Jackie Hurwood

Artist Details

Artist Name: Jackie Hurwood
Artist Home Page: www.hurwood.com
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Tuition

Workshops and Demonstrations

I am available to do Art Workshops and Demonstrations to groups. I also run occasional workshops and courses at my studio at home which I will post on the tuition page if the dates are coming up.

I teach watercolours from complete beginners to advanced students.

Techniques like wet into wet , colour mixing or brushwork or by subject including aspects of landscape paintings like trees, buildings, water or including animals and figures in the landscape. Outdoor, on location landscape sessions for small groups. Flowers and still-life subjects.

I am happy to cover drawing skills and elements of perspective and composition as required.

I live in Alfriston in East Sussex and am willing to travel up to 60 miles for sessional work. The hourly rate of £25.00 includes travel costs for distances less than 15 miles.
For bookings further afield I charge travel:-
15 - 30 miles £10
30 - 45 miles £20
45 - 60 miles £30

For greater distances or for more than one day please make contact to discuss terms.

I have run workshops/given demonstrations to many groups including

Alfriston Art Club
EastDean Art Society
Pevensey & Westham Art Group
The Phoenix Art Group
Wannock Art Club
Wilmington Art Society

Please make contact if you would like to make a booking or discuss teaching content further.

 

Biography

I have always sketched and painted and combined my love of art and art history with a career in the NHS. On moving to Eastbourne in the 1980's I attended Eastbourne College of Art as a mature student, experimenting with various painting media. Watercolour has become my medium of choice over the years but I still enjoy trying out other approaches.

I work naturalistically, prefering where possible to paint directly from my subject of landscape, flowers or still-life. Watercolour, when it works well, captures for me the changing effects of light and form in a satisfying way, allowing the white paper to be part of the process and adding transluscence to the subject. I have also revisited oils and enjoy the more tactile effects of paint on paper or canvas and recently experimented again with acrylics and mixed media.

I have lived in this area for many years, attending Sussex Downs College, first as a student,then tutoring watercolours there for eighteen years. I now work from my studio in Alfriston where I hold some workshops for small groups, and run workshops and demonstrations to Art Clubs.

I exhibit widely locally each year in group exhibitons and have had work exhibited in the Mall gallery London, The Hop Gallery Lewes, Penns Gallery, Eastbourne, and The Crypt Gallery Lewes.

 

Exhibitions

 

Media

Acrylics, Drawing, Gouache, Oils, Pen And Wash, Watercolour

 

Subjects

Animals, Buildings, Cars & Trains, Colour Mixing, Flowers And Gardens, Landscape, Seascapes and Water, Skies, Still Life, Townscapes, Trees and Foliage, Waterways and Canals