Teaching

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Classes

Edinburgh:

Colour Bootcamp at The Edinburgh Drawing School - 26/09/25 - 21/11/25

Understanding how your palette works and how to mix colours to achieve the effects you want is a foundational skill in painting and this class aims to provide students with a firm grounding in that skill. Join me at EDS as we explore a simple 3 colour palette, and work through a series of colour mixing and matching exercises, as well as some simple still life paintings to help level-up your colour-mixing game.

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Portrait Painting at The Edinburgh Drawing School - 26/09/25 - 21/11/25

Join me at the Edinburgh Drawing School to learn portraiture using my direct, alla prima approach. I break the portrait down into steps, showing how to develop a realistic rendering of the human head from a simple statement of light and shadow. Suitable for beginners and seasoned veterans alike, students will work in work in progressively more complex stages, starting in monotone before gradually working their way up to full, naturalistic colour.

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Workshops

The Solway Firth en Plein Air 2026 - Dates TBC

I’ll be returning to beautiful Auchencairn House in Galloway in the Summer of 2026 to teach another 5-day landscape painting retreat on the stunning Solway Coast. Dates are yet to be confirmed, so check back regularly - or better yet, sign up to my mailing list - to be notified when bookings for this, or other workshops, become available.

Demos

I do several live demos throughout the year, so the list below is sure to be added to over the coming months. As always, sign up to my mailing list if you want to receive timely and up-to-date information about future events.

2025

  • Troon Art Club - 1st October, 7pm - 9pm, Troon Primary School

  • Ayr Sketch Club - 3rd November, 7pm - 9pm, Alloway Village Hall

2026

  • PAINT OFF! with Ewan McClure at Lochgreen House Hotel and Spa near Troon - 17th June, 10am - 12 pm, followed by a two course lunch with wine.

This is a special event, organised as part of the West Coast Canvas Arts Festival, in which II’ll face off against my pal Ewan in a live portrait sketch duel—same model, same stage, two competing artistic visions. Blood and guts TBC.