2018/19
COURSE CALENDAR “Walking through that blue studio door feels both like coming home and the start of an adventure”. This is a familiar sentiment we hear from our students. The whole ambience of a working studio resonates, the fishermen below, the smell of turps, the patina of artists marks and splashes on the old floorboards. The impact of this first experience can stay with you all your life. In today’s disposable, frenetic, technological world, we all need a bit of Porthmeor Studios. It connects you to a community of creative people who have fallen in love with this special place for eighty years. Once you come and spend time here you will become part of that history and it will become part of you. Choose from our year round short courses, drop in to our weekly life drawing class or commit to our year long Porthmeor Programme. For full course descriptions please see alphabetical listings, page numbers referenced below.
MAR – APR 2018 Page Media March 1-2 5-8 10-11 12-15 19-21 24-25 26-29 26-27
Chance Into Abstraction - Special Edition Approaching Painting - Full Ocean and Abstraction Expressive Landscape in Oils Expressive Landscape in Mixed Media Getting Started with Watercolour Abstraction, Composition and Painting Atelier Drawing Course
Thu - Fri Mon - Thu Sat - Sun Mon - Thu Mon - Wed Sat - Sun Mon - Thu Mon - Tue
7 6 22 11 11 22 5 6
April 3-5 3-5 9-12 13-15 14-15 16-18 16-18 23-25 23-25 30-2 30-3
The Sensory Landscape Turner Sea and Sky Painting Your Stories Three Day Portrait - Inspired by Hockney Discover Painting The Art of Keeping it Simple Where Sea Meets Land Expressive Still Life Painting Landscape in Oils Colour Into Abstraction Reinterpreting the Figure
Tue - Thu Tue - Thu Mon - Thu Fri - Sun Sat - Sun Mon - Wed Mon - Wed Mon - Wed Mon - Wed Mon - Wed Mon - Thu
18 18 15 23 20 17 19 12 15 8 16
Acrylic
Drawing
Mixed media
Oils
Printmaking
Various
Watercolour
MAY – JUL 2018 Page Media May 8-10 8-11 12-13 14-16 14-16 17-18 20-30 21-23 21-23 26-27 28-30 28-30 31-1 31-1
Contemporary Landscape Getting Started with Oil Painting Ocean and Abstraction Getting Started with Watercolour Paths to Abstraction Experimental Figure Painting the Tuscan Landscape Abstract Colour in St Ives Patrick Heron's Gardens Expressive Watercolour Discover Painting Expressive Landscape in Mixed Media Collagraph of St Ives Simplicity and Form
Tue - Thu Tue - Fri Sat - Sun Mon - Wed Mon - Wed Thu - Fri Sun - Wed Mon - Wed Mon - Wed Sat - Sun Mon - Wed Mon - Wed Thu - Fri Thu - Fri
8 12 22 12 15 11 24 5 15 21 8 11 8 17
June 4-6 7-8 11-14 11-13 16-17 18-21 18-20 25-27 25-27 25-28 30-1
Inside Outside - Full Be Colour Confident Exploring Surrealism Painting The Coast Path Developing Drawing Skills Exploring Natural Forms Lanyon's Landscapes Capturing St Ives - Harbour and Town Poetry of Process Unlocking Your Creativity Painting Landscape with a Palette Knife
Mon - Wed Thu - Fri Mon - Thu Mon - Wed Sat - Sun Mon - Thu Mon - Wed Mon - Wed Mon - Wed Mon - Thu Sat - Sun
7 11 15 20 11 14 7 16 19 22
July 2-4 2-5 9-12 9-11 14-15 16-18 16-20 20-22 23-24
Painting Landscape in Oils Responding to Richter Developing Drawing Skills The Figure and Expression Discover Painting Ancient Landscapes St Ives Harbour and Town Sea and Rocks Carving Into Colour -
Mon - Wed Mon - Thu Mon - Thu Mon - Wed Sat - Sun Mon - Wed Mon - Fri Fri - Sun Mon - Tue
15 16 8 17 20 6 17 23 7 1
JUL – OCT 2018 23-25 28-29 30-1 30-1
Turner Sea and Sky The Sensory Landscape Expressive Landscape in Mixed Media Painting the Rooftops of St Ives
Page Media Mon - Wed 18 Sat - Sun 23 Mon - Wed 11 Mon - Wed 15
August 6-9 6-8 10-12 11-12 13-16 13-15 20-22 20-22 20-30 28-29 28-30
Approaching Painting Expressive Still Life Printing for Painters Ocean and Abstraction Exploring Forms Ocean Light and Water Abstract Colour in St Ives Patrick Heron's Gardens Spirit of Tuscany Getting Started with Oil Painting Painting Landscape with a Palette Knife
Mon - Thu Mon - Wed Fri - Sun Sat - Sun Mon - Thu Mon - Wed Mon - Wed Mon - Wed Mon - Thu Tue - Wed Tue - Thu
6 12 22 22 11 14 5 15 24 12 14
1-2 3-6 3-5 17-19 21-23 24-27 24-26
Expressive Landscape in Mixed Media Layered Landscape Collage Into Abstraction Painting The Coast Path Sea and Rocks Down to the Sea Again Painting Landscape in Oils
Sat - Sun Mon -Thu Mon - Wed Mon - Wed Fri - Sun Mon - Thu Mon - Wed
21 14 7 15 23 10 15
October 1-3 1-4 8-9 10-11 15-17 15-19 20-21 22-25 27-28 29-1 29-31
Where Sea Meets Land Abstraction, Composition and Painting Warm and Cool Atelier Drawing Course Ancient Landscapes Getting Started with Portraiture Painting Developing Drawing Skills Experimental Figure Painting Landscape with a Palette Knife Getting Started with Mixed Media Landscape The Art of Keeping it Simple
Mon - Wed Mon - Thu Mon - Tue Wed - Thu Mon - Wed Mon - Fri Sat - Sun Mon - Thu Sat - Sun Mon - Thu Mon - Wed
19 5 19 6 6 12 20 11 22 12 17
September
Acrylic
Drawing
Mixed media
Oils
Printmaking
Various
Watercolour
NOV 2018 – APR 2019 Page Media November 3-4 5-7 5-8 12-14 12-14 16-18 19-23 26-28
Unlocking Your Creativity Contemporary Landscape Developing Drawing Skills Paths to Abstraction Watercolour Portrait Three Day Portrait - Inspired by Hockney Artists' Retreat Week Expressive Watercolour
Sat - Sun Mon - Wed Mon - Thu Mon - Wed Mon - Wed Fri - Sun Mon - Fri Mon - Wed
