Summer School Live Online Course

Online Course Time: June 23^rd -  26^th 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.

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 stud-ies 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.

Artists to refer to for inspiration:
Pierre Bonnard
Patrick Heron
Geoffroy Pithon
Anne Griffiths
Hurvin Anderson
Joan Snyder
Joan Mitchell
Joe Packer
Miranda Bolton
Adrian Berg
Tricia Gillman
Emma Biggs
Ivon Hitchens
Elisabeth Cummings
Claude Monet