Milton Keynes

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Art

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Painting

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Oil Painting

Oil Painting Class - Seascapes

Learn how to paint stunning beach scenes in oils.

Robin Souter Oil Painting

5.0 (9)

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3 hours

1 to 2 £50

Milton Keynes

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Art

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Painting

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Oil Painting

What you'll do

Do you love the beauty of the coast? Learn how to capture it on canvas in this painting class. Whether you're a beginner starting your journey into making art or you're an improver honing your skills, this oils class is perfect for you.

You'll be guided by talented artist Robin, a retired surgeon who fell in love with art and is now offering painting workshops from his 17th-century studio in the Westbury Arts Centre Milton Keynes. Following his mantra “you can’t make a mistake in oil painting”, you will transform a blank canvas into a gorgeous artwork with plenty of support.

Robin will guide you through the process of planning and executing your painting, including handling paint, media, and equipment. He will provide instruction on colour, mood, and structure and be available to share advice and encouragement in an intimate private class.

In between learning how to paint with oils, there will be lunch and tea breaks.

Knowledge required

Complete beginners to enthusiastic improvers.

What you'll get

Refreshments.
All materials and equipment needed apart from canvas to paint your seascape to take home.

What to bring

Just yourself and a canvas of your choice.

Location

Studio 28 - Westbury Arts Centre, Foxcovert Road, Shenley Wood, MK5 6AA

Your teacher

Robin Souter Oil Painting

5.0 (9)

A lifelong interest in art, partially dormant during my surgical career, has burgeoned over the last 15 years. I am now fully retired from my profession and have much more time to develop my art.

I took up my appointment as a consultant general surgeon in Milton Keynes in 1983 and helped to set up the department in a "green field" site hospital. My particular areas of interest then were vascular and malignant disease and latterly the treatment of breast disease and the management of short stay surgery, in particular abdominal herniae.

Over the last ten years with great help and encouragement from my friend Graham Morgan, I understand the craft of painting slightly better and as any artist will acknowledge, "I wish I had known this 40 years ago"! There is so much wisdom available which sometimes can be unintentionally counter-productive and block creativity. But, it's never too late and some of my work now gives me great pleasure.

I held a joint exhibition with Joe Little at the Westbury Arts Centre, and have previously exhibited in the Bedford Street gallery and in the AIM gallery in Milton Keynes - now sadly closed.

Most of my seascapes are based on the coastline of the Algarve, but also Norfolk, Wales and the Outer Hebrides. Wave forms hold particular fascination.