23 8 8 15 19 23 6 12
December 3-5 Clarion Calls
Mon - Wed
7
January 2019 14-16 Poetry of Process 21-25 Developing Your Portraiture Painting 28-30 Advancing Your Mixed Media Painting
Mon - Wed Mon - Fri Mon - Wed
16 8 5
Mon - Wed Mon - Thu Mon - Wed Mon - Wed Mon - Wed
16 16 11 12 5
Mon - Thu Mon - Thu Sat - Sun Mon - Fri Mon - Wed Wed - Fri
6 5 23 6 18 23
Mon - Tue Mon - Wed Mon - Wed
19 17 19
February 2019 4-7 11-14 18-20 18-20 25-27
Reinterpreting the Figure Responding to Richter Expressive Landscape in Mixed Media Getting Started with Watercolour After Matisse
March 2019 4-7 Approaching Painting 11-14 Abstraction, Composition and Painting 16-17 Where Sea Meets Land 18-22 Artists' Retreat Week 25-27 Turner Sea and Sky 29-31 Three Day Portrait - Inspired by Hockney April 2019 1-2 1-3 8-10
Vibrant Still Life in Oil The Figure and Expression Where Sea Meets Land
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FUNDING FUTURES 1938/2018 This year is an important anniversary for St Ives School of Painting. In April 1938, artist Leonard Fuller and his wife Marjorie Mostyn set up a handful of easels in Studio 11 in the Porthmeor Studios and opened the blue door to welcome the very first students into the space. This was a fulfilment of a dream. Leonard swore if he survived the horrors of the trenches he would one day open an art school in the picturesque fishing village of St Ives in Cornwall. What would he make of his School today? He would probably notice how warm and dry the studio is since its four million pound refurbishment but otherwise reassuringly unchanged. He would recognise the plaster cast busts still sat on the shelf, the very same chair he used himself in the corner, the floorboards with their rich patina of paint. The view over the newly slated studio roofs to the sweeping sands of Porthmeor beach would look exactly as it did on that spring morning eighty years ago.
He would be impressed at the openminded creativity of our students. Their energy and appetite to develop skills in the fundamentals of drawing and painting as well as embrace the new and contemporary. And the community of artist tutors who now stand where he once stood, sharing their passion for creating art. He would be delighted to see the thriving weekly life drawing classes that attract artists from professionals to total beginners. A tradition that he started, that has carried on ever since. As we celebrate eighty years since that very first class we continue to embrace Fuller’s ethos. For him St Ives School of Painting embodied what is possible even when the world around might tell you otherwise. He created a place to dream, a space to reconnect to what really matters. Something I think we all need today just as much as when the School was founded eighty years ago.
Alison Sharkey, Director
COURSE DETAILS St Ives School of Painting welcomes students from across the UK and internationally. We provide all materials making your packing easy. We provide quality tuition suitable for all levels, from complete beginners to those with more experience. Class sizes are small. Our team of tutors are current contemporary artists with a passion for sharing ideas. We have honed our approach to teaching for over 80 years so we are confident that you will have a memorable experience that lasts a lifetime.
Abstract Colour in St Ives - NEW Liz Luckwell
Explore colour, composition and abstraction and learn to create spacious and dynamic work. This course will focus on the work of St Ives modernist Sandra Blow as a starting point. It includes an inspirational private tour of her St Ives studio. Access to this unique resource along with structured tuition and guidance will launch you on your own personal journey into colour and abstraction. Mixed Media | 3 days | £255 21 - 23 May 20 - 22 Aug
Advancing Your Mixed Media Painting Liz Hough
Progress from previous mixed media courses, build your confidence and help your landscape painting move to the next level. You will improve how you plan your compositions, create layers, understand pictorial planes and create the illusion of space and movement in a painting. Mixed Media | 3 days | £285 28 - 30 Jan 2019
After Matisse Abstraction, Composition and Painting - NEW Liz Hough, Kerry Harding
Taught by two highly experienced artist tutors, Kerry Harding and Liz Hough, this course will focus on the theory and practice of composition in painting. Learn to use traditional techniques of composition including the golden section, the rule of thirds, and proportion. Gain confidence using these time-honoured methods within the process of creating contemporary painting. Various | 4 days | £425 26 - 29 Mar 1 - 4 Oct 11 - 14 Mar 2019
Alice Mumford
Alice Mumford will share with you a process of discovery and exploration; an approach developed for her own painting practice. Matisse transformed his studio into dreamy places, something like a stage set. Based on some of his renowned paintings we will recreate parts of Matisse’s studio. By working from the same point of view as Matisse, discover how you too can activate space in your painting. Oil | 3 days | £540 25 - 27 Feb 2019 £150 of your fee on this course goes directly to support our Porthmeor Young Artists Fund, providing subsidised or free tuition for young artists age 5-18.
