Events
Saturday 27th September 2025
Wire Sculpture with Caro Burberry
Location: Reydon Village Hall
Brief background/autobiography
Caro is a lifelong artist with a strong background in printmaking and drawing, having received a classical training in figurative sculpture at the Frink School. Her sculptures, cast in bronze and iron, are commissioned and exhibited in permanent settings worldwide. Caro has also led specialist creative workshops for over 25 years and worked as a guest lecturer at De Montfort University in Leicester. She is an elected member of the Royal Society of Sculptors.
Workshop subject: 3D Wire Sculpture
Maximum number of students: 12
Ability level: Beginners, average, experienced – all welcome
Aim of the workshop:
An enjoyable foray into the world of 3D sculpture. Using a wildlife subject, you will learn how to translate 2D drawings and images into 3D sculptural form. You will construct a wire armature, achieve a realistic pose, and build and add detailing using a variety of wires.
What to bring:
- A4 sketch pad/paper
- Pencil and pen
- Masking tape
- Sharpie marking pen
- Small set of 3 pliers and snips – flat nose and needle-nosed pliers
- Wire cutter/snips
- 1 x 20m roll of 1mm or 0.9mm galvanised garden wire
Materials provided (at no extra cost):
- Square armature wire
- Safety specs
- Additional wire
Saturday 25th October 2025
Pastel Workshop with John Patchett
Location: Reydon Village Hall
Brief background/autobiography
John is an internationally renowned pastel artist and has exhibited with the Pastel Society, the RSMA, as well as in over 50 solo exhibitions. He is a member of numerous artist societies and contributes to The Artist and Leisure Painter magazines.
John lives in Beccles and uses the region's variety of landscapes, market towns, and coastline to inspire his work. He is both a professional artist and a highly regarded tutor.
Workshop subject: Creating Mood and Atmosphere in the Landscape
Medium: Pastels
Maximum number of students: 16
Ability level: Beginners, average, experienced – all welcome
Aim of the workshop:
Students will learn to convey mood, light, and atmosphere in their landscape paintings.
What to bring:
- Own reference material or use of tutor’s photographs
- Soft pastels
- Pastel paper or card
- Support board
- Optional:
- Charcoal sticks
- Pastel pencils
- Wet wipes
- Tissues
- Masking tape
- Old tea towel
- Eraser
Materials provided and any additional cost:
- John will lend soft pastels on the day for those without their own
- Sennelier pastel card will be available to purchase at £7 each (cash only)
Saturday 29th November 2025
Collage Workshop with Lesley Munro
Location: Reydon Village Hall
Brief background/autobiography
Lesley Munro trained at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, graduating in 1984 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. She worked in television and advertising in London before training as an art teacher, working in Scottish education for many years. Since becoming a professional painter in 2016, she has lived and worked in South Norfolk.
In 2016, Lesley won the Norfolk Magazine Landscape Artist of the Year award, and in 2020 received the Royal Society of Watercolours President’s Award at the SEAW Selected Exhibition. Her painting, Beach Channels and Distant Pines, was especially recognised.
Lesley primarily works in acrylic and mixed media. She is deeply influenced by the East Anglian landscape—its hedgerows, lanes, coasts, light, colour, and skies—and her work reflects a stylised yet recognisable interpretation of nature. Her creative process is improvisational and grounded in sketchbook studies.
Her work has appeared in magazines, corporate and public collections, and she has exhibited widely across the UK. She is an associate member of the East Anglian Group of Marine Artists and the Society of East Anglian Watercolourists. In 2022, she received the Daniel Smith Award for use of colour and has exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour at Mall Galleries in 2023 and 2024.
Contact:
Email: lesleyclare6462@aol.com
Website: lesleymunro.com
Facebook: Lesley Munro Contemporary Artist
Instagram: @munro.lesley
Workshop subject: Cohesion
Medium: Collage
Maximum number of students: 14
Ability level: Beginners, average, experienced – all welcome
Aim of the workshop:
This workshop will focus on how to create collage works that stand alone beautifully while also working together cohesively. Using a limited colour palette, students will explore contrast, layering, and texture to achieve harmony even when using a wide variety of materials.
The final outcome will be a collage grid made from papers created earlier in the session—resulting in a unified body of work that reflects a commitment to theme and deepens audience connection.
What to bring:
- Mixed media paper – white/light-coloured tissue, watercolour paper, newspaper, etc.
- Flat brush and medium round brush
- Glue – matte medium or PVA
- Textured items (e.g. bubble wrap, wallpaper, textured surfaces)
- Acrylic paint, tester pots, or inks in favourite colours (plus black & white)
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Masking tape
- Pencils
Materials provided and any additional cost:
- Lesley will provide some tissue paper and textured materials
- No additional cost
Saturday 31st January 2026
Winterfun with drawing and watercolour with Samantha Barnes
Location: Reydon Village Hall
Brief background/autobiography
Sam is an artist whose passion is drawing, painting, and printmaking. Her works are based on observational drawing. Her studio is based in her garden in Woodbridge.
