Catherine Beale

Catherine Beale is a painter specialising in super-vibrant, “gravity painted” experimental watercolours!

Catherine's artistic practice began in Singapore in the 1990s which has influenced her use of strong colours. Since her return to the UK in 2006 she has been taken by the Cotswold countryside around her hillside studio - its mists and woods. Catherine's home borders the Heritage City of Bath whose graceful Regency buildings, bridges and canal are another major source of inspiration.

Catherine strives to convey the quality of light with the excitement of “fast and loose" watercolours. New pigments are like ink in their intensity and can be applied onto all sorts of surfaces. By dropping running paint into water, Catherine mingle hues together, encouraging their natural tendency to channel across the surface like rivers and create subtle water marks.

Catherine has been told her demonstrations are friendly, enthusiastic and generous with information. She is an SAA registered tutor and elected member of the Society of Women Artists. Catherine's watercolour portraits have exhibited with the Royal Watercolour Society and Institute of Painters in Watercolours.

Cindy Briggs

International Workshop Instructor and Award Winning Watercolorist, Cindy Briggs, has over 35 years experience guiding artists through painting en plein air, in the studio and for the past 6 years, online. As a National Watercolor Society Signature Artist her inspiring work is featured in Plein Air Magazine, Outdoor Painter, and American Watercolorist. When you paint with Cindy, you'll learn from start to finish, how to compose, simplify, and then draw with flowing lines and paint with translucent flowing watercolours.

Damian Callan

Damian is a practising figurative painter based in Edinburgh. He teaches drawing and painting classes for adults and art classes for children at his studio near Haymarket. In the spring and summer he runs landscape painting courses in and around Edinburgh. He is the author of two books, 'Paint Like Degas' and 'Paint Like Renoir'.

His work is exhibited widely in the UK and is held in collections across the world. He has written articles for Artist & Illustrators Magazine and The Artist Magazine and regularly demonstrates drawing and painting techniques at public events in Edinburgh.

Dani Watercolors

Dani loves sharing her creative journey in watercolour to inspire her students on their own journey. She says she is addicted to art supplies!

David Bellamy

Mainly inspired by the wilder landscapes of mountain, Arctic and desert, David paints primarily in watercolour, and much of his work results from expeditions into the remote regions. He has written 20 books illustrated with his paintings and sketches, produced numerous DVDs, and presented his own series on television. David is also deeply concerned about the intense pressures on the countryside from developments, many of which threaten to destroy some of our finest landscapes.

David R. Smith

David began his artistic journey studying Chinese Brush Painting in the United States and China. A decade later, he was introduced to Western style watercolour painting. Ever since, he has been hooked on watercolour painting, and has become a popular artist and instructor nationally and internationally, as well as a sought-after juror. David is the recipient of the Skyledge Award (the highest recognition awarded by the Transparent Watercolour Society of America), an award winner and signature member of the American Watercolour Society, signature member of the National Watercolour Society, and his work has earned him numerous “Best of Show” awards, signature memberships, showings in galleries and museums across the United States and abroad, and inclusion in publications including Fine Art Connoisseur, International Artist, and multiple editions of SPLASH – The Best of Watercolour.

With over 25 years of experience as a public school teacher, he is skilled at breaking down complex concepts and skills into easily learned chunks and now enjoys helping workshop participants find success with watercolour. As much as he loves to paint, he has found sharing his watercolour passion through instruction even more gratifying and he is most rewarded when he hears a frequent comment: “This is one of the best workshops I’ve ever taken.”

Derric Van Rensburg

Derric van Rensburg is an internationally renowned South African Impressionist Artist. He is well-known for his abstract wildlife’s and colourful landscapes of the Overberg, Hex River Valley and Cape Vineyards. After starting his career in watercolour, he transitioned to acrylic medium in 1989.

Since his first exhibition in Cape Town, South Africa in 1978, which sold out within days, Derric has exhibited in Portugal, England, Italy, Australia, Germany, and the US.

Elinor Carleton-Smith

Elinor Carleton-Smith has been painting since her mid twenties having spent four years at the Heatherley School of Art in Pimlico in London, UK, studying under Helen Wilson, Carl Cheek and David Ufland.

Elinor has participated in many solo and mixed exhibitions in Europe and the States and her paintings are in private collections internationally.

Elinor emigrated to Cape Town in 1993 and has a studio in Kenilworth. Elinor finds the almost constant sun and beautiful South African landscapes an artist's blessing.

Emily Pooley

Emily is a Special Effects BA Hons graduate of Wimbledon College of Art and has spent the best part of a decade in the Film and TV industry with one of the leading SFX companies in the UK. She is best known for her hyper-realistic props and puppets used in films such as Paddington 2 and In The Heart Of The Sea. Emily's passion is creating life-like Pet Portraits in acrylic and has used the knowledge from her time in Film to enhance her drawing and painting techniques.