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Ancient Landscapes - NEW
Artists’ Retreat Week
Explore Penwith’s most ancient sites such as the Men-an-Tol and Nine Maidens stone circle. Follow in the footsteps of internationally renowned artists who harnessed such mysterious and enigmatic places for inspiration. Enjoy two days of field trips followed by time back in the studio to delve more deeply into your own personal response. Various | 3 days | £255 16 - 18 Jul 15 - 17 Oct
Take part in this unique mini version of our year long Porthmeor Programme condensed into a single week. We provide a challenging but safe space for you to get feedback on your own work from two expert artist tutors. Throughout the week you will be given creative exercises to aid the development of your personal ideas and interests. Various | 5 days | £465 19 - 23 Nov 18 - 22 Mar 2019
Approaching Painting
Atelier Drawing Course
This course is ideal for a beginner, guiding you through some of the key materials and methods used by painters. Gather visual information and mark-making through drawing, then develop your work through tonal studies and simple print making techniques. Progressing into paint, explore the properties and application of both acrylic and oil paint to create an informed and individual painting. Various | 4 days | £345 5 - 8 Mar - Full 6 - 9 Aug 4 - 7 Mar 2019
This course will introduce the principles of sight size drawing as taught in the Atelier studios since the Renaissance period. This system of drawing allows you to make an accurate representation of a subject through a particular method of observation and measurement. This intense and rewarding way of studying the world will advance your drawing skills and open up a new way of seeing. Drawing | 2 days | £195 26 - 27 Mar 10 - 11 Oct
Greg Humphries
Liz Luckwell, Marion Taylor
Marion Taylor, Ilker Cinarel
Peter Skerrett
Be Colour Confident Marion Taylor
Understand how to make colour work well for you in a painting. Learn how to harness colour to create strongly composed and beautiful paintings. Starting with a little bit of science to explain what colour actually is, you will then enjoy the practical pleasure of mixing accurately and applying colour successfully in your work. Oil | 2 days | £165 7 - 8 Jun
Capturing St Ives Harbour and Town - NEW Hilary Jean Gibson
Capture the unforgettable essence of St Ives harbour and town, its buildings, cottages and cobbled streets that have changed little over the centuries. Learn to use the deceptively simple approach of line and wash to capture these locations in situ. Create annotated studies to return to the studio to develop into larger pieces using pen, ink and wash and simple mono printing. Various | 3 days | £255 25 - 27 Jun
Carving Into Colour - NEW Liz Luckwell
Henri Matisse’s spectacular cut outs, his final artistic triumph, will be your starting point. Learn his approach to creating bold, exuberant cut-out creations. Explore Matisse’s process behind conveying engaging simplicity coupled with creative sophistication. You will work from a colourful still life and use the technique of collage with painted papers to explore colour, scale and composition. Mixed Media | 2 days | £170 23 - 24 Jul
Chance Into Abstraction SPECIAL EDITION Iain Robertson
Collaborate with artist Iain Robertson as part of his residency called MEGA JAZZY: Digital, in Porthmeor’s historic Studio 5. This is a unique two-day exploration into chance as a planned event and as an inevitable and vital part of the act of painting itself. Using a mixed media approach learn how to recognize and take advantage of the accidental within your practice. Various | 2 days | £185 1 - 2 Mar
Clarion Calls Alice Mumford
The artist Winifred Nicholson beckons us to discard old conceptions that colour must be tacked down to release its true vitality. Learn to liberate colour in your painting on this fast-paced oils course. You will work from a studio still life, referencing Winifred Nicholson’s colour scale and focusing on her concept of intervals. Unlock a new way of seeing and creating in your painting. Oil | 3 days | £540 3 - 5 Dec £150 of your fee on this course goes directly to support our Porthmeor Young Artists Fund, providing subsidised or free tuition for young artists age 5-18.
