Inspiration from land and sea in the Algarve, Portugal

Course date is August 31^st -  September 6^th 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.

The inspirational teacher Emily Ball, will encourage you to engage in a dialogue with your work, while exploring, gathering and researching studies. Numerous practical exercises will help you incorporate different processes into your work practise, encouraging a rich plethora of ideas to flow, which will build throughout the course. The work created becomes much more visceral and engaging, giving further potential to fuel months of work back in your studio. The course is also designed to develop the artist’s confidence in their own sensibilities and to enable their creative courage to transform into uniquely personal work. This week is not about making plans for pieces or finished paintings. Instead, the focus is on exploration discovery process and depth. The villa and location offer a beautiful, rugged landscape and access to unspoilt beaches, calm space and comfort. Students on the course have outside spaces to work in and can allow themselves to become immersed in the experience; as local home cooked food, guided walks, materials and tuition are all generously provided and organised daily. Giving you the luxury of just concentrating on developing your own creative flow. Additionally, a pro masseur is available poa, to ease you into a place of relaxation and personal nurture too.

You may take it as a stand alone course or you might want to combine it with the course running the following week; Inspiration from Nature in the Algarve - Residency and Retreat - Sunday September 7^th – 13^th. A magical combination, as one will feed so beautifully into the other. (There is a 10% discount if you book for both courses).

Please be aware that to get to the sea and the more remote areas of landscape you will need to have the capacity to be able to walk and carry a day pack 2km and an ability to walk on narrow, uneven, hilly coastal earth paths. If this is not possible then the gardens and landscape that surrounds the house are also beautiful and full of inspiration.

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