ONE of Central England’s foremost artists will be inspiring painters at a workshop run by the Leek School of Art this summer.
Lewis Noble, whose landscape paintings are in public and private collections across the UK, Europe, North America, Australia and Asia, will be helping amateur artists capture the beauty of the Staffordshire Moorlands on a three-day course running from July 18 to 20.
The daily sessions, which will run from 9.30 am until 4pm, will include drawing and sketching out in the Staffordshire countryside followed by work back in the new studios – known as the William Morris Building – at the School of Art in Stockwell Street, Leek. Art tutor Anne-Lise Fraser said: “The course is suitable for all abilities and the workshops are designed to provide a solid working practice that will help students to develop as artists and allow them to see new possibilities in their work by removing the preciousness that can so often stifle a painting.”
Lewis likes his students to experience the subject of their art by taking them out into the countryside to sketch what they see later fine tuning the sketches by adding colour and texture under his watchful eye.
The three-day course costs £300 including lunch, refreshments throughout the day, some materials and minibus transport into the spectacular scenery of the Staffordshire Moorlands.
For more information or to book a place, contact Buxton & Leek College on 0800 074 0099 or email enquiries@blc.ac.uk