Collage Into Abstraction Clare Wardman
A specialism in its own right, gaining avant-garde status in the 20th Century through Cubism, collage asks to be experimented with. This unique quality will develop your use of colour, line, shape, texture, surface phenomena, layering and materials. All are key to informing your abstract compositions and motifs and will help you re-energise your way of working. Mixed Media | 3 days | £255 3 - 5 Sep 7
Collagraph of St Ives - NEW
Developing Drawing Skills
Collagraph is a versatile print medium that combines line, colour and texture to produce prints of incredible subtlety and depth. Use the architecture and landscape of St Ives town and harbour as starting points for creating layered and textural prints with a painterly technique. This will be rewarding for those new to making art or interested in expanding their creative toolbox in the studio. Printmaking | 2 days | £185 31 May - 1 Jun
Create compelling drawings from observation and give yourself a completely new creative toolbox. Taught in a small group, you will learn techniques to closely observe as well as respond expressively to the world around you. Unlock the secrets of this timeless medium and develop a new love for drawing that will last you a lifetime. Drawing | 4 days | £325 9 - 12 Jul 5 - 8 Nov
Rachael Kantaris
Colour Into Abstraction Iain Robertson
This course will encourage you to develop your own individual approach to abstraction. Learn to harness bold colour and develop a direct contemporary practice. Working with water based paints including acrylics we will focus on maintaining rich vibrant colour. By exploring the dialogue between intuition and intention, you will gain confidence in working with instinct and improvisation. Mixed Media | 3 days | £250 30 Apr - 2 May
Contemporary Landscape Kerry Harding
Learn to use innovative painting exercises both in the studio and out in the landscape. Using unconventional tools and processes you will free up your approach to landscape painting. This is an ideal course for those with some painting experience who are ready to be challenged and stretched in techniques and approaches. Oil | 3 days | £285 8 - 10 May 5 - 7 Nov
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Hilary Jean Gibson, Liz Luckwell
Developing Your Portrature Painting
Gary Long, Hilary Jean Gibson This is an opportunity to examine in-depth approaches to portraiture using artists such as Lucian Freud and Stanley Spencer as the initial inspiration. Working from direct observation with a clothed model, move from drawing to painting with gouache and oils. This is an ideal follow-up to our Getting Started in Portraiture course or for people already experienced in painting and life drawing. Oil | 5 days | £445 21 - 25 Jan 2019
Discover Painting Ilker Cinarel
An introduction to using acrylics, an ideal medium if you like to work fast and finish a painting in one sitting. Explore its flexibility and how to colour mix effectively with a limited palette on different surfaces. You will learn simple and dynamic approaches to get you started in a fun and accessible way. Acrylic | 3 days | £260 28 - 30 May
“Obviously the location helped, and the view from the window! But also everyone was friendly, approachable and the fact that working artists taught, gave the experience credibility and made it more insightful.� Bev Purdue
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“Wonderful facilities & access to materials, beautiful town to get inspiration from, friendly atmosphere & approachable tutors” Jan Munro
Down to the Sea Again Hilary Jean Gibson
Explore the power of the sea and create your own personal response. Music, poetry and the ocean outside the studio will be your inspiration. Develop skills in drawing, printmaking and painting with gouache through demonstrations and one-to-ones. The work produced will be brought together into your own artist journal as a permanent record of your creative journey. Various | 4 days | £345 24 - 27 Sep
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“I love coming to St Ives School of Painting. It is a joy. Hilary is an excellent tutor, I personally learned a great deal from her and she really boosted my confidence in my ability. I have been totally inspired by the course and I have started to experiment in different styles. Wonderful! Thank you.” Louise Phillips
Experimental Figure - NEW
Exploring Surrealism
Create dynamic images directly from the human figure, using a variety of materials, tools and techniques. Working from a live model the emphasis will be on responding in a free, fluid and immediate way. The approach will be inspired by figure drawings and paintings from renowned artists including Nathan Oliveira, Marlene Dumas and Auguste Rodin. Various Various 2 days | £190 4 days | £325 17 - 18 May 22 - 25 Oct Marion Marion and Liz
Boost your creativity and unleash your imagination on this exploration of Surrealist techniques. Use approaches like automatic drawing, collage, over-painting, frottage, cubomania, decalcomania and abstraction. Enjoy the serendipities of juxtaposing different types of imagery and subject matter, creating both small, intimate works to larger experimental pieces, combining painting, drawing, mono and offset printing, photography and found materials. Mixed Media | 4 days | £325 11 - 14 Jun
Liz Luckwell, Marion Taylor
Exploring Forms
Marion Taylor, Liz Luckwell The inspiration for this course is two of the most renowned St Ives modernist artists. Delve into the abstracted forms of Barbara Hepworth and the striking mark making of Wilhelmina Barns Graham. You will be emerged in the very same environment that so inspired them, developing your skills in drawing, print and mixed media painting. Various | 4 days | £345 13 - 16 Aug
Exploring Natural Forms - NEW Liz Luckwell, Hilary Jean Gibson
Explore the wonders of botanical forms from the micro to the macro using drawing and painting. Start with detailed drawings using academic techniques such as measuring and composition and go on to develop a more fluid, expressive response. The intimate studies of artists like Durer, Karl Blissfield’s photography and the expressive watercolours and prints of Elizabeth Blackadder will be our starting points. Various | 4 days | £335 18 - 21 Jun
Iain Robertson, Clare Wardman
Expressive Landscape in Oils Gary Long, Marion Taylor
Learn the practical steps you need to take to create expressive, loose and vibrant work that combine observation with your senses and memory. You will spend time out in the rugged landscape on our doorstep in St Ives gathering a variety of material. Back in the studio, use these sketches and studies to generate dynamic landscapes in oils. Oil | 4 days | £345 12 - 15 Mar
Expressive Landscape in Mixed Media Ges Wilson
Draw en plein air on the cliffs and beaches around St Ives, exploring the mood and elemental energy of place. Look at expressive painting from artists past and present in St Ives and beyond, to reinvent your drawings and spontaneously use mixed media painting. Respond to direct observation and studies to create a free and intuitive expression of landscape. Mixed Media | 3 days | £255 19 - 21 Mar 28 - 30 May 30 Jul - 1 Aug 18 - 20 Feb 2019 11
Expressive Still Life Gary Long
