About this Event
Join artist Ruth Egon for a full-day immersive painting workshop focused on expressive mixed-media painting on a large canvas. This workshop is designed for anyone wanting to deepen their creativity, build confidence at scale, and enjoy a truly nourishing day of art-making.
Participants will create a bespoke, one-of-a-kind artwork tailored to their own tastes and creative vision. With guidance throughout the day, you’ll be encouraged to choose a colour palette, mood, and aesthetic that feels right for you and your home. As your large-scale artwork will be finished, ready to take home, and ready to hang, you’ll leave not only with new skills and confidence, but with a meaningful piece of art created especially for you.
To ensure a fully immersive and supportive creative experience, this workshop is limited to just 6 participants. The small group setting allows Ruth to offer individual guidance, encouragement, and hands-on support throughout the day, helping you develop your ideas with confidence and care. Running once every three months, this workshop is a rare opportunity to step away from everyday life, slow down, and fully immerse yourself in a focused day of creativity, learning, and personal expression.
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is open to all levels and is especially suited to beginners who want to build confidence and experience the satisfaction of creating a finished artwork, as well as those who haven’t made art for a while and are looking to reconnect with their creativity. Ruth’s supportive, encouraging teaching style removes pressure and perfectionism, allowing you to work at your own pace, explore freely, and enjoy the process. No prior experience is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to immerse yourself in a day of creative play and discovery.
What’s Included
- Traditional Award-winning Sunday Roast dinner at Embers, Brighton (choice of meat or vegetarian option) - Best Sunday Roast at the 2025 BRAVO Awards, voted the 3rd Best Restaurant in Brighton (2026) and featured in the Michelin Guide
- Tea and coffee throughout the day
- All paints and mixed media materials, including gouache paint, oil pastels, and foiling materials
- A wide selection of brushes and expressive mark-making tools
- Use of painting aprons
- One large A0 canvas, prepared and ready to hang
- Full day of guided tuition, support, and creative mentoring from artist Ruth Egon
The day begins with Ruth fuelling participants’ inspiration, guiding you through idea generation and showing you how to prepare and approach a large canvas in a way that feels exciting rather than intimidating. You’ll explore how to develop your own visual ideas, loosen up creatively, and work intuitively from the very start.
Ruth will then lead a session on scale and composition, encouraging experimentation and playful exploration, helping you understand how to make bold, expressive choices that work powerfully on a larger surface.
Midway through the day, the group will break for a traditional British Sunday Roast at Embers, Brighton, with the meal included in the workshop price. Liberation Art Gallery has partnered with Embers to offer workshop guests a choice of beautifully prepared meat or vegetarian roast dinners, cooked over fire using seasonal, locally sourced ingredients. This relaxed and flavour-filled lunch provides the perfect opportunity to refuel, unwind, and connect with fellow creatives.
In the afternoon, you’ll return to the studio to bring your ideas to life. Using gouache paint, oil pastels, expressive mark-making, foiling, and mixed media techniques, you’ll work on your own large canvas, layering materials and learning how to transform observations and ideas into a finished artwork that feels personal and meaningful.
Throughout the day, Ruth will support you in developing observation skills, translating inspiration into visual language, and embracing your own artistic voice. You’ll leave with a completed large-scale artwork, new techniques, renewed confidence, and a deep sense of creative satisfaction.
This workshop is about immersing yourself in creativity, learning new skills, slowing down, and treating yourself to a day of art, nourishment, and inspiration.
Liberation Art Gallery also offers an optional Artist’s Experience, giving participants the opportunity to have their finished artwork exhibited in the gallery for 7 days.
Ruth Egon is a professional full-time resident artist at Liberation Art Gallery, with decades of experience in painting, hosting workshops and using mixed media. She is supportive, encouraging and creates a warm atmosphere with her approach to creativity.
10 am - 4:30 pm Sunday 8th March
Limited places to 6 people, to allow for 1-2-1 guidance and support
At Liberation Art Gallery CIC, we aim to create an inclusive and relaxing environment for all our workshop participants. Feel free to bring your own refreshments and we are BYOB friendly to enjoy during your session, making your experience even more comfortable and sociable. Our gallery also provides toilet and handwashing facilities, ensuring convenience and ease throughout your visit. With all workshop materials and tools provided, this setup allows you to fully enjoy your creative experience without worrying about additional costs, so you can focus entirely on making art and having fun.
Liberation Art Gallery CIC is a not-for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making creativity accessible for everyone. Nestled in the heart of Brighton, our gallery, creative workshop and art therapy space reinvests all profits directly back into our community programmes, ensuring quality exhibition space for artists and individuals, families, and young people, especially those facing barriers to education, mental health support, or inclusion, can access high-quality creative and therapeutic experiences. By joining our workshops and events, you’re not only nurturing your own creativity, but actively helping us deliver free and low-cost art therapy, outreach projects, and wellbeing initiatives to those who need it most.
Cancellation Policy:
We understand.that plans can change, and we do our best to be fair whilst protecting the sustainability of our workshops.
- Cancellations or date changes must be made at least 48 hours before the scheduled.workshops
- Cancellations made within 48 hours of the workshop or non attendance on the day are non-refundable
- As a good-will gesture, we are happy to to offer a transfer to a future workshop of equal value subject to availability when at least 48 hours notice is given
- Workshop credits must be used within 3 months of the original workshop date and cannot be exchanged for cash
- We are unable to offer refunds or workshop transfers for same-day cancellations. As materials, artist fees and staffing are already commited.
- In rare and exceptional circumstances please contact us directly. Any discretion offered is at Liberation Art gallery's discretion.
- Booking a workshop at Liberation Art gallery you agree to our cancellations policy
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Liberation Art Gallery, 38 Meeting House Lane, Brighton, United Kingdom
GBP 197.00
