All Courses
Once regisered , you can view the films as often as you like and for as long as you need. This pre-recorded course was filmed as 3 days of expressive painting inspired by the abundance and beauty of Spring flowers. The focus for finding a language for our paintings will be through colour and gesture. Working on a series of between 6 – 9 small paintings over the 3 days we will celebrate the colour, the ordered chaos and the scent and joy of the subject. Gathering armfuls of colours and marks from the inspiration of the flowers to work with we will compose them by layering, selecting, editing, simplifying and inventing. The paintings will be an exploration into how to capture the life, light, delicacy and poetry of the subject. In the end the paintings themselves will become the subject. This course is edited from the live Floribunda 2, delivered in April 2021. It is split into 2 films per day, each approximately up to an hour long. There is no feedback given.
Start Date | 17-May-2021 |
End Date | 31-Dec-2025 |
Price | £130.00 |
Course Details | floribunda_2_pre_recorded_may_2021.pdf |
You can start this course anytime between Nov 1st 2021 – December 31st 2025. You can view the films as often as you like and for as long as you need. Pattern is all around us. We wear it, live amongst it in our homes, cities and in the landscape. Its one of the ways in which we differentiate between things, and nature rewards us for being good at spotting it with intense visual pleasure.
Patterned cloth plays games with all of this, disguising and revealing, it responds to form and gravity and movement, it seems to be the perfect combination of the synthetic and the natural.
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.
Start Date | 01-Nov-2021 |
End Date | 31-Dec-2025 |
Price | £130.00 |
Course Details | Painting Patterned Cloth. Course notes.pdf |
The Geography of Paint is a three day practical painting course led by Simon Carter. There are 3 instructive films, each 1 hour and 30 minutes long.
It can be difficult to see how to use the drawings we make. Whether loose notes in a sketchbook or more complete and considered, our initial drawings often have a life and spark that is easily extinguished in the studio. This course will start with your own draw-ings made from the landscape, maybe from your garden, a local park or street, the beach or from a favourite walk and will look at different ways they can inspire a free and experi-mental approach to the painting process.
Start Date | 03-Dec-2021 |
End Date | 31-Dec-2025 |
Price | £130.00 |
Course Details | geography-of-paint-prerecorded-pdf.pdf |
Have you ever wondered how to maintain the freshness and freedom of the work in your sketchbook when it comes to painting? If this sounds familiar, and you have sketchbooks full of exciting and experimental studies, just waiting to become inspire paintings, then this is the course for you! There are 10 short films of varying lengths that guide you through this course.
This exciting painting course is designed to follow on from Katie’s two inspirational sketchbook courses, Coming to Your Senses (landscape based) and Museum of the Self (on the subject of home). However, it could be used by anyone who has found themselves often pondering the same questions.
Start Date | 03-Dec-2021 |
End Date | 31-Dec-2025 |
Price | £130.00 |
Course Details | from_sketchbook_into_paint.pdf |
A three-day course in which you will make a minimum of 2 large scale collages informed by research and resource drawings and paintings, made prior to commencement of the large scale works. The course will start with making a succession of drawings from close up observation of either house plants or some gathered flora and fauna or foliage in the garden.
Start Date | 31-Jan-2022 |
End Date | 31-Dec-2025 |
Price | £130.00 |
Course Details | Oragnic Structures.pdf |
Course Dates June 24th - 27th (Monday - Thursday) 2024.
Sitting in the garden at the height of summer is heaven. Whether you have a beautiful garden of your own or you love to visit a garden for your inspiration, this course is a celebration of the abundance of the summer garden.
In May and June the shoots and buds are urgently pushing forward, gathering pace. Spring melts into Summer and flowers become centre stage with their splashes of colour jostling for attention. Colours are luminous on the blousy petals of flowers, the bird song is shrill and excited, the shadows are deep, cool and inviting. To find a quiet, shady spot to sit, watch, listen, wonder and draw is the first part of this course. As you sit and make studies it gives you time to notice the foliage, the shapes of shadows and the dance of colour as your gaze meanders through the spaces. A month before the date of the live online sessions you will be sent a collection of short films that give you demonstrations of ways of working. These that will help you make lots of studies which you will need in preparation for the live classes. During the live online sessions Emily and Katie will show you how to unpack and select from your many studies and create expressive paintings that bring back the glorious riot of colours, patterns, mood and memories of being in the garden.
Start Date | 24-Jun-2024 10:00 am |
End Date | 27-Jun-2024 12:30 pm |
Price | £250.00 |
Course Details | Summer_School_2024_online_Summer_in_the_Garden.pdf |
July 1st - 5th 2024 (Monday – Friday).
This 5 day painting course takes its inspiration from the beautiful Highdown Garden near Worthing, a unique chalk garden on the Downs
Start Date | 01-Jul-2024 9:30 am |
End Date | 05-Jul-2024 4:30 pm |
Price | £550.00 |
Course Details | Summer_School_2024.pdf |
Now Offered as an Pre-recorded Online Course - Once registered, students have access to the films for as long as you need. This is a pre-recorded version of the live online course that I did in May. It is created as a 4 day course and each days recording is approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes long. It provides demonstrations and explanations of the processes and exercises that I offer. These are designed to help artists tackle the subject in a way that is expressive, personal and more intuitive. It also suggests ways to navigate the creative process and the journey that a body of work takes . The joy of being able to offer these recorded sessions is that you can work in your own studio space and at your own speed. You can watch them several times over and at a pace to suit your daily timetable. You can take much longer than four days if you need to. Once you have completed the course and made work, which does not have to be finished, you can send me images. I will enjoy looking at them and give you emailed feedback about what you have done and advice about how you might go forward..
Start Date | 24-Jun-2020 |
End Date | 31-Dec-2025 |
Price | £120.00 |
Course Details | floribunda_online_pre_recorded.pdf |
Colourful experiments in observation and abstraction
Pre-recorded Course. Once registered, students have access to the films for as long as you need
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. The paintings will be visually informed by the Colour Theatre still lives but not be slavish copies. Seeking instead a painterly visual equivalence for the three dimensional richness of the Theaters. The Paintings and the Theatres will be changed in response to each other.
Start Date | 02-Nov-2020 |
End Date | 31-Dec-2025 |
Price | £130.00 |
Course Details | the_colour_theatre_online.pdf |
Online Course Once registered, students have access to the films for as long as you need.
This 3 day course is all about becoming more knowledgeable and confident when mixing and using colour in your paintings. For the purposes of this workshop Emily demonstrates with a range of good quality acrylics and mediums on paper, but all of the principles are relevant for oils too. We will be working with a selection of 3 or 4 of each of the primary colours, plus white. With these we will mix an infinite range of colours.
Start Date | 02-Nov-2020 10:00 am |
End Date | 31-Dec-2025 12:00 pm |
Price | £130.00 |
Course Details | colour_on_colour_online_pre_2020.pdf |