Field Breaks

Upcoming workshops

Travels with your sketchbook - NEW!

Painting Holidays in Andalucia

June 19th to 25th 2025 6 nights, 4 days painting

September 7th to 11th 4 nights, 3 days painting

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Landscape and Industry - Sketching on location in Ironbridge

Monday 12 to Thursday 15th May, 2025 - Coalport Village Hall, near Telford £360 SOLD OUT! Please contact us to join our waiting list as we occasionally have a cancellation

This four day workshop will explore the world inside and outside your sketchbook. Using the magnificent surroundings of Ironbridge in Shropshire for our starting point, we will make trips outdoors to gather information and take inspiration for compositions.

4 day non-residential workshop

Portraits in Oils/Acrylics for Beginners with Richard Kitson

Friday 23rd May 2025 -Old Brampton Schoolroom, Main Road, Old Brampton, Chesterfield, S42 7JG

Learn how to understand the human face by joining Richard Kitson with your oil paints. This fascinating workshop will take you right from the first steps and look at mixing skin tones, facial structure and capturing likeness. If you have tried oil paints but never taken the leap to portraits, with Richard’s guidance you will find it easy to start your painting journey here.

With a foundation on the basic elements, this workshop is suitable for all abilities.

Atmospheric Mountains with Lesley Linley

Saturday 31st May 2025 - Walton Village Hall, Walton Back Lane, Chesterfield S42 7LT £79

SOLD OUT! Please do contact us as we sometimes have a cancellation

Gaze over the loch with your watercolours as we head towards the Scottish mountains in this enjoyable and informative workshop. Lesley will show us how to recreate this stunning view in stages, gradually unfolding the landscape beneath the rolling clouds. Learn about techniques, pigments, and gain a greater understanding of your watercolours as we go along. Suitable for all abilities.

A watercolour view - Moss covered barn with Peter Woolley

Monday 30th June 2025 - Old Brampton Schoolroom, Main Road, Old Brampton, Chesterfield, S42 7JG

£79 ONLY TWO PLACES REMAINING!

Take a stroll in the Lake District and join us for a relaxing and inspiring workshop, following in the steps of the great 19th century water-colourists as we overlook glorious Ullswater. With expert instruction from Peter Woolley, we will learn how to use a limited palette and simple techniques to capture this glorious scene. Taking each step at a time Peter will lead us through the process, helping us understand how to build the landscape and avoid common pitfalls. Suitable for all.

Loose portraits in acrylics with Paul Talbot-Greaves

Friday 4th July 2025 - Old Brampton Schoolroom, Main Road, Old Brampton, Chesterfield, S42 7JG £79

Learn how to create loose portraits painted in acrylic. In this workshop you will learn how to structure the proportions and features of the face through simple geometry before building the portrait through loose transparent layers of acrylic. You will be introduced to mixing colours and values to create forms and shapes to give your painting a dynamic look. Suitable for all abilities.

Victorian Kitchen Gardens in pen and wash

Friday 11th July 2025 £75 New Venue!!

The Derbyshire Makers, Peak Village, Rowsley, Matlock DE4 2JE

Sorry - sold out! But please do contact us to join our waiting list, as we sometimes have a cancellation

Step through the ornamental garden gates and immerse yourself in the sanctuary of a Victorian kitchen garden, using the fun and inventive medium of pen and wash. Using a variety of lines, marks and textures, we will select a corner of a garden and add motifs such as flowers, wrought iron trellises and garden implements to improve our compositions, before going on to decorate and enhance with a wash of subtle colours. Suitable for all abilities.

Summer Art School

The Nightingale Centre, Great Hucklow, Derbyshire, July 28th to August 1st 2025 £660 residential, or £360 non-residential Sold out! Please do contact us to join our waiting list as we sometimes have a cancellation

Annual residential art holiday based in the glorious Derbyshire countryside. Soak up the landscape and enjoy painting with relaxed company in a glorious location. Try out new ways to work and enjoy being inspired by likeminded artists.

4 nights, full board with en-suite accommodation. Non-residential places also available.

Quizzical Hare in Soft Pastels with Cath Inglis

Monday 18th August 2025 - Old Brampton Schoolroom, Main Road, Old Brampton, Chesterfield, S42 7JG £79

Learn all about ways to create your own characterful portrait of this wonderful Quizzical Hare. Looking at all aspects of the potrait, Cath will show us ways to scale up work, choose and mix colours, and create textures to represent realisitic tousled fur. Suitable for all abilities.

Hot Summer Colours! Botanical Illustration in Watercolours with Dawn Wright SBA - residential

The Nightingale Centre, Great Hucklow, Derbyshire, Monday 25th to Thursday 28th August 2025

Sold out! Please do contact us to join our waiting list as we sometimes have a cancellation

Take time out this Summer to immerse yourself in a detailed study of all things botanical, studying the flowers, blooms and foliage of the season. Professional artist Dawn Wright SBA will lead us through a colourful world of watercolour and help us to use this lucid medium to capture the intricate details of this colourful time of year. Suitable for all abilities.

Woodland Wander - Felting Workshop with Eve Marshall

Saturday 27th September 2025 - Walton Village Hall, Walton Back Lane, Chesterfield S42 7LT £79

Take a wander through the woodlands and join us for a perfect introduction to wet felted landscapes. Learn the techniques of creating realistic trees in wet felting plus learning to add depth to your picture. We will be using a variety of colourful merino wool, wool curls, silk threads and more to layer into our landscape. Suitable for all abilities.

New!! Townscapes in line & wash

Thursday 2nd October 2025 New Venue!!

Milestone Studios, Unit 3 Rock Mill Lane, New Mills, High Peak, Derbyshire SK22 3BN £75

The town of New Mills is crammed with interesting old buildings, quirky street corners, viaducts, railways and canals, just perfect for the artist to sketch. Using this inventive and fun medium, we will inject shape and texture into our drawings before exploring wash techniques including dripping and splashing. Suitable for all abilities.

Abstract Flowers using Alcohol Inks with Millie Moth

Friday 3rd October 2025 - Old Brampton Schoolroom, Main Rd, Old Brampton, Chesterfield, S42 7JG £79

A relaxing and creative workshop using alcohol based ink pens, isopropyl alcohol and Yupo paper to create a vibrant flower picture. Karen, AKA Millie Moth, will take us step by step through her fluid technique of layering background colours, splashes and texture, before adding floral details. Reference material will be available, as well as working from our imaginations. Suitable for all abilities and all materials will be provided.

How to paint flora and fauna in watercolour or gouache

15th and 16th October 2025 from 10:00 to 4:00

Ness Botanic Gardens, Neston, the Wirral CH64 4AY - £242 two days

Join Simon Williams SBA at the inspiring location of Ness Botanical Gardens on the Wirral, to study the art of depicting botanical or animal subjects in either watercolour or gouache. This annual workshop is geared to those who have a little taste of botanical illustration, and also themore experienced artist who may need stretching to the next level.

Using A Key Colour In Watercolour with Paul Talbot-Greaves

Friday 24th October 2025 -Old Brampton Schoolroom, Main Rd, Old Brampton, Chesterfield, S42 7JG £79

This day will focus on colour, starting by identifying a connecting colour from your reference and using it to harmonize your painting. We will look at combining this with a limited palette to create a painting based around a three-colour scheme. Paul will start the day with a demonstration painting to get you inspired and ready to paint, then you will work on your own painting with Paul's expert guidance throughout the afternoon. Suitable for all abilities.

More workshops are added here regularly, so please check back here soon or contact us to register your interest in a course or tutor, thank you.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

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