2pm-5pm on Saturday, 21st February 2026
@The Studio, Holmer Green HP15 6QX
£50 per person
All materials included.
Suitable for absolute beginners and folk with previous experience
Local artist Jane Peacock has been running Oil Painting classes with us for over 2 years now and it is always so wonderful to see the incredible diversity and beauty of the works created by complete beginners as well as those with a wee bit of experience. The majority of the photos we have used to present this class are from previous students, so you can see how well Jane is able to help people capture the essence of what they want to paint.
Having run several landscape painting workshops, we are really pleased to be offering this more broad topic class so that you can paint whatever truly inspires you.
In this 2-and-a-half-hour class you are invited to use oil paints to create a natural scene of your choice - a landscape, a seascape, a woodland scene, Chiltern fields, a big sky - whatever natural scene you want to capture in oils. We would encourage you to bring with you photos of your scene so you can use them for reference, or you are equally welcome to just make one up from your own imagination!
Under Jane’s expert guidance, you will learn basic oil painting techniques. Jane will take you through what materials and equipment are best for beginners as well as how to care for them (oil painting can be trickier to clean up than water-based paints!). You will also learn basic composition techniques and tips and how to mix the right colour palettes for your painting. Jane's a really enthusiastic, highly experienced and supportive teacher, so you're in very encouraging yet safe hands. Everyone will leave with a oil painted scene that they will be really proud of!
Jane Peacock lives and works just down the road from us in the Chiltern Hills, where the surrounding beechwoods, flint and chalk inspire her dreamlike, abstract landscapes. Her paintings, drawings, collages and prints explore deep time, ancestral traces and a bodily presence within the land.
She completed the New Platform Art Professional Development Programme (2024–2025), the Turps Correspondence Course (2022–2023) and a BA (Hons) Fine Art at Kingston University. Jane has been the Artist in Residence at Wycombe Museum, is a founding member of Fractured Land Collective, and has recently been invited to exhibit a number of her works in prominent exhibitions in London.
For more information about Jane Peacock's work please visit her website https://janepeacock.art/
If you enjoy art classes then we have a wide range of other class at Where Inspiration Blooms. Please click here for more information.
At Where Inspiration Blooms, we’re big fans of delicious cake! In this class, you can enjoy a choice of traditional and herbal teas from Chesham-based tea connoisseurs, Two Spoons, as well as both caffeinated and decaf coffee. We have dairy and non-dairy milks to suit every preference, and our homemade cakes are always sourced from good local bakers. We also make sure those who need gluten-free options aren’t left out. If you have any allergies, please do let us know when you book so we can make sure everyone has a wonderful and worry-free treat.
Please note that we will only be able to run this class/course if we have a minimum of 5 guests. All of our teachers are highly skilled in their fields, but being an artist isn't always a well paid profession so we hope you understand why it's important that we ensure that our teachers can afford to run each of their classes. Should the class not be able to go ahead we will contact you no less than 2 weeks before it is due to start and we will of course, offer you a full refund.
If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to contact us via our email julesandcaroline@whereinspirationblooms.co.uk
Thank you so much for booking onto one of our workshops — we’re really looking forward to welcoming you and hope you find your class to be a space where your inspiration can really bloom 😉
