Dunmow Art Group is delighted to welcome acclaimed portrait artist Owen Lennox to lead a series of six workshops starting in January.
Owen will focus on teaching portraits in oils to members and non-members of the Dunmow Art Group, which meets weekly at Foakes Hall in Great Dunmow.
Dunmow Art Group has a long history of supporting artists and art lovers in Dunmow and the surrounding area and has a regular programme of weekly art meetings and monthly visiting artists.
Born in Sunderland in 1950, Owen graduated from Sheffield in 1978 in Fine Art and History of Art before training as an art teacher. After being head of art in several London schools, he established himself as a painter specialising in portraits in oils.
Now based in Braintree, Owen’s work has included some notable commissions from the world of politics, arts and the media including Baroness Thatcher, Gerald Ford – the 38th president of the USA – The Earl and Countess of Wessex, Sir Tom Stoppard, Dame Barbara Cartland, Lord Archer, Alan Johnson MP, John Hurt and Samuel Becket. Owen has also painted portraits of sporting celebrities including Sir Steve Redgrave, Sir Geoff Hurst and Joe Calzaghe amongst others.
Owen has had many solo and group shows in the UK and abroad, including exhibiting with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
His work is predominantly painted from life, but more recently this has increasingly been accomplished through the use of photographs. His inspiration comes from Carravagio, Velazquez, Rembrandt and Edwardian artists like Philip de Lazlo, John Singer Sargent and William Orpen.
As well as offering workshops for members and non-members, Dunmow Art Group runs a programme of visits to art exhibitions and holds an annual exhibition, on 22nd and 23rd April 2022.
The six weekly portrait workshops will start on Monday, 10 January 2022 at 1pm at the Talberd Room in Foakes Hall, Great Dunmow. The lessons will run for two hours at £5 per session (free for members).
Those interested in coming along are asked to bring their own materials.
For further information on the portrait workshops in January or how to join Dunmow Art Group please contact dunmowartgroup@gmail.com.
