jane cockayne

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I organise and run many workshops for all abilities, mostly in Cheshire and the North West.
Please check the website regularly for updates and future workshops.
If you would like me to forward information on new events please send me your name and email address.

WINTER / SPRING PROGRAMME 2026

These will be held at:
THE READING ROOM, UPPER HIBBERT LANE, HAWK GREEN, SK6 7HX

*** PLEASE NOTE:
A change of venue for our workshop on March 7th -
WHALLEY BRIDGE UNITING CHURCH HALL, BUXTON ROAD, WHALLEY BRIDGE, SK23 7HT

Saturday February 7th
DRAW / PAINT / CUT
10am - 4pm

This lively and creative workshop will start 2026!
Investigating a creative pathway will enable you to collect visual information from a series of artistic processes.
It will underpin the importance of ideas generation and in the broadest sense, the journey to a conclusion. The day will be experimental and outcomes diverse.
Observational drawing and mark making will provide an initial staring point, followed by an analytical process of selection, editing, re scaling, layering and so on.
Using a diverse range of materials & applications, concepts will be translated into wet & dry media, colour mixing, collage , 2D / 3D assemblages, thus giving you the opportunity to be as experimental as you wish.
Outcomes will occur via a unique and personal line of enquiry.
This workshop is suitable for people with any level of artistic ability, but particularly for someone who would like to develop a new pathway in their process or simply to have a lovely day exploring new ideas.
Help & advice will be available throughout the day.
Artist reference; Sara Breinlinger, Gillian Theobold, Terry Frost, Sandra Blow, Oscar Murillo etc

Cost £65, includes lots of materials, tuition, tea, coffee & biscuits.

*** Saturday March 7th
(Please note. Change of venue . ***See above)

ABOUT THIS TIME / WINTER, SPRING STILL LIFE
(using a limited palette)
10am - 4pm

As Winter turns to early Springtime, things begin to change!
Visually, we may be influenced by a more thoughtful and subtle palette.
This workshop will enable you to observe bulbs, buds, blossom, early vegetables and related objects etc in order to include form, colour and texture into our painting.
We will begin with both observational and investigative drawing in order seek out visual information. This will also enable us to notice the importance of composition, as in, where objects occur dynamically within a space.
Inspired by artists such as; Morandi, Ivon Hitchens, Winifred Nicholson, Kate Corbett Winder, Llewelyn Skye etc., we will move on to include the joyful process of assessing and mixing colour using a limited, subtle palette.
During the second part of the workshop, we will take this information forward and working from simple still life groups, produce a series of studies onto paper.
A further & more sustained approach may then be worked at a larger scale on paper or canvas if you wish.
This workshop is suitable for all abilities.
Tuition will be available throughout the day.

Cost £65, includes materials, tuition, tea, coffee & biscuits.

SATURDAY APRIL 11th
DRAWING A BALLET DANCER
10am - 4pm

I am delighted to be able to welcome back Evie to be our model for this workshop.
We will mostly plan the day around Evie's beautiful ballet processes (and energy levels!) as in basic warm ups, enabling quick, fluid responses, towards more sustained and perhaps classical poses later in the day.
There will be the potential to vary the pace, scale and media whilst responding to a highly trained moving figure.
Responses will include movement, grace, elegance and immense skill.
It will be a real treat!

Cost £65, includes, models fee, tuition, materials and refreshments.