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Mapping out your creativity for 2024

Mapping out your creativity for 2024

EMILY BALL AT SEAWHITE‍

CONTEMPORARY DRAWING AND PAINTING COURSES‍


Creative Plans for 2024

Fill your diaries with creative adventures!


Images: Organic Structures, Chichester Cathedral, Simply Still LIfe, Drawing the Figure, Painting the Figure

 

Dear  ‍ ‍

 

Have you made a New Year’s resolution to be more creative this year?  To carve out more time for your painting and drawing? To invest in your practice by learning new techniques or exploring new ways of working? 

 

We can help with that!

 

Here at the Seawhite Studio we have been working hard to create a programme of courses and residencies that will fire you up and keep you going: helping you be more productive, more engaged, feed your confidence and help you overcome challenges and barriers within your work and practice.   From past experience and feedback, we know that the impact of our courses can be felt far beyond of the reach of the course itself.

 

The start of new year is a time to look forward and make plans, and so the purpose of this newsletter is to provide an overview of the short courses and residencies that are available to book for the first half of 2024.  Some courses are already fully booked, so we are only featuring courses that have places available (hint: book early to avoid disappointment!).  To find out more about each course, simpley click on the button beneath its description.

 

We hope this newsletter can be a useful tool for you and help you map out your creativity for the first part of 2024 - we look forward to welcoming you to the Seawhite Studio soon!

January 2024

MAKING ROOM FOR DRAWING

with KATIE SOLLOHUB

17-19 January | £375

 

This is a wonderfully inventive and experimental drawing course in which you can create your own magical drawing den.

 

 DRAWING - A STUDIO RESIDENCY with KATIE SOLLOHUB

22-26 January | £480

 

Take time to expand your own drawing practice and work alongside Katie as she shares her practice with you over five days at the Seawhite Studio.

 

 

Image credit: Sarah Ketelaars‍

 FRAMING THE VIEW

with NICK BODIMEADE

29 January - 2 February | £325

 

A new three-day short course that explores the views inside and out that windows afford artists.  The frame is the subject!‍

 

 

February 2024‍

 DANCING & DRAWING

with KATIE SOLLOHUB

 

5 February | £100

 

 Draw like no one is watching! Loose your inhibitions, and experience the freedom of boundless creative movement as you draw spontaneously and expressively in this 1-day workshop. 

 CREATIVE PAINTING SPACE

with NICK BODIMEADE

 7-9 February | £315

 

 Working in a spacious studio, with input from Nick and support from fellow artists, the Creative Painting Space offers practicing artists the chance to push through, become ‘unstuck’ and explore new approaches in their work.

 TRACING NATURE

with JOE PACKER

 12-14 February | £325

 

 

Shells, coral, fossils, seed pods, insects, wood, mosses, feathers.  Responding to natural objects using only line - and only in black and white – this course explores how seemingly quite strict limits or rules can sometimes result in more inventive results than an ‘anything goes’ approach.  

 FREEDOM OF ABSTRACTION

with JULIAN BROWN

 19-21 February | £300

 

 Julian invites you to explore rhythms in abstraction by making a collection of expansive, large scale paintings and drawings, that incorporate layering, mark making and expression. 

March 2024‍

 CREATIVE PAINTING SPACE

with EMILY BALL

 13-15 March |£315

  

Another chance to join us at the Seawhite Studio for this mentoring-based course, this time led by Emily. These sessions are for artists who have existing work on the go but would like to push their work forward with support from a tutor, and to work alongside like-minded artists in our spacious studio.

Image: Hannah Wildman‍

 RESIDENCY WEEK

with SIMON CARTER

 4-8 March | £480

 

Join Simon for an uninterrupted week of painting. Enjoy the space and positive work ethic of working alongside Simon and other artists -  a lot can be achieved in five days!

April 2024‍

 FLORIBUNDA

with EMILY BALL

 16-19 April |£450

 

Spring!  The perfect time to transform the Seawhite Studio into a hothouse garden and celebrate all the glorious inspiration that flora and fauna offers drawing and painting.

 

 SIMPLY STILL LIFE

with KATIE SOLLOHUB

23-26 April |£400

 

 A half-drunk cup, an open book.  Objects can be so evocative; suggesting something that has, or is about to happen.  On this course you have the opportunity to make  a series of exciting colour studies and paintings from detailed Still-Life set ups including  props, objects, fabrics and furniture. 

May 2024‍

 ORGANIC STRUCTURES

with JOE PACKER

 13-15 May | £325

  

With the Natural world as your focus, this three-day course invites you to hone your skills of close-up observation and experiment with new collage and glazing methods in order to create large scale work. 

 CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL

with KATIE SOLLOHUB

15-17 May | £325

 

 This course begins with a day spent at Chichester Cathedral; drawing with all your senses to make expressive and experimental studies.  On days two and three you will be based at the Seawhite Studio letting you drawings grow and expand as you scale up your marks and observations onto large rolls of paper. 

 THE FIGURE IN MOVEMENT: DRAWING

with EMILY BALL & KATIE SOLLOHUB

 29-31 May | £450

 

 Rethink and reimagine ways of working from the figure.  Working alone and collaboratively, you will create huge stunning drawings inspired by the moving figure interacting with a theatrical-like installation space.

June 2024‍

 THE FIGURE IN MOVEMENT: PAINTING

with EMILY BALL & KATIE SOLLOHUB

4-7 June | £560

 

 The Seawhite studio will be transformed into an animated space for creativity. Working on huge rolls of canvas that span the studio walls, you will be invited to explore and discover fresh ways of looking and creating painted images of the moving figure, with a focus on colour and gesture. 

 STUDIO RESIDENCY WEEK

with JOE PACKER

10-14 June | £480

 

 "The opportunity to share the experimental nature of my often intuitive painterly explorations in real time with other painters is something that I think will be mutually inspiring and useful. I look forward to what will be a productive and rewarding 5 days.” ~ Joe Packer. 

 STUDIO RESIDENCY WEEK

with EMILY BALL

17-21 June | £480

 

This residency week offers you the chance to  feel supported and motivated by working alongside similarly dedicated artists and to be inspired by working in parallel with Emily as she generously shares her working practice with you.