EMILY BALL AT SEAWHITE |
CONTEMPORARY DRAWING AND PAINTING COURSES |
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Creative Plans for 2025
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Our programme of courses and residencies for the year ahead is live and ready to book! |
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Images: A Not So Still Life, Creative Painting Space, Freedom from Abstraction, The Figure in Movement (Drawing), Summer in the Garden at Highdown
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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 all through 2025: 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.
We're delighted to say that our programme of courses and residencies for 2025 is now live on our website and ready for you to book your place(s). The purpose of this newsletter is to provide an overview of the programme for the year ahead. We've listed each course month by month and provided a short description along with a button that will take you straight to our website and more information.
To help you get organised and ensure you pick the right courses, Emily is also offering you a FREE 20 minute zoom-call consultation to help build your own bespoke programme for the year. Some of the areas that this consultation could cover include:
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Helping you choose a mixture of face-to-face courses, live online, and pre-recorded courses to suit your specific needs, budget and time restraints.
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Perhaps you want to develop your skills in how to make studies and then develop them into finished paintings. Emily can guide you to the courses that will help you achieve this most successfully.
- You may want to develop your understanding of colour and abstraction. Emily can suggest which tutor’s approach would be most suitable and helpful for you.
To take Emily up on this fantastic offer and to book your consultation please email: emily@emilyball.net
We hope this newsletter can be a useful tool for you and help you map out your creativity for the year ahead - we look forward to welcoming you to the Seawhite Studio in 2025!
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FIGURE, FRILLS & FASHION
with Katie Sollohub
8-10 January (Wed - Fri) | £330
Working with the wonderful Eve, dressed in her own dynamic and inspirational costumes, this course will celebrate the way fabric adorns the figure: how it changes as it wraps around form; offers glimpses of flesh; how the features of the face emerge from folds and frills.
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DANCING & DRAWING
with Katie Sollohub
20 January (Mon) | £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.
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FRAMING THE VIEW
with Nick Bodimeade
22 -24 January (Wed - Fri)| £300
A new three-day short course that explores the views inside and out that windows afford artists. The frame is the subject!
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ORGANIC STRUCTURES
with Joe Packer
3 - 5 February (Mon - Wed) | £320
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.
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CREATIVE PAINTING SPACE
with Nick Bodimeade
12- 14 February (Wed - Fri)| £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.
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FREEDOM OF ABSTRACTION
with Julian Brown
24-26 February (Mon - Wed) | £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.
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DRAWING INTERIORS AT DANNY HOUSE
with Katie Sollohub
26-28 February (Wed - Fri) | £300
This course begins with a day spent at Danny House; 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.
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RESIDENCY WEEK
with Simon Carter
10 - 14 March (Mon- Fri) | £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!
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CREATIVE PAINTING SPACE
with Nick Bodimeade
26 - 28 March (Wed-Fri) |£315
Another chance to join us at the Seawhite Studio for this mentoring-based course. 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.
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SIMPLY STILL LIFE
with Katie Sollohub
1 - 4 April (Tues - Fri) | £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.
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CREATIVE PAINTING SPACE
with Emily Ball
23- 25 April (Wed-Fri) |£315
Do you have existing work on the go but would like to push your work forward with support from a tutor in a spacious and supportive environment? Then sign up for this months Creative Painting Space and get an adrenalin shot of creativity that can reignite your wor and push it further!
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UP ON THE CHALK DOWNS
with Emily Ball
28 April - 2 May (Mon - Fri) | £500
This course will begin with two days taking you on a journey through the process of making drawings and studies whilst moving through the landscape of the South Downs, making playful mixed media explorations. Back in the studio you will then use this material to start to develop 3 -4 paintings, navigating the path that the paintings may want to take and keeping a playful sense of engagement.
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PAINTING THE FIGURE IN THE LANDSCAPE
with Nick Bodimeade
19 - 21 May (Mon - Wed) | £300
This course explores the fundamental relationship between figures and the landscape in painting. Nick will encourage you to look at how paint becomes light and form and how the figure can emerge or dissolve into its surroundings and how this unstable visual relationship brings changes in reading and understanding.
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THE FIGURE IN MOVEMENT: DRAWING
with Emily Ball & Katie Sollohub
28-30 May (Wed - Fri) | £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.
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THE FIGURE IN MOVEMENT: PAINTING
with Emily Ball & Katie Sollohub
3 - 6 June (Tues - Fri) | £580
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.
The Figure - Painting
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STUDIO RESIDENCY
with Emily Ball
16 - 20 June (Mon - Fri) | £480
Five days of undiluted painting in a spacious studio, working alongside Emily and a small group of like-minded artists. “We work hard; the residency week creates a working atmosphere where you turn up, ready to push forward and do serious play! It is inspiring seeing the individuality of each artist in their work and processes.” ~Emily Ball
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SUMMER SCHOOL LIVE ONLINE
with Emily ball & Katie Sollohub
23 - 26 June (Mon - Thurs) | £250
Sitting in the garden at the height of summer is heaven, and this ONLINE course is a celebration of the abundance of the summer garden.During the live online sessions Emily and Katie will show you how to unpack your studies and create expressive paintings that bring back the glorious riot of colours, patterns, mood and memories of being in the garden.
