EMILY BALL AT SEAWHITE | CONTEMPORARY DRAWING AND PAINTING COURSES |
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AUTUMN AT THE STUDIO WITH NICK BODIMEADE | Creative Painting Space and Landscape & Abstraction |
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| Images: Windblown. Nick Bodimeade; Glyndebourne Lake 1, Nick Bodimeade; Studio wall, Nick Bodimeade |
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“What we have at the Seawhite Studio is a community of artists, all exchanging knowledge and ideas. It’s a collaboration; what I do as an artist and a teacher comes out of my relationships with those I work with. Hopefully I give as much as I get. It’s an extraordinary thing that Emily has created here at the Seawhite Studio and I am very pleased to have been a part of it for so long.”
~Nick Bodimeade
Dear Visitor
Nick Bodimeade is a core part of the Seawhite Studio Tutor’s team and in this newsletter we are throwing the spotlight on the courses that he is leading at the studio this autumn:
- Creative Painting Space, 24-26 September
- Landscape and Abstraction, 8 – 10 October - FULLY BOOKED
- Creative Painting Space, 19 – 21 November
- Landscape and Abstraction, 1 – 3 December
Nick’s enthusiasm for the themes that he explores in his courses is infectious, and what’s more through his teaching he generously shares his knowledge of artists, and artworks as well as his own experience as a practicing artist. He provides credible unpacked processes and thought provoking questions that help each artists develop confidence in their critical judgment. He is famous for his daily slideshows which provide a comprehensive understanding of each course’s themes and provoke lively group discussions. Taking a course with Nick is definitely an investment in your practice and his courses always garner much positive praise from participating artists:
“Nick’s perspective has really helped me see and understand more about the several painting/creative threads I’m interested in.” ~ Jane Lagun, artist Attending the Creative Painting Space with Nick Bodimeade
“Nick’s tutoring and mentoring have helped immeasurably with my development as a painter, including advice and encouragement to explore different approaches and guidance on how to critique.” ~ Roger Adams.
Read on to find out more about Nick’s courses, the Creative Painting Space and Landscape & Abstraction. If you can’t wait to book, click on the buttons below to head straight to our website: |
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CREATIVE PAINTING SPACE with Nick Bodimeade Choose from 24 – 26 September (wed – Fri) 2025 19-21 November (Wed – Fri) 2025 £315 |
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| Image: Student working during the Creative Painting Space, Nick Bodimeade |
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The Creative Painting Space sessions are a core part of our programme, offering artists the chance to push forward and develop their work. If you’ve lost the thread of a regular routine, these three days can provide a way to get back up and running in your studio. They are also great if you are stuck-in-a-rut, and with Nick providing fresh eyes and helping you recognise the good qualities in your work, the sessions undeniably benefit your practice and provide a catalyst for future work. |
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| Images: Students working during the Creative Painting Space, Nick Bodimeade |
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At their core, the Creative Painting Space sessions offer focused one-to-one tutorials that seek to improve production and pace, and help artists to find ways to become unstuck. Each participating artist comes with an existing body of work that they are developing, and during the three days are able to spread out and see this work as a whole, with plenty of wall space for studies and works-in-progress.
Artists attending the Creative Painting Space benefit from working with a group of like-minded artists: the studio's atmosphere is always filled with possibilities, creativity and purposeful determination - and great paintings (of course!). Having three consecutive days of undiluted painting time also give each person the chance to really see progress and get absorbed in their work. |
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| "The atmosphere in the studio was very buzzy and friendly. It made me think of the Bake-Off tent - supportive but a feeling that you would 'up your game' whilst surrounded by talented and passionate people.” ~ Jen Oliver, artist attending Creative Painting Space
Image: Painting studies made during the Creative Painting Space, Jen Oliver |
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Nick’s role in these sessions is that of a mentor. In addition to providing a supportive critical eye, he can also offer practical advice on materials and processes, as well as sharing his own approach to painting.
“My role in these sessions is to support the students’ aims and intentions. I feel the most important thing is to help the individual make personal critical decisions about the development of their practice. Critical decision making can sound daunting but really it can be as simple as saying this is better than that, and then using that judgement to move forward.” ~ Nick Bodimeade |
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| Image: Student working during the Creative Painting Space, Nick Bodimeade |
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The Creative Painting Space attracts a diverse range of artists - with a variety of subjects and interests - who are at different points in their painting journey. However, what they all have in common is a commitment to sustain a regular painting practice and a desire to develop their visual language and strengthen their confidence in painting. Some participants have been attending for years and have gone on to undertake formal qualifications, have successful shows and win prestigious art prizes. But they still come back to the Creative Painting Space to benefit from the quality of mentoring offered by Nick.
“I think we all at whatever stage in our painting have something to contribute and can take our practice seriously. Painting should be exploratory, experimental, investigative, full of ‘what happens if’ questions and reflections on the results. Helping students explore their own sensibility and develop their personal visual voice is a key part of my practice as a teacher.” ~ Nick
To find out more and to book your place on please click on the buttons below: |
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Landscape & Abstraction
With Nick Bodimeade
8-10 October 2025 (Wed - Fri) – FULLY BOOKED
1 – 3 (Mon – Fri) December 2025
£300 |
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| Image: Copyhold Farm, Nick Bodimeade |
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“What is Landscape? Perhaps it could be thought of as material and space subject to the processes of nature. Gravity, light, temperature, atmospherics, growth and decay. Many artists seek to exploit the parallels that exist between the processes of landscape and those of painting. The pushing and pulling, the dribbling, soaking and eroding, the generative and destructive and with the artist’s body as a force of nature operating dynamically within the ‘field’ of painting.” ~ Nick |
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| Image: Squall 2, Nick Bodimeade |
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On this three day practical painting course Nick invites you to explore landscape painting’s relationship to process-based abstraction, working sensitively and inventively with the physical properties of your materials. 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. You will be given demonstrations and instructions to get you started alongside one-to-one and group tuition. To grab the last place on the December Landscape & Abstraction course, please click on the button below: |
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"I just wanted to thank you so much for such a good course. I learned so much and you were so generous sharing about your own work too. It has made me think, inspired me and opened my head up to new things and approaches to painting.” Stony Parsons, Landscape Drawing and Painting with Nick Bodimeade |
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Find out more about Nick and his work by following him on Instagram or taking a look at his Tutor Profile on the Seawhite Studio website: |
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You can also take a walk around Nick’s studio by clicking on the film below which will take you to our YouTube Channel: |
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As part of our online programme of pre-recorded courses, Nick has developed several courses based on one of his many painting passions. These courses can be downloaded and enjoyed from the comfort of your home studio and a time and pace that suits you. |
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Painting the Colour Theatre
£130
A three-day playful and experimental workshop in which you will make a minimum of 10 optically dynamic abstract paintings in response to a pair of evolving, highly coloured still lives constructed in modified and painted cardboard boxes.
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| Painting Patterned Cloth £130
On this course you will be encouraged to make a series of shaped, painted and collaged relief constructions. Working with packaging cardboard, patterned cloth and acrylic paint you will make works that leave the flat rectangle behind to explore a more dynamic relationship with the wall, the architecture and the viewer.
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