All Courses

The Figure in Movement : Expressive Drawing

Course Dates: 28th- 30th May  2025 (Wednesday - Friday)

A three-day, intensive and experimental drawing course with 2 tutors, who specialise in drawing and creating inventive processes to encourage fresh ways of looking and creating images. Emily and Katie share their love of drawing as a process of exploration and discovery. This exciting course is a wonderful and unique opportunity for artists to explore the breadth and depth of drawing: working with charcoal, ink, simple animation, collage, installation, working on both very large and small scale, different surfaces and in collaboration with the model and other the artists.

Start Date 28-May-2025 9:30 am
End Date 30-May-2025 4:30 pm
Price £450.00
Course Details The Figure in Movement - Expressive Drawing May 2025.pdf
The Figure in Movement : Painting (Colour and Gesture)

Course Dates: 3th- 6th June  2025 (Tuesday - Friday)

A four day painting course with 2 tutors. Emily and Katie share their love of painting as a process of exploration and discovery. This exciting course is an intense and unique opportunity to explore colour and gesture in response to the moving figure. The large space of the studio will be transformed using colour installations for the figure to move through and interact with. The walls will be generously covered with rolls of paper and canvas for the atists to work on. Students bring their own paints and brushes, but paper and canvas is all provided.

Start Date 03-Jun-2025 9:30 am
End Date 06-Jun-2025 4:30 pm
Price £580.00
Course Details The Figure in Movement - Expressive Painting June 2025.pdf
Seawhite Studio Residencies - June 2025

Course Dates June 16th to 20th  (Mon - Friday) 2025

Start Date 16-Jun-2025 9:30 am
End Date 20-Jun-2025 4:30 pm
Price £480.00
Course Details seawhitestudioresidencyemilyjune.pdf
Summer School Live Online Course

Online Course Time: June 23rd -  26th 2025 (Monday - Thursday) 10am - 12:30pm each day.

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 abun-dance of the summer garden. In May and June the shoots and buds are urgently pushing forward, gathering pace.

Start Date 23-Jun-2025 10:00 am
End Date 26-Jun-2025 12:30 pm
Price £250.00
Course Details Summer School 2024 online Summer in the Garden.pdf
Summer School 2025 - Summer in the Garden at Highdown

Course Dates: 30th June- 4th July  2025 (Monday - Friday)

This 5 day painting course takes its inspiration from Highdown Garden near Worthing, a unique chalk garden on the Downs. This garden is beautiful and remarkable. In the unlikely setting of a chalk pit the founders of the garden sourced plants from all over the world that would thrive in this habitat. It is a garden full of delights; mature trees and plants, winding pathways that lead to open spaces where you can sit and drink in the sites, sounds and smells. Long summer days are the time to celebrate the colour and abundance of nature. The first 2 days of the course are spent in the garden making lots of studies capturing the experience of this peaceful and inspiring place. The rest of the week is spent at the Seawhite studio where ambitious and expressive paintings will be created using these studies and our memories of the place.

Start Date 30-Jun-2025 9:30 am
End Date 04-Jul-2025 4:30 pm
Price £550.00
Course Details summer_school_2025_summer_in_the_garden.pdf
Inspiration from land and sea in the Algarve, Portugal

Course date is August 31st -  September 6th 2025

Cost - from £1800 ( + £200 single room supplement ) for accommodation, food, tuition and materials.

This one-week course is an opportunity for artists to invest in themselves and grow their authentic practise. It’s all about discovering what it means, to make studies of depth, which are full of possibility.

Start Date 31-Aug-2025
End Date 06-Sep-2025
Price From £1800
Course Details Portugal courses 2025 wk1.pdf
Inspiration from Nature in the Algarve - Residency and Retreat in Portugal

Course date is Sunday September 7th - Saturday Sep 13th 2025 (teaching course Mon-Fri)

Cost - from £1500; ( + £200 single room supplement ) for accommodation, food, tuition and materials.

This is a perfect week for working artists, graduates from Emily Ball’s online Paint fit courses or for artists from week 1 to continue from. A residency gives artists the opportunity to live and work outside of their usual environments, providing them with time to reflect, research and produce work. Emily will lead the week, encouraging everyone to immerse themselves in their own internal dialogue with themselves and their subjects. There will be no teaching given, yet the emphasis will be on support and exchange with a rare chance to witness the artists Emily Ball and host/artist Rosalind Hodges, in their own rhythm and creative processes as they work. Everything is on view here, work practise, reflection, wellbeing, rest, fun, collaboration and exchange.

Start Date 07-Sep-2025
End Date 13-Sep-2025
Price From £1500
Course Details Portugal courses 2025 wk2.pdf
Constructing a Landscape Painting

Course Dates: 8th- 10th September  2025 (Monday - Wednesday )

A 3 day course during which you will ‘construct’ up to three large (A1+) paintings Heavy duty paper, using quick drawings and paintings made from nature through a variety of approaches, as a your visual resource. We will work in an outside space, weather permitting, a nearby wood on the first day. You will gather visual material, working first in black and white, and then progressing to colour. Making a series of quick drawings and paintings on paper, recording interesting forms, light and shadows, perhaps getting in quite close and intimate with the woodland undergrowth rather than recording the overall vista. This accumulated visual information will then be used as the starting materials and basis with which to embark on the larger paintings back at the studio on days 2 and 3.You will use these as both a resource to work from and as materials that may be directly employed as part of your larger paintings in a collage capacity. You will be experimenting with a whole variety of painting processes, including- collage, experimental mark making, glazing, and paint transfer methods.

Start Date 08-Sep-2025 9:30 am
End Date 10-Sep-2025 4:30 pm
Price £300.00
Course Details constructingalandscape2025.pdf
The Creative Painting Space -  Autumn

Course Dates Sept 24th -  26th  (Wed - Friday) 2025

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.

Start Date 24-Sep-2025 9:30 am
End Date 26-Sep-2025 4:30 pm
Price £315.00
Reference CPS/2021/0609/TC
Following the Thread - Drawing from textiles

Course Dates: 8th- 10th October  2025 (Wednesday - Friday)

Our fascination with and relationship to textiles runs deep and rich.

This course offers three days of looking at and drawing from a collection of textiles including, Kente cloth from Ghana, Kuba Cloth from the D.R.C, Nigerian Indigo cloth, Marsh Arab wedding cloth, Kelims, and Indian mirrored cloth, amongst others. As you draw the usual distinctions between abstraction and representation will happily dissolve. Complex and varied patterns will emerge and the haptic experience of handling material will find its expression in the touch and tactility of the drawn mark on paper.

Start Date 08-Oct-2025 9:30 am
End Date 10-Oct-2025 4:30 pm
Price £300.00
Course Details Following the Thread 2025.pdf
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