We have a brand new online workshop from Drawing Escapes guest videographer Lorenzo Madge. 

The new workshop demonstrates a method of using drawing as a design development tool and is particularly useful for A level and first year degree students.

This workshop aims to get you thinking creatively and sets a simple exercise that will increase your visual vocabulary. 

We hope to have more guest lectures from Lorenzo and others in the near future.. watch this space! 

I found this beautiful quote by Sarah Nelson. It's a great metaphor for thinking about how to use sketch books.

“A sketchbook is like soil. As things go into it they become one of two things: seeds or compost. The things that die in that collection become nutrients for future works, the things that thrive, grow beyond the page where it was born. It all has a place."  

Check out her work here  ​https://sarahnelson.art

With our curtailed options to travel in these difficult, times, we need to stay active creatively. So to satisfy that need, for myself, I’ve started to put together a series of online workshops and projects about drawing so that you can continue to develop your drawing skills while our ablilty to travel is compromised. 
I’ll be posting links to videos on the website soon. There will be a small charge, but like the drawing trips, the price will be very reasonabe and there will be discounts for those of you who have been on a drawing escape.

Watch this space… or get in touch to be first on the list!  Stay safe and stay creative!

We've been very busy during the lock-down, re-organising our 2020 trips and planning new ways of working. We are pleased to announce that we are soon going to have a series of on-line drawing workshops to support and enhance what we do on our drawing trips. 

The preparation is a huge task, but we will have our first content available by Autumn this year

Watch this space!

We now have a viable group for Bali. The Indonesian government has said that Bali will be open by October 1st and so we are on schedule to depart late October assuming the flights are available. If you’re desperate to escape after lock-down and do something creative then you are welcome to join us. We have 2 remaining places.

Bali has come through this virtually unscathed with only 5 deaths in total, so it is a very safe place to visit.

If there is a second wave and things lock down again we will re-schedule for February 2021. Fingers crossed. Stay safe, follow the guidelines and lets put this Covid-19 behind us.

A developmental embroidery and a couple of drawings from a 'dress up and draw' session we did in Spain a few years ago, by Maria Clarke. Great to see that work produced back in 2015 is still being developed and extended during the lock-down 5 years later. I love the playful line in the 2 standing poses which translates well, into the embroidered sample. Hopefully we'll see more of these in the future... will keep you posted!

Here's a great article on the work of Frank Reed (Bali, Spain, Thailand trips) It's just been published on the Arts and Health Hub. Check out the full article here https://artsandhealthhub.org/frank-reed/

"In recent years, spaces you can see through in my work have become increasingly about gaps. I have a terrible memory, which can cause issues day to day. It also means there are many gaps in what I understand about the past and how I understand myself. I think the layering and cutting out spaces in my work is a way of addressing those gaps. I can then choose to fill them with imagined views, or I can leave them be, as empty space."

Here are our new dates and destinations for the next year, all being well! This does assume that flights will be leaving normally by September! Fingers crossed! Get in touch if you're interested please. Meanwhile, stay safe and keep drawing!! 

So here we are in the middle of lock-down. The Northern Loop is no longer viable and now Krakow is looking unlikely. I've still got my fingers crossed for our Spain trip in September and the Bali trip at the end of the year.

So I'm now planning the re-scheduling of the vulnerable trips and getting excited about 2021. There will be another secret destination coming soon too and some London workshops in Autumn.

Until then, stay safe everyone, and see you on the other side...