If you join us for Fiona Graham-Mackay’s course at the Watermill this summer you can pick your favourite painting medium: oil, acrylic, watercolour, pastel. Fiona is skilled in them all. She says: “ Each one has a unique quality and I enjoy the flexibility of using a diversity of mediums.â€
So, don’t confine yourself to one medium. Paint with your favourite, of course, but perhaps try something new, too. With Fiona helping you, you could not be in better hands to experiment. As one former students says: “Fiona is the best tutor I have ever met. She is so talented, friendly, helpful and generous with her ideas. She adjusts and helps all abilities and all painting mediums. I learnt so much.â€
Fiona will be with us from Saturday 1 July to Saturday 8 July 2023 and there are details and a link below.
Fiona Graham-Mackay is well known as a portraitist, but she is also a very talented landscape painter, working in Britain as well as all over the world. During her Watermill week, she will be concentrating on the stunning landscapes of Lunigiana, the unspoiled area of rural Tuscany which surrounds the Watermill. We are in the middle of a National Park and there are endless scenes to paint, as you can see from the little video above.
Don’t forget that you will be Cool and Green at the Watermill: all our bedrooms and public rooms are air-conditioned, powered by our hidden array of photovoltaic cells, which make us self-sufficient in electricity. We’ve already saved more than 35 tons of carbon emissions from conventional power stations. Not only that, we’ve set up toa scheme to remove this year from the most polluted parts of our oceans plastic waste equivalent to some 40,000 plastic bottles. This means our creative course guests will be ‘plastic neutral’ during their stay with us. You can learn all about it by clicking here
‘Save the planet’ and enjoy inspirational teaching, warm hospitality, delicious food and wine, spectacular locations and, of course, the convivial company of like-minded people.
Fiona Graham Mackay
1-8 July 2023
Oil, acrylic, watercolour, pastel
To learn more about Fiona and her course at the mill, please visit her 2023 Tutor Profile page.