotland since 2013.  Kittie has won a number of awards for her work, most recently she was awarded the William J Macaulay / Scottish Gallery Award for her piece Gannets over the Atlantic at the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition 2021 and her monotype Feeding Curlew was awarded the RSPB Award at the Natural Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London in 2018. 

Website - https://kittiejones.com/
Instagram - @kittiejonesart

An exciting four days working from the gardens and allotments around Cockenzie House. The course will begin with looking at ways to gather information outdoors in sketchbooks and on loose paper. Initially working in monochrome, we will then move on to looking at the rich, bright colours of gardens in summer.
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Drawings made outdoors will be transformed into simple, painterly monotype prints back in the studio which will provide both an end in themselves and a number of lively, interesting surfaces to then take back outdoors and work onto using charcoal and coloured pastels. ​

Inspiration will be taken from the work of Degas, Joan Eardley, Duncan Shanks and Kim Atkinson among others. Students will finish the course with richly layered pieces combining drawn and printed marks in full colour.

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