Watercolour Landscape Painting Tuition
In The UK and Online With Jem Bowden

It is rewarding to help people with their painting and I provide various types of tuition. I teach one-to-one either in my home studio (in Crail, Fife), online (via Teams) or in the great outdoors (‘en plein air’).  I also offer instructional videos, lead residential painting holidays/courses, run shorter-format workshops and give demonstrations or illustrated talks around the UK.  The latter can also be effectively done online (via Zoom) so distance is no object.
Have a look at the sections below for more information about how you can learn watercolour painting with me.  Click through from each section for further details, and if I can help with anything then please get in touch.

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Courses & Residential Painting Holidays

 

If you like the idea of spending a good chunk of serious creative time in inspiring surroundings to develop your painting, then please have a look at the courses (or ‘painting holidays’) that I’m teaching.  For non-residential tuition of shorter duration please see Workshops.

'Landscape Watercolour; plein air and studio', Dedham Hall, 12th-19th April 2025

Dedham Hall, CO7 6AD
12/04/2025 - 19/04/2025
On this course our time will be divided equally between the studio and painting in the field, allowing for development of watercolour technique and an immersive experience in visual observation and experience of the landscape.

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PAINTING HOLIDAYS

Video Tuition For Watercolour Landscape Painting

I have two instructional videos, ‘Plein Air Painting’ and ‘Studio Painting’.   Both videos are over two hours in duration (too long for a DVD) and are available to purchase for download.
For full details on each, and to watch the previews, please click the button below.

VIDEO TUITION

Watercolour Painting Workshops

I teach some one and two-day workshops each year at well-known establishments around the country.  These are carefully structured introductions to my approach to painting.  They may include demonstrations, ‘exercises’, guided or step-by-step painting, as well as some important analysis and reflection.
Tackling a challenge without expectation, simply seeing it as an ‘exciting adventure’, is I believe the best way to learn and develop as a painter, so I feel you shouldn’t be taking home a masterpiece, but rather some useful ideas to work with.  See below for upcoming workshops.

Workshops at Art Groups

I also regularly visit art groups and societies around the country.  Please get in touch if you would like to discuss this.

Introduction to Watercolour (part of Crail Festival 2024)

Crail, Fife, Scotland
22/07/2024 - 22/07/2024
Introduction to Watercolours; a one-day workshop. Maximum of 10 participants, so early booking is advised. Suitable for beginners and those wanting a refresher, this is a carefully structured workshop, where you will be introduced to the key traditional techniques of the watercolour medium, before producing a simple but effective landscape scene. Continual step-by-step demonstrations, and good quality materials, equipment and references will be provided. It will be an immersive day. Please bring with you a packed lunch and a bag for taking your work home afterwards (several sheets of paper). £30 to include all materials and tuition! (A lot cheaper than normal, due to it being a community event.) Crail Legion Hall 10am - 4pm Tickets available from Crail Festival website (not me!) from April 26th 2024. Please get in touch before booking if you have any questions.

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Painting Workshops

One-To-One Watercolour Painting Tuition In Fife And Online (worldwide, time-zone allowing)

For many people there is no better way of learning than through dedicated one-to-one tuition.  This is based either at my home studio in Crail, Fife (Scotland), in the great outdoors (also known as ‘en plein air’) or online via Teams (worldwide)

One-To-One Painting Tuition

Watercolour Painting Demonstrations & Talks

Please note I can now also give demonstrations online via Zoom, so distance is no object.
In demonstration I aim to explain the main principles I typically work to, show the range of techniques I use and the energy I put into my painting. I really like these occasions to be as sociable and ‘interactive’ as possible, so no need to hold back on the heckling.  I can even take you outside, with my ‘virtual plein air’ demos.
Presentations/Talks
As well as demonstrations I also have a Teams-based ‘presentation’ all about plein air painting.  This is highly illustrated and wide ranging, covering all aspects and issues associated with the practice of painting outdoors.  It features hundreds of photos, brief sections of video and even a quick look at some ‘apps’ useful in the planning of excursions.  You’ll feel you’re almost literally being taken out on a painting trip.  Or rather,  several, and in the full range of weather, but from the comfort of your home.
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Articles & Writing

Since 2014 I’ve been a contributor to Leisure Painter magazine, always working to ensure my articles are of practical benefit to the reader (see: http://www.painters-online.co.uk/ for more info). In the past I’ve also written for New Artist, Paint & Draw, and Paint (magazine of the SAA; Society for All Artists). In 2016 I wrote/designed the current ‘Watercolour Diploma’ course for London Art College.
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Contact Me

If you’d like to contact me to discuss purchasing original watercolour paintings, arranging tuition, attending a painting holiday or for any other reason, then please feel free to email or call me and of course you can also network with me on social media.

E: contact@jembowdenwatercolour.co.uk
T: 0117 9711735

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