10.00am to 4.00pm
£88 Lunch included & fresh coffee
Material Charges:  please bring your own.

 'Waiting at the Station'  in Acrylics - with Ceri Allen

 We are thrilled to welcome much admired Cumbria artist, Ceri Allen, to our 2025 programme. Ceri brings an opportunity to discover the subtleties of acrylics, using the setting of the atmospheric railway station platform or waiting room.

Ceri will be exploring depiction of people 'on the move' in stations - on the platform, seated, waiting, in the waiting room.This will be a fully guided 'step by step' course and you will be able to use our own images or use those supplied by Ceri.

It will provide a fascinating insight into the abilty to create subtle hues and colours not generally associated with acrylics and yet that are emminently available to us all with guidance. Learn to create shadows and perspectives, highlighting strong shapes and lines,  and if you wish develop some skills in depicting the simple shape or impression of the human form.  Suitable for all abilities.

Dates for this course - see the table below to book:

Friday 14 March 2025

Typically this course runs with around 10 students

Please bring: Any iimages you might wish to work with although these will also be provided  Acrylic paints : suggested colours  Titanium white, ultramarine Blue, cobalt Blue, Cadmium yellow, lemon yellow, burnt sienna, cadmium red, alizarin crimson  Painting boards or canvases  Selection of brushes   Sketch book/drawing materials  Portable easel or table easel  if you have one. There will be some available

About the tutor:  Ceri Allen is a Cumbrian painter.  She studied painting at City & Guilds School of Art, London and has exhibited widely. Her work is represented in public and private collections in the UK and USA.  Collections include, Tullie House, Carlisle, St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington and Corpus ChristiCollege, Oxford.   She has been selected for Artist Residencies at University of Cumbria, Corpus Christi College, Oxford,  Kronstadt, St Petersburg with the NCCA  and in 2016 worked as Artist in Residence with theatre company ‘Demi-paradise productions’ at Lancaster Castle. 

In 2017 she was commissioned to produce the image for the historic ‘Oxford Almanack’  portraying Corpus Christi College.