Face to Face Courses

Our Face to Face contemporary art courses are based in a large warehouse studio in Partridge green. The studio is fully equipped with spacious work stations, comprehensive storage equipment, a library area and refreshment facilities. Working alongside like-minded artists and led by one of our inspiring tutors, courses in this spacious studio provide a supportive and vibrant atmosphere in which to further develop your creativity and confidence in painting and drawing.

Face-to-Face courses can be ongoing tutorial-based sessions or short courses focused around a particular subject. They begin with a stimulating discussion led by the tutor and also include painting and drawing demonstrations by tutors (providing valuable insights into their creative thought processes and critical decision-making), alongside practical exercises that get you warmed up and confident to try new ways of working. Throughout each course, there are opportunities to review your work independently, with the tutor and as a group. By the end of the course, we hope you leave the studio feeling energized and eager to continue developing the ideas you have explored with us – with a sense of excitement and bravery.

Thu 03 Apr 2025 - Fri 04 Apr 2025
£200.00
Course dates: April 3rd - 4th  2025 (Thursday to Friday) Suitable for all levels, including beginners. Inspired by the Matisse’s paintings of interiors, patterns and objects we will be creating simple still life set...

Wed 23 Apr 2025 - Fri 25 Apr 2025
£315.00
Course Dates April 23rd -  25th  (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...

Mon 28 Apr 2025 - Fri 02 May 2025
£500.00
Course Dates: April 28th- May 2nd 2025 (Monday - Friday) This 5 day course will begin by taking you on a journey through the process of making drawings and studies whilst moving through the landscape of the South Downs. You will travel light with a...

Mon 19 May 2025 - Wed 21 May 2025
£300.00
Course Dates: 19th- 21st May  2025 (Monday – Wednesday) There is an idea that when we view a landscape painting without a human figure we imaginatively project ourselves into the painted space. And so the work becomes about our relationship...

Thu 05 Jun 2025 - Fri 06 Jun 2025
£280.00
Course Dates: 5th- 6thJune 2025 (Thursday - Friday ) Standing on Truleigh Hill there are the most stunning views of the South Downs and the Adur Valley. You are held by the hill, grounded by the chalk beneath your feet, yet exhilarated by being up...

Mon 16 Jun 2025 - Fri 20 Jun 2025
£480.00
Course Dates June 16th to 20th  (Mon - Friday)...
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...

Sun 31 Aug 2025 - Sat 06 Sep 2025
From £1800
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...
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,...

Mon 08 Sep 2025 - Wed 10 Sep 2025
£300.00
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...

Mon 15 Sep 2025 - Thu 18 Sep 2025
£400.00
Course Dates: 15th- 18th September  2025 (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...

Wed 24 Sep 2025 - Fri 26 Sep 2025
£315.00
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...

Wed 08 Oct 2025 - Fri 10 Oct 2025
£300.00
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...

Mon 13 Oct 2025 - Fri 17 Oct 2025
£480.00
Course Dates Oct 13th - 17th (Mon - Friday)...

Mon 20 Oct 2025 - Fri 24 Oct 2025
£480.00
Course Dates October 20th to 24th  (Mon - Friday)...

Sun 09 Nov 2025 - Thu 13 Nov 2025
£590.00
Nov 9th - 13th 2025 (Sunday – Thursday) Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm Autumn begins and Nature slows. As a celebratory finale the colours and majestic shapes of Autumn trees illuminate the landscape; often framed with a...
Course Dates: 17th November  2025 (Monday) Another unique opportunity to make use of the expanse of the Seawhite Studio and the in-spiration and motivation from Katie’s particular form of teaching. You do not have to be a dancer! This workshop is...

Wed 19 Nov 2025 - Fri 21 Nov 2025
£315.00
Course Dates November 19th -  21st  (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...

Wed 26 Nov 2025 - Fri 28 Nov 2025
£300.00
Course Dates: 26th- 28th November  2025 (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...

Mon 01 Dec 2025 - Wed 03 Dec 2025
£300.00
Course Dates: 1st- 3rd December  2025 (Monday - Wednesday ) What is Landscape? Perhaps it could be thought of as material and space subject to the processes of nature. Gravity, light, temperature, atmospherics, growth and decay. Many artists...

Thu 04 Dec 2025 - Fri 05 Dec 2025
£200.00
Course Dates: 4th- 5th December  2025 (Thursday - Friday) Embodied Drawing - An experimental 2 day drawing course embracing the physicality of drawing on a large scale - using your own body, gesture and sensation as your subject. Using the...

Mon 08 Dec 2025 - Fri 12 Dec 2025
£480.00
Course Dates December 8th to 12th  (Mon - Friday)...
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Emily Ball at Seawhite
Seawhite Studio,
Star Road,
Partridge Green
West Sussex RH13 8RY
United Kingdom