about indigo brown

Andrew and Maggie Brown

Maggie is a successful artist; after her BA (Hons) Textile Design, Winchester School of Art and teaching certificate (1980). Since then, she has gained a wide experience of decorative and applied arts.

This experience includes commissioned paintings, portraiture, card designs, and teaching paint techniques, and drawing. With her husband she has also run a successful interior design business, specialising in large scale floor and wall canvases.

The move to Wales has inspired her to develop her own paintings, combining her love of nature and the landscape with the exploration of texture, light and colour. She currently exhibits in England and Wales. Maggie will be your tutor for your stay. To view Maggie's work (see gallery page)

Andrew has years of experience as an interior designer. His other passions are food and wine. All the food at the house is organic and locally sourced when possible.

Andrew has developed a fine cuisine and will be your experienced chef during your stay.

Guest Tutors ; A little bit about.....

David Tress ; A truely inspirational tutor in mixed media and acrylics. His courses cover all aspects of representational landscape painting, and particularly, how a personal, expressive 'gut response' painting, can be underpinned with keen observation, drawing and painting skills.

Linda Norris ; Multi- talented artist, Linda will be exploring and teaching a 'painterly, sense of place', to her students. Her 'landscape based abstraction' paintings, that she demonstrates so well, uses a variety of exciting mixed media, including wax, plaster, acrylics and materials.

Judy Linnell ; Judy's intuitive, risk taking and spontaneous approach to her beautiful paintings exploits watercolour to the full. An experienced teacher of over 30 years, she encourages and conveys to her students the importance of developing their own style and 'letting go!', in watercolour and gouache.