Paint Birds With Fran Gifford at Highgate Art Fair

Spend a happy morning painting birds with Artist, Fran Gifford. Everyone is welcome regardless of your skill level. Fran will give you the outline, and all the help, advice, and encouragement you need so that you take home a painting you're really happy with at the end. You'll be painting birds Fran’s way: with bold colour, lots of lines, and an abundance of flowers. She’ll show you some of her secret tricks to making each bird look happy and full of life. We can't wait to see what you create!

Artist Statement

Fran Giffard has long been captivated by the intricate beauty of natural illustrations, and has produced an incredible body of ornithology-inspired artwork. Fran works directly onto her personal Moleskine diaries using watercolour, ink, gouache and graphite pencil, capturing the wonder of exotic and more commonplace birds. The result is a vivid collection of work with an intriguing personal slant. Drawing on influences from contemporary Japanese print making, Fran’s paintings contrast areas of intense detail with negative space, flat gouache with rich mottled watercolour tones, and beautiful loose paint strokes with precise perfect lines. The result is an aesthetically beautiful painting which can appear simple upon first glance, but pulls you in. Each bird painted is filled with character. Fran clearly has a true love of birds and has exclusively

painted them since 2010. The joy that she experiences from studying them is embodied in each piece. Fran paints each bird how she views them: elegant, poised, beautiful, and full of happiness and charm.

1 - 1.5 hour workshop

Ages: 6+

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