Flower Painting Workshop

Besotted by blossoms! I'll happily paint flowers all year long, but I truly love this season when they're all so fresh and sweet and feel like a reward for having successfully mucked through the winter. 

I've learned a lot about painting flowers over the past couple of years, and I'm excited to pass on my revelations: colour mixing, mark-making, paint layering, and building an interesting composition will all be part of my next day-long workshop at the studios. Come paint with me!

This 6-hour workshop will take an impressionistic approach to painting flowers, using colour and value to render our subject. I'll give a live demonstration in the morning, and set you to your own compositions in the afternoon. Experience helpful but not required! 

Full list of materials sent upon booking.

Saturday, 31 May, 2025

10am - 4pm

74-77 Magdalen Road, OX4 1RE

£75 

(limited parking available, please request)

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Dutch Treat

 I love black parrot tulips so much that I grew some of my own just so I could paint them. This background isn't William Morris, but is an anonymous fabric swatch I've had forever and have been too precious to use in actual sewing. So I thought I'd paint that, too! The little Dutch windmill vase I found at a charity shop and it felt like a perfect pairing.

 "Dutch Treat"

30x40cm, oil on canvas

£450

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Decoration

 More sweet cherry blossoms -- this time against a blue William Morris background. I'm fascinated by his story, he studied at Oxford and was quite the polymath: in addition to designing wallpaper and fabric, he was a social activist, a poet, and an aspiring architect. He insisted that art and well-designed interiors were not luxuries, which of course I appreciate. 

'Decoration'

8x10 inches, oil on canvas

£300

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One and the Same

I am playing around with flowers on patterned backgrounds, challenging myself to make a distinction between the real flower and the flower pattern while keeping both soft and impressionistic. 

These are cherry blossoms against a William Morris pattern, because his colours are absolute perfection:

"One and the Same"

8x10 inches, oil on canvas

£300

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Painting the Face, April 2025

 

Lucy Stopford and I are teaching another weekend portrait-painting workshop! 

A full weekend of portraiture is intensive and challenging, but our approach is suitable for painters at all levels of experience -- we cover technical (and philosophical!) foundations of painting as well as the importance of pushing boundaries and expressive mark-making. It's exhilarating, and I get something new out of it each time.

April 5th & 6th
11am - 4pm 
£150 

Magdalen Art Space
(at Magdalen Road Studios)
74-77 Magdalen Road OX4 1RE

 

There are parking spaces available at the studios, please email me if you would like to reserve one!

robindanely (at) gmail (dot) com

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I'm happy to take payment by bank transfer if you prefer, please get in touch and I'll send you the details.

We look forward to painting with you!

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