13/05/2026
What a Tawny Studios gathering looks like... 🌳
We begin outside. 🍃 Before a single brush is picked up, there’s time to arrive into the space, to notice what’s growing, what’s shifting in the light and what the season is doing. This is the foundation of everything we do...genuine connection with the natural world.
From there come gentle invitations to deepen that connection, perhaps a moment of stillness beside something living, a slow walk with soft attention, a prompt to look closer at a leaf or a stem or the way the sky sits behind the treeline. Nothing is forced. These are offerings, not instructions. 🌱
Then comes the painting and this is where something quietly remarkable tends to happen. Watercolour becomes a way of seeing more fully, of staying with a thing long enough to truly take it in. It’s less about the finished piece... You’re not trying to replicate nature perfectly you’re in conversation with it.
Throughout, the guidance is gentle and unhurried. Techniques are introduced with care and there’s always support for those picking up a brush for the very first time. Beginners are not just welcome here, this space is genuinely made for them. No experience is needed, only a little willingness. 🫶
And woven through all of it is the warmth of new people finding each other. Strangers who arrived a little unsure, leaving as something closer to community, connected by the shared experience of slowing down, making something and spending time in the kind of company that feels genuinely nourishing.
I'd love to see you there 🌿
