Art Classes

Tolquhon Studio Workshop

Classes are small and informal with no more than 10 people in each so the tutors can give everyone personal attention.  Daytime and evening classes run for ten weeks at a time.  There are also Weekend Workshops each summer.  There are courses in a range of media to suit all levels of experience including absolute beginners.  Donald Murray's Watercolour - come all Ye classes attract beginners and improvers. Oil Painting for All  with Catriona Millar provides a valuable opportunity to work in oils.  Danny Ross welcomes beginners as well as improvers to his Art of Flower Painting class and in his Positive Painting class, he teaches those with some experience who wish to improve their skills while Joyce Taylor leads Saturday classes, Pathway to Painting, for all abilities, which are ideal for those who are busy during the week.  

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Tutors

For further information and some images of his work, please click on his name.

Donald Murray, a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, is a highly experienced teacher. His watercolours, featuring east and west coast landscapes, have been widely exhibited and his work is found in collections throughout the country. He is also one of Scotland’s leading calligraphers and takes classes in Calligraphy as well as Painting.

For further information and some images of his work, please click on his name.

Catriona Millar is a figurative artist working across a range of media but her medium of choice is oils. She is a graduate of Gray’s School of Art and has also studied at Harrogate School of Art. An enthusiastic and encouraging teacher, she believes the study of the human form is invaluable for all artists.  See further details on www.catrionamillar.com.

See a feature on the class from the "Press and Journal".

Joyce Taylor is a graduate of Gray's School of Art where she was awarded the Patrick Allen Fraser, Hospitalfield scholarship. She is a successful artist, with work in private collections worldwide and in public and corporate collections in the UK and France. Joyce has taught adults in a variety of media for many years and is an encouraging and enthusiastic tutor.   Art is central to my life and essential to my well being. When I am not teaching others, I am working in my studio.

Mark Moynihan is a graduate of Gray’s School of Art and studied as a post graduate at the Prince’s Drawing School in London. He is an enthusiastic advocate of Drawing which is fundamental to his practice as an artist and he employs a wide range of approaches and mediums. His painting has the human figure as its focus and he normally works in oils.  See details of recent exhibitions on www.markmoynihan.creators.co.uk

Classes - Autumn 2009

There are 10 classes in each course.  Daytime classes run for 2½ hours; evening classes run for 2 hours.  The two hour classes cost £105 for a course; other classes cost £130.   Members of classes bring their own materials with advice and recommendations being given by the tutors.  There are breaks for tea or coffee during all classes and a chance to mix and have a chat.  Wine and home baked cakes have also been known to appear. All the tutors aim to make the classes enjoyable as well as instructive.

If you are interested in joining a class, please contact us and we shall send you further information.  If the content of the courses or the times of the classes offered do not suit, it would be helpful if you could let us know what might interest you. This would help us plan future classes.

All courses are subject to sufficient numbers being enrolled and certain classes may be oversubscribed.

Weekend Workshops 

A number of Weekend Workshops  took place in Summer 2009.  These included weekends with guest tutors, the distinguished artists, Kelly-Anne Cairns and Moira Ferrier RSW.  If you are interested in future Weekend Workshops or you would like further information about the workshops,  please contact us. 

All workshops are subject to sufficient numbers being enrolled and certain workshops may be oversubscribed.

Art classes have been running at the Tolquhon Studio Workshop since 1998 and have proved extremely popular. Students range from absolute beginners to accomplished artists. In 2006, for the first time, there was an exhibition of their work at Tolquhon Gallery.  Visitors were enormously impressed by the quality of the work on show.  Roddy Phillips, art critic of the "Press and Journal", praised the exhibition. "Over 100 works in oil, watercolour and acrylic by 42 artists fill the gallery's three rooms with vivid life, colour and invention making for a splendid exhibition."  
Click here to view a selection of paintings from the exhibition.

A group of artists held an exhibition in Udny Green as part of NEOS 2008.  "Art on the Green" brought many interested visitors to the studio.

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