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This weekend, sees the Flower Festival and Open Gardens in Easton, 17 -19 June 2022.. Visit this gorgeous garden full of June flowers

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14 Jun 2022 Kirstin White

The Art Exhibition at Easton Flower Festival & Open Gardens

The Art Exhibition at Easton Flower Festival & Open Gardens is at The Barn, The Farmyard, Easton Lane, Easton, WINCHESTER, Hampshire, SO21 1EQ

The event is open on Friday 17th, Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th June 2022, from 11 am to 4 pm.

Entry to the festival is £10 per adult, and children are free.

Art Exhibition at Easton, Winchester, Hampshire, UK.

There is to be an Art Exhibition at Easton! Artists, Kirstin White, Jules Hoffman, Jonathan Chapman, Emma Lowres, and Jean Wheeler will all be exhibiting their artwork as part of the Flower Festival & Open Gardens.

The Flower Festival & Open Gardens 🌻🌻🌻 is in aid of St Mary’s Easton Building Project @stmaryseastonbuildingproject

Hanging a watercolour by Kirstin White, showing the garden at Wheelwrights Cottage in Easton

Whats happening?

As well as the selling Art Exhibition, there will be nine open private gardens, ample parking, a refreshment area, Kenyan baskets for sale, and a cake stall. 🙂 Do come and visit the gorgeous garden shown below. The garden is brim-full of June flowers, and adjoins the barn where the art exhibition is being held; it is a delight to explore.

Follow the links for more about the contributing artists: Jonathan Chapman, Emma Lowres, Kirstin White, Jules Hoffman , Jean Wheeler .

*Jean Wheeler with her artwork at the hanging of the Flower and Gardens Art Exhibition in Easton 2022*

*Hanging a watercolour by Kirstin White which shows a pretty cottage in Abbotsworthy*

*Jonathan Chapman and Emma Lowres at the hanging of the Flower and Garden Art Exhibition in Easton 2022*

*Jules Hoffman delivering her artwork to the Flower and Gardens Art Exhibition in Easton 2022*

The Flower Festival & Open Gardens, 17 – 19 June 2022, 11 am to 4 pm, includes an Art Exhibition at The Barn, The Farmyard, Easton Lane, Easton, Winchester, Hampshire, SO21 1EQ

There will be an
inspiring Art Exhibition
at the Flower Festival
& Open Gardens!

Preparing for Easton Flower Gardens Art Exhibition — Preparations for the Art Exhibition at
Easton Flower Festival & Open Gardens

More exhibitons

If you enjoy this June art exhibition, you may like to visit some other local art shows in future? If so, please look out for the many Hampshire Open Studios exhibitions, which run every summer. Several of the artists exhibiting at the barn this weekend will next be showing their artwork in August, during Hampshire Open Studios, week. Hampshire Open Studios this year is on 20 – 29 August 2022.

Additionally, some of the local artists whose work you see at the Flower Festival & Open Gardens 2022 will later be showing pictures on the weekend of 26 -27 November 2022, at Bursledon Art Society,

Be sure to also see
the inspiring Art Exhibition
in the barn, adjoining
this delightful display of
garden roses.

St Mary's Church in Easton — St Mary’s Church in Easton will be festooned with flowers for the festival.

St Mary’s Easton Building Project

The Flower Festival & Open Gardens will be at St Mary's Church in Easton — The Flower Festival & Open Gardens will start at St Mary’s Church in Easton

You should know that the Festival is in aid of the Easton St Mary’s Building Foundation – raising money to make improvements to the beautiful village church. Please come along and support us. Everyone welcome!!

Rosa 'Happy Retirement' looking gorgeous in an Easton garden open this weekend

Rosa ‘Happy Retirement’,
looking gorgeous in an Easton garden
which is amongst those which are
open this weekend, 17 – 19 June

Weekly Art Lessons

Kirstin White runs weekly art lessons in the adjoining village of Martyr Worthy. The next set of lessons begin in September 2022. Come along then, and learn to draw and paint in watercolour!

A delivery to The Cricketers Inn in Easton — The friendly Cricketers Inn in Easton will be open as usual and is serving hot meals.

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20 May 2022 Kirstin White

Watercolour classes in June and July 2022

Watercolour classes in June and July 2022 will be a mixture of indoors an outdoor sessions. Watercolour classes in May 2022, got outside as much as possible weather permitting. For many, these were the first times that they had painted en plein air in watercolour. Well done, everybody!

