Join us for an exciting workshop at The Gallery at Green & Stone, where you'll have the unique opportunity to explore the art of Cigar Size plein air painting in oils, guided by the renowned artist Robert Maclaurin. 

Cigar lid painting has a rich tradition dating back to the 19th century when artists used the small, rectangular wooden lids of cigar boxes as portable canvases for quick outdoor studies. With its historical significance, this art form provided a convenient way to capture the essence of a landscape or moment, lending itself perfectly to plein-air painting, where light and atmosphere shift rapidly.

During this 2.5-hour workshop, participants will dive into this fascinating method, learning the nuances of painting in this distinctive format. You’ll have the chance to create your own study of the stunning Highland scenery, using techniques passed down through generations of plein air painters. The class costs £50 and includes all necessary materials—just bring your creativity and a passion for the outdoors! Due to the less-than-perfect weather, we will run this workshop indoors, but the methods you will learn can be transferred to the great outdoors when you're feeling brave!

This is a beautiful opportunity to learn from a master and explore a historic art form in a fresh, contemporary way. We hope you'll leave with a unique and personal artwork that reflects the beauty of the Highland landscape in this intimate, timeless format.

All art materials provided by Green & Stone.

Join us for a beginner-friendly watercolour sketching workshop focused on capturing light, shadows, and the essence of still life and interior. Elena will demonstrate her techniques to bring sketches to life with colours and washes, additionally offering one-to-one guidance throughout the session. Exploring the interplay of light and shadows, attendees will learn to create the ambient light of the interior space, and introduce still-life objects to the composition with variety and contrast. The session will begin with a series of short exercises, after which you'll create a final sketch reflecting your unique style and expression.

This class will be an opportunity to paint butterflies and beetles, working from real specimens from the collection of Rebecca and Sandy. Using pencil, inks and watercolours, participants will learn how to measure their insect with dividers, drawing the airbourne insects with scrutiny. Then, learning how to how to mix colour, attendants will learn to imbue the characteristic rich colour and iridescence into their subject. A range of beautiful tropical and British butterflies, moths and beetles will be available to work from.

All levels are welcome.

All art materials provided by Green & Stone.

Painting ‘En Plein-Air’ in Watercolour, participants will compose their own interpretation of Chelsea’s local scenery, a fusion of urban and natural forms. Recent winner of the St Cuthberts Mill award at the Green and Stone Works on Paper 2024 Exhibition, Lena Stogneva, will instruct how to capture the fleeting environment, and the London ambiance with controlled spontaneity in watercolour, working initially from observation. Later in the session attendants will learn how to refine their plein-air sketch imaginatively, nuancing the colours and tones, and taking inspiration from the Summer Exhibition in the Gallery space.

This session is for all lovers of the sea: wild swimmers, beachcombers, windsurfers, and those who feel pulled to roam along the beach with a sketchbook in hand. Georgie will walk you through each stage of creating your own unique seascape painting, perhaps inspired by a particular coastal spot that is special to you.

In conjunction with Florencia Galan Camp’s Solo Show ‘Celebration’, the artist will be doing a painting demonstration at the Gallery at Green and Stone.

Join us for a captivating showcase of Florencia’s distinctive style as she uses mixed media to infuse atmosphere, vitality, and harmony into the floral subject matter. Witnessing the fusion of representational and abstract modes of creation, join us to gain valuable insights into her distinctive artistic process.

This is an excellent opportunity for art enthusiasts and artists alike to immerse themselves in a welcome and inspiring environment.

This workshop offers a unique opportunity to see and learn the use of oil colours with artist Tushar Sabale.

He will talk through and demonstrate his process of choosing and composing a complex scene and further simplifying it. You will be painting a familiar London landmark using a reference from start to finish, understanding colours, values and handling of oil colours.

All levels are welcome.

In this workshop, artist Tushar Sabale will be showing how to paint simple everyday objects lying in the artist studio like paint tubes, brushes, turp jars etc. He will talk through his process of how to see potential in a subject and use the stable interior light to compose and paint in oil colours.

In this interactive session you will be painting a chosen composition of still life.

All levels are welcome.

Artist and tutor Rachel Mercer is kindly offering a drawing workshop for x10 art students, on a first come first served basis. The 2.5 hour class is being offered at a vastly reduced rate of £15 per student. You will need to provide student ID on arrival to the workshop.

In the class we will use each other as models and consider ways to engage in the action and attitude of the sitter. Sitting opposite a partner makes the drawing experience up-close and person and less formal than working from a model. There will be exercises designed to improve skill and accuracy in drawing, helping us to capture essential likeness rather than detail. In the second half of the class participants will use their portrait drawings to create an imaginative composition using the street outside the gallery for inspiration.

This class will be an opportunity to paint beautiful and curious specimens from Rebecca & Sandy’s natural history collection, including exotic feathers and insects, pressed seaweeds, shells, skulls and seed pods.

Students will be using pencil and watercolour to recreate their own cabinet of curiosities on paper.

