Landcape Drawing Club: Tracing the Trees

Learn to articulate trees using toned paper and expressive mark making.

Join professional landscape artist Deborah Frank, recent semi-finalist on Sky Landscape Artist of the Year 2026, for Landscape Drawing Club in August.

This outdoor drawing session will focus on the art of drawing trees. Inspired by the shifting light in the Gallery’s High Wood Epping Forest watercolour, participants will develop an understanding of tonal values using toned paper, while learning how to group and simplify the complex forms of trunks, branches, and foliage.

Through graphite and ink, this workshop develops the learner’s use of mark-making to address the weight and movement of trees within a landscape. Participants will draw en plein air, directly from observation, to create three varied tree studies. They will be encouraged to make bold marks that explore the stillness, movement, and life of trees as they hold their space within the land.

Deborah’s strong sense of expressive and directional mark-making will guide you through the process, helping you capture the character, movement, and rhythm of trees in Lloyds Park.

This is a workshop for adult learners and is suitable for beginners.

Book with donation. Suggested £15 per person.

About the artist

Deborah Frank explores the materiality of paint and its application. Her practice centres on cultivated landscapes and suburban spaces, examining the physical actions and rhythms shared by both artist and land workers. Through expressive brushwork and mark-making, her paintings evoke atmospheric weather conditions while narrating the presence of the figure within the landscape.