This course will build your skills and confidence so you can create rich and expressive oil paintings. Learn to capture the shape, colour and essence of a bold, colourful arrangement of spring flowers. The tutor will guide you in the use of oils as you develop your own rich painterly style, using brush and palette knife. Oil | 3 days | £265 23 - 25 Apr 6 - 8 Aug
Expressive Watercolour Hilary Jean Gibson
Develop a free and fresh approach to painting watercolour, a dynamic and flexible medium. Experiment with different scales and bring in mixed media to loosen up your technique. From studio set-ups and location-based studies you will build skills in applying washes, colour mixing, pattern and texture. An ideal course if you have some experience of using watercolour and want to loosen up your way of working. Watercolour | 3 days | £265 26 - 28 Nov
Getting Started with Mixed Media Landscape Liz Luckwell, Ges Wilson
Are you new to painting or keen to build your confidence? This course will set you on the path to painting with confidence using a mixed media approach in an expressive way. Learn to incorporate acrylics with simple printmaking and drawing inspired by the stunning landscape around St Ives. You will spend time out in the elements as well as in the studio. Mixed Media | 4 days | £295 29 Oct - 1 Nov
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Getting Started with Portraiture Painting
Gary Long, Hilary Jean Gibson This is an opportunity to examine indepth approaches to portraiture. Get to know the face through drawing, studying anatomy, tone and composition. Then move on to paint with gouache and oils to explore the essence of portraiture. This is a challenging course aimed at those who are confident painters but new to portraiture. Oil | 5 days | £495 15 - 19 Oct
Getting Started with Oil Painting Ideal for total beginners to oils, we have designed this course to give you the tips and tools you need to get you started. Learn simple and dynamic approaches to painting in oils, responding to landscape as well as working in the studio from still life. This will provide you with a thorough introduction to this versatile and accessible medium. Oil | 4 days | £325 2 days | £170 8 - 11 May 28 - 29 Aug Greg Humphries Ges Wilson
Getting Started with Watercolour Hilary Jean Gibson
This course covers the basics of this rewarding and beautiful medium. Learn the essential techniques to get started and understand your materials. Through demonstrations, theory and practice you will develop confidence in essential techniques. A springboard for enjoying this medium to the full and an ideal first step to watercolour painting. Watercolour | 3 days | £255 14 - 16 May 18 - 20 Feb 2019
“It was very encouraging. I had never used oil paints or done any type of painting before and the course has removed all the fears I had about how to actually start and progress in painting. I will certainly be looking at doing more courses.� James Moore
Lanyon’s Landscapes
Ocean Light and Water
Learn the secret of creating lively and contemporary landscapes. You will start by sketching iconic locations around St Ives that inspired Peter Lanyon and countless other artists over the centuries. Transform these sketches into dynamic compositions using paint, mixed media and collage. An ideal course to loosen up your approach and equally rewarding for beginners. Mixed Media | 3 days | £285 18 - 20 Jun
The ocean is the rich source of inspiration for this course. Learn to capture reflections of light and shadow on wet sand and glistening silver light on the surface of water, using watercolour, inks and acrylic. Give yourself the time and space to reflect on the ocean and its many moods and meanings, giving you tools and confidence to explore this captivating subject. Various | 3 days | £255 13 - 15 Aug
Layered Landscape
Painting Landscape with a Palette Knife
Liz Hough
Hilary Jean Gibson, Ges Wallace Learn how to build up layers in your landscape painting using the rugged coastline around St Ives as your inspiration. Over four days explore different styles and mediums with two different tutors. Initially create drawings, monochromatic studies and coloured grounds, influenced by weather and atmosphere. Back in the studio develop an expressive, intuitive response but with a focus on structure and space. Mixed Media | 4 days | £335 3 - 6 Sep
Hilary Jean Gibson
Gary Long
This is a chance to paint confidently in oils with a palette knife, using source material from the dramatic coastline around St Ives and working in the historic Porthmeor studios. We aim for this course to have a maximum of eight students which gives you plenty of opportunity for one to one time with the tutor. Oil | 3 days | £285 28 - 30 Aug
Painting Landscape in Oils
Painting Your Stories
Paint en plein air on the cliffs and beaches around St Ives and explore the mood and elemental energy of place. Start by using oil bars and paints outside then develop work back in the studio with brushes, knives and other tools to explore your expressive mark making. An ideal course to experiment and generate lots of ideas. Oil | 3 days | £255 23 - 25 Apr 2 - 4 Jul 24 - 26 Sep
Use the environment of St Ives and your personal histories as a springboard for powerful art making. Initially gathering ideas in sketchbooks, you will be led through formal considerations of painting; form, scale and composition. You will then examine the source material of your life to identify personal motifs and narratives, finally combining these elements to create rich, autobiographical paintings. Various | 4 days | £325 9 - 12 Apr
Ges Wilson
Painting The Coast Path
Ilker Cinarel
Greg Humphries
Paths to Abstraction
Follow in the footsteps of the St Ives Modernists in this active, outdoor art course. Walking a section of the South West Coast Path from St Ives, you will sketch and paint the dramatic natural landscape before working in the studio on your final day. A perfect course if you love being outdoors and enjoy an expressive approach to creating work. Various | 3 days | £255 11 - 13 Jun 17 - 19 Sep
This course will help you explore in-depth ways of seeing abstraction in nature and demystify the making of abstract painting. You will work towards a mixed media approach, moving from observation to abstraction. Working inside and out this course gives you a step by step approach to developing your approach to abstraction. Mixed Media | 3 days | £285 14 - 16 May 12 -14 Nov
Painting the Rooftops of St Ives
Patrick Heron’s Gardens - NEW
Explore the architecture and landscape of St Ives with waterbased mediums, drawing and oils. Learn to capture vivid visual notes to develop into a small figurative oil painting on the third day. In the spirit of so many artists before, capture your time in St Ives using line, colour and shape. Oil | 3 days | £265 30 Jul - 1 Aug
Respond to Patrick Heron’s early and late garden paintings and his love of Braque, Matisse and Bonnard. Field trips include a trip to Tremenheere Sculpture Garden and Tate St Ives, with practical and structured learning throughout. It will suit all levels of student interested in responding to the natural world and exploring colour, form and abstraction in their painting. Mixed Media | 3 days | £265 21 - 23 May 20 - 22 Aug
Gary Long
Liz Hough
Ges Wilson
“Very inspiring - what a beautiful space. The course and tutor helped to motivate me back into seeing as an artist again after several years of not doing so. I am very grateful.” Jane Piddington
