Kids charcoal class
Sat 14 June 2025 10pm -12pm
Taunton Brewhouse
Price: £11
Create your own dragons and griffins, learning shading, texture, and blending techniques to bring these legendary creatures to life.
More info and booking at https://www.tauntonbrewhouse.co.uk/events/saturday-art-club/
iPad Art – Magical Creatures
Fri 8 Aug 2025 10.30am
Taunton Brewhouse
Price: £17
Ready to bring your wildest imagination to life on screen?
In this exciting workshop, you’ll dive into the world of digital art using Procreate and Paper by WeTransfer. Whether you’re a budding artist or just love creating cool characters, you’ll learn how to paint and draw fantastic scenes, and design your own vibrant monsters, dragons, and magical creatures.
With your iPad or tablet as your canvas, you’ll discover tips and tricks to turn your ideas into bold, colourful works of art in your virtual sketchbook. From drawing creatures to creating entire fantastical worlds, there’s no limit to the creativity you can unleash!
Bring your fully charged iPad or tablet – don’t forget the data cables if you need them, and if you’ve got a stylus, bring it along (though it’s not essential). Come ready to get creative, have fun, and create some digital art that’s truly out of this world!
More info and booking at https://www.tauntonbrewhouse.co.uk/events/ipad-art-of-monsters-dragons-and-magical-creatures/
iPad Art – complete beginners
Thurs 5 June 2025 10am -12pm
Studio 6 East Quay Watchet
Price: £20
Learn to draw and paint using PaperbyWeTransfer a free sketchbook app. This class runs alongside the We Walk exhibition in studio 6.
This is the perfect class for those new to iPad or if you have been struggling with it on your own.
PaperbyWeTransfer is a really useful and fun art app which is popular for sketch booking and journaling. Alison will guide you around the app and you will create a series of illustrations and paintings in a cute digital sketchbook. She will also show you the paid for extras so you can make up you mind whether you want to subscribe.
Learn watercolour painting with Tom Jacobs
Wed 4 June 2025 10am -3pm
Studio 6 East Quay Watchet
Price: £60
Join Alison and her Dad Tom for a relaxing day of watercolour painting. Tom is an experienced watercolour artist and will be your tutor for the day. Alison will provide technical support during this sociable workshop in studio 6. Alison will provide all the materials you need and we will take a break for lunch. Bring packed lunches or order something special from the kitchen. If the weather is good we may even venture outside.
This is a one off workshop to be hosted at Alison’s studio and will coincide with a joint exhibition enititled ‘We Walk’.
Make your First Mark – beginners charcoal
Tues 13 May 2025 6pm -8pm
Studio 6 East Quay Watchet
Price: £15
All the great artist throughout history used charcoal particularly for preparing for a painting but did you know it can be an amazing art-form in its own right?
Join Alison for a messy evening with locally produced willow charcoal and make striking black and white tonal drawings that just sing atmosphere. Drawing skills are not needed for this fun experimental session, just a willingness to try something new, go with the flow and get your hands covered in charcoal. Hopefully some of it will go on the paper and we’ll create some moody drawings together.
iPad Art made easy – complete beginners
Wed 14 May 2025 10am -12pm
Studio 6 East Quay Watchet
Price: £20
Learn to draw and paint using PaperbyWeTransfer a free sketchbook app.
This is the perfect class for those new to iPad or if you have been struggling with it on your own.
PaperbyWeTransfer is a really useful and fun art app which is popular for sketch booking and journaling. Alison will guide you around the app and you will create a series of illustrations and paintings in a cute digital sketchbook. She will also show you the paid for extras so you can make up you mind whether you want to subscribe.
Create a mini Monet – learn to paint a sunset in acrylic – CANCELLED
Thurs 15 May 2025 7.30pm -9.30pm
Studio 6 East Quay Watchet
Price: £30
Weather permitting we will paint from life one of Watchet’s famous sunsets. We have the best view here from East Quay
Alison will provide acrylic paints and canvas and will guide you through the steps of how to paint a sunset.
Let’s paint like Doris Hatt | celebrating the 20th century artist who captured Watchet
Sun 18 May 2025 10am -12pm
Studio 6 East Quay Watchet
Price: £40
Doris Hatt was a pioneer of British Modernism and a woman ahead of her time. She came to Watchet and made playful stylised paintings of the Esplanade. She was influenced by 20th-century Modernism, including Cubism and Abstraction, and by artists such as Braque and Léger.
Alison took Doris Hatt’s themes to create one of her eye-catching Watchet benches. Learn how to paint in this playful , lyrical style with the help and guidance of Alison.
More information about the life and works of Doris Hatt can be found at https://swheritage.org.uk/digital-exhibitions/doris-hatt/
Book here at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/alisonjacobs/1691695
Beginners acrylic painting
Thurs 24 April 2025 10am -1pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £40
An intensive and supportive morning learning everything you need to get going with acrylic painting.
You can paint in washes like watercolour or with thick impasto like oil. Enjoy finding out how versatile this medium is and take your masterpiece on canvas home with you . All materials provided.
Coastal Scenes with Procreate
Sat 29 March 2025 10am -12pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £20
Create Coastal Scenes on your Ipad, using Procreate. You will be guided by Alison who has ten years experience of painting on iPads that capture the beauty of the natural world. This fun, cheery workshop is taking place in Alison’s studio at the iconic East Quay building right on the harbour in Watchet.
This is a great way to unlock the creative potential of your iPad and enjoy exploring the mobile studio in your hands. Alison will guide you through the myriad of brushes and teach you how to create a coastal scene using your iPad expressing the wonderful view of the Bristol Channel from her studio windows.
Holiday Journaling
Thurs 20 March 2025 6pm -8pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £20
Going on holiday to escape the winter weather? Why not learn how to keep a travel sketchbook to save as a memento of your trip? Enjoy the pleasure of relaxing with your travel art kit and truly unwind. Alison will show you various ways of keeping a journal be it digital or pen and wash and we will have fun setting up some practice holiday scenarios to practice your candid sketching techniques.
Drawing & Painting Birds or Boats
Thurs 27 Feb 2025 6pm -8pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £20
Learn how to draw and paint with Alison
Drawing in pencil, charcoal, pen or graphite Alison will be on hand to help you with composition, measuring, perspective, contour shading and so on. This will be a two hour intensive session, the second half will focus on painting over your drawing with washes, glazes or other methods. Be surprised what you can achieve in this supportive environment and improve your drawing and painting. It is likely your boat or bird with be drawn from a photograph, Alison will provide the reference material and the expertise in how to draw these difficult forms. Alison will provide a choice of paints nd papers for your to try.
iPad Art made easy (PaperbyWeTransfer)
Sat 8 Feb 2025 10am -12pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £20
Learn to draw and paint using PaperbyWeTransfer a free sketchbook app.
This is the perfect class for those new to iPad especially if you got one as a Christmas gift.
PaperbyWeTransfer is a really useful and fun art app which is popular for sketch booking and journaling. Alison will guide you around the app and you will create a series of illustrations and paintings in a cute digital sketchbook. She will also show you the paid for extras so you can make up you mind whether you want to subscribe.
Colour in the grey months
Wed 12 Feb 2025 6pm -8pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £20
learn how to add punch to your colourwork. It’s a big subject but let’s have some fun with colour. Alison will guide you through the world of colour wheels, visual perception and how to experiment with colour to get the effects you want to make your colour work more interesting. We will use a range of medium to create colour effects and you will leave feeling more confident about how to use colour more effectively in your work.
For the Love of Charcoal
Fri 14 feb 2025 6pm -8pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £15
All the great artist throughout history used charcoal particularly for preparing for a painting but did you know it can be an amazing art-form in its own right?
Join Alison for a messy evening with locally produced willow charcoal and make striking black and white tonal drawings that just sing atmosphere. Drawing skills are not needed for this fun experimental session, just a willingness to try something new, go with the flow and get your hands covered in charcoal. Hopefully some of it will go on the paper and we’ll create some moody drawings together.
Sat 15 Feb 10am -12pm
iPad Art made easy (Procreate3)
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £20
Learn to make Pop Art using Procreate.
Learn to make striking Pop Art using Procreate. Bring out your inner Andy Warhol and make colour artwork portraits of family, friends or even pets. This will be a fun, cheery workshop with lots of colour and humour. Its a great technique to learn about the range of tools in Procreate and how to get to grips with using layers.
Children under 12 must be accompanied by a responsible adult. Family discounts considered please contact Alison to discuss.
Drawing in the Nights
Tues 18 Feb 2025 6pm -8pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £15
Intensive Still Life Drawing
Still life drawing in pencil, charcoal, pen or graphite with or without tuition Alison will be on hand to help you with composition, measuring, perspective, contour shading and so on. This will be a two hour intensive drawing session, multiple drawings in the first half and then one final piece in the last hour. Be amazed what you can achieve in this supportive environment and improve your drawing. Watch this space as this could become a regular class.
PAST WORKSHOPS 2025
CANCELLED – Paint a chair
Sun 2 Feb 2025 10.30m -3.30pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £60
Bring a chair or any tired object to give a new lease of life and learn how to give it a decorative coat of paint NB: some prep work required as a base coat of white undercoat will be needed first and allow 24hrs to dry. Small children’s chairs work well for this project or old deckchairs, old vases or even lampshade stands. Acrylic paints and brushes will be supplied for the session. Students will need to bring their visual inspiration or design with them and Alison will show you how to adapt them to your object and make it work as a painted design.
Canva made easy
Thurs 23 Jan 2025 10.30am -2.30pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £40
Become a Canva master and make beautiful design work. If you’ve been struggling with making marketing material using Word then this is the course for you. Canva is a user-friendly convenient free online app that can be used on most devices. PC or Mac, iPhone or Android. Alison is an experienced designer and artist and can guide you through the process of how to choose and adapt a template and make your marketing work look amazing. Join us in Alison’s beautiful, cosy studio in a great location for this fun and very useful workshop.
Watercolour made easy
Thurs 23 Jan 2025 6pm -8pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £25
Expressive, flowing watercolours for all abilities. Learn more about the abstract qualities of watercolour. Sometimes you need to lose control of it to let it show its true beauty. We’ll explore simple techniques and exercises to create beautiful work. Materials supplied.
PAST WORKSHOPS 2024
Christmas Cards made easy
Thurs 5 Dec 10.30am -12.30pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £15
Make a fun watercolour Christmas card.
Make a simple and delightful Christmas tree card. Using watercolour techniques lets paint a tree and decorate it with bright coloured detail. Alison is an experienced painter and will be on hand to guide you through the process. Full demonstration and materials included. More details to follow…
Christmas Wrapping and Box Making
Mon 9 Dec 2am -4pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £15
Learn how to make your own exciting colourful wrapping paper, parcel toppers and boxes with Alison.
If you have a special small gift (no bigger than 10cms) learn how to make a bespoke box to make it extra special and stand out under your Chrsitmas tree. Paper, paints, embellishments and that extra sparkle provided, more details to follow…
Graphic Design made Easy (2)
Thu 19 Dec 10.30am -2.30pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £40
Want to design yourself a quick flyer, greetings card or get an image ready for sharing for fun or professionally? Not tech or computer savvy but have a phone, tablet or basic computer?
Come and have some fun with other design-tech-challenged people in Alison’s art studio. Alison is a trained professional graphic designer and fine artist who will show you how to easily make your design work with simple, cheap or free design tools which will help you design like a pro.
Let’s look at Canva and Photopea in more detail. Produce layouts, design and typesetting skills with free software to amaze. Learn new skills to get your promotional material looking sexy and eye catching. We will also learn how to share your creations and how to send them to print.
This class is intended for beginners and you don’t have to be creative or artistic in anyway. It is likely to be a very useful introduction to self-starters on a low budget who are exploring how to create their own attractive graphics cheaply to help with their businesses or hobbies or just for fun.
Alison studied Graphic Design at Somerset University as a mature student, worked in London on well-known brands and has freelanced on and off in Somerset since 2001. She enjoys combining her illustration skills with graphics and loves designing illustrated maps including the Watchet Tourism Map. Alison is a passionate fine artist and practices from her studio at East Quay Watchet overlooking the Bristol Channel, next to the Somerset coastal path which is a source of great inspiration to her work.
September 2024
Artist’s Walk Around Watchet
Mon 23 September 10.30am -12.30pm
from Watchet Visitor Centre
Price: £8 booking required via info@lovewatchet.co.uk call 01984 632101
Join Artist Alison Jacobs for a walk around the beautiful seaside town of Watchet. Learn about Watchet’s Art history. JMW Turner, Hanz Schwarz and Doris Hatt are some of the artists who found inspiration here. Enjoy a fun talk as we go around town and stop whilst Alison demonstrates painting a Watchet scene.
