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.

Course Dates: 8th- 10th January  2025 (Wednesday - Friday) Start the New Year with this exciting 3 day course in the Seawhite Studio, working with the wonderful Eve, dressed in her own dynamic and inspirational costumes, designed to adorn and...
Course Dates: 20th January  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 22 Jan 2025 - Fri 24 Jan 2025
£300.00
Course Dates: 22nd- 24th January 2025 (Wednesday – Friday) A three day practical course exploring the Window in and through drawing and painting. The window has long been an immensely important subject for artists. A framed...

Mon 03 Feb 2025 - Wed 05 Feb 2025
£320.00
Course Dates February 3rd -  5th  (Monday - Wednesday) 2025 Experiments with close up observation, collage, spatial arrangement of forms, and layering and glazing methods. A three-day course in which you will make a minimum of 2...

Wed 12 Feb 2025 - Fri 14 Feb 2025
£315.00
Course Dates Feb 12th -14th (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...

Mon 24 Feb 2025 - Wed 26 Feb 2025
£300.00
Course Dates: 24th - 26th February  2025 (Monday - Wednesday) By stripping back painting to its most primary concerns and looking at the relationship between yourself and the materials, we can discover painting through its most tactile...

Wed 26 Feb 2025 - Fri 28 Feb 2025
£300.00
Course Dates: 26th- 28th February  2025 (Wednesday - Friday) On day one in the house itself, you will be encouraged to make expressive and experimental studies on a small scale as you directly experience the complexity of the interior - a...

Mon 10 Mar 2025 - Fri 14 Mar 2025
£480.00
Course Dates March 10th - March 14th (Mon - Friday)...

Wed 26 Mar 2025 - Fri 28 Mar 2025
£315.00
Course Dates March 26th - 28th (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...

Tue 01 Apr 2025 - Fri 04 Apr 2025
£400.00
Course dates: April 1st - 4th  2025 (Tuesday to Friday) Suitable for all levels, including beginners. Inspired by the 'Matisse in his Studio’ exhibition, we will be creating simple still life set ups in the studio,...

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...

Wed 28 May 2025 - Fri 30 May 2025
£450.00
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....
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...

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...

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...

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