Art in Penallt returns next year, 2025.

We have decided to devote this year to planning for Art in Penallt 2025, and look forward to seeing you then.

Below you will find details of last year’s event

art workshops at PELHAM HALL, Penallt

2 art workshops will take place at Pelham Hall, Penallt, Monmouth, NP25 4AH on Saturday, 19th August Alex Brown - Landscape in Oils and Sunday 20th August 2023 - Jantien Powell - Landscape in Acrylics. from 10am to 3.30pm. Places are limited to 15. £50 per person (plus online booking fee)

Each workshop runs from 10am - 3.30pm at Pelham Hall, Penallt NP25 4AH.

Tea & coffee will be provided but please bring a packed lunch.

saturday 19th august

Landscape in Oils with alex brown

The objective of the workshop will be to show how to make a landscape that makes distance, space and drama with greens.

Alex will provide an image like the one above for everyone, and will also provide a small board of the correct shape, primed and ready (at an additional cost of £5, please could participants bring a £5 note for the primed board).

Participants will need:

  • £5 note to pay for primed board

  • Easel 

  • 4 brushes,  e.g. Pro Arte , sterling  series 201 long flat for oil or Acrylic, 2,4,6,8, and a small palette knife

  • mixing palette, e.g hobbycraft do an A3 tracing pad for about £7 

  • odourless white spirit, small amount

  • 2 jars for brush cleaning

  • toilet roll

  • suggested colours: Daler Rowney , Georgian for artists or something similar:
    titanium white, ultramarine Blue, cerulean Blue, cadmium red, magenta, lemon yellow, cadmium yellow

sunday 20th august

Landscape in acrylics with jantien powell

THE OBJECTIVE OF THE WORKSHOP WILL BE TO create texture in acrylics to produce a beautiful painting of the cotton grass on the blorenge.

In this workshop, students will be learning how to create texture in acrylics to produce a beautiful painting of the cotton grass on the Blorenge. This workshop is suitable for all abilities.

Participants will need:  

  • a panoramic canvas, 60×30 cm (approximately)

  • acrylic paints to include: cerulean, blue, white, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, sap green and black

  • brushes to include: 1 inch flat, half inch flat, (approximately),  

  • diamond shape, palette knife,

  • water pot

  • table easels (or something to prop your canvas up as you work

  • mixing pallete

  • kitchen roll

  • apron/old clothes

  • hairdryers would be useful, though not essential