EMILY BALL AT SEAWHITE | CONTEMPORARY DRAWING AND PAINTING COURSES |
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WINTER COURSES TO START YOU UP! | Join Julian Brown and Katie Sollohub at the Seawhite Studio this February |
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| Images 1 and 4 - Dancing & Drawing and Embodied Drawing (Katie Sollohub); images 2,3,and 5 - Freedom of Abstraction (Julian Brown) |
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Dear Visitor
Did you make a New Year resolution along the lines of ‘Must carve out more time to paint?’ If you did, but are struggling to turn intention into action, we can help!
We have a couple of wonderful courses coming up in the next few weeks that might be just what you need to get your creative practice reignited, and offer you inspiration that will nourish and sustain you for weeks to come. |
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Dancing & Drawing: 2nd February with Katie Sollohub
December’s Dancing and Drawing workshop was joyful, playful and thought-provoking, so we’re excited to have Katie deliver this one-day workshop again. |
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| Freedom of Abstraction: 4–6 February, with Julian Brown
If you would like to work on a large scale and explore abstraction in your work, this is the course for you! 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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Signing up for either of these courses will ensure that your year begins with creative exploration, pace and productivity. In this newsletter we’ll not only outline the content of each course, we’ll also give you an insight into Katie and Julian’s distinct teaching styles and hear from previous participants about their experiences of taking these courses. Read on to find out more, or click on the buttons below to head straight to our website. |
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DANCING & DRAWING An exploratory, interactive, creative workshop
With Katie Sollohub at the Seawhite Studio Monday 2 February 2026, £100 |
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| Image: Dancing and Drawing 1-day workshop (Katie Sollohub) |
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“Drawing and Dancing [is a]…a joyous celebration of the space, and the power of drawing to explore our own innate creative urges through and with the body… To be moving. Responding. Listening. Connecting. Following the impulse to move. So good.” ~ Katie
Gestural mark-making and engaging with the whole body is a core theme for Katie. Spontaneous movement, dancing, meditation – it’s all part of her practice. Through her workshops she invites artists to step beyond familiar boundaries, encouraging experimentation with new techniques, forms, and scales. With a calm, reflective approach, she introduces processes that free artists from anxiety and expectations, allowing creativity to unfold naturally. |
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| Image: Dancing and Drawing 1-day workshop (Katie Sollohub) |
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Dancing & Drawing is an experience to immerse yourself in. Something that you might never dare attempt at home—and one that few of us have the space to try. Rather than a technique to master, Katie invites you to connect more deeply with your body and senses; through meditation, informal movement, and freeform dance (to a musical soundtrack).
“I found [the course] relaxing, inspiring and hugely freeing. What I enjoy about Katie's teaching is the feeling of being pushed outside my comfort zone, whilst being fully supported - and I was certainly having a wonderful time!” ~ Jane Adams |
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ImageS: Dancing and Drawing 1-day workshop (Katie Sollohub)
Using ink, paint, and charcoal, you’ll make marks that flow from movement rather than thought, working without the weight of expectation or the need for an outcome. You’ll be offered charcoal on sticks, ink in buckets, and even a mop as your brush! As you explore spontaneous gesture and intuitive mark-making, you’ll begin to loosen the grip of overthinking and rediscover the joy of pure expression.
“What an amazing experience … I spent the day immersed in a creative exploratory dance and drawing workshop run by the incredible Katie. EXHILARATING | EMOTIONAL |EXPERIMENTAL. This day has lit a fire in my belly and unleashed a freedom in my bones.” ~ Jane Johansson
You’ll work both individually and alongside others, sharing in the energy and freedom of boundless creative movement. This workshop is open to everyone—with an open heart and mind—who’s ready to let go, get messy, and explore. Beginners are warmly welcome, and you don’t need to be a dancer to take part! |
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To find out more and to book your place, Please click on the button below: | |
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If you like the sound of Dancing & Drawing, but can’t make the date, worry not! There’s another chance for you to experience Katie’s unique and freeing approach to expressive and gestural drawing in March when she delivers another two days of her Embodied Drawing course: |
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| EMBODIED DRAWING
With Katie Sollohub at the Seawhite Studio
26 -27 March (Thurs – Fri)
£225 | |
To find out more about the course, please click on the button above. |
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This two-day experimental workshop invites you to experience drawing as a physical act—seeing movement as a form of drawing in space, and the body itself as a mark-making tool. Guided by Katie’s meditative exercises and creative prompts, you will create one large-scale drawing; layering, adding, editing and transforming your work as you go. |
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| Image: Embodied Drawing (Katie Sollohub) |
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FREEDOM OF ABSTRACTION Expansive Large Scale Painting
With Julian Brown at the Seawhite Studio 4 - 6 February 2026 (Wed – Fri), £350 |
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| Image: Freedom of Abstraction (Julian Brown) |
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“I signed up for Julian's course as I wanted to work on a larger scale. I also admire his work, it is very different to my own. [He] is such a kind considerate tutor with an Interesting approach …there are always so many take always that you don’t expect.” ~ Nancy Sharp
Through the courses he delivers at the studio, Julian Brown invites students to explore the process of painting; systems, patterns, spatial planes and surfaces. Within his own work, there is an exquisite tension between control and expression; structured rhythms are delicately balanced with loose and painterly brushstrokes. His willingness to generously share his knowledge and expertise through his teaching is what makes his courses so inspiring; empowering other artists to try new approaches and develop their own creative practice. |
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Images: Julian Brown - recent paintings
“By stripping back painting to its most primary concerns and looking at the relationship between yourself and the materials, we can discover painting through its most tactile components , process, surface and touch. “ ~ Julian Freedom of Abstraction is suitable for anyone with an interest in abstraction or who would like to work on an ambitious scale. Central to the course is abstract language: it’s rhythms, systems. On the first day, you will start with some small scale warm up mark making exercises working on systems and responding to repetition. You will then quickly be working on some large scale black and white drawings, looking for rhythms and working loosely from grid systems. These exercises will be core to helping you develop your own systems which will underpin the rest of your work on the course. |
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| Image: Freedom of Abstraction (Julian Brown) |
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“I really enjoyed the mediative mark making on gridded paper as a way of getting started, [and]…appreciated the preparation Julian did for us all from providing large paper, gridded paper and primed canvas. I liked that those choices were out of our hands and that everyone was working on the same format/ scale.” ~ Abigail Warshawski On days two and three you will expand on the drawings you made on day one, to start to create larger more expansive paintings on canvas. You will be continually reworking and unpacking ideas and systems from day one with more studio exercises and more ambitious painting techniques and gestures. Julian will lead discussion about the history of abstraction along with contemporary artists and their techniques, showing the expansive ways they are making paintings, through surfaces and processes. Through studio based activities and individual tutorials, he will guide you to explore layering, deconstructing and adding colour and luminosity as you develop your work. |
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| Images: Freedom of Abstraction (Julian Brown) |
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“I really enjoyed Julian's course. I found him approachable and encouraging. He paced the days really well so that the activities developed naturally. Although going really big felt out of my comfort zone, I felt I could expand my work to fill the space which was an eyeopener for me.” ~ Sally Meyer To find out more and to book your place, please click on the button below: | |
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“I surprised myself that working big didn't slow me down. I have no doubt that the course will impact whatever artwork I do in the future - I've taken a leap forward.” ~ Abigail Warshawski |
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