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Swinton's 2026 Art Show - Gala Night & Saturday, Sunday.
We are proud to present a weekend-long exhibition celebrating the creativity, dedication, and growth of our student community. Featuring work from over 90 artists across five studios, this expansive show brings together painting, drawing, and mixed-media works created by artists at all stages of their learning journey.
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Colour Theory For Artists - February 2026
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You’ll explore how your paints behave and interact as you learn to mix colour with greater accuracy and intention. Through guided exercises, you’ll create clear, useful colour charts that deepen your understanding of value, temperature, and saturation—tools you can return to again and again in your studio practice.
Masterful Portraits - Drawing Course
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This portrait drawing class, taught by Ashley Gaboury, introduces students to the Andrew Loomis method, a clear and practical system for drawing the human head with confidence. Using simple shapes and proportions, students will learn how to construct the head from multiple angles before moving into features, expression, and rendering.
Capturing the Landscape: Fast, Fresh & Fearless - March 2026
Most of us enjoy the natural landscape, and sometimes stand in awe of its beauty. Some of us have tried to paint a landscape with some or little success. I’d like to teach you what I’ve learned to help you make a landscape painting you can be proud of. This class is based on the process of painting outdoors, in which it is essential to develop a strong composition, designate the appropriate values, and make the colour sparkle with the life of the scene before your eyes.
Evening Grosbeak - Acrylic Workshop
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This workshop is designed to introduce students to all the basics of acrylic painting. You will learn about different techniques in photo transfer to a painting support, colour mixing, lighting, values and more. With all this knowledge, you will create your own masterpiece of an Evening Grosbeak.
Heather Pant Happy Little Trees Workshop
Join me Artist Heather Pant for this informative and fun workshop and create with me Iconic Happy Little Trees using Acrylics on Canvas. Learn Heather's secret techniques and unique style in composition, depth, lighting and colour. Group and one on one instruction. All skill levels
Paint The Portrait in Oil - From a Photo
What makes a beautiful painting? This is one of the thought-provoking ‘ideas’ we’ll be exploring, in depth, in this challenging and eye-opening 2-Day workshop as we explore “Painting the Portrait”.
To achieve our goal, our primary focus will be to pay close attention to such major concepts as light and beautiful paint quality, while exploring a simplified approach to painting the portrait.
Heather Pant 3 Sister's Workshop
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Join Artist Heather Pant for this informative and fun workshop as we create the Iconic 3 Sisters Mountain using Acrylics on Canvas. Learn Heather's secret techniques and unique style in composition, depth, lighting and colour. Group and one-on-one instruction. All skill levels welcome.
Land, Sea & Sky Workshop
The focus of this workshop is on landscape composition and colour. You will create paintings of prairies, foothills, and seascapes distinguished by a harmonious play of light and colour in a bold and realistic style. Distinguished by force and beauty, reflecting the artist’s powerful vision and a philosophical, spiritual approach to his art.
Soapstone April 2026
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A fun and light approach to working with soapstone stone. You will carve your own piece of stone while Vance guides you through the process of shaping, carving and polishing, helping solve the challenges you encounter at each phase. Each student will come away from this workshop with a finished piece and with a better sense of how to see and execute in 3D. No skills are required other than to be willing to have fun!
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