PASTEL WORKSHOP

Two-day practical session with Sandra Orme

Fri 24 Jul – Sat 25 Jul 2026, 10.30am–4pm
At the Museum
Shaped by nature purple and green logo

Two-day practical session in the Ashmolean Learning Studio

Tickets are £175 for the two days

Please note this is a repeat of the Spring Showers Pastels Workshop held earlier on 8-9 May

Booking is essential. 

Tickets coming soon

With Sandra Orme, pastel artist

Spend two days with award winning pastel artist Sandra Orme exploring using pastels to create cloudy skies and dramatic weather, evoking the contrast of sunshine and showers.

You will use layers of pastel on specialist paper to develop land and seascapes and learn how to control light and dark, realistic three dimensional clouds, and cloudburst effects. 

You will learn how to mix complex and contrasting colours, along with building layers to using mark making to evoke texture, shape and form. 
 

Painting of a cloudy sky with dark blue rain clouds and rain falling down

Rain-filled, cloudy sky painting by Sandra Orme

 

All materials will be provided.

This event is part of our Shaped by Nature season of events.

BOOKING

Tickets for the two-day workshop are £175. Booking is essential

TICKETS COMING SOON

If you have any questions, please email us at publicprogrammes@ashmus.ox.ac.uk