Theme: Drawing and Painting – Winter Still Life
🗓 Course Dates: Wednesdays, 14th January – 11th February, 2–4pm📍 A Space to Meet, Main Street, Woodhouse Eaves(Parking available behind the café)
This 5‑week art course invites you to slow down and savour the quiet beauty of winter through the contemplative practices of drawing and painting. Each session focuses on still life—simple objects gathered from nature, everyday vessels, winter botanicals—and the subtle stories they hold. We’ll explore composition, tone, texture, and colour, building confidence through gentle observation and expressive mark‑making.
The final session will be a gift to the group, offered in celebration of my 50th birthday—a shared creative ritual of gratitude, presence, and winter light.
✨ Course Structure
Week 1: Winter Sketchbook Beginnings – Lines, Shapes & Simple Still Life
We’ll begin with foundational drawing techniques: contour lines, shading, and composition. Using small winter objects—leaves, seed pods, stones—we’ll create simple still‑life studies to warm up hand and eye.
Week 2: Light, Shadow & Subtle Textures
This week we focus on observing and rendering delicate winter textures—dried leaves, seed heads, soft fabrics, simple natural objects. Through careful drawing and gentle washes, we’ll explore how light falls across surfaces, how shadows shape form, and how to capture quiet detail with confidence and ease.
Week 3: Quiet Corners – Still Life with Seasonal Objects
A deeper dive into still life. Using winter treasures (pinecones, branches, dried flowers, simple vessels), we’ll explore arrangement, light, and shadow. Participants will create a tonal drawing and begin a painted study.
Week 4: Winter Botanicals – Ink, Wash & Layered Colour
Inspired by bare branches, winter berries, and seed heads, we’ll work with ink, watercolour, and layered techniques to create botanical sketches and small paintings with a frosty, atmospheric feel.
Week 5: The Winter Table – A Personal Still Life Painting
Our final week brings everything together. Using a curated selection of winter objects—ceramics, fruit, foliage, candles, natural textures—each participant will compose and create a personal still‑life painting. ts and animals and their hidden paths using leaf prints, natural mark-making, and simple sketching. 
 woodland environments - plants and animals and their hidden paths using leaf prints, natural mark-making, and simple sketching. 
🌿 This is a nurturing space for all stages of creative journeying.Some come to evolve, some to begin again.Grounding practices such as breathwork and visualisation may be gently woven in to support presence and connection.
There will be a strong emphasis into personal development of work & style. As well as some collaborative pieces . Supporting & evolving with this lovely group together.
Price includes refreshments and a delicious snack.