Painting En Plein Air Under Changing Light Art Workshop with Michael Richardson

Painting Workshop in Wells, Norfolk

Paint Out Wells offers the following art workshop on Saturday 17 September in Wells-next-the-Sea, North Norfolk – Painting En Plein Air Under Changing Light Art Workshop with award-winning experienced artist and tutor, Michael Richardson.

Offered to local and visiting amateur, aspiring and experienced artists, as well as members of the Paint Out competition – all are welcome to take part.

The workshop will take place from 3pm and includes teaching and then tuition under the fading late-afternoon/early-evening light. The price is £45 with the option to participate in an early-morning paint out the following day and then brunch with the competition artists on the Albatros ship. You will need to bring your own art materials. Please book here.

Student at Michael Richardson Art Workshops at Paint Out Wells 2015 Photo by Katy Jon Went
Student at Michael Richardson Art Workshops at Paint Out Wells 2015

Michael is competing in Paint Out this year and is a veteran of Paint Out Norwich & Wells 2014-15 and plenty of other competitions and exhibitions. He won the inaugural Nocturne Prize in 2015.

About Artist Michael Richardson, UA

Michael lives in East Kent and paints almost every day, whatever the weather en plein air. As a modern Impressionist he believes that painting sur le motif is the most fulfilling challenge for a painter’s technique. His atmospheric work in both oils and watercolour has found collectors worldwide, especially in America.

Michael Richardson demonstrating at Art Workshop at Paint Out Wells 2015 Photo by Katy Jon Went
Michael Richardson demonstrating at Art Workshop at Paint Out Wells 2015

Michael was brought up in post-war Suffolk, “Constable Country”, and educated at Ipswich School and Ipswich College of Art and later in Paris.

In the 1960s his interest in sailing led him into a career in the marine industry where he specialised in sail design and manufacture. Whilst maintaining an interest in art he returned to full-time painting in 1992, yet drew on his marine experience in his specialism around painting boats.

He enjoys the plein air challenge of “working fast, in all weathers, in front of the subject.

He is also a member of the Chelsea Art Society, Council Member of the United Society of Artists and is a founder member of the Brass Monkeys Art Society, a “hard core” group of winter outdoor painters.

He has exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Royal Society of Marine Artists, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters and The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour at the Mall Galleries in London.

Workshop Booking details

En Plein Air Oil Painting in Changing Light with Michael Richardson September 17, 2016 3-7.30pm 10-12 spaces available £45 Bring your own materials. Meet at the Albatros Ship.
Wells-next-the-Sea Artist Workshops
Please select below taking place from 3-7.30pm on September 17, 2016, at Wells-next-the-Sea. Workshop package is £45. On Sunday 18th 6-10am optional paint out to try out your newly-learned skills at £10 or £20 with artists\' brunch on the Albatros.
Michael Richardson tutoring Art Workshop at Paint Out Wells 2015
Michael Richardson tutoring Art Workshop at Paint Out Wells 2015

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