In this workshop, participants will learn some tips and tricks for drawing the outside world from observation.

Drawing landscapes is a meditative way to spend time outside and connect yourself to your surroundings. This workshop is for any skill level, and is a great way to get into drawing.

About your Creative Guide:

Gillian Coulton’s work is an ever-evolving conversation with the rural landscape and contemporary painting. Coulton is an MFA graduate from the University of Calgary originally from rural Alberta. Coulton received her Visual Studies certificate from Red Deer College, her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary and was awarded the Faculty of Arts Gold Medal. Her work is informed by her open experience growing up in a rural area, and grappling with the connections between how we understand the landscape, memory, and relationships between people. In Coulton’s work, vignettes and material remnants of rural spaces are stylized to reflect an impression of memory and experience, and to encourage the audience to connect to the emotional core and personal stories in those memories. Aesthetic choices in the work reflect the necessary material efficiency of rural spaces and encourage a connection that is both tactile and intangible.