Teaching and Workshops

As Fine Art lecturer I teach on the BA Hons Painting, Drawing & Printmaking course at Carmarthen School of Art, West Wales. I have also lectured Fine Art Painting, Drawing and Digital & Lens Based Media at Bradford College, University of Salford, UWIC and University of Plymouth. I have run various workshops alongside my painting practice in fresco and natural painting processes since 2011, and also tutor privately for fine art portfolio development for pre-foundation and degree students

Recent workshops ‘Painting with Nature’ and ‘Drawing with Nature’ have been at Craft in the Bay, Cardiff, exploring the use of raw pigments, natural chalk gesso, egg tempera and natural inks, relating to Ancient Palette, Precious Earth, and to Nature’s materials that can be harvested, found, or re-purposed

Workshops in Fresco, Gesso, Egg Tempera and Drawing

Workshops in traditional materials in painting and drawing for artists and makers - with a focus on materiality and environmental sustainability.
Introduction and hands on experience using natural raw materials from ancient to renaissance times that resonate with current environmental needs.

Exploring the unique qualities intrinsic to the materials of colour, light and line, ideas around harvesting, gathering and re-purposing through working with traditional chalk gesso grounds, oak gall and acorn inks, using silverpoint and local willow charcoal / fresco using sands, lime putty and raw earth pigments / egg tempera and natural chalk gesso