This two day course will encourage you to develop a broad brush and expressive approach to painting the landscape. It will start in the studio with rapid painted sketches of landscape, seascapes and figures in the environment. Phil will encourage and guide you to develop dynamic mark making, to simplify forms and surface, to portray the essentials of the landscape. Composition, colour, tone and technique will be explored to enable considered and well designed compositions to be achieved. You will be using a variety of surfaces and a wide range of brushes, and weather permitting, potentially some study time out of the studio from life.

Phil studied Fine Art Painting receiving his Bachelor of Arts from Manchester University before undertaking Postgraduate study in the History of Art at Birmingham University. He worked as County Art Adviser for Devon until 2011. He is now a full-time painter and tutor living in East Devon. Recent exhibitions include The Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter; The Royal Society of Marine
Artists at The Mall Gallery, London; The Penwith, St Ives; Falmouth Art Gallery and The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. Phil is previous Chair of The South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts where he is an honorary academician and he is President of Otter Vale Art Society (OVAS). Phil’s painting explores the landscapes and seascapes of the southwest of England, particularly in Devon and the East Coast of America. He often paints en plein air, on the beach or in the landscape, Phil also undertakes his acrylic, gouache and larger oil paintings in his recently converted home studio. The artists he admires most include Fred Cuming, Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper and the English greats JMW Turner and John Constable.

MAXIMUM OF 10 STUDENTS 

More information & materials list will be provided once a booking has been placed, or please contact South West Art, Sidmouth on 01395 514717 or email info@southwestartmaterials.co.uk