MUSEUM OF CLIMATE HOPE ART WORKSHOP

Landscape as Artist, Artist as Landscape

Sun 8 Jun 2025, 2–4pm

At the Museum

Two-hour practical session in the Ashmolean Learning Studio.

Tickets are £10 to £50 (£50 standard ticket, £25 subsidised ticket, £10 reduced rate ticket)

Booking is essential. Book tickets below

With environmental artist Anya Gleizer and climate-education research Bill Finnegan, co founders of the University of Oxford's Museum of Climate Hope

This mixed-media painting workshop uses traditional landscape painting to explore our own relationship to land and the more-than-human world. It invites anyone curious about art, climate, and conservation to reflect on how we relate to our environment.

Bringing together perspectives from art and environmental science, we’ll explore historic landscape paintings at the Ashmolean. We will delve into the power and separation of man and nature in these images, applying techniques and ideas to form our own creative landscape compositions with brush on paper.

Gleizer will help subvert principles of perspective, become more conscious of our own pictures of the natural world, and discuss the role art has to play in climate hope.

Ascanius shooting the stag of Sylvia landscape

Landscape with Ascanius shooting the Stag of Sylvia, Claude Lorrain, on display in the Baroque Art Gallery

Whether you’re a seasoned artist or new to creative expression, this setting offers a chance to connect with others, share insights, appreciate old masterpieces, challenge assumptions and begin the creative transformation to a more sustainable world.

All materials will be provided. Participants are invited to bring a photo of a landscape important to them on their phone or in print.

Subsidised and reduced rate tickets have been made possible due to the partnership with the Museum of Climate Hope.

This is part of our Create & Transform season of events.