This is part of the Painting Strategies 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 February, 2026
- 10.00- 4.00
- £90/day
- At Mottisfont Village Hall
- Suitable for intermediate students
- Please bring your own lunch
What To Expect, Still Life, Taking a Long View
The day will start with drawing exercises followed by a brief discussion about still live.
What is ‘a long view’? Is it distance through time, or space? There will be exercises to explore different ideas about ‘a long view’. You will come up with a plan for the day, what you are going to explore and how you are going to start. Kate will help, discuss your plans with you and make suggestions where appropriate
You will be drawing and planning in the morning, and working with colour (or not colour) into the afternoon. The end results may not be finished entirely, but you will have taken a playful step into a new way to approach for all your work, not just still life.
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 materials.
Other workshops in the Painting Strategies series: