Hi Everyone, 
Covid Update:
Our painting workshops will now move to an on-line platform via zoom or be rescheduled to 2021.

We are updating information as quickly as possible. If you are currently registered for a workshop we will be in touch soon. Thank you!
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GREG HARGREAVES

ABSTRACTING THE LANDSCAPE:  NATURE RE-IMAGINED
This fantastic workshop is currently being filmed and will be released soon!  Sign up below to receive advance notice! 
​​Join us for this fun, paint-filled week and learn Greg’s unique approach to intuitive landscape painting. 

No matter what level of abstraction you prefer, recognizable subject matter or pure abstraction,  this workshop has been designed to help you find your way.

​Greg will share with you the fundamental foundations of all his paintings, his four key pillars of success: Composition, Colour, Texture and Stroke.  
With an emphasis on FUN, your goal will be to make each painting different and or more satisfying than the previous one. 

​With just a few key elements to remember and no "recipes" to follow, you just need to stay open to play and to delight in the randomness of nature and your imagination. 
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You’ll use unconventional painting tools and will begin to view each of them as an opportunity. ​

It is exhilarating to let go of control and learn to respond to your mark making, letting the paint lead the way.
Through experimentation you will become aware of the mark and learn how to utilize it in translating the landscape.  

​We’ll play with opposites; warm & cool, thick & thin, textured & smooth,  light & dark, neutrals & brights and many more.

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​While always looking to nature as our inspiration,  we’ll be making it all up in this workshop.   No reference images needed! 

We won't be looking to the old masters, or hitting the books but will instead begin to flex our intuition muscle, learn to trust our feelings and allow them to guide our decisions.

​Greg will present inspiring demonstrations along with a few invaluable step-by-step power-point presentations of his process from beginning through completion.

You will see his finished paintings and the stages each one of them went through.  Such a great learning tool!

Throughout the week, you’ll be given a few assignments to help keep you focused along with tons of painting time.  There'll be  lots of one-on-one time with Greg along with a constructive critique or two sprinkled in.
Greg holds nothing back and with his guidance and your hands-on practice you’ll learn how to incorporate all four of Greg's key pillars of success into your own work too!

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​By the end of the week, you will have discovered the delight in painting and experienced the true joy of creating. 

​As Greg likes to put it:   Painting for the sheer fun of it!  
Medium:  Acrylic 
​Level: All Levels 
Further announcements coming soon!
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