About the Workshop

A week working out in the landscape and in the studio exploring the relationship between drawing and painting. We will be immersing ourselves in the landscape, walking as we draw.

Drawing is rightly seen as the foundation of art, but its relationship to developing our painting is often neglected. The focus for the week is on compositional design, space and mark making. Our morning sessions of preparatory drawing will encourage the innovative use of mixed media materials. Afternoons are spent painting in any media you like, extending and exploring your use of colour, with reference to the drawings and paintings produced in the morning.

This course is suitable for all levels of experience and to take full advantage of the week you will need to be adventurous, energetic and willing to experiment.

About Mark

Mark Cazalet was born in 1964. An enthusiastic teacher, painter and printmaker, he trained at Chelsea and Falmouth Schools of Art. Since 1990 Mark has worked in London where he has held numerous one-man shows. Most recently, in June 2008 he had a successful one-man show at the Beardsmore Gallery. His work is in national and private collections. Mark has been working on large-scale commissions for projects in English Cathedrals in a variety of media including; glass, mural and tapestry. A book of his linocut/woodcut prints has just been published by The Old Stile Press. Recently Mark was invited to work as artist in resident at The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut. His most recent shows were at the Serena Morton Gallery and Snape Maltings, Suffolk.He was artist in residence at St Edmundsbury Cathedral from January to October 2016. He has recently returned from a residency in Japan where he drew in sixty of the Buddhist Zen gardens in Kyoto. This fruitful time has resulted in a series of exuberant, colourful and powerful collages. In June 2021 Serena Morton Gallery will be showing his Kyoto work in his solo show The Stillness of Dancing.

Drawn to Colour with Mark Cazalet
28th August- 4th September 2021