Inspiration from land and sea in the Algarve, Portugal

Course date is August 31st -  September 6th 2025

Cost - from £1800 ( + £200 single room supplement ) for accommodation, food, tuition and materials.

This one-week course is an opportunity for artists to invest in themselves and grow their authentic practise. It’s all about discovering what it means, to make studies of depth, which are full of possibility.

Start Date 31-Aug-2025
End Date 06-Sep-2025
Price From £1800
Course Details Portugal courses 2025 wk1.pdf
Inspiration from Nature in the Algarve - Residency and Retreat in Portugal

Course date is Sunday September 7th - Saturday Sep 13th 2025 (teaching course Mon-Fri)

Cost - from £1500; ( + £200 single room supplement ) for accommodation, food, tuition and materials.

This is a perfect week for working artists, graduates from Emily Ball’s online Paint fit courses or for artists from week 1 to continue from. A residency gives artists the opportunity to live and work outside of their usual environments, providing them with time to reflect, research and produce work. Emily will lead the week, encouraging everyone to immerse themselves in their own internal dialogue with themselves and their subjects. There will be no teaching given, yet the emphasis will be on support and exchange with a rare chance to witness the artists Emily Ball and host/artist Rosalind Hodges, in their own rhythm and creative processes as they work. Everything is on view here, work practise, reflection, wellbeing, rest, fun, collaboration and exchange.

Start Date 07-Sep-2025
End Date 13-Sep-2025
Price From £1500
Course Details Portugal courses 2025 wk2.pdf
Constructing a Landscape Painting

Course Dates: 8th- 10th September  2025 (Monday - Wednesday )

A 3 day course during which you will ‘construct’ up to three large (A1+) paintings Heavy duty paper, using quick drawings and paintings made from nature through a variety of approaches, as a your visual resource. We will work in an outside space, weather permitting, a nearby wood on the first day. You will gather visual material, working first in black and white, and then progressing to colour. Making a series of quick drawings and paintings on paper, recording interesting forms, light and shadows, perhaps getting in quite close and intimate with the woodland undergrowth rather than recording the overall vista. This accumulated visual information will then be used as the starting materials and basis with which to embark on the larger paintings back at the studio on days 2 and 3.You will use these as both a resource to work from and as materials that may be directly employed as part of your larger paintings in a collage capacity. You will be experimenting with a whole variety of painting processes, including- collage, experimental mark making, glazing, and paint transfer methods.

Start Date 08-Sep-2025 9:30 am
End Date 10-Sep-2025 4:30 pm
Price £300.00
Course Details constructingalandscape2025.pdf
The Creative Painting Space -  Autumn

Course Dates Sept 24th -  26th  (Wed - Friday) 2025

Choose which sessions in the year you would like to come. Booking ahead is essential to secure your place.

These sessions are designed for artists who need encouragement and support to become more confident and self-motivated with their painting.

Start Date 24-Sep-2025 9:30 am
End Date 26-Sep-2025 4:30 pm
Price £315.00
Reference CPS/2021/0609/TC
Following the Thread - Drawing from textiles

Course Dates: 8th- 10th October  2025 (Wednesday - Friday)

Our fascination with and relationship to textiles runs deep and rich.

This course offers three days of looking at and drawing from a collection of textiles including, Kente cloth from Ghana, Kuba Cloth from the D.R.C, Nigerian Indigo cloth, Marsh Arab wedding cloth, Kelims, and Indian mirrored cloth, amongst others. As you draw the usual distinctions between abstraction and representation will happily dissolve. Complex and varied patterns will emerge and the haptic experience of handling material will find its expression in the touch and tactility of the drawn mark on paper.

Start Date 08-Oct-2025 9:30 am
End Date 10-Oct-2025 4:30 pm
Price £300.00
Course Details Following the Thread 2025.pdf
Seawhite Studio Residencies October 2025

Course Dates Oct 13th - 17th (Mon - Friday) 2025

Start Date 13-Oct-2025 9:30 am
End Date 17-Oct-2025 4:30 pm
Price £480.00
Course Details Seahwite_Studio_Residency_2025_with_Julian_Brown.pdf
Seawhite Studio Residencies - October 2025

Course Dates October 20th to 24th  (Mon - Friday) 2025

Start Date 20-Oct-2025 9:30 am
End Date 24-Oct-2025 4:30 pm
Price £480.00
Course Details seawhitestudioresidencyemilyoct.pdf
Paint Fit – Autumn Studio Retreat 2025

Online Course Time: Oct 27th - 31st & Nov 3rd - 7th  2025 (Monday - Friday each week) 10am - 11.15 am each day.

This annual course has been very successful and popular with artists. They have found it incredibly helpful and informative for their practise; enabling them to break out of feeling stuck and then onto producing personal and exciting work with confidence and renewed curosity and energy. It is all about motivating artists to get working in their studio every day, for 10 days. With daily input from Emily as your Paint Fit Trainer, the course will encourage you to make a positive commitment to your practice and instil a daily work ethic that will become an essential part of your painting routine.

Start Date 27-Oct-2025 10:00 am
End Date 07-Nov-2025 11:15 am
Price £250.00
Course Details paintfitcoursenov2025.pdf
Autumn Trees  - Leonardslee Gardens

Nov 9th - 13th 2025 (Sunday – Thursday)

Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm

Autumn begins and Nature slows. As a celebratory finale the colours and majestic shapes of Autumn trees illuminate the landscape; often framed with a slate grey or sharp, clear, pale blue sky. Ornate tapestries of reds, oranges, yellows, browns, greens and purples appear in the canopies that reach skyward and spread out like hanging skirts. This 5 day course is all about capturing and exploring these qualities in drawing and painting.

Start Date 09-Nov-2025 9:30 am
End Date 13-Nov-2025 4:30 pm
Price £590.00
Course Details Autumn Trees 2025 Leonardslee Gardens.pdf
The Creative Painting Space -  Autumn

Course Dates November 19th -  21st  (Wed - Friday) 2025

Choose which sessions in the year you would like to come. Booking ahead is essential to secure your place.

These sessions are designed for artists who need encouragement and support to become more confident and self-motivated with their painting.

Start Date 19-Nov-2025 9:30 am
End Date 21-Nov-2025 4:30 pm
Price £315.00
Reference CPS/2021/0609/TC
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