Moving through the Madness - Painting workshop on Monet's serial process
Saturday, November 22, 2025 | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Andrea Mossop
Working in series simultaneously developing a motif, in loose expressionistic gestural strokes, drawing in paint, learn how the act of painting is a sustaining affirmation of life.
You will create six small paintings at the same time, a conversation on the same subject. Learn key methods from Monet's practise of pursuing an image repetitively to the ultimate scale of the waterlilies. The motif of his garden, his Japanese bridge,cascading willows or wisteria, or haystacks in series., each in turn the object of his attention under continuing focus served to order his interior world through difficult times and personal challenges. And leave a legacy of peace and beauty. Learn the two key tactics of motif and movement.
This workshop draws inspiration from Ross King's bookMad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies. and also from Monet's practise of pursuing an image repetitively to the ultimate scale of the waterlilies. Reference will also be made to how Winston Churchill's painting practise sustained him through 55 years.
Study notes and links as well as materials list will be sent in advance of the workshop.
All levels of painters. Oil with acrylic underpainting or acrylic or other medium of choice.
limited to 14 participants
Moving through the Madness - Painting workshop on Monet's serial process
Saturday, November 22, 2025 | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Andrea Mossop
Working in series simultaneously developing a motif, in loose expressionistic gestural strokes, drawing in paint, learn how the act of painting is a sustaining affirmation of life.
You will create six small paintings at the same time, a conversation on the same subject. Learn key methods from Monet's practise of pursuing an image repetitively to the ultimate scale of the waterlilies. The motif of his garden, his Japanese bridge,cascading willows or wisteria, or haystacks in series., each in turn the object of his attention under continuing focus served to order his interior world through difficult times and personal challenges. And leave a legacy of peace and beauty. Learn the two key tactics of motif and movement.
This workshop draws inspiration from Ross King's bookMad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies. and also from Monet's practise of pursuing an image repetitively to the ultimate scale of the waterlilies. Reference will also be made to how Winston Churchill's painting practise sustained him through 55 years.
Study notes and links as well as materials list will be sent in advance of the workshop.
All levels of painters. Oil with acrylic underpainting or acrylic or other medium of choice.
limited to 14 participants
