Where Inspiration Blooms – Introduction to Oil Painting Seascapes
Venue: The Pavilion, Penn Street, Bucks, HP7 0PX
Cost: £50
Timing: 2:30- 5pm
Date: 20 June to 20 June 2026
Website: https://www.whereinspirationblooms.co.uk/product-page/introduction-to-oil-painting-seascapes
To book this class please click here – https://www.whereinspirationblooms.co.uk/product-page/introduction-to-oil-painting-seascapes
Local artist Jane Peacock has been running Oil Painting classes with us for over 2 years now and it is always so wonderful to see the incredible diversity and beauty of the works created by complete beginners as well as those with a wee bit of experience. The majority of the photos we have used to present this class are from previous students, so you can see how well Jane is able to help people capture the essence of what they want to paint.
Having run several landscape and natural scenes painting workshops, we are really pleased to be offering this more specific topic class so that you can really get into painting seascapes.
In this 2-and-a-half-hour class you are invited to use oil paints to create a natural seascape scene of your choice – it can also include a landscape or woodland scene, Chiltern fields, a big sky – whatever natural scene you want to capture in oils. We would encourage you to bring with you photos of your seascape so you can use them for reference, or you are equally welcome to just make one up from your own imagination!
Under Jane’s expert guidance, you will learn basic oil painting techniques. Jane will take you through what materials and equipment are best for beginners as well as how to care for them (oil painting can be trickier to clean up than water-based paints!). You will also learn basic composition techniques and tips and how to mix the right colour palettes for your painting. Jane’s a really enthusiastic, highly experienced and supportive teacher, so you’re in very encouraging yet safe hands. Everyone will leave with a oil painted seascape that they will be really proud of!
Jane Peacock lives and works just down the road from us in the Chiltern Hills, where the surrounding beechwoods, flint and chalk inspire her dreamlike, abstract landscapes. Her paintings, drawings, collages and prints explore deep time, ancestral traces and a bodily presence within the land.
She completed the New Platform Art Professional Development Programme (2024–2025), the Turps Correspondence Course (2022–2023) and a BA (Hons) Fine Art at Kingston University. Jane has been the Artist in Residence at Wycombe Museum, is a founding member of Fractured Land Collective, and has recently been invited to exhibit a number of her works in prominent exhibitions in London.