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SUMMER SCHOOL 2025: SUMMER IN THE GARDEN AT HIGHDOWN
with Emily Ball & Katie Sollohub
30 June - 4 July (Mon - Fri) | £550
This 5 day painting course takes its inspiration from the beautiful Highdown Garden near Worthing. It is a garden full of delights; mature trees and plants, winding pathways that lead to open glades. The first two days of the course are spent in the garden making lots of studies whilst the rest of the week is spent at the Seawhite studio where ambitious and expressive paintings will be created using your studies and your memories of the place.
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INSPIRATION FROM LAND & SEA IN THE ALGARVE, PORTUGAL
with Emily Ball
31 August - 6 September (Sun - Sat) from £1880
This one-week course is an opportunity for artists to invest in themselves and grow their authentic practise. Emily will encourage you to engage in a dialogue with your work, while exploring, gathering and researching studies, drawing inspiration from the spectaular coastline and landscape of the Algarve.
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INSPIRATION FROM NATURE IN THE ALGARVE - RESIDENCY & RETREAT
with Emily Ball
7 - 13 September (Sun - Sat)
From £1500
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 subject.
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CONSTRUCTING A LANDSCAPE PAINTING
with Joe Packer
8-10 September (Mon - Wed) | £300
A three 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. The course offers you the chance to experiment with a whole variety of painting processes, including- collage, experimental mark making, glazing, and paint transfer methods.
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CREATIVE PAINTING SPACE
with Nick Bodimeade
24 - 26 September (Wed - Fri) | £315
During the Creative Painting Space the studio's atmosphere is always filled with possibilities, creativity and purposeful determination - and great paintings (of course!). As well as benefiting from one-to-one tutorials, having three consecutive days of undiluted painting time really gives each person the enhance to see progress and get absorbed in their work.
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FOLLOWING THE THREAD - DRAWING FROM TEXTILES
with Nick Bodimeade
8 -10 October (Wed - Fri) | £300
This course offers three days of looking at and drawing from a collection of textiles from around the world. Working at a variety of different scales with a broad range of drawing materials you will discover that the usual distinctions between abstraction and representation will happily dissolve.
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STUDIO RESIDENCY WEEK
with Julian Brown
13 -17 October (Mon - Fri) | £480
“Last year’s residency was a collaborative learning experience; I found it an environment where I could pass on my knowledge and experience. Being open about our creative processes made it a fulfilling, useful and generous experience.” ~ Julian Brown
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STUDIO RESIDENCY
with Emily Ball
20 - 24 October (Mon -Fri) | £480
Five days of undiluted painting in a spacious studio, working alongside Emily and a small group of like-minded artists. “We work hard; the residency week creates a working atmosphere where you turn up, ready to push forward and do serious play! It is inspiring seeing the individuality of each artist in their work and processes.” ~Emily Ball
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PAINT FIT STUDIO RETREAT
with Emily Ball
27 - 31 October (Mon - Fri)
3 - 7 November (Mon - Fri)
£315
Paint Fit is all about establishing a daily practice of painting and discovering what really matters to you. Each day starts with a live-online tutorial/demonstration with Emily guiding you through exercises; opening up the possibilities of how you can approach your painting. Making a commitment to show up in your studio and paint every day quickly gets results - the progress and breakthroughs that participants make during the course are significant and long-lasting.
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AUTUMNTREES
with Emily Ball and Katie Sollohub
9-13 November (Sun - Thurs) | £590
Two days on location at Leonardslee Gardens, followed by three days at the Seawhite Stidio: Autumn Trees is a hugely enjoyable course that not only serves to raise your confidence in working outside on location, but also helps you develop your personal language of paint back in the studio..
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CREATIVE PAINTING SPACE
with Nick Bodimeade
19-21 November (Mon - Fri) | £315
Another chance to join us at the Seawhite Studio for this mentoring-based course, this time led by Nick. 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 work alongside like-minded artists in our spacious studio.
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A NOT SO STILL LIFE
with Katie Sollohub
26 - 28 November (Wed - Fri) | £300
Still life does not have to be still. In this course you will be working fast and freely from a moving still life set up in the studio with both drawing and painting materials, and on any surface you like. Working in this free and flexible way enables the artist to work much more intuitively. The resulting paintings and drawings will have a directness, playfulness and an animated energy.
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LANDSCAPE & ABSTRACTION
with Nick Bodimeade
1 - 3 December (Mon - Wed) | £300
What is landscape? Many artists seek to exploit the parallels that exist between the processes of landscape and those of painting. This course explores landscape painting’s relationship to process based abstraction. Colour, composition, layering and visual atmosphere will all play their part. The aim being to create visual equivalents for landscape rather than straight forward representations.
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EMBODIED DRAWING
with Katie Sollohub
4 - 5 December (Thurs - Fri) | £200
Spice up your drawing, expand your horizons and get ready to invent and play – Katie is inviting you to (re)discover how vital drawing is, how rigorous and dynamic it can be, and what a joyfully liberating activity it is to do! Embodied Drawing is an experimental two-day drawing course embracing the physicality of drawing on a large scale: using your own body, gesture and sensation as your subject.
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DRAWING - A RESIDENCY WEEK - DRAWING WITHOUT A MAP
with Katie Sollohub
8 - 12 December (Mon - Fri) | £480
This week long residency is for anyone wishing to use drawing to expand their practice, giving dedicated time and a generous space to commit to making your work. Katie will be making large scale drawings and installations,
inspired by movement, dance, improvisation and story telling.
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