MYSTERIOUS AND INTRIGUING LANDSCAPES

On Saturday 22nd October, the Warminster Park Community Centre was turned into a busy art workshop for the day as Jan Nesbit from Rode in Somerset treated members of The Art Society to a day of tuition in painting techniques.  Jan showed the students how to apply a wet in wet watercolour wash as a back ground, and then layer crayons, pencils and watercolour to express the natural landscape in a mysterious and intriguing style. In the afternoon, there was the opportunity to experiment with this technique using some personal visual material as a basis for a piece of art work with some wonderful results.

Jan Nesbit has painted all her life and gained a BA Hons degree in fine Art at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham.  For twenty years Jan worked freelance and full time as a children's illustrator for at least thirty British publishers.  Now working from her home as a full time painter again, Jan celebrates the natural world around her, seeking to express the natural truths she finds there everyday.  Jan gives classes for beginners and experts alike around her kitchen table at her home in Rode.

Warminster Art Society has an exhibition of work for sale at the Warminster Library from 8th November.