Workshop subject: Winterfun with drawing and watercolour
Medium: Watercolour and drawing
Ability level: Mixed ability
Aim of the workshop:
In this workshop, we will be warming up with a morning of fun drawing exercises, moving into painting in the afternoon. Together we will enjoy the transition from drawing into painting in a fun, light-hearted and playful way. The workshop aims to bring joy into our individual artworks.
What to bring:
- Lots of paper (A3 is great if possible)
- Watercolour paints (some will be available to borrow)
- Pencils
- A BIG smile
Materials provided (at additional cost):
- Flowers used in the workshop (£1.60-£2.00 cash on the day)
Saturday 28th February 2026
Lino carving and printing with Katie Moore
Location: Reydon Village Hall, Lowestoft Road, Reydon
Time: 10am to 4pm, Hall open at 9.30am
Brief background/autobiography
Using traditional hand carving and printing methods in her riverside Wivenhoe studio, Katie May creates Fleurs du Coeur botanical lino prints. The emotive designs weave together symbolic flora and fauna to represent reflections on life and learning. Each lino cut is paired with a piece of the artist's poetry which explores the contemplative themes in the artwork. The harmony of Katie May’s lino prints and reflective words provide a calm, thoughtful space and a connection to the wisdom of nature.
Workshop subject: Lino carving and printing
Ability level: Beginners, mixed ability
Aim of the workshop:
We will begin experimenting with a range of cutting tools and blocks, allowing you time to practice techniques and styles before we start. Using pictures, drawings, and real-life items for inspiration, you will create a design for your lino print. The key at this stage is to keep the design clear and bold as this will translate most effectively onto the lino block. I usually suggest A5 and certainly no bigger than A4. Once you have a design, you will learn how to transfer this onto the lino block in preparation for the carving. Using specialist tools, you will then take time to carve your design on the lino block. Having carved your block, we will move onto making prints from it. Using printmaking inks, you will select or mix your chosen colour, use rollers to ink your block and experiment with printmaking barens and presses to create your own print.
What to bring:
- Reference materials (optional)
- Reading glasses (if needed)
- Apron
Materials provided (at additional cost):
- Ink, carving materials, and paper (£14.00 cash on the day)
Saturday 28th March 2026
Exploring the combinations in ink/watercolour with Wil Harvey
Location: Reydon Village Hall, Lowestoft Road, Reydon
Time: 10am to 4pm, Hall open at 9.30am
Brief background/autobiography
Wil is largely self-taught, apart from two printmaking courses in Yorkshire. Taking early retirement from medical research in 2000, he has since specialised in “house portraits” and landscapes. Since childhood, drawing has formed the basis for his work, and his main medium is ink and wash—largely landscapes, buildings, and industrial scenes. He particularly enjoys painting outdoors, working in a loose, energetic style, trying to capture the feeling of spontaneity and energy.
Workshop subject: Exploring the combinations in ink/watercolour
Ability level: Mixed ability
Aim of the workshop:
Exploring and controlling the variety of marks made with different pens, nibs, and inks and the effects of different papers on them. We will also focus on controlling the balance of watercolour intensity and looseness of application to get a range of styles and effects.
What to bring:
- Watercolour paints and paper (loose or pads)
- Fibre tip/felt pens
- Some reference pictures
- Boards and clips
Materials provided (at no extra cost):
- A variety of pens and inks
- Watercolour sheets
PORTRAIT CLASS: Every Monday 2.00pm
At Stella Peskett Millennium Hall, Southwold
Please note from June the fees will be £5 per session
Life Class: Every Thursday 2.00pm
From Thursday 19th September until 19th December.
At Reydon Village Hall £10 per session
Contact Allen Wiltshire (janda.wiltshire@gmail.com) for more details or to book a place
Events in the past
Saturday, 28th September 2024 10am – 4pm
Tutor: Teresa Seal
Medium: Pastels
Subject: Suffolk hare
Ability level: Any level
Cost: £35 for members £40 for non-members
Teresa is Suffolk born and bred. As an artist her main objective is to capture the likeness and the personality of the subject. A pastel portrait has a dynamic three dimensional quality that far surpasses the static flatness of a photograph. She loves the tactile nature of working with soft pastels and the way that, by rubbing each layer onto the paper, she almost “strokes” the subject into life. She concentrates on wildlife an animal portraits.
The Aim of the workshop will be to create a beautifully detailed wildlife piece of artwork.
