Autumn Trees 2026

Online Course Time: Nov 23^th - 26^th   2026 (Monday - Thursday ) 9.30am - 12.30 am each day.

Plus NEW pre-recorded film demonstrations sent 4 weeks before the course starts

Autumn begins and Nature slows. As a celebratory finale the colours and majestic shapes of Autumn trees illuminate the landscape; often framed with a slate grey or sharp, clear, pale blue sky. Ornate tapestries of reds, oranges, yellows, browns, greens and purples appear in the canopies that reach skyward and spread out like hanging skirts. Their branches and trunks are like limbs; weathered, standing, twisting and bending in the spaces. This 4 day course is all about capturing and exploring these qualities in drawing and painting.

The first part of the course is provided a month before as a pre-recorded film of Emily and Katie demonstrating different ways of making studies in the landscape. You might have a favourite tree in your garden or you might like to walk in the woods or parkland near your home. Any of these will be a wonderful subject to explore. Being able to make studies outside in situ is vital to ensure that you create work with enough content to paint from. The exercises offer different options and ways of making rich, inventive drawings and colour studies that will be the inspiration for paintings during the live streamed course from the Seawhite Studio.

Emily and Katie have taught together on many courses over the past 20 years. Their
combined extensive knowledge and shared love of teaching makes for a supportive and packed programme of exciting exercises that will guide you through the stages of making work from studies through to painting. They will do demonstrations and talk about their thoughts and decision making as they work in the live sessions. They will provide you time to work along side them in your own studio space, referring to your drawings. They will make suggestions as to how you can continue working in your own studio for the rest of each day.

See Course Details for more information.