Past Events

The course runs for 6 weeks and is held at the gorgeous Granary, Stapleford run by the ACE foundation. There is free parking and all facilities needed.  The cost is £195 and each session is 3 hours long to give you time to explore and develop the techniques and flow. An equipment list is sent to you upon registration. Please email me debbiebaxterart@yahoo.co.uk - places are limited to give maxium support.

Acrylic painting is a rich and colourful experience. To have the opportunity to explore and play with the diverse array of colours on offer is a wonderful inspirational activity. Taking this a step further and enlarging your self expression in this medium is a very freeing and self developing process.

I will take you through the techniques and processes that will help you to build confidence using acylic. We will using many exercises that will help you to both free up and develop your style. Leading you to paint in a large unabashed way.

"Painting big is in some ways much easier than painting small, it creates space in the mind for infinite possibilities and allows a sense of freedom like no other"

Overview: Learning various techniques to depict fur and feathers, including some insight into working from life through a telescope.

I will bring examples of my own work, including sketch books and a selection of photos of wildlife to work from.( no need to bring your own) along with telescopes that we can set up in the hall for people to have a chance to try out the technique of working in the wild.

What to bring: Watercolour paper , both hot pressed and cold if you can, ( at least 300gms in weight,) a small sketch book, pens (technical and/or dip with ink,) pencils ( 2H to 2B) and your watercolours and brushes. A drawing board would be useful with masking tape.

Workshop cost: £30 for Members and Friends, £40 for Non-members. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided but please bring a packed lunch.

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Boscean

Bass Point

Fen edge in Winter

I am one of 6 artists exhibiting with The City Art Studios at Art Fair East from 28 November until 1 December.  Two other selected artists are also Cambridge Drawing Society members - Sonia Villiers and Susan Abbs. Also exhibiting are Ophelia Redpath, Alison Hullyer and Emma Bennett.

The City Art Studios has been created by Jo Tunmer and Emma Bennett and aims to represent selected artists at Art Fairs whose work has been published in the popular City Art Book Series.

The first of these events will be taking place at Art Fair East with selected artists from the Cambridge Art Book - the first publication from The City Art Book Series.

The City Art Book Series, was founded by Cambridge editor and artist Emma Bennett, and showcases how artists have re-imagined iconic cities. So far the Cambridge, Oxford, Edinburgh and Liverpool books have already been launched.  Dublin will follow in May 2020 and more city art books will follow.

Doors open at Art Fair East tonight, 28 November at 5.30pm. The exhibition runs until Sunday 1 December. Please see the website for opening times.  Here is an invitation to the Private Preview tonight that can also be used during the weekend. 

Neil Warmsley and I will be having a Winter Open Studio at St.Andrews Hall in Chesterton on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th of November.

We will both have small paintings on show suitable for gifts for yourself or friends and family

You are warmly invited to come and browse warming refreshments

There are 10 other artist opening there studios nearby .......

Bettina Starke, Cathy Parker, Susan Cupitt, Diana Kazemi, Maureen Mace, Carmen Renwick, Indira, Emma Will, Jocelyne Dudding & Richard Heeps.

My first Christmas open studio is on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th November at my studio, from 10am to 4pm at 3 Station Road, Steeple Morden SG8 0NN. I'll be showing my original lino cuts and monoprints, home textiles, mugs and cards. This year I'll also be selling some surplus art books and equipment at great prices, also a large quantity of beads for making jewelry.

My 2nd weekend will be December 7th and 8th.

Come along and try my mulled fruit punch, I'm looking forward to welcomimg you.

Since appearing on the BBC’s Countryfile in November 2018 Debbie has been much in demand both as an artist and as an advocate for the positive impact of trees on our environment and our personal psyche. Debbie has produced a fabulous body of work for this exhibition. Come and meet Debbie and enjoy a glass of wine on Friday 15th November from 5.30 to 8.30pm. Debbie will also be signing copies of her book Into The Woods A Celebration of Trees produced in collaboration with poet Gary Milsom. The Saffron Walden Gallery 77A High Street Saffron Walden.  www.thesaffronwaldengallery.com 01799 524700

Overview
A relaxing day, creating a painting (or Christmas card), step by step, from real flowers. Starting with drawings to composition and finally painting to create a picture out of lines and colour, rather than to record reality

What to bring

- Your choice of flowers (although I shall bring plenty)
- Fine line permanent pens
- Watercolour paints and brushes
- Drawing boards
- Your preferred watercolour paper if you have one, although I shall provide the paper I use (Arches NOT 300gsm) any size to suit.
- If you have such a thing, the clever extra is a light box

Workshop cost: £30 for Members and Friends, £40 for Non-members. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided but please bring a packed lunch.

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Overview: Learn how to make collagraph artwork by printmaking from collages.

We will explore ways of creating beautiful, interesting marks. The joy of this work is a result of transferring the ink from the plate to the paper and the effects that are achieved.

Collagraph plates can be made by cutting into the card, peeling away layers of card, and by adding a variety of textured surfaces.

Suitable for beginners or those with some experience. In my workshop in Elsworth using a press. Although primarily a printmaking workshop, the day would be stimulating to those working without a press, and I will look at hand burnishing in relief printmaking and collages as textured artwork.

What to bring: All tools and materials will be provided.

 Workshop cost: £30 for Members and Friends, £40 for Non-members. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided but please bring a packed lunch.

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Overview: The workshop will be suitable for beginners and more experienced painters. In the morning I will demonstrate how to get colours to run together and how to prevent them getting out of control or making 'cauliflowers'. We will practice simple techniques. In the afternoon I will demonstrate a minimalist painting of a misty scene over water. Please bring with you a couple of small to medium sized sketches of a very simple scene such as a boat floating on water, children playing on the beach or a few trees in the distance beyond a lake.

I will provide some large brushes, paper and some sketching ideas. I will also bring approx. four boards and tape for those who do not have one, and a hair dryer.

What to bring:

- Your usual watercolour paints and mixing palette.
- The largest brushes you can manage.
- At least one small brush.
- Langton (Bockingford) 300gm NOT paper or similar.
- Drawing board and mounting tape if possible.
- Roll of soft loo paper.
- Hand-held hair dryer if you have one.

Workshop cost: £30 for Members and Friends, £40 for Non-members. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided but please bring a packed lunch.

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