Weekend Painting Course: Painting Portraits in Oil

Join us for an immersive two-day weekend portraiture-painting course. 

Designed for all skill levels, this hands-on workshop will guide you through the fundamentals of capturing the essence of your subject as well as taking a deep dive into oil painting techniques.  Under the expert guidance of Daniel Nelis, this year's overall winner of the AIB Portrait Prize, you will explore techniques in composition, colour mixing, and brushwork, while creating your own portraits from a live model.

About the Artist

Daniel Nelis is a visual artist, curator and art educator from County Donegal. Rooted in the desolate boglands of his home, his paintings capture moments of stillness and contemplation, and through the intimacy of the mark-making, register Nelis’s heightened awareness of the incursions of time. Nelis studied Fine Art Painting at Ulster University, later completing an MA in Art History, Collections and Curating at University College Dublin. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts.