EMILY BALL AT SEAWHITE | CONTEMPORARY DRAWING AND PAINTING COURSES |
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2026: SEAWHITE STUDIO
| On location, online and the studio - join us for a year of Creativity! |
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Dear Visitor Happy New year!
Now that it’s January, the studio is thawing out from the Festive break and is buzzing with activity as Emily supports 6 lucky artists settle into a three week residency at the studio. It’s going to be exciting to see where this precious time and space takes their creativity.
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| Image: Emily's work station during the studio residency |
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The momentum continues as at the end of January Nick Bodimeade is delivering another edition of his hugely popular course Landscape and Abstraction. This course is already fully booked, but fear not! There are lots more courses coming up to inspire and excite you.
In this newsletter, we want to share with you all the brilliant courses that Emily and the other tutors have devised for you – so far - in 2026. We've listed each course by month and provided a short description along with a button that will take you straight to our website and more information.
We’ve also listened to your feedback and by popular demand are offering more courses that feature an ‘on location’ element to them. These courses are aimed at giving you confidence to work outdoors, creating successful studies that hone your ability to describe a place through drawing and painting and ultimately - like all our courses - develop your unique language of paint.
We're positive that you will find something in our programme that will resonate and spark joy wherever you are at in your practice. Wishing you a year of health, happiness and creativity!
Warm wishes from all of us at the Seawhite Studio.
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FREEDOM OF ABSTRACTION with Julian Brown at the Seawhite Studio 4-6 February (Wed - Fri) | £350
Make a collection of expansive, large scale paintings and drawings, exploring rhythms in abstraction. Core to this course will be the importance of creating systems to underpin your work and developing the work through layering, mark making and expression.
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| PAINTER TO PAINTER With Simon Carter at the Seawhite Studio 23 – 25 March (Mon- Wed) £300
A 3-day practical course looking at how painters can learn from and be inspired by the work of other artists. Paintings are not made in isolation; they are part of the whole continuing culture of painting. In this course you will work from one of three paintings chosen by Simon and use them as a starting point from which you can push your painting and make new discoversies. |
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EMBODIED DRAWING
with Katie Sollohub
26-27 March (Thurs - Fri) | £225
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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| CREATIVE PAINTING SPACE
with Nick Bodimeade
at the Seawhite Studio 30 March - 1 April (Mon - Wed) £315
Do you have existing work on the go but would like to develop your work with support from a tutor in a spacious and supportive and energising environment? Then sign up for a spot on the Creative Painting Space and push through, become ‘unstuck’ and explore new approaches to your work. |
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| UP ON THE CHALK DOWNS
with Emily Ball On location at Sullington Farm, outside Storrington (West Sussex) 27 April – 1 May (Mon – Fri) £580
Travelling light with a range of materials that will be provided, you will explore the ancient landscape of the South Downs creating playful mixed media studies: a compilation of things seen, felt, heard. Two days in the landscape will then be followed by three days in the studio using this material to start to develop a series of paintings.
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CONSTRUCTING A LANDSCAPE PAINTING
with Joe Packer at the Seawhite Studio, but working outside in the nearby woods on day 1 (weather permitting) 6 – 8 May (Wed – Fri) £300
A three day course during which you will ‘construct’ up to three large (A1+) paintings on 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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| | COLOUR & LIGHT ON THE DOWNS
With Emily Ball & Katie Sollohub on location at Truleigh Hill Centre in the Adur Vallery (Nr Shoreham)
8-9 May (Fri-Sat)
£280
If you love being in the landscape and are interested in making work that expressively captures the light, space, air and physicality of being on the South Downs then this is a course for you. This two day course will give you the location, materials, inspiration and guidance to help you make exciting work that could inform and impact your practice for months to come. |
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GET GROUNDED
With Katie Sollohub at the Seawhite studio
18 – 19 May (Mon – Tues) £250
In this NEW course, Katie invites you to walk in the woods when the bluebells are out and the ground is burgeoning with colour and new life. Feel more alive, engage with your natural surroundings, wake up your senses and create! You will be making drawings in the landscape, about the landscape, with the landscape. You will be responding to the sights, sounds, smells and feel of the woods; returning to the studio each day equipped with inspiration, natural materials and hand made tools to continue working on a larger scale. |
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| COLOUR & LIGHT ON THE DOWNS
With Emily Ball & Katie Sollohub on location at Truleigh Hill Centre in the Adur Vallery (Nr Shoreham) 29-30 May (Fri-Sat) £280
Another chance to benefit from the team teaching of Emily and Katie, taking inspiration from the South Downs landscape as it blossoms into early summer. The course offers an exciting collection of processes to help you feel immersed in the experience and able to produce drawings that go beyond copying the view and give you an injection of courage and creativity to make expressive new work. |
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COLOUR & LIGHT ON THE DOWNS_ DEVELOPMENT INTO PAINTINGS
With Emily Ball & Katie Sollohub at the Truleigh Hill Centre in the Adur Vallery (Nr Shoreham) 8 – 10 June (Mon -Wed) £380
This 3 day course is suitable for any students who have attended the two day Colour and Light courses that Emily and Katie have run from the Trueligh Centre on the South Downs either in 2025 or 2026. The freshness, freedom and immediacy of the studies made in situ are qualities that are often wished for in sustained and finished paintings. The course is all about unpacking and using the content in these studies to make new painted studies and work towards exciting and powerful finished paintings.
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| SUMMER IN THE GARDEN: LIVE ONLINE
With Emily Ball & Katie Sollohub 22 – 25 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 IN THE GARDEN AT HIGHDOWN GARDENS
With Emily Ball & Katie Sollohub on location at Highdown Gardens and at the Seawhite Studio 29 June – 3 July (Mon - Fri) £550 This 5 day painting course is one of the highlights in our programnme, and 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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| COLOUR & LIGHT ON THE DOWNS
With Emily Ball & Katie Sollohub on location at Truleigh Hill Centre in the Adur Vallery (Nr Shoreham) 25 -26 September (Fri-Sat) £280
Late September is a wonderful time to capture the last of the summer’s glory. There’s often a freshness in the air and a sense of change that makes the landscape all the more beautiful and ephemeral. Join Emily and Katie on their final visit to Trulieigh Hill Centre, working out in the landscape to create dynamic, fresh studies that capture the full-sensory experience of being on the South Downs. |
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