Date: Friday 31 July, Saturday 1 August & Sunday 2 August 2026
Time: 18:00 - 21:00 pm
Venue: The Gallery at Green & Stone
Tickets: £320 (Includes £25 Green and Stone Voucher)
Beyond the Figure
Each participant will receive a complimentary set of 24 full-stick Inscribe pastels with their Ticket, along with Pastel paper for the Day.
Each participants ticket includes a £25 voucher for use at Green and Stone.
Join us this Summer Exhibition for an intensive life drawing workshop with artist Celia Liberace. Across three sessions, she will guide you through her process of drawing the figure. Working from a live model throughout, you will learn both the foundations of classical drawing, representing form in dry media through a sustained sketching practice, and explore experimental ideas, such as detecting and translating points of tension and release within the body as a means of building narrative. These are Celia's own, unique methods for breathing life into otherwise static figures.
Open to all abilities, the workshop moves from quick gestural studies toward sustained, fully resolved drawings, with close attention paid to each participant's individual approach throughout.
Session One Begin with an introduction to Celia, the workshop's goals, and materials, followed by a demonstration in gesture drawing. You'll practise multiple short poses while exploring the key concepts that bring a gesture to life: gravity, motion, counterpoise, simplification, C- and S-curves, and direction. The pace then slows as we move into more structured work, introducing proportion and methods of measuring, and begin approaching a longer pose.
Session Two Turn to what creates narrative and figurative interaction. A short sketchbook tour opens the session, followed by an exploration of composing the body within the space of the sheet. You'll dig into the more visceral qualities of figure drawing: mapping points of tension and release, and learning to reveal and conceal parts of the figure to direct focus. In practice, the session follows the same rhythm as Day One: warm-up gestures building toward a longer, sustained drawing on a larger sheet, carried across the remaining two sessions.
Session Three Some gestural warm-up leads into an extended period dedicated to finishing your larger drawings. Focus shifts to rendering value, transitioning between figure and space, merging features, hatching, and using mark-making to create direction and focus, culminating in confident, considered abbreviation.
By the end of the three days, you'll leave with a body of work, a sharpened eye, and a deeper understanding of how to build a figure drawing from instinct through to resolution.
Details
Dates: 31 July – 2 August
Time: 6–9pm each day
Format: 3 sessions x 3 hours, working from a live model throughout
Suitable for: All abilities
Group size: Limited to 10 participants, with 1-to-1 support throughout
Price: £320 (includes a £25 Green & Stone voucher) All levels are welcome.
All art materials are provided by Green & Stone.
Date: Friday 31 July, Saturday 1 August & Sunday 2 August 2026
Time: 18:00 - 21:00 pm
Venue: The Gallery at Green & Stone
Tickets: £320 (Includes £25 Green and Stone Voucher)
Beyond the Figure
Each participant will receive a complimentary set of 24 full-stick Inscribe pastels with their Ticket, along with Pastel paper for the Day.
Each participants ticket includes a £25 voucher for use at Green and Stone.
Join us this Summer Exhibition for an intensive life drawing workshop with artist Celia Liberace. Across three sessions, she will guide you through her process of drawing the figure. Working from a live model throughout, you will learn both the foundations of classical drawing, representing form in dry media through a sustained sketching practice, and explore experimental ideas, such as detecting and translating points of tension and release within the body as a means of building narrative. These are Celia's own, unique methods for breathing life into otherwise static figures.
Open to all abilities, the workshop moves from quick gestural studies toward sustained, fully resolved drawings, with close attention paid to each participant's individual approach throughout.
Session One Begin with an introduction to Celia, the workshop's goals, and materials, followed by a demonstration in gesture drawing. You'll practise multiple short poses while exploring the key concepts that bring a gesture to life: gravity, motion, counterpoise, simplification, C- and S-curves, and direction. The pace then slows as we move into more structured work, introducing proportion and methods of measuring, and begin approaching a longer pose.
Session Two Turn to what creates narrative and figurative interaction. A short sketchbook tour opens the session, followed by an exploration of composing the body within the space of the sheet. You'll dig into the more visceral qualities of figure drawing: mapping points of tension and release, and learning to reveal and conceal parts of the figure to direct focus. In practice, the session follows the same rhythm as Day One: warm-up gestures building toward a longer, sustained drawing on a larger sheet, carried across the remaining two sessions.
Session Three Some gestural warm-up leads into an extended period dedicated to finishing your larger drawings. Focus shifts to rendering value, transitioning between figure and space, merging features, hatching, and using mark-making to create direction and focus, culminating in confident, considered abbreviation.
By the end of the three days, you'll leave with a body of work, a sharpened eye, and a deeper understanding of how to build a figure drawing from instinct through to resolution.
Details
Dates: 31 July – 2 August
Time: 6–9pm each day
Format: 3 sessions x 3 hours, working from a live model throughout
Suitable for: All abilities
Group size: Limited to 10 participants, with 1-to-1 support throughout
Price: £320 (includes a £25 Green & Stone voucher) All levels are welcome.
All art materials are provided by Green & Stone.
