North West Highlands Tutors

  • Alvaro Castagnet DA, ATC

    Alvaro CastagnetAlvaro Castagnet DA, ATC
    Alvaro is an expressive painter who portrays a strong, impressive and colourful style with superb interpretation of light effects, capturing the soul of the places he paints.

  • Frances Hatch

    Frances HatchFrances Hatch
    Frances is an experienced tutor and endeavours to discern the unique 'voice' of each student and thereby encourages the individual to flourish within the supportive context of the group.

  • Nick Tidnam RBA

    Nick TidnamNick Tidnam RBA
    Nick is a very versatile artist. He is equally at home in oils, acrylics and watercolours. Nick has taught life drawing, print-making, graphic design and fine art. He enjoys the effect of light, the poetry of a place and the way nothing is quite what it first seems.

  • David Tress

    David TressDavid Tress
    David uses a variety of media including water-based mixed media, oils, charcoal, graphite and acrylics. David's paintings are based on careful observation of landscape, and are a painterly and expressive response to what he sees.

  • Bettina Schroeder

    Bettina SchroederBettina Schroeder
    Bettina's courses are designed for both experienced painters and beginners. The emphasis is on learning how to capture the initial excitement on first spotting a subject, without getting too bogged down in technicalities.

Gillian Pattinson

Gillian Pattinson

Gillian works in a variety of media and techniques including watercolour, acrylic and collage and mixed media. Gillian finds mixed media the most exciting way to express the emotions that the Highland scenery evokes.