Abigail Waddell – Studio Valdus

5 – 7 September 2025

Landscape MasterClass

Cours en anglais / course in English

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ABOUT THE COURSE

Landscape MasterClass

A three day course designed to improve your approach to painting Landscapes and Skyscapes in oils

The course will be studio based, with daily demonstrations , structured exercises, and one to one feedback and support aimed at producing a landscape painting each day.

Day 1 will focus on composition, tone, and colour families for landscape painting, aiming to complete a simple landscape painting in the afternoon.

Day 2 will focus on skyscapes- Abigail’s favourite- with demos, tips and tricks to enhance your painting of skies and clouds at different times of the day, and plenty of time to put this into practise using source photos provided (or your own if you prefer).

On our last day we will discuss the differences between painting from photos and painting en plein air. We will spend the morning by the lakeside to work on composition, and to sketch and collect visual information to take back to use in the studio to complete our final painting in the afternoon. We can discuss how to take painting en plein air forward at a later date, including advice on a simple approach, and what kit you may need

ABOUT THE TUTOR

Abigail Waddell

Landscape Artist

I’m a contemporary landscape artist painting in oils.

I paint mainly plein air and sketch out most days. I then bring all of those oil sketches and my experiences of the day back to the studio to finish them off and create larger works. The studio is in beautiful countryside a stone’s throw from the Thames path, and a few minutes from the Cotswold Sculpture Park! I offer studio visits and workshops on site. Do contact me for a visit to see my studio and paintings

My main focus is on the relationship between the light on the land/ sea and the light in the sky. Cloud watching is meditative, the light dictates the mood of the piece, I aim to bring the experience of the whole day back to the viewer .

I live in the Cotswolds, and paint mainly local landscapes, inspired when out and about walking in local fields, villages and towns. I also paint scenes from my favourite places in the UK in particular NW Scotland (where I have spent every summer for the past 25 years), Wales, Devon and Cornwall.

Main Prizes, Exhibitions and Galleries

-Malvern Plein Air 2024- Winner Landscape Category-

-British Art Prize, 2022 . Winner People’s Choice Award

-British Contemporary Art Award 2021 Overall Winner

-Gloucester ‘’Art in the City’’ Winner First Prize Plein Air Competition 2017

-Nov 2024 Mall Galleries, London- Art for Youth Exhibition

-Cotswold Sculpture Park 2024- present work available now!

-Spencer House Gallery, Tetbury 2022- present work available now!

-Britishcontemporary.art on line gallery 2021- present- Work available now!

-Affordable Art Gallery, Burford Garden Co. 2016-2023

-National Trust Chedworth Roman Villa 2017-18 and Artist in residence 2019

-The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival Art exhibition, Gardens Gallery 2018