Rosie Maccurrach | Pattern, place and the River | Friday 12th September - Sunday 14th September 2025
A 3 day workshop
9:30am - 4pm
10 places
This is the third year that artist, printer and textile designer Rosie Maccurach will be coming up to teach a NEW 3 day workshop exploring personal interpretations and responses to the local landscape and water through drawing from observation.
Looking at pattern, composition and connection with the landscape, river and lakes, Rosie will guide you through the course, encouraging you to identify what you are looking for and what moves you about the landscape. This year you will also be learning how to tackle drawing water by looking at the River Tees and how it cuts through the landscape and your composition.
This course works well for first timers and for those who have already done one of Rosie’s courses. It will begin with an exploration of pattern and mark making and move on to exploring composition, and using these as a tool to convey atmosphere and a sense of place culminating in a final longer piece at the end of the course.
Excitingly this year you will be working on a collaborative, group composition, guided gently by Rosie you will work closely together in a group where you will experience first hand the benefits of peer to peer learning and teaching as you draw and create.
This workshop is suitable for all levels from beginners to professionals although a degree of prior drawing experience is helpful.
Homemade lunch and refreshments will be served everyday in the Walled Garden and newly renovated Potting Sheds.
You will need to bring:
A2 pad of mid weight cartridge paper
Pencils (softer ones are best) 2B-8B,
Folding camp chair for working outside
4 Jam jars with lids for water and ink or any water-tight small pots
All other Art materials and refreshments will be provided by We Are Wild.
Further detailed information about the course will be sent out on booking or by request.
Bed and Breakfast or Self-catering accommodation available. Please get in touch for prices and more information.
A 3 day workshop
9:30am - 4pm
10 places
This is the third year that artist, printer and textile designer Rosie Maccurach will be coming up to teach a NEW 3 day workshop exploring personal interpretations and responses to the local landscape and water through drawing from observation.
Looking at pattern, composition and connection with the landscape, river and lakes, Rosie will guide you through the course, encouraging you to identify what you are looking for and what moves you about the landscape. This year you will also be learning how to tackle drawing water by looking at the River Tees and how it cuts through the landscape and your composition.
This course works well for first timers and for those who have already done one of Rosie’s courses. It will begin with an exploration of pattern and mark making and move on to exploring composition, and using these as a tool to convey atmosphere and a sense of place culminating in a final longer piece at the end of the course.
Excitingly this year you will be working on a collaborative, group composition, guided gently by Rosie you will work closely together in a group where you will experience first hand the benefits of peer to peer learning and teaching as you draw and create.
This workshop is suitable for all levels from beginners to professionals although a degree of prior drawing experience is helpful.
Homemade lunch and refreshments will be served everyday in the Walled Garden and newly renovated Potting Sheds.
You will need to bring:
A2 pad of mid weight cartridge paper
Pencils (softer ones are best) 2B-8B,
Folding camp chair for working outside
4 Jam jars with lids for water and ink or any water-tight small pots
All other Art materials and refreshments will be provided by We Are Wild.
Further detailed information about the course will be sent out on booking or by request.
Bed and Breakfast or Self-catering accommodation available. Please get in touch for prices and more information.
A 3 day workshop
9:30am - 4pm
10 places
This is the third year that artist, printer and textile designer Rosie Maccurach will be coming up to teach a NEW 3 day workshop exploring personal interpretations and responses to the local landscape and water through drawing from observation.
Looking at pattern, composition and connection with the landscape, river and lakes, Rosie will guide you through the course, encouraging you to identify what you are looking for and what moves you about the landscape. This year you will also be learning how to tackle drawing water by looking at the River Tees and how it cuts through the landscape and your composition.
This course works well for first timers and for those who have already done one of Rosie’s courses. It will begin with an exploration of pattern and mark making and move on to exploring composition, and using these as a tool to convey atmosphere and a sense of place culminating in a final longer piece at the end of the course.
Excitingly this year you will be working on a collaborative, group composition, guided gently by Rosie you will work closely together in a group where you will experience first hand the benefits of peer to peer learning and teaching as you draw and create.
This workshop is suitable for all levels from beginners to professionals although a degree of prior drawing experience is helpful.
Homemade lunch and refreshments will be served everyday in the Walled Garden and newly renovated Potting Sheds.
You will need to bring:
A2 pad of mid weight cartridge paper
Pencils (softer ones are best) 2B-8B,
Folding camp chair for working outside
4 Jam jars with lids for water and ink or any water-tight small pots
All other Art materials and refreshments will be provided by We Are Wild.
Further detailed information about the course will be sent out on booking or by request.
Bed and Breakfast or Self-catering accommodation available. Please get in touch for prices and more information.
This course will have a strong focus on learning to look for patterns, textures and rhythms within landscape; identifying shapes, space and compostions. Drawing with pencils, charcoal and ink, you will explore different ways of interpreting your surroundings through experimental mark making. You will also look at how you choose what to draw, pulling out of the scene the patterns and shapes that pull you in. You will explore composition as the counterweight to pattern. Every day will begin with a group introduction and throughout the day Rosie will offer 1:1 support as you work as well as several group discussions and reviews. Day 1 will focus on pattern, Day 2 composition and Day 3 combining pattern, composition and a figure in landscape in a longer finished composition.
By the end of the course, you will have a series of short sketches and some more finished pieces. You will also begin to know how to identify what you are looking for in a drawing, and what moves you about a specific place or landscape and how composition and pattern play their part in this. You will have a range of marks to equip you to tackle any landscape or garden.
Rosie MacCurrach is an Artist and Textile designer, she graduated from Chelsea College of Art in 2003 with a BA 1st in Textile Design, specialising in print. Rosie has since worked as a print designer and artist in Fashion, Illustration, Theatre, Film and more recently Interiors, working as Head of Studio and designer at Fermoie until 2021. She spent a postgraduate year at the Royal Drawing School, and a year as Artist in Residence at Great Dixter House and Garden. She has been a visiting lecturer at Chelsea College of Art, and taught at The National Theatre, The Royal School of Drawing, Great Dixter House and Garden, and currently teaches at Hampshire Art and West Dean College of Art.