Playing with pastels
Enrol
| Standard: | £40 |
| Concessions: | £36 |
Please book a ticket to attend this course which will take place in the Roden Centre for Creative Learning.
Tickets include entry to the National Gallery. Please arrive in good time to access the building and find the event.
Bookings close 10 minutes before the event begins.
Concessions are for full-time students, jobseekers, and disabled adults.
This event is open for Members priority booking until Sunday, November 23, 2025.
About
Join artist Robin-Lee Hall for an evening of creativity exploring the expressive potential of pastels. Taking inspiration from the colourful pastel paintings and still-life paintings in the National Gallery Collection, you’ll experiment with colour, texture and layering to create your own vibrant compositions.
Working from a still-life arrangement in the Clore Art studio, a reference image or your own imagination, you’ll learn techniques for blending and building colour to capture light and atmosphere. This relaxed, hands-on session is suitable for all levels, from beginners to experienced artists looking to refresh their practice.
All materials are provided and you’ll take your finished artwork home at the end of the session.
Your tutor
Robin-Lee Hall is an award-winning portrait painter and Past President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Her paintings have been hung at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, as well as other galleries in and around London. She has won the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture and Gold Medal at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition. As well as being a practicing artist, Robin delivers talks, tours, group drawing and painting sessions. She works for the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts. She is currently writing a book on how to paint in egg tempera, a medium she specialises in.