Approaches to Landscapes

A class for anyone wishing to learn the rudiments or enhance their landscape drawing skills.

Spaces are limited so please book early to secure your place and spend a rewarding day drawing with one of Dorset’s most experienced portrait and life-drawing tutors.

Easels and boards are available. Please bring your preferred art materials, a sketchbook and a canvas/paper (whatever suits your way of working).

Light refreshments provided throughout the day but the café is closed so please bring a packed lunch.

Where possible, we will work outside but please also bring good quality images of landscapes to work from.

This is a class for age 18+ (ages 15-18 welcome to book if accompanied by a paying adult).

Biography

Tom Winter is an award winning Dorset-based artist whose practice spans oils, graphite, watercolour, linocut and intaglio etching. Combining traditional craftsmanship with a contemporary eye, his work is inspired by the transformative effect of light.

Tom has exhibited in The Royal Society of Portrait Painters and most recently was a finalist in Series 11 of Sky’s Landscape Artist of the Year which airs in January 2026. His work is included in the collections of Price Waterhouse Coopers, Railtrack,  and Rolling Stone, Ronnie Wood.

Alongside his own studio practice in landscape, still life and portraiture, Tom has taught life drawing for more than 25 years. He is a regular visiting tutor on the animation courses at Bournemouth University and at Arts University Bournemouth, where his teaching is renowned for its clarity, encouragement and deep understanding of the figure.