Beginners Painting: - Landscapes (WOR25T024)

Arts and Crafts

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Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Wednesday, 24 September 2025

End date: Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Number of weeks: 5

Time: 10:00 - 12:00

Tutor: Wendy Kirwood

Venue: Helena Thompson Museum
Venue address: Park End Road, Workington, Cumbria. CA14 4DE

Full fee: £65.00
Concessionary fee: £32.50
Staff fee: £55.25

About the course:

This course will introduce you to the art of landscape painting. We will explore various media, techniques, and tools to build your confidence in being able to produce your own fantastic landscape paintings. We’ll experiment with composition, perspective, colour, line and expressive mark making to create mood, depth, and atmosphere. You’ll learn about makes a beautiful landscape painting and discover how different artists have painted landscapes to communicate their ways of seeing. Along the way, you’ll produce your own paintings that are inspired by your experience of the landscape.

How will the course be delivered?

This practical course will be delivered in person by practising landscape artist Wendy Kirwood. Wendy actively produces and exhibits her paintings in Cumbria and around the UK. She primarily paints using acrylics on wood panel, however, has used various media and mixed media to produce her work. Wendy will encourage you to try various techniques and have fun while experimenting with different media to build your confidence as an artist. She’ll introduce you to the celebrated Cumbrian landscape painters Percy Kelly and Sheila Fell as well as many others to help inspire you.

What do I need to bring?

Please bring your own set of paints (preferably acrylics) if you have them (a basic set including the primary colours, black and white will be fine) along with a selection of brushes. You’ll also need an A4 cartridge sketch pad, sketching pencils (e.g., HB, 2B, 4B), a rubber, sharpener, some kitchen towel and a set of coloured pencils if you have them. Please bring a laptop/tablet, your phone and any photographs you may wish to use as inspiration (these could be printed or saved onto your phone or laptop). We will be using the internet as a tool for research. Please also feel free to bring a drink with you.

What are the entry requirements?

No previous experience is required, just an interest in learning how to create landscapes

What can I do next?

We offer many other arts workshops and courses throughout the county both face to face and via Zoom. Your tutor will tell you about other courses that are offered in your area.

How well am I doing?

Your tutor will tell you how you are doing in your lessons and your progress will be recorded in your Individual Progress Record. You will work with your tutor to identify any areas that you want to improve, and your tutor will support you to achieve your goals.

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Enquiries

Centre: Workington Adult Learning
Contact number: 01900 706023
Email address: workingtonadultlearning@cumberland.gov.uk