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Missenden Abbey 

Gt Missenden, Buckinghamshire, HP16 OBD 

Tel: 01296 383582

Painting with Ros Cuthbert RWA

'An Introduction to Portrait Painting'

14th to 16th October 2011

For those wanting to try portraiture. Bring your preferred medium - oil, acrylic, pastel or watercolour. You will learn how to draw with the brush, develop a portrait, and make studies from life to create a likeness. This course will set you on the road to painting great portraits.

Resident: £306

Non-resident (course and lunch): £166

For more information contact details above.

Painting with David Cuthbert

'Cultivating Shape and Composing with Colour'

13th to 15th January 2012

Colour, surface, shape, the peculiarities of acrylic paint, paper, and second hand and raw materials will be cultivated and explored inventively in this exciting weekend of abstract painting. Each session will work through a different project with reference to varied artists such as Hans Hofmann, Richard Diebenkorn, and Prunella Clough.

Resident: £281

Non-resident (course and lunch): £141

Painting with Ros Cuthbert

'Introduction to Pastels'

27th to 29th January 2012

An introduction to pastels, covering aspects such as working on tinted paper, mark making, blending and layering. Ros will demonstrate and set short projects including simple still life, flower and landscape studies, giving one to one guidance to help you explore this lovely medium.  

Resident: £281

Non-resident (course and lunch): £141

Painting with Ros Cuthbert

'Painting with Pastels'

20th to 22nd April 2012

Develop your pastel painting techniques on this friendly and informative course. Explore the unique qualities of soft chalk pastel as a painting medium, its potential for fresh, rich or subtle colour, varied surface and edge qualities, and its ability to capture effects of light.  

Resident: £281

Non-resident (course and lunch): £141

Painting with David Cuthbert

'Abstract Painting with Oils'

4th to 6th May 2012

Oil paint has been used by artists for over five hundred years. During this course we will find new ways to use it. Its flexibility and richness makes it an ideal medium with which to experiment and cultivate new ways of making abstract paintings.  

Resident: £281

Non-resident (course and lunch): £141

For more information please see:

 http://arca.uk.net/missendenabbey/index.html   

Tel: 01296 383582,

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Dillington House

Ilminster Somerset TA19 9DT

Tel: 01460 258613.  

Painting with David Cuthbert

Re-Inventing the Still Life

Dinner Friday 15 – Lunch Sunday 17 November 2011

Still-life painting has a long history within Western art. In the twentieth century there was a complete renewal of the tradition. First Matisse and then the Cubists began to restructure the spaces, the colour and the composition of the humble life arrangement. During this weekend, in a number of short projects, we will draw and paint from the still-life in ways that are exploratory and imaginative. Bring the medium (or mediums) you prefer. All-comers welcome. 

Prices range from £256 resident, to £168 non-resident

dillington@somerset.gov.uk

www.dillington.com

Painting with David Cuthbert

Drawing Forth - Experimental & Exploratory Drawing

Dinner Friday 23 – Lunch Sunday 25 March 2012

This course will consist of short projects in which we will be exploring the expressive, structural and inventive possibilities of conventional and unconventional graphic media (pencils, crayons, marker pens, ink pens, quills, reed pens and other improvised mark making tools), on different supports – papers, card, newspaper, plastic etc. This course is ideally suited for those interested in pursuing a non-objective, ‘abstract’ approach to making art. All-comers welcome.

Prices range from £256 resident, to £168 non-resident

dillington@somerset.gov.uk

www.dillington.com

Art History with David Cuthbert

Dada, Reason and Unreason

Dinner Friday 18 – Lunch Sunday 20 May 2012

During the First World War angry young men and women, disgusted by the senseless slaughter in the trenches, invented Dada. The cities of Zurich, Cologne, Hanover, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona and New York each contributed widely different interpretations – from the gentle contemplative work of Jean (Hans) Arp and Sophie Taeuber, the confrontational imagery of George Grosz, the subversion of Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp to the elevation of humble materials in the collages of Kurt Schwitters and Hannah Höch. All-comers welcome.

Prices range from £256 resident, to £168 non-resident

dillington@somerset.gov.uk

www.dillington.com

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Art History with David Cuthbert

Grottesco, Gothick and Fantastic Art. R110915

Starting with Dinner Friday 30th September 

Finishing with Lunch Sunday 2nd October

This unusual weekend will be a marvellous tour of the strange by-ways of European art stopping by way of Hieronymus Bosch, the mysterious Monsù Desiderio, Salvator Rosa, Giambattista Piranesi, Henry Fuseli, John Martin, Ferdinand Cheval the postman, and many other eccentric imaginations.

from £130 to £194

Enquiries: Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm
Telephone: 01380 840 495
Fax: 01380 840 005

http://www.urchfontmanor.co.uk/index.php/contact-us