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Dear Visitor
As the Seawhite Studio gets ready to take a break for the summer, we thought we’d look back and share some of the summer highlights at the studio and also reveal some exciting exhibition news for the autumn.
Our signature Summer courses, began with Floribunda, where students were inspired by the exotic shapes and brilliant colours of Summer flowers. You can get a sense of this wonderful course, by watching the film made by Noah Carter on our Floribunda web page - link below.
One of the best thing about painting in the Summer is being outside where we can immerse ourselves completely in our surroundings, and what better way to do this than joining us on our Summer School, on the stunning Sussex coast at Cuckmere Haven, with artists and tutors Emily Ball and Katie Sollohub. One of our course students shares her experience of this exciting course, in this newsletter.
Floribunda
For two weeks in May, the ever-popular Floribunda course took over the Seawhite studio. Transformed into an exotic hot house, the studio was filled with sculptural forms, dramatic colour and heady scents. It gave students attending the course the opportunity to fully immerse themselves in all the sensory gifts that flowers can offer artists.
The success and popularity of this course has inspired us to create a webpage devoted to all things floribunda and we would urge you to take a look. In pride of place is the stunning film, made by Noah Carter Studio, that charts the planning and preparation for the course together with the experience of painting and drawing in a studio bursting with flora and fauna.
Noah is a hugely talented film-maker and once again has captured the spirit of this special course. In addition to the film, you can also see wonderful examples of students work, read their experiences of attending the course, and find out details of how to book yourself onto next year’s Floribunda course.
https://www.emilyballatseawhite.co.uk/courses/featured/floribunda.html
Summer School
Emily and Katie have enjoyed teaching another three week run of the Seawhite Studio Summer School, based at the breath-taking location of the coastguard cottages at Cuckmere Haven. Students attending the course enjoyed two days on location before heading back for three days in the studio to transform their studies into a series of paintings.
Christine Grey was one of the students attending the summer School this year and the feedback she gave us vividly describes all that is enjoyable, engaging and inspiring about the course:
“The course was a breath of fresh air both literally and metaphorically - the breezes of Cuckmere Haven, with the help of Emily and Katie, blew away stale old habits and gave me lots of new ways to approach drawing and painting, new ways to start out.
Emily’s demonstrations handling paint and colour were exciting and inspiring, encouraging me to let go, to give free rein to the paint and think of brushes as an extension of the movement of the hand, as implements to mould and sculpt the image.
After initial qualms about thinking of words in relation to painting I was entirely converted by the beautiful lyrical connections Katie made when threading them together into haikus. I don’t know if it will work for me but I’ll give it a try. By the end of the week I was overflowing, giddy with a surfeit of ideas!”
New Autumn Show Celebrating Drawing.
Exhibition of Seawhite Studio tutor's work
Atrium Gallery, Seawhite, Partridge Green.
Katie Sollohub
We are already looking ahead to the autumn term, and the opening of an exciting new exhibition in the Atrium Gallery!
Curated by Emily Ball and featuring the work of the Seawhite Studio tutors, the show is a celebration of drawing and a reminder about how important, vital and beautiful drawing is.
Emily Ball
“Drawing is essential. It is the act of seeing manifest. Drawing creates the world and sets our place within it.” Simon Carter
“Through drawing you see the world better. You take time to look; you notice the small details, the beauty, the repetitions, the colours, the rhythms. You give yourself time, to pause, breathe, think, reflect, and feel.”
Katie Sollohub
“I think of drawings as works of art in themselves -I don't make a distinction between drawing and painting.” John Skinner
We’ll have more details about the show soon, so look out for updates in our newsletter and on Facebook and Instagram.
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