This course is excellent for designers wishing to improve their rendering. Many clients are still wowed by hand drawn perspectives and planting.

‘Painting is Jo’s passion’. An Art Foundation course and a First Class degree in Fine art at Brighton college of Art allowed her to start developing her creative ideas early on.

During the mid 80′s and early 90′s she worked in New York, Madrid and London designing for both the fashion and furnishing industries. This global design experience enabled her to establish a successful freelance design studio in London.

Having worked in the commercial world for a number of years Jo’s interest in the arts turned increasingly back to painting, to the point where she now devotes all her time to creating contemporary images.

The exploration and manipulation of a wide range of media is an integral part of the development of Jo’s work – ‘there are times when the creative process resembles alchemy more than art’. Her love of colour continues to be another recurrent theme, the palette often being limited to evoke an intensity of mood.

Jo’s abstracted landscapes and figurative paintings hang in a number of prestigious hotels and spas around the world. She is a successful exhibitor during, the renowned Oxford Art Weeks, shows her work in a range of galleries across the country and has a growing group of loyal collectors. She has been invited on many occasions to give presentations and demonstrations of her work.

For a taster video of Jo’s course please see below:

Week 1: Introduction to Basic Drafting (Pencil technique and shading)

Week 2: Plant Rendering Techniques (Marker pens and watercolour pencils)

Week 3: Planning and Rendering a landscape plan

Week 4: Introduction to Rendering with Marker pens

It is recommended that you are either training to be, or are already, a garden designer or gardener. This is for people who want to be able to draw beautiful garden designs and represent gardens through perspective drawings. It covers detailed rendering techniques and examples.

Full set of coloured pencils
Putty rubber
Artists pad
Watercolours

Courses Start on the First Saturday of every month:

January Course:  Starts Saturday January 7th

February Course:  Starts Saturday February 4th

March Course:  Starts Saturday March 3rd

April Course:  Starts Saturday April 7th

May Course:  Starts Saturday May 5th