“Sense of Place | Abstract Landscape Painting with Orla Stevens
Workshop Dates:
8th & 9th March 2025
Workshop Description:
Join artist Orla Stevens in a two-day abstract landscape workshop, exploring landscapes from both visual and emotional references, through mixed media processes.
The aim of these two days is to make time and space for creative play, experimentation, and to share ideas, processes and techniques that help you find:
- ways to explore abstraction
- ways to bring more personal connection and self expression to your art
- ways to be more playful, improvise, feel loose and free in your painting
- confidence to play and experiment with a wide range of materials
- ways to reflect your experiences of nature and landscape
-
develop your own creative voice
The focus of these two-day workshops is on painting loosely, exploring new processes and creative play over creating final resolved paintings.
The ideas we explore together are to help you find freedom and personal expression in your art, and to help explore your own creative voice and connections to nature and landscape. This workshop is for you if you’re looking for ways to paint loosely and expressively.
The workshop is open to all stages of artist, from complete beginner and up.
Limited to 6 places per day
Workshop times: 10 - 4pm (lunch break 1 - 2pm)
One day ticket: £110
Full Weekend ticket: £200
Inc. materials & light refreshments
(Cafes and shops nearby to get lunch)
Day one takes inspiration from visual references: Exploring how to abstract a landscape through play. We will be working from personal reference imagery, memories and sketches to create paintings and drawings that directly reference landscape.
Day two will focus on the emotive side of landscape: painting how places feel, by focusing on our own inner worlds - working from personal experience, memory, words and emotion to translate through mark, texture, line and colour.
In the afternoon of day 2 we will get the chance to combine these ideas explored across 2 days in a painting, to blend seen and felt responses of landscape and inner worlds together.
About the Artist
Orla Stevens is an artist & illustrator exploring landscape & the natural world.
Alongside her own art practice she runs ‘The Outdoor Sketchbook Collective’ - an online community of workshops and tutorials to encourage time and space for creative play and connection to nature, ourselves and a creative community of artists around the world.
Find Orla’s work at:
