Artist, Sue Bagshaw, based in the market town of Oakham in Rutland, paints beautiful acrylic, watercolour and pencil animal and family portraits (even portraits of cars and houses!), as well as designing and painting murals and working with specialist paint finishes (wood graining, antiquing).
She also enjoys working with people to bring out their creativity through various art and craft classes, workshops. Offering small groups sessions and private tuition.
Try her Paint & Prosecco events. Create your own masterpiece after a fun 2hr painting session. Full step by step tuition makes this suitable for complete beginners, too! A great way to find your inner artist!
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Splash!
I’ve been so looking forward to this, the first acrylic painting workshop of 2026 and, as ever, it was everything I have come to expect and more. Everyone embraced new techniques and, following step by step instructions, painted a super picture while still managing to put their own stamp onto the finished piece. Seeing technically… Read more
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Degas, eat your heart out
Who says you can’t whip up a ballerina in acrylic in two hours! Lovely to see the group this morning, ready to accept the challenges that painting people always bring. Well done everyone! I can’t believe the year is nearly over and that was the last painting workshop of 2025. More dates are up in… Read more
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Brrrr
Another fun evening at The Old Buttercross, Oakham, last night. Wonderful to see some familiar faces as well as some new ones. This month it was the crisp and even winter woodland walk in acrylic and, as ever (with just a little help from some bubbly) all the results were amazing and as individual as… Read more
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River Etive and Buachaille Etive Mòr
From a beautiful photograph (courtesy of James Booth) of Autumn in all its glory with the backdrop of the Scottish Highlands, came today’s painting workshop. I had a lovely morning welcoming regulars, as well as some new faces, getting to grips with a palette knife to create some colourful landscapes. As ever, super results with… Read more
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Busy busy.
What an amazing couple of days. 25 artists for the rainbow highland coo Paint & Prosecco at the Old Buttercross, Oakham. It was a roasting hot evening but we managed to produce a fantastic collection of coos! Thanks to everyone for coming along, some not for the first time. See you again soon. Then a… Read more
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Mucho Guano
Inflicting another holiday snap onto my students, this week’s class was experimenting with vertical multicolour brush strokes, to imply rocks, and simplifying shapes, to create straightforward repeatable images of gulls and guilimots (we think 🤦🐧🐦⬛). Nice! Read more
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