All art materials provided by Green & Stone.

We will be drawing and painting on St Cuthberts Mill Bockingford® paper.

Drinks kindly provided by Tom Savano Cocktails.

Monoprinting is an expressive printmaking technique that yields one-of-a-kind and surprising results. The best things happen when you let go and enjoy the process of creating, and with monoprinting, the opportunities for experimentation are endless,

This class will be focused on possibilities, positivity and play, using interesting objects from around Green & Stone as inspiration. You will also be looking at contemporary artists such as Hockney, Matisse and Emin who explore different takes on contemporary mono-prints.

All levels are welcome.

All art materials provided by Green & Stone.

We will be monoprinting on St Cuthberts Mill Somerset® paper.

Drinks kindly provided by Tom Savano Cocktails.

During this two hour class we will breakdown the elements to paint six species of trees, all varying in shape and design. We’ll begin with sketching, followed by pen & ink, and finally we’ll use shades of various green hues to lay down watercolour. Mayad will be sharing his tips & tricks to elevate your drawings.

LEVEL: Beginner - Intermediate

All materials provided by Green & Stone.

We will be painting on St Cuthberts Mill Saunders Waterford® paper.

Drinks kindly provided by Tom Savano Cocktails.

In drawing the portrait from life we come to observe the human face in ways we have never done so before.

In this session we will explore proportions, gesture and structure of the face and learn how to articulate a person's unique likeness and their expressions through the visual language of art. This class aims to nurture enjoyment and self-confidence in drawing in a structured and supported environment.

All levels are welcome.

We will be drawing and painting on St Cuthberts Mill Bockingford® paper.

Drinks kindly provided by Tom Savano Cocktails.

Monika will show you how to paint your own beautifully unique dinner candles.

The workshop will cover everything from conceptualising your design idea to delicately painting your bespoke pattern onto your candles. You will receive lots of tips to help you become more confident in developing your own style.

The workshop is great for all abilities, no experience is needed.

All materials and drinks will be provided by Green & Stone.

Learn to create a collaged 'natural form' inspired artwork. Ella will guide you through colour mixing, staining papers and mark - making, to create a menu of delicious papers to work with. You will sketch from natural forms to find beautiful shapes and silhouettes, develop your cutting skills and arrange layers of paper into beautiful compositions.

Becca will introduce you to a hyperrealistic style of drawing, using a variety of coloured pencil techniques. We will be drawing horses eyes, with accuracy, precision and immense attention to detail.

At the end of the evening, each person will be able to take home their hand drawn realistic horse eye study.

Venetia will introduce you to the relief-print technique of lino-cutting. During this class you will be shown how to use specialist tools to create your linocut and then how to ink and hand-press it onto a Kraft greeting card.

We will be focusing on botanical designs inspired by the garden.

At the end of the evening, each person will be able to take home their hand-printed greeting cards & envelopes.

A ONE-OFF FREE CLASS! Learn to create realistic animal fur, feathers and scales using Acrylic paint with wildlife and nature artist Charlotte Sutton.

Charlotte teaches how to use a paint layering technique she uses in her own paintings to create acute detail. Choose between a selection of hand-drawn African wildlife on canvas to use as a base for the paint layers to unfold.

Charlotte is a London based artist, renowned for creating beautiful acrylic and watercolour paintings of animals and ecosystems with photorealistic detail.

Accompanied by delicious vodka spritzes from Forage, we will be oil painting flowers with accuracy and energy.

In “Painting Flowers” we will use the ‘sight-size’ method and ‘colour matching’ to capture the true likeness and beauty found in flowers. The purpose will be to enjoy painting, learn new things and create a work of art!

Drawing and reinterpreting the Masters - Picasso, Auerbach, Cecily Brown and many others have made contemporary work that refers to art of the past. In this class we look at how to make fast and meaningful thumbnail sketches from paintings by the Old Masters. We will then look at ways of responding via coloured drawing to their work as part of a journey towards finding your own contemporary voice. The class is suitable for all levels. All that is needed is a genuine , open-eyed appreciation of both contemporary and past art.

Accompanied by delicious vodka spritzes from Forage, Venetia will introduce you to the relief-print technique of lino-cutting.

During this class you will be shown how to use specialist tools to create your linocut and then how to ink and hand-press it onto a Kraft greeting card.

Accompanied by delicious vodka spritzes from Forage, and with luscious summer fruits as our specimens, Mary Ellen will introduce a few botanical artist’s techniques to paint your own colourful plant portraits in rich watercolour.

In this class, we will consider the still life as a miniature terrain that we can explore through drawing. The class will begin with some exercises that warm up our hand and eye, helping us to consider line, tone and form. We will explore techniques in charcoal and ink to consider mark making, and develop ideas around composition by working on horizontal and vertical formats.

George Butler is an award-winning illustrator but has reinvented the role of the Artist Reporter drawing conflict zones, climate issues, humanitarian crisis and social issues for the news. His drawings are done in situ - in pen, ink and watercolour.