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Poetry of Process
Reinterpreting the Figure
Have you ever found that the best work you do is from a happy accident? This course will help you harness and recreate those unexpected moments as part of your creative toolkit. Exercises, one-toones and demonstrations will develop your ideas. Experiment with new techniques and processes to focus on the act of painting itself. Oil | 3 days | £285 25 - 27 Jun 14 - 16 Jan 2019
Learn creative ways to capture the human form. Through exercises and experimenting with materials, explore three key approaches with the help of two different artist tutors. Break out of the constraints of realism, explore the use of space and harness the power of the accidental to tap into your emotional instincts and imagination in this challenging and fun approach to the figure. Mixed Media | 4 days | £365 30 Apr - 3 May 4 - 7 Feb 2019
Kerry Harding
Marion Taylor, Ilker Cinarel
Responding to Richter - NEW
Kerry Harding, Marion Taylor
“I will definitely come to another course, I would even consider the same course again. I like the whole experience of being taught and learning in such a beautiful place with lovely people.” Teula Geraghty
Gerhard Richter is an artist of extraordinary diversity. This course aims to give a broad overview of his vast exploration of painting and examine closely some of his approaches. Extend your own painting vocabulary through structured experimentation, exploring Richter’s techniques through a series of illuminating exercises. Ideal for artists looking to extend and expand their painting tool box. Oil | 4 days | £335 2 - 5 Jul 11 - 14 Feb 2019
Simplicity and Form
The Art of Keeping it Simple
Would you like to create a simple still life that is bold and striking? Learn the secrets of using vibrant colour and playful compositions to create your own painting. You will learn tips on using drawing to plan your painting and then move to acrylic on board. An ideal course if you are new to painting or just want to try out a fresh approach. Acrylic | 2 days | £195 31 May - 1 Jun
Simplify the essence of both subject and content and play with surface, colour, texture and mark making. Painting and drawing in the context of St Ives modernism will set the tone for this course, looking at Ben Nicholson and Patrick Heron. Transform the way you work with tools and techniques to open up a fresh approach to your work. Oils | 3 days | £255 16 - 18 Apr 29 - 31 Oct
St Ives Harbour and Town
The Figure and Expression
The colourful and vibrant work of Terry Frost will be the starting point in this fast and effective approach to landscape. Using collage and painting you will learn how to create impressive work in a short time. Initially gathering sketches around the harbour in St Ives you will return to the studio to experiment with a process of layering collage with painting. Mixed Media | 5 days | £395 16 - 20 Jul
The course will help you create colourful, intuitive expressive paintings of the figure. Starting with a day of drawing from both the nude and the clothed model, you will move on to explore how to use intuitive colour and distortion to create your own striking painting in oils. You will learn from demonstrations, exercises, individual feedback and watching the artist tutor working. Oil | 3 days | £295 9 - 11 Jul 1 - 3 Apr 2019
Emma McClure
Liz Hough
Marion Taylor
Gary Long
“I haven’t painted before so I didn’t know what to expect but there was no need to worry because we were all learning and all at different stages anyway. Great course, great understanding tutor able to give the class time and one to one time. I can’t wait to get home and start painting!” Martin Stathom
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“Well structured and thoroughly enjoyable.” Sue Southorn
The Sensory Landscape
Turner Sea and Sky
Learn to explore the landscape around you by using all your senses. Create mixed media artwork that powerfully connects to the elements in unexpected ways. Take a step beyond the visual into the instinctive, sensory and abstract world of art making. Exercises, experiments, group and individual work will hone your senses and expand your creative toolbox. Various | 3 days | £245 3 - 5 Apr
Explore techniques to capture the elemental power of the sea, inspired by JMW Turner, the pre-eminent painter of water. His rapidly made and highly expressive studies, known as colour “beginnings” reveal fresh and immediate approaches to using watercolour. Learn to create vibrant watercolours, denote the sky, sea and beach and animate and transform unadulterated colour into a boundless seascape. Watercolour | 3 days | £265 3 - 5 Apr 23 - 25 Jul 25 - 27 Mar 2019
Greg Humphries
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Hilary Jean Gibson
Unlocking Your Creativity
Watercolour Portrait
An opportunity to create artwork that explores a personal approach to the world around you and your own creativity. A series of fun, stimulating exercises, including automatic drawing and constructing dream boxes will enable you to generate ideas and develop imagery. You will be encouraged to be creative and brave, with the freedom to choose the media which best suits your individual work. An ideal course for those with some experience. Various | 4 days | £295 25 - 28 Jun
Learn to draw and develop watercolour portrait paintings working from a model. Over three days produce a series of portraits and one sustained image using traditional and expressive approaches. Explore techniques for mixing and applying skin tones, lay and superimpose transparent washes and work with resists and fluid wet on wet. Build your confidence to harness this fresh and immediate medium. Watercolour | 3 days | £295 12 - 14 Nov
Vibrant Still Life in Oil
Where Sea Meets Land
Capture the essential nature of a subject in a fresh way and create a simple still life in oils. Emma will show you how to combine vibrant colour with playful compositions. You will learn tips on using drawing to plan your painting. It is an ideal course if you are new to painting or just want a chance to liven up your work.. Oil | 2 days | £360 1 - 2 Apr
Explore an expressive approach in oils to capture the dramatic encounter between the sea and the land. Observe and sketch the coastline around St Ives, learning how to work with gouache to make annotations on colour and weather. Back in the studio develop these into lively and dramatic oil paintings. You will gain confidence in using a limited palette and work with a palette knife to capture drama and movement. Oil | 3 days | £285 16 - 18 Apr 1 - 3 Oct 8 - 10 Apr 2019
Ilker Cinarel
Emma McClure
Warm and Cool - NEW Alice Mumford
Hilary Jean Gibson
Gary Long
Warm and cool colours are often used by artists to create a sense of light, compositional contrast and atmosphere. We can see this from the paintings of Bonnard to Chardin. Cool whites surrounded by warm elements can structure the painting and give them drama and depth. Learn to harness this simple but vital approach to creating a compelling painting in oils. Oil | 2 days | £360 8 - 9 Oct £100 of your fee on this course goes directly to support our Porthmeor Young Artists Fund, providing subsidised or free tuition for young artists age 5-18.
