Autumn Programme 2020
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 Image: Bejewelled Tree by Emily Ball Dear Visitor It’s been a while since we sent out a newsletter. We have been busy at the Seawhite studio developing a new offer of online courses and we are excited to share with you how the Autumn term is shaping up! In the last few month the usual painting and drawing programme at the Seawhite studio has been turned on its head. However, one constant has been our collective desire to keep painting, drawing and creating. Together, we have learned how to keep the Seawhite Studio’s wonderful sense of community and support going through a mix of live-steamed courses, pre-recorded courses and now - as we move into the Autumn term - face-to-face courses at the studio. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have put in place a number of changes to ensure a safe, healthy and welcoming studio environment, whether you are a student, staff or visitor. You can read our Covid-19 policy here. A key difference is that we have reduced the numbers of students attending any course at the studio to just 6. This gives everyone very big work spaces so that social distancing is more than covered. Emily is looking forward to welcoming back the monthly courses to the Seawhite Studio. Both the Painting Group and Creative Painting Space are going ahead in the Autumn Term. The Painting Group is nearly full (with just one place left for the Autumn term), but spaces are still available for the November and December dates of the Creative Painting Space . To find out more or to book a place, please click on the course titles above. Finally, in whatever way you choose to join us, we look forward to welcoming you (back) to the Seawhite Studio and hope you find our Autumn programme inspiring and engaging. |
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 Images: studio installation for Simon Carter's forthcoming course Experiments in Observation | Studio Course | Simon Carter 15-17 September 2020 Drawing connects us to the world, it makes us more aware, more observant. Drawing from a large studio set-up this course will explore what it is to look deeply and how we build and explore that connection between looking and the act of drawing. The 3 day studio-based course will encourage students to see more intensely and to explore and innovate ways to express observation in drawings, using charcoal, graphite, inks and acrylic. |
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 Image: colour study, Emily Ball Colour on Colour - Light and Expression | Online Course | Emily Ball | 28 – 30 September 2020 This 3 day course is all about becoming more knowledgeable and confident when mixing and using colour in your paintings. Emily will be demonstrating with a range of good quality acrylics and mediums on paper, but all of the principles are relevant for oils too. Working with a selection of 3 or 4 of each of the primary colours, plus white students will mix an infinite range of colours that pop, shimmer, float, glow, sooth, jar and clash with one another to create compositions that sing and draw the eye! For more information and to book a place on this course, please click on the course title below
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 Image: Quay Lane Sluice by Simon Carter Experiments in Watercolour | Online Course | Simon Carter | 13-15 October 2020 Experiments in Watercolour is a 3-day practical course that takes a fresh look at the medium of watercolour and how it might be used in an expressive, experimental and contemporary way. Students will benefit from online demonstrations, a shared online gallery, and input from Simon that will enable them to initially work from drawings and lead on to immersing themselves in the process of painting. For more information and to book a place on this course, please click on the course title below.
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 Image credit: Katie Sollohub drawing, photograph by Sarah Ketelaars. Embodied Drawing |Online Course : live-streamed from the Seawhite Studio | Katie Sollohub |19-21 October 2020 Embodied Drawing is an online gestural drawing course embracing the physicality of drawing on a large scale This course is for students wishing to expand their drawing practice and find new limits, beyond the scale of your average drawing, by working large, freely, involving body and breath. You will be your own model, working on 2 or 3 large sale drawings, and guided by Katie’s exercises and meditation. Emily will be joining Katie as a course participant, which means that both artists will be working on camera for students to watch. For more information and to book a place on this course, please click on the course title below.
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 Image: Eve, photography by Emily Ball Drawing and Painting the Clothed Figure | Online Course : live-streamed from the Seawhite Studio | Emily Ball |26-29 October 2020 Emily will be creating a rich installation with screens, draped pattern fabrics and a chair as a fabulous backdrop for her clothed figure. Working alongside her in their own studios, students will have their own model (perhaps a family member of a friend) to work from. Emily will do demonstrations, working through the stages of making studies through to starting a large painting. “The last time I did a painting about my daughter Eve she was in a high chair. Now she is a strong, intelligent, beautiful young woman and I really want to capture this in a painting. My work is never about making a photographic or illustrative likeness. It is about capturing the essence, the pose, the gaze, celebrating the person and finding an image in the paint.” For more information and to book a place on this course, please click on the course title below.
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 Image: students working from nature as part of the 2019 Autumn Trees course. Autumn Trees | Online Course : live-streamed from the Seawhite Studio| Emily Ball and Katie Sollohub | 9-12 November 2020 A wonderful opportunity to benefit from the inspiring team-teach approach of these two tutors. Katie and Emily will be going out into the landscape to make a short film of them undertaking drawing and painting exercises in response to the beautiful structure and majestic autumnal trees. This will film will be sent to students at least a week before the course starts so that they can go out and make their own drawings following the guided exercises. Then, over three days of live workshops from the Seawhite Studio, students will be shown how to use those drawings to develop new work in their own studios. For more information and to book a place on this course, please click on the course title below.
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 Image: Still from Floribunda pre-courded course Image: Still from Holding the Present online course Online Courses Available to Download Now! Our pre-recorded online courses are proving popular, with students downloading them all over the world (Russia, Australia, Norway, America, Canada!). The wonderful thing about these courses is that you can commit to them at a time that suits you. To recap, the following pre-recorded courses are currently available to download from the Seawhite Studio website (For more information or to purchase/download a course, please click on the course title below): |
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 Images: Colour theatre installation, Nick Bodimeade; Simon Carter filming online course from his studio. Online Courses Coming Soon in the Autumn Term. We are so fortunate to have filmmaker Noah Carter as part of our extended team of professionals helping us extend our offer of rich and exciting pre-recorded online courses. Following Noah’s filming visits to the Seawhite Studio and Nick Bodimeade’s home studio in September, we are looking forward to launching an online version of Simon Carter’s Experiments in Observation, together with a new online course from Nick Bodimeade - Painting the Colour Theater – a three-day course in which students will make a minimum of 10 abstract paintings in response to a pair of evolving abstract still-lives constructed in modified and painted cardboard boxes. We look forward to sharing more details about these – and other – online courses in the next newsletter!  |
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