2 Day Oil Painting Workshop
PLEASE NOTE: AS OF 16.45 ON 24TH JULY, 2026 THERE IS ONLY ONE PLACE LEFT ON THIS COURSE.
We will accept three people onto a waiting list. Please ask if you would like to be added to it.
Why use supermarket flowers when there are so many other options?
Flowers from supermarkets can be simple and beautiful. Sometimes, they come in a mixed bunch with unexpected colours that may not look great at first.
In this two-day workshop, we ask you to choose a bunch of supermarket flowers and your favourite vase.
Learn how to see the beauty in a bunch.
Sarah’s work is often about flowers, whether they are wildflowers, something from her garden, or bulbs in a bowl. This workshop focuses on mass-produced supermarket flowers, often overlooked.
With Sarah Spackman, you will create a painting that will transform these flowers into something special. Are you ready for the challenge?
Useful Information:
- Tutor, Sarah Spackman (www.sarahspackman.com)
- 1-2nd February, 2027
- Workshop from 10am to 4pm
- Mottisfont Village Hall, Romsey
SO51 0LX - £360/2day workshop
- Tea, coffee and a light lunch are included
- Plenty of parking available.
What to expect on ‘Supermarket Flowers’ workshop
Sarah Spackman is an experienced and sought after artist and tutor. There will be demonstrations to help students with the set exercises. Sarah keeps a close eye on everyone, helping where needed, and discussing the work. The class size is restricted.
A light lunch will be included both days. Please advise if you have any dietary requirements.
Day One
You will set up your flowers and look at composition possibilities, considering the light, the structure and the colour relationships.
Day Two
You will develop your painting in oil. This will focus on saying as much as you can about the specific flowers you have chosen, and the way they sit in the composition
Things to bring with you
You will need:
- 1 A3-ish primed board prepared for oil painting, with a spare just in case(!)
- a couple of pieces of oil painting paper
- Oil Colours:
- Titanium White
- Lemon yellow
- Cadmium yellow
- Cad yellow deep
- Yellow Ochre
- Cad red
- Alizarin crimson
- Viridian
- Cadmium green
- Cerulean blue
- Cobalt blue
- Ultramarine.
- Charcoal and paper for drawing
- a mix of brushes, plus a large brush though- around size 8
- a large palette for mixing,
- plenty of rags
- a bag for rubbish
- a jam jar for solvent( odour free such as zest)
Don’t forget the flowers and your favourite vase
Sarah Spackman RBA ROI
Sarah Spackman is a contemporary figurative artist particularly well known for her still life oil paintings. She works from a studio in Oxford that was once a punt building workshop.
Strength of drawing and the delicate and subtle use of colour are two of the main qualities recognised in her work. Her practise focuses on the principle that good drawing is the basis of good painting, that colour should be used to enhance the organisation and definition of observed space and form. Sarah works in a considered way, with close observation. Her paintings are quiet in their presence but nonetheless powerful and engaging to the viewer. These are paintings that take a close look at things around us, take the object out of the ordinary and make the viewer look again.
“If I see something I like, I wish to tell someone else; this…. is why I paint”
Patrick George 1923-2016
Sarah trained at Byam Shaw School of Art, London and graduated from Camberwell School of Art in 1981. She was elected as a member of the Royal Society of British Artists RBA in 2019, and a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters ROI, in 2022. She is also a member of the Small Paintings Group and the Oxford Art Society. Sarah’s work is in many private collections world wide as well as the collection of the Allied Irish Bank. Her work has also been selected for the Jerwood Drawing Competition , the NEAC, the ROI, the RBA and the Discerning Eye Exhibitions. Sarah exhibits regularly with several galleries throughout the UK.