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FANCY A WEEKEND IN ST IVES? CREATIVE WEEKENDERS
Developing Drawing Skills CREATIVE WEEKENDER Create compelling drawings from observation and give yourself a completely new creative toolbox. Taught in a small group, you will learn techniques to closely observe and respond to the world around you. Unlock the secrets of this timeless medium and develop a new love for drawing that will last you a lifetime. Drawing | 2 days | £175 16 - 17 Jun 20 - 21 Oct Liz Luckwell Hilary Jean Gibson
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Discover Painting CREATIVE WEEKENDER Ilker Cinarel
An introduction to using acrylics, an ideal medium if you like to work fast and finish a painting in one sitting. Explore its flexibility and how to colour-mix effectively with a limited palette on different surfaces. You will learn simple and dynamic approaches to get you started in a fun and accessible way. Acrylic | 2 days | £170 14 - 15 Apr - Full 14 - 15 Jul
Short on time or juggling commitments? Why not join us just for the weekend or even a long weekend starting Friday. We finish 3.30pm Sunday in time to catch the train home. Work in a small group, in our studio overlooking Porthmeor beach. If you need to escape London for a creative retreat you can hop on the newly revamped Riviera Express sleeper Friday night and arrive Saturday morning.
Expressive Landscape in Mixed Media - NEW CREATIVE WEEKENDER Ges Wilson
Draw en plein air on the cliffs and beaches around St Ives, exploring the mood and elemental energy of place. Look at expressive painting from artists past and present in St Ives and beyond, to reinvent your drawings and spontaneously use mixed media painting. Respond to direct observation and studies to create a free and intuitive expression of landscape. Mixed Media | 2 days | £185 1 - 2 Sep
Expressive Watercolour CREATIVE WEEKENDER Hilary Jean Gibson
Develop a free and energetic approach to painting with watercolour to depict land, sky and boundless seascapes. Experiment with different scales using mixed media to loosen up your technique. Build your skills in applying washes, pattern, texture and colour mixing. This is an ideal course if you are a beginner to watercolour or just want to loosen up your way of working. Watercolour | 2 days | £185 26 - 27 May
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Getting Started with Watercolour CREATIVE WEEKENDER
Painting Landscape with a Palette Knife CREATIVE WEEKENDER
This course covers the basics of this rewarding and beautiful medium. Learn the essential techniques to get you started and understand your materials. Through demonstrations, theory and practice you will develop confidence in essential techniques. A springboard for enjoying this medium to the full and an ideal first step to watercolour painting. Watercolour | 2 days | £175 24 - 25 Mar
This is a chance to paint more confidently in oils using a palette knife. Gather source material from the dramatic coastline around St Ives and work in the historic Porthmeor studios. Through demonstrations, watching the artist tutor develop their own piece during the session, exercises and individual feedback, you will be surprised at how quickly your work develops. Oil | 2 days | £195 30 Jun - 1 Jul - Full 27 - 28 Oct
Hilary Jean Gibson
Ocean and Abstraction CREATIVE WEEKENDER Ges Wilson
Explore how you can convey the ocean with its ever shifting moods and colour. You will use abstraction to capture your emotional, sensual as well as visual responses to Porthmeor Beach just outside our studio. We will look at how artists, past and present, use paint and mark-making to harness these senses and memories, spending time both outside and inside the studio. Acrylic | 2 days | £185 10 - 11 Mar 12 - 13 May - Full 11 - 12 Aug
Gary Long
Printing for Painters LONG WEEKENDER Liz Luckwell
A rare opportunity to work with tutors from both the St Ives School of Painting and the historic Porthmeor Printmaking Workshop. Translate visual information gathered in the landscape into multi layered prints using mono printing and drypoint, including time creating work on a printing press. You will enjoy this course if you love the simplicity and immediacy of print, an approach that will also benefit and inspire your painting. Printmaking | 3 days | £260 10 - 12 Aug
Sea and Rocks LONG WEEKENDER
Unlocking Your Creativity CREATIVE WEEKENDER
Take advantage of our location and use the sea and the rocks along the rugged edges of St Ives for your inspiration. Learn the techniques you need to compose fresh and lively studies in oils, capturing colour, movement and texture. Working directly from observation explore the tension between reality, pictorial composition and imagination to help create a compelling painting. Oil | 3 days | £255 20 - 22 Jul 21 - 23 Sep
An opportunity to create artwork that explores a personal approach to the world around you and your own creativity. A series of fun, stimulating exercises, including automatic drawing and constructing dream boxes will enable you to generate ideas and develop imagery. You will be encouraged to be creative and brave, with the freedom to choose the media which best suits your individual work. An ideal course for those with some experience. Various | 2 days | £170 3 - 4 Nov
Ashley Hold
The Sensory Landscape CREATIVE WEEKENDER Greg Humphries Learn to explore the landscape around you by using all your senses. Create mixed media artwork that powerfully connects to the elements in unexpected ways. Take a step beyond the visual into the instinctive, sensory and abstract world of art making. Exercises, experiments, group and individual work will hone your senses and expand your creative toolbox. Various | 2 days | £170 28 - 29 Jul
Three Day Portrait Inspired by Hockney LONG WEEKENDER Ashley Hold
David Hockney’s recent portraits show a return to the quiet contemplation of portraiture. Each work is the same size, his sitter in the same chair against the same vivid blue background, painted in the same time frame of three days. Using similar constraints, explore how to use paint to allow a sitter’s personality to leap off the canvas with warmth and immediacy. Acrylic | 3 days | £295 13 - 15 Apr 16 - 18 Nov 29 - 31 Mar 2019
