Give yourself the gift of learning -an exciting opportunity to tap into your own creativity and develop artwork that reflects your own inspirations and aspirations!

I have taught art and design in a variety of settings for the last 20 years and to all ages and levels. In the last few years I have been leading workshops from my studio, at a variety of other UK locations and now online.

I have developed an inclusive and exciting approach to online teaching that focuses on sharing my own art practices and expressive art making techniques. I use my own projects as source material. The methods are fun and engaging as well as facilitating your own creative practice development.

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Making your mark

Do you love the landscape and want to make artwork that reflects your excitement with its visual richness? Do you enjoy drawing your surroundings but want to create more energy, variety and interest in your mark making? We explore our subject through an exciting variety of exploratory mark making techniques, involving a range of materials, including collage. These approaches help you develop your own visual language. They will enable you to record your experiences in more expressive ways that are less representational.

Your sketchbook journey

Do you enjoy working in sketchbooks but feel like you want to develop a wider range of approaches so that you can explore your subject more expressively and experimentally? Are you excited by the idea of working in sketchbooks but need some guidance and encouragement to make the most of them in your art practice? We use a variety of media and sketchbook types alongside different expressive approaches to broaden our understanding of the subject. Varied sketchbook pages, a series of handmade books and a studio journal are produced.

Your collage compositions

Do you love pattern and texture and seek different ways to incorporate it into your work? Perhaps you enjoy the impact of collage in artwork and want to explore how to bring it into your own work to add variety and interest. We gather and create collage papers using a variety of media. We then use these to develop exciting collage works on paper and in sketchbooks. A mix of collage composition studies, collage creations in a concertina sketchbook and mixed media layered collage studies on paper are produced.

What participants say

  • "Liz's professional teaching & generosity of content leads us seemlessly through the lessons so that I can follow along with confidence -she has an ability to reach all levels of learning"

    Leila, course participant ‘Your sketchbook journey’

  • 'Your lessons have provided, not only a fantastic way to get to grips with how sketchbooks can be used out in the landscape and back in the studio, and in so many different ways, but they’ve also helped me break through a ‘block'. From a re-energised artist, thank you’.

    Bron, course participant ‘Your sketchbook journey’

  • 'This course and your infectious enthusiasm, has inspired me to restart my practice-just the kick start I needed. It's brilliant! I am blown away!'

    Bee, course participant ‘Making your mark’

  • “Liz this lesson was brilliant, a total revelation. It was so useful to see the drawings from start to finish, to see how you used and held the media and to hear your thinking process. I have taken a variety of online courses and this lesson rates as the best. I will be watching it again and again “

    Mary, course participant ‘Your Sketchbook Journey’

  • "Your teaching approach is very personable, easy to follow & unpretentious. You come across as someone giving completely of yourself and sharing your knowledge”

    Jacqui, course participant

  • Each time I look at this section, I learn something new about mark making. It is a wonderful part of your course. There is such a logical flow-each part follows from the one before. I am learning so much'

    Leila, course participant ‘Making your mark’

 I love to share my approaches with others and believe that through teaching and collaboration we can all evolve and develop our own creative practice. You can check out my course FAQs here. I share many of my ideas and art techniques on my Youtube channel. Why not subscribe to me on there so you get to see my newly released videos.

I am continually adding to my course portfolio. I will also be offering Online 1-to-1 mentoring in the near future. To stay in touch and be the first to hear about these and more please sign up to my newsletter below.