Let me teach you to paint!
LEVEL 1 CURRICULUM (2)Amazing news! In 2026, I will launch three online courses that will radically transform your painting technique and give you a competitive edge in the art market. Please send an email requesting an info letter containing all the details you will need including schedules, required materials and payment options. The info letter will include all dates. As these courses follow a continuity pattern, you will benefit the most if you do all three. Tax will be additional to the prices included below. The course offerings are as follows:
Level 1: Get Started with Acrylic Seascapes $200 (March 2026)
This course comprises two 90-minute classes spread over one weekend. You will learn essential planning and mapping out of seascape paintings as well as essential applications of perspective and light. You will also learn important brush techniques. By the end of this short course, you will have gained experience and competency in planning and painting basic seascapes.
Level 2: Paint Foreground Detail in Acrylic Seascapes $450 (April 2026)
This course comprises four 90-minute classes spread over two weekends. Foreground detail is where the eyes go when people view your art, so let's get skilled at it! You will learn how to paint rocks, driftwood, barnacles, frayed rope, rusty chains and seaweed. You will also develop your own personal approaches to detail, colour mixing and light patterns in relation to these foreground details. You will come away with true confidence, competency and enthusiasm for creating mesmeric shoreline detail.
Level 3: Ultimate Mastery in Acrylic Seascapes $750 (May 2026)
This course comprises six 90-minute classes spread over three weekends. This course builds on the knowledge and experience gained on the first two courses and ties everything together to establish your overall expertise at painting beautiful seascapes that are rich in personal expression and detail. Among the areas covered are: how to paint horizons, how to paint sky including clouds and sunsets, how to paint ocean detail, waves, water patterns and reflections, how to paint trees, seagulls, cliffs, boats and docks. and how to build colour and detail into existing elements.
About the Artist
I live in North Vancouver, BC, Canada. As well as having worked with oils, gouache and acrylics, I have painted watercolour scenes in Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, New Zealand, Ireland, England, Mexico, and numerous locations around BC.
I moved to Canada from the UK in 2005 to be closer to my late father Ray Jennings, who taught in the Philosophy department at SFU for 50 years. I particularly enjoy exploring the textures and values created by inclement weather, as well as the richness of sunsets reflected in water, making Vancouver's North Shore the ideal place to be an artist!
By profession, I am a lecturer at Capilano University, and I have a Master's degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham. I had private lessons at age nine with a celebrated local artist, later studying art, literature, philosophy and education.
My large acrylic mandala paintings were an experiment in creating an objective aesthetic that is pre-determined by symmetry and an interplay of colours. Prints of these nine square foot mandalas on canvas are available on the shopping page of this site.