Tutor - Jill Carter

1-day workshop

Saturday 12 September 2026, 10.30am - 4.30pm 

Explore creative approaches to portraiture using life model and ourselves inspired by expressive visual narratives.

Experiment with colour and mixed media, inks, watercolours, pen, aqua crayons and collage to create poetic and playful portraits. Develop confidence in your own unique gestural mark and image making, drawing inspiration from contemporary portrait artists, for instance, Frida Kahlo, Basquiat and Rose Wylie.

This workshop will have a range of studio materials to hand, but you may also wish to bring along favourite art materials and graphic material, such as old drawings, paintings, pages of magazines.

Jill says “I love intuitive storytelling portraiture, exploring identity, discovering what happens with different art materials, surfaces, media and colours, allowing a space for us to bridge worlds between observation, documentation, abstraction and playful imagination"

Please wear clothes and footwear suitable for a studio environment, and bring a bag or portfolio for taking work home with you.

Suitable for all abilities.

Buying as a gift?

When buying a course or workshop you will be automatically emailed a confirmation which you can print off and include in a card for your loved one. Gift vouchers can also be bought if you aren't sure which course they would prefer. Please email us the name and email address of the person attending on drawingschool@rwa.org.uk 

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Participants must be 18 or over.

If eligible, discounts must be applied when first purchasing your class and cannot be given retrospectively. Please contact us if the discount code is not working.

If you have a disability, learning difficulty or mental health issue which you feel may affect your participation in your chosen class, please either email drawingschool@rwa.org.uk or call 07745694563, prior to booking, so we are aware of any needs you may have.

Refund/transfer and Cancellation Policy: We are unable to offer full or part cash refunds, but you are eligible for an RWA gift voucher or transfer, minus an admin fee*, provided you notify us more than 14 days before the start of your class with us. If we cancel a course or workshop for any reason, then participants will be offered a different date, course/workshop or RWA gift voucher. 

*Admin fee for courses £25, Admin fee for workshops £15