“Colour is not a physical reality; it is the reality of what is in the painter’s mind” Henri Matisse.

To begin with, an objective approach will be encouraged where participants will take care to work observationally, building up a knowledge of the head and how to create a likeness of the sitter on a large scale.

As the workshop progresses, a more passionate and individually expressive approach to painting will be developed. This will happen naturally as students use the oil paint more and more vigorously as an unrestrained record of their own process. Colour, composition, mark-making, texture, and viscosity, will be looked at, as well as a number of artists as guiding lights such as Van Gogh, Chaim Soutine, Lovis Corinth, Oskar Kokoschka, Lucian Freud, Tai Shan Schierenberg, Benon Lutaaya and Jenny Saville amongst others.

• Lunch included

• All materials provided

ABOUT YOUR TUTOR

Our prize-winning artist, Kenneth, describes himself as a late bloomer. Having first earned himself a degree in engineering (1986), he worked in a variety of different jobs in different countries. He only started painting in earnest in his late 20’s and didn’t go to art school until he turned 30, when he attended the Foundation Course at Leith School of Art (1994). This paved his way to study at Edinburgh College of Art where he received a BA Hons. (1998) and where he won an Andrew Grant Scholarship. He was also awarded an MFA with distinction from New York Academy of Art.