Service Description

🎉 Cheshire Art Classes Is Expanding Again! 🎉 We’re thrilled to introduce a brand-new 4-week Oil Painting Course at The Hall At Marthall, a stunning venue just 3 miles from Knutsford. This inspiring location is ideal for welcoming more art enthusiasts into our creative community. 🎨 Course Theme: Expressive Flowers Celebrate colour, movement and light in this flower-focused painting course, ideal for beginners and amateur artists. Working from vibrant floral reference imagery inspired by wildflower meadows, you’ll explore how to capture freshness, energy and atmosphere—balancing areas of sharp focus with soft, expressive passages. Under the guidance of professional artist Dan Bethell (with over eight years of teaching experience), you’ll develop a painterly approach to flowers, learning when to define form and when to allow colour and light to do the work. 🖌️ What You’ll Learn Across four guided sessions, you’ll create a lively floral painting that explores depth, colour harmony and focal points inspired by the reference image. 🎨 Mixing clean, luminous colour to capture fresh whites, warm yellows and vibrant purples 🌼 Simplifying complex floral scenes into clear shapes and colour masses 💡 Using tonal contrast and selective detail to guide the viewer’s eye 🌫️ Creating soft backgrounds and atmospheric blur without overworking 🌸 Painting light across petals and stems to suggest freshness and movement 🖌️ Expressive, economical brushwork to imply detail rather than describe everything ✨ Subtle glazing techniques to unify colour and enhance warmth By painting flowers in a natural, meadow-like setting, you’ll build confidence with colour, composition and painterly restraint—learning how to balance looseness and control to create engaging, expressive work. 🧰 What’s Included ✔️ 400x400mm Standard Canvas ✔️ All essential painting materials provided* *Please bring your own brushes, palette knife, and apron. (Brush recommendations available on our blog.) 📍 Location: The Hall At Marthall, Sandlebridge Lane, Knutsford, WA16 7SB 📅 When: Thursday mornings, 9 AM – 1 PM ✨ Spaces are limited – book your spot today! ✨ Got questions? Dan’s here to help — reach out anytime. No experience necessary — just bring your curiosity and embrace the power of simplicity. Let’s paint water with boldness, clarity, and confidence!