Face to Face Courses

Course date is Sunday September 1^st - Saturday Sep 7^th 2024 (teaching course Mon-Fri)

Cost - from £1995; ( + £200 single room supplement ) for accommodation, food, tuition and materials.

This retreat is set in the beautiful coastal Nature Reserve at the Western end of the Algarve. A short walk from the fishing village of Salema, and the rugged untouched coves nearby, you will be staying at the villa of artist Ros Hodges where you will be treated to the most delicious food and relaxing surroundings including a pool. During the 5 days you will be immersed in this spectacular, expansive landscape, using walking drawing and writing to travel through it, absorb it, and engage creatively with it. You will be gently guided and supported in the space throughout by Katie NB. All of your materials, food and shared accommodation* are included in the price.

Course date is September 8^th - 14th 2024

Cost - from £1995 ( + £200 single room supplement ) for accommodation, food, tuition and materials.

Inspiration for your painting this week will come from your experiences of being in the beautiful coastal Nature Reserve at the Western end of the Algarve. A short walk from the fishing village of Salema, and the rugged untouched coves nearby, you will be staying at the villa of artist Ros Hodges where you will be treated to the most delicious food and relaxing surroundings, including a pool. During the 5 days you will be immersed in this spectacular, expansive landscape making paintings. Walking on the paths brushing past wild fennel, navigating between sun bleached plants, across hills down to the beach and sea you will make paintings that capture the place and fleeting experiences. Colour will be an important theme to explore; to give an equivalent to the glowing red earth, rugged vistas to the sea, the wiry, bleached vegetation and beautiful light. Even the invisible and intangible sensations of heat, breeze, birdsong, space and your mood can be translated into colour and marks.

Course Dates Sept 11^th -  13^th  (Wed - Friday) 2024

Choose which sessions in the year you would like to come. Booking ahead is essential to secure your place.

These sessions are designed for artists who need encouragement and support to become more confident and self-motivated with their painting.

Course Dates: 16^th- 19^th September  2024 (Monday - Thursday)

A four day practical course led by Simon Carter. Starting with a day’s drawing on the beach at Worthing, the course will look at understanding and unpacking these initial drawings and at ways of using them to fuel work in the studio.

Course Dates: 16^th- 18^th October  2024 (Wednesday - Friday)

Katie loves and has used the subject of still life in one way or another in her work for a very long time. However, it is always as a reflection of her own domestic space and life - rather than the staged set up of perfect flowers, an elegant bottle, a poised book. Her practise of using meditation within teaching ties in perfectly with her interest in the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi Sabi. The perfect imperfection of daily life are noticed and celebrated; the washing up bowl, the discarded socks on the floor, the accidental shadow between the washing up liquid hand soap and a jam jar on the kitchen window sill. The dead flowers in a vase. The beauty of the everyday. The impermanence of it all.