Bournemouth
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shaun@forwardcreative.co.uk

Category: Forward’s Craft Cabin

Urban Sketcher | Painter | Printmaker

Sage Cottage Artists' Retreat

Cornish sketching retreat available to book…

I’ve just enjoyed an excellent 4-day painting and sketching break with my good friend, @clifftowler at his holiday cottage in Cornwall – and you might like to know that this property is available to be booked for similar creative breaks.

Benefit from dedicated One-to-One coaching

Ideal for those who want 100% coaching designed specifically for them. Focusing on the exact topics which interest you, these sessions might take place at your own home and neighbourhood, or be based at a public venue such as a coffee lounge or hotel etc – with sketching in the town.

Happy New Year! A look back at 2025…

A BUSY ART YEAR! My Sketchbooking workshops took off and overshadowed what I expected to be a year of serious plein air painting!

Looking back – as I find my way forward…

This week, I have enjoyed looking back at a few favourite paintings from my archives, as I continue to work on developing my style. Having devoted a lot of my creative time on sketchbooking in recent weeks, I am returning my focus to painting and my quest to develop a loose and exciting style –…
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Wimborne Minster Plein air painting

Winter plein air development

I just love making art outdoors in the cool and subdued weather of winter. Today I am in Wimborne, experimenting with my looser approach. I’m looking to add to my ‘Peeping Minster’ series and also to develop my more impressionistic style. This small painting is a dress-rehearsal for the final, 40x40cm canvas. Today was freezing…
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shaun forward plein air at lake pier

A look-back at my plein air 2024

I’m really enjoying painting en plein air. I’ve found I can no longer settle to studio painting quite so easily – now that I have the taste for painting in the great outdoors! Discovering plein air painting Having really made a real effort to get out and about with painting, so far in 2024, I…
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