Gleanings is a new Rural Study Centre for Music, Art, Rural Crafts and the Natural World situated on our smallholding in the South Shroshire Hill - an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Converted from a farm building into a wooden sustainable centre with floor to ceiling windows giving panaramic views of the Stiperstones Hills. Here you can improve your skills and make new friends in a relaxed atmosphere. All lunches and snacks are home-made and included in the fee.

The aim of the course will be to build confidence and to introduce students to the possibilities of using charcoal as a medium. Both days will be fully tutored and will end with a discussion of the work completed during the day. The first day would consist of an introduction and exploration of materials working from an arrangement of objects. In the afternoon a large drawing will be undertaken. On the second day there will be a choice of working inside on a still life, or outside in locations around the house and gardens with a break for lunch at midday. Cost of course: £120 lunches, tea and coffee during course time.

Jenny Jones studied Painting in Florence, and at Shrewsbury and Farnham Art
Schools. She has won prizes for drawing and painting in England and Wales,
and has had paintings in both the 2006 and 2008 biennial Wales Portrait
Award exhibitions.
She has taken part in Television programmes on painting, and represented
Wales at the Interceltic Festival in Brittany in 1996.
She makes her living Painting, and over the last ten years has illustrated
books for Macmillan, Bloomsbury, and Pavillion.

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