Dunmow Art Group are excited to welcome Colin Steed to demonstrate in Foakes Hall, Dunmow on the 17th January at 7.30pm. Entrance fee is £1 for members and £5 for non-members 🎨 Colin is a self-taught artist painting in watercolour and acrylic, using traditional materials and techniques. He has studied watercolour all his adult life and has been teaching and exhibiting paintings for over thirty years, turning professional in 1998 after spending 22 years in engineering. His love of the countryside comes from his childhood days in rural Essex. East Anglian Landscape are his passion but also paints on his travels in the UK as well as France and Spain where he has been the principal tutor for painting holiday companies. He gives demonstrations to clubs and societies, has tutored at the FSC at Flatford Mill and is a regular contributor to ‘Leisure Painter’ magazine. He has paintings in collection in this country and abroad and has illustrations in the Hylands House History and Guide booklet. He works in plein air and from his small garden studio in Galleywood, Essex. Colin has a YouTube art tutorial channel showing you how he paints many of his works.