Watercolour Collage
Date Thursday 20 August 2026 until Friday 21 August 2026
Time 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Price£80 | £75
TutorEimear Nic Roibeaird
Collage
2-Day Workshop
This 2-day workshop focuses on approaching watercolour as a flexible and forgiving medium, despite its reputation for being difficult to control. Participants will begin by creating a watercolour painting, learning different ways of working with the medium.
A central aspect of the workshop is learning how to respond to mistakes. Watercolour can often feel unforgiving, and it’s common for paintings to be abandoned when something goes wrong. This workshop challenges that idea by showing how unfinished or “failed” works can be reworked and transformed.
Through collage, participants will cut, layer, and rebuild their original paintings using additional watercolour paper and painted elements. While also exploring the possibility of a different outcome with it.
This process allows them to salvage, reuse, and reimagine their work, turning perceived mistakes into opportunities for new compositions.
The workshop encourages experimentation, adaptability, and a more open, less precious approach to painting, resulting in layered, dynamic final pieces.
Please note materials are not included in the price.
A list of essential and recommended materials will be shared ahead of the course commencing.
About the tutor
Eimear Nic Roibeaird is a visual artist and Gaeilgeoir whose work explores the impact of colonialism on land, identity, and cultural memory, drawing on Irish mythology and folklore. She primarily works in watercolour collage.
Her practice is rooted in cultural revival and investigates liminal spaces where ancestral memory meets contemporary identity. Through her work, she reclaims symbols such as Mother Ireland and the feminised landscape as sites of power and resistance.
She is co-founder and director of Arcade Studios Belfast and a studio member of QSS Belfast.
Age Range16+ years
LevelAll Welcome
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