Learn to Paint with Ashley

Welcome to the new video section of the Ashley Jackson Website. Each video costs £1.99 and you can view these over a period of 7 days.


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The fabulous Bolton Abbey at the side of the river Wharfe.

Follow Ashley and the students as they learn the differences in composition to assist you in creating a painting that leads the eye in wards.




Burnsall in Lower Wharfedale, not far from Grassington. A picturesque location of Burnsall in the valley with its church and bridge bathed in sunlight. Join Ashley as he captures the location before the moving sunlight changes the shadows framing the buildings and structures. Freezing the focal point quickly in a pencil sketch. 




Follow in footsteps of Ashley and Turner to Gordale Scar, a huge gorge created during the ice ages near Malham, a small village in the Pennines. This can now be found on the Turner Trails on the Welcome to Yorkshire website.




Follow in footsteps of Ashley and the Bronte sisters on the wild Wuthering Heights moorland.




Join Ashley on a sunny day down by the canal pathway in Hebden Bridge. Hebden Bridge was named after the very bridge that an important battle in the Civil War took place.




Join Ashley on his beloved Yorkshire Moor, above Holmfirth, capturing the landscape and farm houses.This is a lesson on perspective in drawing , showing you how to make a landscape work in a painting.




Join Ashley as he captures Robin Hoods Bay in watercolour with his students. View the houses clinging to the cliffe side with their red pantiles decorating the roof tops of the stone cottages. At low tide the exposed sea bed makes for great fossil hunting due to it its history with rock pools formed over 170million years ago.




Join Ashley at Roxby Beck on the North East Coast, houses frame the left hand banking, with boats scattered against the river bed. 




Staithes, a perfect day on the East Coast of Yorkshire.  Join Ashley as he simplifies a large landscape, downsizing the view and the colour. 




Ashley shows you how to create a focal point from open moorland. The lesson being what you paint is as important as how you paint it. 




Ashley shows you how to create movement and composition of a picturesque stream in the Yorkshire Dales.




Join Ashley as he takes his students to Wrawby Post Mill, the last surviving postmill in the North of England.