Thinking of learning watercolour painting?

Be bold! Give it a go! 🙂

Bursledon watercolour class — Bursledon Watercolour Class

Bursledon Watercolour Painting Class

Venue:-
GAF, School Road, Bursledon, Near Southampton, Hampshire, SO301 8BX.

Watercolour lessons and drawing classes with Kirstin White
Subject to availability:-
Tuesday (Mixed Level) 2 pm – 4 pm. GAF 2022

There are also Occasional Saturday Workshops in Martyr Worthy. SAT

In May 2022, the Bursledon watercolour painting class visited, Lands End Road, Bursledon, also the grass triangle near popular waterside pub, The Jolly Sailor and additionally, the village green. Here there is a red post box, an antique red telephone box , and a spectacular view of the River Hamble! So much to paint and draw!

The Martyr Worthy, during May, the various watercolour painting classes painted at several different locations. We worked at a distinctive local barn, at the church at Martyr Worthy and also beside the beautiful River Itchen. During June and July 2022, classes will be held both indoors and outdoors so as consolidate the en plein air work.

Martyr Worthy Watercolour Class

Venue:-
Martyr Worthy Village Hall, Church Lane, Martyr Worthy, Near Winchester, Hampshire, SO21 1DY

Watercolour lessons and drawing classes with Kirstin White
Subject to availability, choose from:-

Wednesday (Intermediate level) 10 am to 12 pm. (1) 2022MW1
Wednesday (Mixed level, including beginners) 12.45 pm to 2.45 pm. (2) 2022MW2

Thursday (Advanced level) 10 am to 12 pm. (4) 2022MW4
Thursday (Mixed level, including beginners) 1 pm to 3 pm. (5) 2022MW5

There are also Occasional Saturday Workshops in Martyr Worthy. SAT

Watercolour painting class in Martyr Worthy

For outdoor painting, you will need a wide brimmed hat and bottles of water. The water is both to drink and to paint with. Portable easels are provided by your tutor, Kirstin White.

Your pack should include three basic watercolours. Kirstin prefers Winsor and Newton Artists’ Watercolours, and so specifies watercolour tubes of:- 1. Winsor Yellow, 2. Permanent Rose and 3. Winsor Blue (Green Shade). You will also want a red sable brush size 12, and also a smaller brush of around a size 4. Bring a daisy well mixing pallet, with large sections, so the you can easily get sufficient water onto your watercolour paper during summer conditions.

A Martyr Worthy Watercolour Painting Class

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22 Apr 2022 Kirstin White

Spring term

Are spring sunshine, bluebell woods, and seashores making you wish you knew how to draw and paint? In Hampshire, I have spring term watercolour classes waiting for you to join.

Click on your prefered time and find out more about which will work for you, or contact me directly to discuss your plans.

Holiday booked? Subject to availability, there is an option to swap to a different class, should there be weeks when you are unable to attend your regular session.

You will learn how to use watercolour paint, both indoors and out. The live lessons will help you to bring out your natural creativity as well as develop both your drawing and your painting skills. Classes are fun, sociable and a good place to make new friends.

In the spring term, when the weather is suitable we will make the most of our wonderful Hampshire venues and venture outside to work. The studio bases will remain open whenever you want a break, with tea and coffee always available.

In less clement weather, we will discover new tips, tricks, and techniques as well as review our progress so far and learn from one another’s painting experiences.

Classes follow Hampshire County School Holiday Dates. If you cant make this set, our next half term starts the week beginning 6th June 2022.

Lovely watercolour landscapes by members of my art classes

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13 Mar 2022 Kirstin White

Lovely Watercolour Landscapes

Lovely watercolour landscapes by members of my art classes. We combined elements of a photograph that I took while in Devon, with design inspiration from oil paintings by the Scottish Colourist, J. D. Fergusson (1874 – 1961).

If you would like to join a weekly class, or perhaps come to a Saturday workshop, please get in touch. 🙂

Learn more about J. D Fergusson at National Galleries Scotland or The Scottish Gallery. If you are interested in art history, come and enjoy the rolling series of Art History Lectures in Martyr Worthy Village Hall. New artists are added to the programme, seasonally.

The Art Exhibition at Easton Flower Festival & Open Gardens

The Art Exhibition at Easton Flower Festival & Open Gardens is at The Barn, The Farmyard, Easton Lane, Easton, WINCHESTER, Hampshire, SO21 1EQ