Interior Mural painting
Sun 15 Dec 2024 11.30am -3.30pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £60
Alison has big walls in her studio so let’s fill them with colour. Test out ideas for the home, learn how to scale up one of your artworks and how to do a mockup before you commit paint to a wall.
Acrylic paints, brushes and rollers will be used and provided. Any style or subject matter can be attempted but together we will work out the best way to simplify and translate your design to make a wall look absolutely knockout! Imagine decorating a room for a loved one for a really cool Christmas present.
August 2024
Digital Art – 8-12 yrs
Tues 13 Aug 10.00am -3.30pm
Taunton Brewhouse
Price: £41.50
Enjoy a crash course in Procreate and Paper by WeTransfer and learn how to paint and draw colourful creatures/characters in your own virtual sketchbook. Please bring a fully charged iPad or iPhone with Procreate and Paper by WeTransfer already installed. Data cables and a stylus are also useful but not compulsory.
Please bring along your own packed lunch, a drink. Young people will be supervised for the whole day including their lunch break.
This is part of the Taunton Brewhouse Visual Arts Summer School where you can immersive yourself in a week of artistic exploration. From willow weaving to digital illustration, you can get the full creative package for £181.50 for the whole couse with a saving of £26
Graphic Design made Easy
Wed 31 July 2024 10.30am -2.30pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £40
Want to design yourself a quick flyer, greetings card or get an image ready for sharing for fun or professionally? Not tech or computer savvy but have a phone, tablet or basic computer?
Come and have some fun with other design-tech-challenged people in Alison’s art studio. Alison is a trained professional graphic designer and fine artist who will show you how to easily make your design work with simple, cheap or free design tools which will help you design like a pro.
We will cover Canva(free), Photopea(free), and Affinity (pay for) available for desktop and tablets mac and Microsoft.
This class is intended for beginners and you don’t have to be creative or artistic in anyway. It is likely to be a very useful introduction to self-starters on a low budget who are exploring how to create their own attractive graphics cheaply to help with their businesses or hobbies or just for fun.
Alison studied Graphic Design at Somerset University as a mature student, worked in London on well-known brands and has freelanced on and off in Somerset since 2001. She enjoys combining her illustration skills with graphics and loves designing illustrated maps including the Watchet Tourism Map. Alison is a passionate fine artist and practices from her studio at East Quay Watchet overlooking the Bristol Channel, next to the Somerset coastal path which is a source of great inspiration to her work.
Watercolour made easy
Thurs 12 Dec 10.30am -2.30pm
Studio 9 East Quay Watchet
Price: £40
A comprehensive beginners guide to watercolours.
Learn about what paper, paint and brushes to use and how to use and control them. We’ll learn the different wash techniques and how to make textural marks with different brushes. More detail to follow…
July 2024
The Travel Sketchbook Workshop
Fri 5 July 10.30am -3.30pm
Taunton Brewhouse
Price: £47
Learn a pen and wash style to quickly get your ideas and observations down whilst out and about on your adventures.
The perfect workshop for you before your summer holidays. With guidance from experienced sketch Artist Alison Jacobs who has ‘pen and washed’ her way from Lands End to John O Groats (the sketches from her trip will be on display as inspiration). Learn to use essential tools such as brush pens, pencils, travel watercolours and how to make quick sketches from life whether capturing interesting details or and exciting scene.
Please bring favourite pocket sketchbook, pens and brushes, some pocket watercolour kits and sketchbooks available available to borrow.
More information and booking at https://www.tauntonbrewhouse.co.uk/events/learn-the-travel-sketchbook-workshop/
June 2024
Painting Walk
Sun 23June 11am -1pm
Studio 9, East Quay Watchet, TA23 0AQ
Price: £10
Join me for a gentle walk (there are some steps) from my studio along the Watchet Cliff path towards Helwell Bay. We will stop on route and paint.
Either paint what you want and lose yourself in the moment or watch and learn from me as I give a demonstration in watercolour.
Please bring your own materials if you have them, I have certain amount you can rent or buy if you need.
The weather forecast is dry but if we get caught out those who want can work in my studio.
For booking please pay by paypal at info@alisonjacobs.art or contact me for my bank details to arrange a transfer or call in at my studio and pay in person contact me on info@alisonjacobs.art with any questions
Alison Jacobs 