The monthly one day workshops take place from:
11 - 3pm on 21 July, 25 August and 15 September.
Best Friends pay £54 and Great Friends pay £57
These one day workshops will be site specific and include working between the beach and the studio to create different elements of your paintings.
Please wear clothing and footwear suitable for the beach and the weather conditions and let us know if you have mobility issues Kim will need to be aware of when booking.
21 July: Abstract Skyscapes
The focus for this workshop is on the sky as a subject matter but interpreted abstractly; Using shapes, colours, and textures to convey the feeling or mood of different skies. Kim will encourage you to use free paint techniques to capture the energy and changeability.
25 August : Salt water abstract watercolour
Using the sea to co create work using the properties of salt with watercolors to capture interesting and unpredictable textures and patterns. The interaction between salt and watercolors can produce beautiful, organic abstract paintings.
15th September: Calm & Creative Mindful Abstract Painting
Create an abstract painting with a focus on mindfulness and the process of creation. Emphasis will be on the meditative aspects of art-making, such as expression, repetition, flow, and being present in the moment.
About Kim O'Neil
Kim graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA Hons Fine Art. Her notable tutors included Paul Eachus, Bill Henderson and Nooshin Farnid. She has exhibited in group shows, including exhibiting alongside Maggie Hamblin, Paula Rego and Annie Kevans. Her work has sold to many private collections including Justin King of Sainsburys supermarkets and Robinson of Jigsaw. Kim has had several large solo shows in Central London. Her current paintings feature idiosyncratic paint techniques in the form of sophisticated, multi layered abstracts. They are the response to certain environments and usually made on location, in the dirt, sand and sea. Not the end result of study, but part of an experience; rejoicing in the dirt, using organic resources to make the marks like scratching the paint on with sticks and thwacking paint on the canvas with blades of long grass, immersing a partly dried painting in the billowing waves of the beach surf and allowing the marks in the paint to made by the rain. Previous work has included monumental paintings of fragments of ephemera and documents and defaced, reworked, reimagined diagrams of the make torso.
Kim has 17 years’ experience as an educator, initially teaching A level Art before establishing her own independent art school ‘Paint Modern,’ based in Surrey. In more recent years she has specialised in teaching abstract painting and drawing at the newest incarnation of her private art school. Kim offers both actually and online classes in cutting edge abstract art.
Paint technologist and ambassador for Winsor & Newton and Liquitex since 2008, Kim has lectured and demonstrated on their behalf, so has expert knowledge of their products and their full potential. She has run workshops at London Graphic Centre, Great Art, Cass Art, and Jacksons in association with these brands, to name just a few. She has also lectured at Central Saint Martins UAL in partnership with Winsor & Newton. Art writing has also been another facet of Kim’s career and published work for Liquitex, Winsor and Newton, Ken Bromley, and London Graphic Centre’s blog.