There will be an additional £5 on the day if the student wishes to use Teresa’s pastels and paper.
Saturday 26th October 2024 10am – 4pm
Tutor: Lesley Munro Medium: Watercolour and collage Subject: A boat Ability Level: Mixed ability Cost: £35 for members £40 for non-members
Originally from Scotland and having gained a BA(hons)at Duncan of Jordonstone art college in Dundee. After many years in Art Education she embarked on a full time a career as an artist. She is a member of the East Anglian Group of Marine Artists and the Society of East Anglian watercolourists. She is an awardwinning artist and has exhibited nationally.
Lesley’s work is inspired by her love of open spaces, light, colour and vast skies. She uses sketchbook studies and drawings as a starting point for her explorations of composition material textures, line and colours with each painting undergoing constant change until the balance and harmony of the composition is right.
The Aim of the workshop will be to produce a finished piece of work with a boat as the focus using watercolour and collage techniques. Upon confirmed booking a full list of equipment required will be provided.
Saturday 30th November 2024 10am – 4pm
Tutor: Tom Cringle Medium: Acrylic Subject: Landscape Ability Level: Mixed ability Cost: £35 for members £40 for non-members
Tom was born in Norfolk. He is self taught and works predominantly in oil or acrylic. He loves to paint the big skies that are seen in East Anglia. He exhibits locally and nationally. Tom also works as a teacher and arts facilitator in the NHS and tutors privately from his studio.
Aim of the workshop will be to plan, tackle, and paint a classic East Anglian landscape. Students will be expected to supply their own acrylic paint (lots of student white) and a medium to large canvas.
Saturday 27th January 2024, 10 am – 4 pm
Tutor: Rachel Thomas
Medium: Still Life, mixed media
Ability All welcome
Cost: £30
Rachel has been a professional artist for over 25 years, exhibiting and selling both internationally and locally (you may have seen her work in the Southwold Gallery). She moved to the Norfolk coast as a teenager. She is inspired by empty beaches, the changing seasons and light, and is influenced by new sights, sounds, tastes and colours. All of these experiences come alive in her paintings. She was the first female artist to have an exhibition at the Palace of Westminster.
This workshop will help to show how to work from still life and have fun with materials and colour, using a variety of materials: watercolours, gouache, acrylics, pencils, pastels, inks, etc. Hopefully you will find some freedom in the fun of art and confidence in handling different media in new ways to make art that is exciting and immediate.
You will be working with any materials you want to use, and adding different textures and effects, using what is in front of you for inspiration, not photographs, so that you are free from the restraints of slavishly copying to create truly individual paintings.
Saturday 24rd February 2024, 10am to 4pm
Tutor: Nicola Slattery
Medium: Printing, dry point on a Perspex plate
Ability Mixed ability
Cost: £33, plus £8 payable on the day for materials and use of equipment
Nicola has a BA (Hons) Fine Art Coventry 1986 and is a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA). She has held various group and solo exhibitions of paintings and limited edition prints from 1986 to the present. These include Mall Galleries, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London and many others across the UK. She has also written several articles on techniques for national art magazines. Nicola runs weekend art courses from her studio in South Norfolk. Has taught art, painting and printmaking, in various schools, colleges and on art holidays and other settings for over thirty years to diverse groups of people.
Students will learn the basics of printmaking and will understand the drypoint technique using a Perspex plate to print from. The finished result looks similar to an etching. You will have an opportunity to create two small plates and to take at least one print from each - possibly more depending upon time. Nicola will also be happy to explain the basics of the Collagraph technique. More about these techniques can be found at www.nicolaslattery.com
Saturday 23rd March 2024, 10am – 4pm
Tutor: David Gillingwater
Medium: Portraits in oils
Ability Mixed ability
Cost: £35, to include the cost of a model
David Gillingwater AEAGMA BA trained as an illustrator and graphic designer. He produces portraits in oils, both formal and informal. Taking great inspiration from the classical masters of the Edwardian era, David aspires to give narrative to the individuals depicted. David’s paintings have attracted national interest and he has had work displayed in the RSMA open exhibition. He has also appeared on SKY Portrait Artist of the Year. David works and teaches oil painting from his unique studio in Theberton. As well as portraits David is known for his still life and local landscape painting.
This workshop will help students create more strength in their portraits/head studies. They will learn about using light to create depth and solidity. The day will include:
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Basic anatomy of the face and how to draw it in preparation for painting.
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Composition of the work.
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Keeping the portrait simple to achieve the best effects.
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A small talk on famous painters approach to portraiture (during coffee to give students maximum work time).
If you would like David to provide you with equipment, he will bring palettes loaded with paint including A3 canvas at a cost of £10 payable to David at the workshop. Please indicate this on the booking form.