Mixed Media Expressive Painting Holiday in The Lake District
Lake District
| Robert Dutton
A stunning location situated in 34 acres of woodland, Rydal Hall offers creative inspirational views all year round with such beautiful landscape on the doorstep and also within the wonderful grounds themselves - perfect for our exciting mixed media residential art holiday in the heart of The Lake District!
Introduction
The superb picturesque and dramatic local landscape close to Rydal Hall is both ideal and popular with art students who are looking to develop their style in a beautiful and stunning part of the Lake District wishing to develop a looser more contemporary style.
As a popular, energetic and encouraging art tutor Robert will help you to develop your art skills and your own personal style in lots of new and exciting ways using different media. Painting both in the spacious barn studio at Rydal Hall and painting directly in the landscape (wether permitting), this exciting outdoor and studio art holiday is the perfect combination for students who want to further develop their painting and drawing skills to new and exciting levels of expertise.Sorry, course not for beginners as art techniques are too advanced. The art holiday is aimed at artists with some previous experience who are seeking a more expressive looser approach with their work.
Overview
Robert Dutton
Tutor
Robert Dutton
Robert Dutton is quickly becoming one of the UK’s best known and respected contemporary fine artists... read on
Robert Dutton is quickly becoming one of the UK’s best known and respected contemporary fine artists.
Robert has a 30 year track record of professional creative activity, to include an extensive career as a professional Graphic Designer and Illustrator, working for many blue chip and leading financial companies such as KPMG and PwC.
Due to the demand for his popular painting style and tuition, Robert now works as a self employed fine artist and tutor, winning regular fine art awards for his distinctive and expressive style of work in numerous international competitions.
In 2014, Robert was proud to be represented by Nitram Charcoal (from Canada) at ‘Art World International’ in Frankfurt, where his work received much critical acclaim and exhibition sell out.
Robert is a very popular training partner for several leading UK art businesses and art holiday companies throughout the UK, to include Higham Hall and Rydal Hall in the Lake District, Parcevall Hall in North Yorkshire and Cober Hill near Scarborough on the Heritage Coast of East Yorkshire with a great student following.
As a leading Canson Ambassador in the UK for the world leading paper manufacturer in France, he regularly teaches workshops at several leading art events promoting their popular ine art papers at many different prestigious events to include ‘Patchings Art, Craft and Photography Festival near Nottingham, ‘Art Materials Live’ at Birmingham NEC, amongst others.
He exhibits throughout the UK with a wide range of prestigious galleries (to include the Mall Galleries and Royal Academy) to keen and receptive audiences. His work can also be found in numerous public and private collections throughout the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America.
Outlook
Robert is a Leeds based artist having settled in West Yorkshire and living in the county for over 22 years. He has travelled extensively in search of overseas subjects (to include the South of France, Venice and New York), which he captures with strong visual colourful presence and a modern impressionistic style. However, it is without doubt that it is his beloved Pennine moors and Dales landscapes and hidden corners along the UK coast which are his main creative inspirations.
Expressing these delicate fragile landscapes with a rich use of painting materials has led Robert to often combine media together to both ‘draw and paint’ within any given painting at one time. Subsequently, each expressive finished painting becomes a tangible sensual response to his subject - with eye catching surface textures and passages of paint hovering in balance between spontaneity, calculation and control.
Other aspects of Robert’s award winning fine art is concerned with depicting wildlife in the context within its native habitat, to look beyond an expected close up and to reveal something new, unseen, or previously unappreciated perhaps by the viewer and an expression of how it felt to be there.
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What is included?
What you need to bring
Watercolour, gouache in your own favourite colours. Tube paints please. Pans are too small Acrylic inks (any brand in your own favourite colours) - optional but recommended Soft and hard pastels. Highly recommended Unisoncolour and Royal Talens Rembrandt. Cheeper brands are dusty and don't have good pigmentation so a few pro. brands are better than a bag of cheep ones Fixative any brand NOT HAIRSPRAY! Canson Mi-Teintes 'Touch' 350gsm pastel paper or similar. NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH CANSON MI-TEINTES 170gsm paper which is too thin and has the wrong surface texture Canson Moulin du Roy 300gsm (140LB) 'not' watercolour paper highly recommended Metal easel and drawing board (at a size you wish to work too) A mixture of different size brushes - the larger the better. Boots, raincoat, hat, gloves etc A flask A small lightweight stool if you prefer to sit when painting outdoors A small backpack to fit everything in Bulldog clips to secure your work to the board - especially usefull for outdoors Lightweight water mixing pot, large watercolour palette Mixing jars for studio painting days Masking fluid and an old brush or two to apply it with Notebook and camera Your own favourite sketching media (your choice) but highly recommended is Nitram Charcoal, graphite sticks, black and white acrylic inks An eraser Kitchen roll and wet wipes Further information A lesson plan with a full recommended list of art materials will be provided for you upon booking but if in doubt about your level of artistic ability for the course or if you need to discuss your art materials needed in any detail please contact Robert directly to discuss on 0113 2252481 or email rdcreative@ntlworld.com
How to book
Office hours 09:00 to 17:00
Location
Rydal Hall Ambleside LA22 9LXwww.rydalhall.org
Costs
Full board to include accommodation - £565.00
£120pp addition for superior room - £600.00
Resident Non painter - £490.00
Non resident painter £230 (+ £50 per day for lunch, dinner and tray bakes am/pm but NOT breakfast) - £280.00
Any questions?
We are always happy to help!
Robert Dutton
painting,
mixed media
565 EUR
