studio info
workshops
Book a bespoke studio session on a topic or your choice. Book individual tuition or with friends- up to 4 people.
Art group workshops run for classes up to 30 people.
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​From £35 an hour.
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2 hour step by step demos or half day/full day workshops in pastel or charcoal for your art groups or society. Themes to suit your group and a range of topics available.
From £150 plus travel​​
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Spring Showers Pastel Workshop
The Ashmolean Museum
Oxford.
July 24th & 25th 2026
Spend two days with award winning pastel artist Sandra Orme exploring using pastels to create cloudy skies and dramatic weather, evoking the contrast of sunshine and showers.
You will use layers of pastel on specialist paper to develop land and seascapes and learn how to control light and dark, realistic three dimensional clouds, and cloudburst effects.
You will learn how to mix complex and contrasting colours, along with building layers to using mark making to evoke texture, shape and form
2 day workshop
BOOK DIRECT WITH THE ASHMOLEAN
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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
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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.
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Sandra Orme Sky Studio, 26 Rock Bank, Buxton. SK17 9JF
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CLIENTS INCLUDE
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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
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