Christmas Workshops

I love getting festive and exploring winter botanicals and wildlife in my Winter Wreaths and Christmas Cards workshops! We begin the sessions by practising with watercolour and pens to create various Christmas themed elements that we’d then use in our final projects.

The Winter Wreaths class is all about creating your own wreath with holly, ivy, mistletoe, berries, pinecones and oranges. In the Christmas Card workshops you’ll design your own collection of greeting cards on blanks, ready to send to loved ones!

I’ve taught my Winter Workshops at:

  • The Lunch Lounge, Southampton

  • Masterpeace Studio, London

  • The River Rat, Hamble

Wildlife Workshops

For more relaxed and self-led workshops, I teach Wildlife Illustration which begins with a watercolour demonstration, followed by an open session where attendees can either follow my step-by-steps for a badger, fox or moth - or choose their own adventure! I’m on hand to guide each attendee with technique help and ideas for their illustrations. This is a great workshop for groups of friends who want to catch up, as there are less ‘follow this step!’ demonstrations from myself, or experienced painters who want to unwind in a lovely venue with a drink and enjoy a quiet session of creativity.

I’ve taught this workshop at the following venues:

  • Overdraft Southampton

  • John Lewis, Southampton

John Lewis

I had the pleasure of running a pop-up shop in John Lewis, Southampton for a week where I displayed and sold my products and hosted a different workshop each evening. Attendees joined me in the West Quay store for an hour of relaxing watercolour painting.

God's House Tower Museum

I was invited by God’s House Tower Museum to write and host a series of workshops in their wonderful historic venue in Southampton. As the classes were to be held in October, I wrote a 4 lesson course in Autumnal Illustration covering: Autumnal Botanicals, Badgers, Foxes and Toadstools

MasterPeace Studios

I’ve worked with London based MasterPeace Studio as one of their Art Instructors for their virtual classes. I’ve also designed and taught seasonal masterclasses in their Belgravia studios.

Masterclasses included:

  • Fresh flowers in watercolour

  • Easter Bunny

  • Illustrated Christmas Cards

Pet Portraits

I absolutely love teaching this class! I’ve composed the Pet Portrait Masterclass to be a nice, long session where we explore how to use a lightbox to trace photographs, use watercolour paints to create textures and gouache paints to apply dainty details. I really enjoy getting to know the pets and helping attendees capture their likeness!

I have taught this class at the following venues:

  • The Sorting Office Studios, Eastleigh

  • The d.@rt Centre at Wildern School, Hedge End

  • The River Rat, Hamble