• Richard Bayliss

Richard Bayliss -The Abstracted Landscape

£500.00

Dates:

22 July, 2027 - 24 July, 2027

Join Richard Bayliss for an inspiring exploration of the expressive possibilities of paint and mixed media, using the landscape as inspiration. Through drawing, bold mark-making, collage, cropping, painted responses and playful experimentation, you’ll gather and develop source material before gradually translating these ideas into paintings onto board.

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Richard Bayliss

Richard Bayliss has been a professional designer since graduating from the Royal College of Art 30 years ago and worked in the creative industry designing and visualising 3D environments for large commercial projects.

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Richard Bayliss -The Abstracted Landscape

Your Course

This three day workshop is all about exploration, creative risk-taking and discovery in a supportive, encouraging environment.

Rather than working towards a predetermined outcome or simply copying what you see, the emphasis is on process, experimentation and responding to what emerges. Source material will provide ideas, energy, colour, composition and texture, becoming a springboard for developing new visual possibilities and expanding your personal visual language.

Throughout the workshop, you’ll build a rich collection of drawings, painted studies, collages, sketches and other source material. These will then be explored, edited and developed into paintings, allowing ideas to evolve naturally through the process.

Open to painters of all abilities, this is a welcoming space to try new processes, take creative risks and discover different ways of responding to the landscape. The focus is not on producing a finished masterpiece, but on generating ideas, exploring possibilities and finding practical ways to carry your discoveries forward into future work.

You’ll leave with a rich collection of source material, sketches and paintings, along with new ideas, processes and approaches to continue developing in your own practice.

We’ll be painting and drawing outdoors, so please come prepared for all kinds of weather. Wear comfortable clothing that’s suitable for the conditions and make sure it’s something you don’t mind getting a bit of paint on.

Over the 3 days we will be working with Acrylic paint, mixed media & collage.

Key Information

  • Suitable for: Suitable for all levels
  • Timings: 3-Day masterclass from 10am – 4.30pm
  • Catering: A light lunch and refreshments will be provided each day.  Please specify any dietary requirements at time of booking.
  • Venue: The Waldron Gallery & Studio, TN21 0RA

  • Materials and EquipmentReference material

    REMEMBER these are just suggestions and you may have most or similar already, please do not rush out and buy everything on the list. I’m very happy for you to bring whatever you have and use for your own work.

    There are a few items though that are ESSENTIAL to bring with you for the workshop which are highlighted in red.
    The links I have included are examples of the materials I use. YOU DON’T NEED THE EXACT SAME ONES, they are purely to help you find something similar.

    Drawing

    • A2 Pad – cartridge paper (minimum 200 – 220gsm) needs to be thick enough to handle paint without buckling or warping.https://www.jacksonsart.com/winsor-newton-heavy-weight-drawing-cartridge-gummed-pad-220gsm-medium-25-sheets-a2
    • A4 or Square sketchbook – ideally spiral bound, we will be tearing sketches out to collage with. https://www.jacksonsart.com/winsor-newton-drawing-cartridge-spiral-pad-150gsm-medium-25-sheets-a4
    • Compressed charcoal
    • Graphite Pencils – 8B or similar
    • Crayons* either/or Caran D’ache Neocolor I & Neocolor II – or similar
    • Stabilo Woody* – good fun to draw with, you only need a few colourshttps://www.jacksonsart.com/stabilo-woody-3-in-1-pencils
    • Soft pastels*
    • Any other media you like to draw & mark make with
      *any colours you have but good to include blues, greens, pink and warm colours orange and ochre etc.Surface

    • 4-5 off Cradled Boards, Wooden Panels or Canvases (Primed with Gesso)

    min size 30x30cm max 60x60cm – square or landscape format. As an alternative you can bring your old acrylic paintings to be painted over.

    Acrylic Paints – I will be using Daler Rowney System3 acrylic paints, they’re a good medium quality option and reasonably priced. When you’re buying your own paints, try to avoid very cheap ones, as when mixed together they turn muddy very easily. https://www.jacksonsart.com/daler-rowney-system3-acrylic-paint

    Colours – suggested limited palette for the workshop.

    • Black (any) – 150ml
    • Titanium White – 150ml
    • Lemon Yellow – 150ml (Cadmium or Primary yellow are good alternatives) – 150ml
    • Yellow Ochre – 59ml
    • Burnt Sienna – 59ml
    • Ultramarine Blue – 150ml
    • Cadmium Red – 59ml

    Please feel free to also bring any other acrylic paints you have and use in your work, just remember you will have to carry them when we paint plein air.

    Brushes – A mix of your favourite brushes. I like using a 1.5”/3” flat hog bristle brushes, they hold paint well and are good for quick gestural mark making.

    • 1.5” & 3” Flat hog bristle brushes

    A.S.Handover sells reasonably priced brushes

    https://www.handover.co.uk/handover-thin-lily-bristle-brushes/ https://www.handover.co.uk/fibreglass-priming-laminating-brushes-white-bristle/

    Non Brush tools

    • Palette knifes
    • Sponge
    • Please bring anything else you enjoy painting with including found items or DIY items etc.
    • For Collaging
    • A Ruler minimum 30cm for tearing paper
    • PVA Glue – I use ‘Evo Stik’ wood glue its strong and fast setting.
    • Miscellaneous
    • Bucket – great for carrying everything £1 B&Q (Optional)
    • Lidded plastic bottle to transport water for painting (1-1.5 litre bottle)recycled plastic drinks bottles. Ketchup/HP sauce or washing up liquid bottles are great for this.
    • Old credit card or similar to spread PVA glue.
    • Plastic bags (super market) – store wet brushes, paint trays etc
    • Recycled plastic pots and trays to mix paint in
    • Old Tupperware or lidded plastic takeaway trays to store/carry mixed media
    • Kitchen Roll

    Landscape reference images

    • Minimum of 6 landscape reference images, can be of anywhere that inspires you. This is just incase the weather prevents plein air painting. Images can be printed on A4 paper (larger the better) or be on an ipad or laptop (risk of being splattered in paint though). Image examples will be emailed out  1 month before the course.

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