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From £150 plus travel
Beach Life
Pastel Workshop
The Ashmolean Museum
Oxford.
Fri 25 – Sat 26 Sep 2026, 10.30am–4pm
Two-day practical session in the Ashmolean Learning Studio.
Tickets are £210 for the two days. Booking is essential.
You will learn how to blend strong colours and layer pastels to develop bands of colour, while looking at colour composition as well and contrast and balance.
Your final piece will be in diptych or triptych form complementing and strengthening the dramatic horizontal layers of sand, sea and sky.
BOOK DIRECT WITH THE ASHMOLEAN
What do you want to do?
Workshops could include...exploring seascapes, creating dramatic skies, sunsets, texture and clouds. I use pastels, but I also work in charcoal- come and find out how...
PLEASE NOTE
access to the studio is via a set of uneven stone steps with a handrail.
I have 2 dogs at home. Toilet is in house.
Sandra Orme Sky Studio, 26 Rock Bank, Buxton. SK17 9JF
CLIENTS INCLUDE
Unison Colour Pastels
The Ashmolean Musuem
Field Breaks
Brantwood Trust, Conniston
High Peak Commuinity Arts
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Derbyshire County Council
Marple Art Society
Stockport Art Guild
Ruffod Art Society
Derby High School
Harpur Hill Primary School