13/10/2026
BACK FOR A THIRD TIME!
The one and only Michael Klein 🌷
Joe and I cannot wait to host our incredible friend, Michael Klein next year. This workshop will be a little different! Studio time & Outdoors… seems pretty perfect to me!
What is the difference between Naturalism and Realism?
Naturalism is often confused with Realism, another movement that began in France during the mid-19th century. Both portrayed life as it was, but there are subtle differences between the two painting styles.
Realist artists sought to represent real life in a truthful way by depicting common people going about their ordinary lives. Naturalist artists weren’t so much concerned with the content of the painting but rather, they were more interested in how they painted it, with as much observational accuracy as possible. Where Realism often carries political or social commentary, Naturalism turns its attention outward: to light, to weather, to the particular color of a hillside at four in the afternoon, to the way a bloom holds up under subtle light and how that same discipline of seeing translates once you venture outdoors.
This workshop is built around that movement. We spend our first three days indoors, working the way the Naturalists worked in the studio-slow, controlled, exacting - before carrying that same eye out into the Yorkshire Dales, where the subject changes but the method doesn’t.
Led by Michael Klein, a contemporary artist working in the naturalist tradition, this workshop draws on that same discipline of seeing — applied first to the studio, then to the landscape.
📍 Workshops in Yorkshire, Skipton, UK
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🚨 THIS WORKSHOP IS ALREADY OVER HALF FULL! 🚨
We cannot wait to welcome you back Michael! Thank you for trusting us AGAIN. 😅 (Are you crazy?!). After all, without you, I wouldn’t have the wonderful Joe, Isla Baby or Bump on the way… so we do have a lot to thank you for really! 💕😝🥰😘
