Part of the Painting Strategy Series
Start the new year with a fresh take on painting. Kate Measham’s workshops are designed to shake things up a bit. We ALL get set in our ways.
These days will encourage you to take risks, to play, and to enjoy the process rather than focussing on an answer. Doing a still life is not an easy way out, not “I’m just doing a still life”. This is not how we view it. We think it as a vehicle to explore composition and why we paint and draw. It is just the beginning.
- Tutor, Kate Measham
- 9th March, 2026
- 10.00- 4.00
- £90/day
- At Mottisfont Village Hall
- Suitable for intermediate students
- Please bring your own lunch
What to Expect on Starting Somewhere Else
The day will start with drawing exercises followed by a brief discussion about still live. The name of the workshop is based on the old joke:
- How do I get to the seaside?
- Well, I wouldn’t start from here.
How to start somewhere else involves looking elsewhere. This might be inspiration from other artists, from poets, films, walking down the street, junk shops, or from somewhere entirely different. It might be changing your palette, your methods, or all sorts of other options. This is looking for help, and research.
On this course you will be thinking about other artists and how they have interpreted still lifes.
Materials
Please bring materials you are happy using. There must an element of colour (paint, ink, whatever) and drawing materials. You need a pad or sketchbook for taking notes, sketching and thinking. A few bits of large (A2) paper to draw on and a surface that can take colour (canvas, primed paper etc).
Please make sure you have relevant brushes, solvent, erasers, jam jars, apron, rubbish bag, newspaper.
I will provide still life, and inspirational materials.
Other workshops in the Painting Strategy Series:
Taking the Long View, Still Life 2026
Why Is Still Life so Square? Still Life 2026