Sunday 31st May 2026 10:00am ‑ 4:00pm

Location: Farfield Mill

Contact: Anna Sazcek

01539621958

Website: https://www.farfieldmill.org/events/lavender-wood-water-colour-workshop-ruth-clayton/

Email: reception@farfieldmill.org

Admission: £70 plus £7 on the day for materials and frame

Suitable for beginners and those with some experience, the session will focus on washes, layering, and creating depth and mood in watercolour, with guidance and individual support throughout. All materials provided.

Ruth Clayton
Ruth qualified as a Graphic Designer at Leeds Metropolitan University, specialising in illustration, in 1986. She then gained a teaching qualification at Manchester University. Since then she has spent time as an Art teacher working in high schools, Garth Prison and Runshaw, Skelmersdale and Bootle Tertiary Colleges. Ruth ran the successful Art studio, ‘Wickerfish’ at Cedar Farm Galleries, Mawdesley, Lancashire for 12 years where she taught adults to paint and draw as well as displaying her own paintings to sell.

She shares a studio with her partner Stuart Gray at Farfield Mill in Sedbergh, Cumbria where they work and sell their paintings.

Book online https://www.farfieldmill.org/events/lavender-wood-water-colour-workshop-ruth-clayton/

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