Masterclass Series 2026: Colour and Composition #2 with Michael Muir

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Due to popular demand, we are excited to present a 2nd masterclass with Michael Muir.

Join Michael for an intimate, 5-hour session as he shares his unique insights, skills and distinctive approach to painting vibrant landscapes. With a focus on the elements of colour, form and composition, participants will paint their preferred landscape - it may be urban, coastal or rural and may be drawn from global travel destinations.

Michael has developed a painting practice that is deeply responsive to the experience of moving between places and countries. Destinations encountered through travel become vehicles through which he explores perception, belonging and the emotional experience of landscape. Architecture, vegetation, light, colour and human activity become fragments from which he constructs a new visual experience.

Michael will demonstrate preliminary techniques for using gouache or acrylic and explore the simplification of shapes, harmonising colour and tone, and consider forms within the picture. Discussion will also cover aspects of composition and the various approaches possible.

Participants will be led through initial drawing and painting studies then develop their own work with the aim of finishing a completed study in colour alongside line and tone compositional drawings.

This session will take place in the gallery alongside the exhibition, Michael Muir: The Shape of Colour and break for a light lunch (included). Tea and coffee is also available.