Unleash your creativity and explore the world of abstract art in a supportive and inspiring environment.
The course will introduce you to different approaches to making abstract paintings while developing your skills in using a range of painting tools and techniques. You will explore the visual language of colour, composition, tone and paint application and will be given the opportunity to work on your own project. Providing a stimulating atmosphere for personal discovery, the weekly sessions will allow ample time for in-depth exploration, hands-on practice, feedback, and reflection.
Tutor Maria will guide you through a series of structured exercises designed to help you unlock your creative potential and access your intuition. You will learn through a combination of demonstrations, hands-on practice, group discussion and individualised feedback, and Maria will offer personalised feedback and guidance at each session.
This course is ideal for those who have already attended the Introduction to Abstract Painting course, and by the end of this 5-week course, you will have gained a general understanding of abstract art principles and techniques, advanced your own artistic style, and produced a portfolio of original abstract work.
You will:
Tutor Maria Masullo is an abstract painter, university lecturer and therapist based in Leicester. She works with the therapeutic potential of art as a mode of healing and connection to nature and to the Self. Her work is focused on texture and colour as expressive devices, which she utilises to translate emotional material and spiritual experiences into artistic abstraction. The sacredness of nature is a strong theme in Maria’s work. Her choice of concepts and materials is informed by traditional herbal medicine, yoga philosophy, esoteric anatomy, and ritual. Foraged medicinal herbs, oils, resins, and other natural materials are incorporated into her work, bringing it closer to the Earth and to the process of creation.
Maria’s has exhibited in various galleries in London, including Saatchi Gallery, and published in various art publications. Find out more about Maria and her work at www.mariamasullo.com
All materials are provided.
Participants must be aged 18+.
This 5-week course will run on Friday mornings, 10am – 1pm, starting on 14 November with the final session on 12 December 2025.
This is the ideal follow-on course if you’ve taken our Introduction to Abstract Painting course.
If the course/workshop you’d like to book is sold out, we do operate a waiting list – simply contact our box office team on 0116 252 2455 / arts-centre@le.ac.uk and ask to be added to the waiting list. We’ll then contact you if a place becomes available, with absolutely no obligation to accept it if you’ve made other plans!
Please ensure that you agree to our updated Terms & Conditions before booking as courses/workshops are non-refundable in some circumstances.
We aim to make all our sessions as accessible as possible and carers/PAs are very welcome – just remember to book their free place when you book your session. If you’d like to talk to us in advance of booking or attending your sessions to discuss your access needs, our Box Office team is here to help! Email arts-centre@le.ac.uk, pop in or call 0116 252 2455, open 7 days a week.
We have four blue badge parking spaces outside Attenborough Arts Centre, plus double yellow line roadside parking very close to the building for blue badge holders for up to three hours if our parking spaces are occupied.
Free parking for all customers is available after 5pm on weekdays and all day at weekends in the University of Leicester car park next door to Attenborough Arts Centre on Lancaster Road. The closest public car park for parking at all other times is Victoria Park, 5-10 minutes walk from us (near De Montfort Hall).
