landscape art class | Dave West
Tuesdays - NEW TIMES BELOW
11AM-1:30PM
2pm - 4:30pm
7 - 2 WEEK COURSE
IN-STUDIO ONLY
€280 - €80
UPCOMING DATES
2025
April 29th - May 6th (2 weeks )
If this course is fully booked you can add your name to the waiting list HERE
ABOUT THIS COURSE
Dave’s passion in art is painting the landscape, in particular the endless variations in light and colour that are observed throughout the changing days and seasons. His practice spans both studio painting and Plein-air.
During these ongoing art sessions Dave will guide you on an individual basis to getting the most from your own practice. He will help with choosing a theme for your project, how to develop your ideas into successful compositions and will be on hand to assist with any technical difficulties as your work progress.
Dave favours an ‘alla prima’ or ‘direct’ approach to painting, using a loose impressionistic style. As part of the class Dave will perform a short demonstration each week showing aspects of his process focusing on subjects such as mark making, effective and interesting brushwork, creating design thumbnails, colour palettes and that most difficult of things: how to finish a painting.
This class is not suitable for beginners but would suit anyone that is looking to develop their own ideas and style through the genre of landscape painting hosted by a dedicated landscape painter and experienced tutor.
Check out our Instagram Live Schoolhouse Conversation with Dave to hear more about how and why Dave does what he does!
Materials needed
Participants need to bring their own materials and panels or paper.
In Oil Paint Dave recommends a limited palette of good quality oils in a minimum of Ultramarine, Alizarin Crimson and Cadmium Yellow Light, together with hog bristle brushes, fume-free solvents and linseed oil medium.
mEET DAVE
" I’m drawn to light, atmosphere and mood in paintings. A successful painting is when a great subject, however simple, meets with the incredible colour and texture that oil paint can offer”
Dave West was born and raised in South Wales and is now settled in Balbriggan, North County Dublin. He studied Illustration at the Carmarthenshire College of Art & Design also gaining a degree in Art History with the Open University. He has had numerous solo exhibitions and exhibited widely in Group Shows including the Royal Hibernian Academy, Royal Ulster Academy, and in the UK with the Royal Academy, Royal Society of Oil Painters, Royal Society of Marine Artists, The New English Art Club, The Royal Society of British Artists, and the UK Pastel Society, at which he won the 2013 Schminke Award. Ice has won awards at several plein air festivals including a first prize at ‘Paint out Norfolk’ in 2023, and at the 'Art In The Open’ festival, a Silver award in 2024 and the Gold Mayoral first prize in 2017.