Allan Kirk
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Artist Name: Allan KirkTuition
Together with my wife Lesley, we run week-long watercolour holidays for all abilities at our secluded renovated farmhouse in the Tarn region.
I currently hold two watercolour classes per week six students maximum per group, all abilities welcome.
Step-by-Step lessons are available all year round on the website, where you can try a free lesson and find a range of over eighty different individual lessons ranging from beginner through to advanced for £2.99 or less.
FORTHCOMING COURSES AND DEMONSTRATIONS email for details - tarnincolour@gmail.com
Spring 2012 - Tarn, France. One-day workshop, Pen and Wash
Autumn 2012 - Vancouver Island, BC. I will be tutoring workshops. I am also available for workshops and demonstrations across Canada and US around that time.
Spring 2013 I am available for workshops and demonstrations in mainland UK.
Biography
After training to teach, I taught Art in secondary school for five years before following a career in computing. I continued painting at every opportunity exploring oils, acrylics, pastel and crayons before finding my passion for watercolour impressionism, pencil and ink drawing. I moved permanently to France in January 2008 to launch Tarnincolour Painting Holidays. I have also developed a very popular range of Step-by-Step watercolour lessons, which I sell on my website to customers from all over the world.
October 2011 I was invited to Canada to demonstrate for the Federation of Canadian Artists and tutor watercolour and pen and wash workshops for The Coast Collective - Victoria BC, and for artist, Sam Boehner. The workshops were a huge success and I have been booked to return in 2012.
I will return to UK for the first time since leaving for France in 2008, to offer workshops and demonstrations in spring 2013.
I have contributed articles to SAA Paint magazine, Artist & Illustrators magazine and watercolorpainting.com
Exhibitions
Awards
In 2005 I won the Soreze painters in the streets competition.
In 2008 I won the St Julia painters in the streets competition.
Media
Drawing, Pen & Ink, Pen And Wash, Pencil/Charcoal, Watercolour
Subjects
Buildings, Etchings, Flowers And Gardens, Impressionism, Landscape, Old Masters, Pyrography, Seascapes and Water, Skies, Townscapes, Trees and Foliage, Wild Flowers
