Summary

Paint with Finn Campbell-Notman in Oils in Dartmoor National Park, where

you will paint cascading rivers with rocks, panoramic moorland views and

beautiful moorland villages.

Details

There are many stunning locations on Dartmoor including Dartmeet,

Postbridge, Bellever & Haytor plus the villages of Widecombe-in-the-Moor,

North Bovey & Holne.

This landscape painting holiday will lead the guests through the key

practical and theoretic elements of landscape painting with a particular

focus on how each individuals life experience relates to composing

meaningful landscape painting. You will have group tuition,

demonstrations as well as one-to-one support throughout the course.The

course will include an in depth look at the key components of composition;

both how and why we choose the elements that underpin what is an often

overlooked aspect of successful paintings whether the student's

preference is for loose and painterly or realistic rendering or for bright

colourful or monochromatic work.

As a tutor Finn's approach is to always be attentive to the unique

attributes of each individual and to draw these out by showing that by the

development of the practical methods with which we make paintings the

individual's preference shines through in a painting. He demonstrates the

distinction between 'making paintings' and 'taking pictures' ; how a good

landscape painting is as much a reflection of our internal vision of the

landscape as of what we see before us.