ABOUT THIS COURSE

We are delighted to introduce a new and exciting course ‘Oil Painting a Rustic Still-life’ with celebrated Wicklow artist Nicholas Benedict Robinson. During this 5 day workshop participants will paint a rustically themed still-life featuring stunning copperware from Normandy.

Working from life, the workshop will take a step-by-step approach focussing on drawing and composition first, followed by painting in basic values and gradually introducing a full range of colours to describe the colour, light and patina of the still-life. The painting instruction is based on learning how to see the subject as a painter and how to use this observation as the basis of painting. Nicholas will also provide in-depth information an insight on painting supports, oil colours, brushes, mediums and materials. Instruction during the workshop is one-on-one ensuring participants get plenty of individual direction throughout. 

Materials List

Available upon registration

Meet nicholas

Florence Academy of Art prize winner and graduate.

Nicholas finished his post-graduate studies at Ireland’s National College of Art & Design (NCAD) in 2009, having previously graduated from the Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork. Thoroughly disillusioned by art education in Ireland, Nicholas searched elsewhere and was introduced to the American ateliers in Florence, in which students study exclusively from life, by the Irish painter Gearoid Hayes.

Subsequently Nicholas quit his teaching career and attended the Florence Academy of Art, Sweden under the tutelage of the Swedish painter Joakim Ericsson. Nicholas received a pair of drawing awards during his time at the school in Sweden and returned to Ireland in 2013. He is now exhibiting nationally, and works and teaches out of in his studio in Wicklow.

Nicholas is a very popular tutor artist at the Schoolhouse for Art with regular weekly classes and workshops with us since 2015.

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