Two-Week Watercolour Workshop with Colin Allbrook

Schedule

Sun, 03 May, 2026 at 10:00 am to Sun, 10 May, 2026 at 01:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Studio KIND at The Corn Store | Barnstaple, EN

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Develop your watercolour skills with acclaimed painter Colin Allbrook over this two-week workshop.
About this Event

Join acclaimed local watercolour painter Colin Allbrook for these two 3-hour workshops, perfect for both beginners as well as artists looking to further develop their skills. Working from personal reference images, participants will receive a live demonstration followed by one-to-one guidance throughout the session. Whether you're brushing up on technique, starting fresh, or looking to develop your own creative voice, these workshops offer a supportive and creative environment to deepen your practice.

Participants must provide their own materials.

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About Colin:

Colin has made his living as an artist and draughtsman since leaving school at seventeen, when he joined a commercial studio in London's West End. Here he specialized in illustration and also attended classes at St Martins School of Art. After four years he left to make his living as a freelance artist and over the years his work has been widely published both here and abroad. He continues working as a painter today, from his studio in the Taw valley at Umberleigh.
Painting mainly in watercolours or oils, his work often depicts the life and everyday activity of the people and animals found in the countryside of the South West, on farms, in markets and around the coast. Perhaps it is cattle heading into the milking parlour, sheep being auctioned in the livestock markets, or the quiet interior of an old barn, but it is the way the often fleeting light transforms these ordinary things into something special that he attempts to capture through his use of tone and colour.

Over the years he has won many prizes for his work and is an elected member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (RI), The Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA) and of course the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts. Recent prizes he has received are the Turner Medal presented for outstanding watercolour at the RI in 2009, and Excellence in Watercolour at the Royal West of England Academy in 2010. His paintings are held in public and private collections in the UK and abroad.

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Studio KIND at The Corn Store, Barnstaple Pannier Market, Barnstaple, United Kingdom

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