field breaks art
Chesterfield
Field Breaks started out in the Autumn of 2007 to provide a selection of
professionally tutored illustration workshops in the Peak District. This
followed the demise of similar workshops in the area and filled a much needed
gap for people wanting short affordable art breaks in botanical illustration and
landscape painting. Such was the demand for this provision that over the
following years the programme has been extended to include a greater selection
of courses and venues, along with a growing number of specialist professional
tutors. 2020 and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic saw great challenges to all
small businesses, including Field Breaks, with courses rescheduled for safer
times. This was an opportunity however for founder member Sue to think seriously
about her achievements, goals and ambitions, and after some deliberation decided
to pass the business on to fellow artist Hazel. Along with many happy memories
of running Field Breaks, Sue is enjoying the opportunity to start new projects.
With the handover, Hazel decided to revitalise the old website - "I'm
re-dressing the shop window while it's quiet!" Following suggestions from her
peers, this also gave her the opportunity to re-think and amend the name from
"Field Breaks" to "Field Breaks Art", which lends more focus under the artwork
umbrella. We hope you like it! After the extended lockdown, Hazel added a new
range of on-line mini workshops in the Spring of 2021, which were a lovely way
to keep connected with other artists and share ideas. From July 2021 we were
once again able to offer in-person workshops so the focus was to deliver quality
tutor-led courses while maintaining a level of safety, including reduced class
numbers to enable social distancing. In 2022 we are pleased to be able to offer
another full programme of workshops in drawing, painting, botanical
illustration, natural history, landscape, abstract, and mixed media including
textiles and craft workshops in batik, jewellery making, lacemaking and felting.
Please click on the Courses button to see a listing of all our 2022 workshops.
Materials are provided for many of the workshops with a list of what to bring to
workshops under the course details. We look forward to meeting you for a
wonderful year of art and crafts in 2022.