Ilker Cinarel
Where Sea Meets Land CREATIVE WEEKENDER Gary Long
Explore an expressive approach in oils to capture the dramatic encounter between the sea and the land. Observe and sketch the coastline around St Ives, learning how to work with gouache to make annotations on colour and weather. Back in the studio develop these into lively and dramatic oil paintings. You will gain confidence in using a limited palette and work with a palette knife to capture drama and movement. Oil | 2 days | £195 16 - 17 Mar 2019
“The ambience and welcoming feel of the school and the provision of all the materials made the creative journey easy. There was just the right amount of structure to the teaching and Greg made it all feel easy and achievable!” Chris Newall
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COURSES IN ITALY 2018/19 Join St Ives School of Painting on our field trip to Tuscany, Italy. Follow in the footsteps of many of the St. Ives Modernists who also fell in love with this magical landscape. Our experienced tutors work with you in the inspirational setting of the Verrocchio Art Centre, part of the fortified walls of the charming hilltop village of Casole d’Elsa. With six days of intensive tuition, there is also time to work self-directed in the spacious studios. Enjoy exploring the surrounding area and take the opportunity to visit San Gimignano and Siena. In the evening savour the views and authentic Italian food and wine on the terrace while discussing ideas and art with new friends. Packages inclusive of meals, accommodation and transfers are available via Verrocchio from £80 - £100 per night. Contact the art centre’s office in Bristol on 0117 3304973, www.verrocchio.co.uk.
Painting the Tuscan Landscape
Spirit of Tuscany
Spring is a beautiful time of year to capture the Tuscan landscape. Use sketchbooks to capture areas of interest in the natural landscape and vibrant Italian life and architecture. Back in the studio develop gouache studies into oil paintings. There will be six days of tuition. On other days, students can work self-directed in the spacious studio or enjoy the surrounding area. Oil | 11 days | £480 20 - 30 May 2018 - Full 20 - 30 May 2019
Get truly immersed in the spirit of Tuscany on this field trip to Italy. Absorb the vibrant Sienese colours and explore an expressive approach to landscape and place. Develop your ideas using drawing, collage and acrylics to experiment and explore. Loosen up your painting and find your personal response to the stunning landscape and medieval townscape surrounding the centre. Mixed Media | 11 days | £480 20 - 30 Aug - Full 20 - 30 Aug 2019
Gary Long
Liz Hough
“Great food, beautiful setting, the centre was so characterful and unique. Lots of laughs and Liz’s teaching was superb and challenging.” Sandy
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OUR TUTORS Our tutors combine professional artistic skills with many years’ experience of teaching​between them. Here is a taster of just some of the artists delivering courses with us over the next year. Our regular team is complemented by visiting artists based in Cornwall and across the UK, including those currently at Porthmeor Studios. More information about all our artist tutors can be found on our website.
Alice Mumford
Ashley Hold
Clare Wardman
Emma McClure
Gary Long
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Greg Humphries
Hilary Jean Gibson
Iain Robertson
Ilker Cinarel
Kerry Harding
Liz Hough
Liz Luckwell
Marion Taylor
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Mary Crockett
Peter Skerrett
Rachael Kantaris
Steve Dove
“A challenging & stimulating week where I learnt a lot and the atmosphere in the studio was always relaxed and enjoyable. The tutors were inspiring. They gave excellent support and advice.� Jane Gilchrist
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FUNDRAISING FUTURES It’s Sunday morning. A clear winter sun lights up the studio. Stand, look, draw, look again. It may sound simple but this is harder than you thought it would be. To stand at a real artist's easel, looking intently, holding your breath you make that first tentative mark. Two hours disappear. You have been somewhere else. Exhausted, standing back, you feel a rush of pride at the work you have created that will stay with you for the rest of the day. Perhaps an echo of this Sunday morning, the magic of the studio bathed in light, your delight in your achievement, will stay with you for life. What a wonderful way for a young artist to start the year. An adventure in looking at the world in a whole new way. For the past year this experience has been opened up to young people who have come to our after-school club, our Sunday group and in the summer our intensive Culture Camp. We have been able to do this with funding from Arts Council England, Rotary St Ives and Wilhelmina Barns Graham Trust. The other vital funder has been you. It is the money from your course fees that helps us pay for these opportunities. On top of that our students have been donating extra when they can. At the end of 2018 our funding comes to an end. We believe, what these young people get from their time at Porthmeor Studios, is so valuable we don’t want it to stop. We need your help to ensure we keep going. Every pound you donate to us will go towards securing those magical creative moments for many more young people. £60 would help pay for all the materials one child would need to complete a year with us. £200 would cover the cost of a creative session for eight young people. You can opt to donate when you buy a course online or visit the Support Us page on our website and give whatever you feel you can. You can also contact Jane at the School office on 01736 797180 or email jane@schoolofpainting.co.uk. You could also think about us in your will. A bequest will help us run our programme for future generations. Just use these details. Charity name: St Ives Art School trading as St Ives School of Painting Registered Address: St Ives School of Painting, Porthmeor Studios, Back Road West, St Ives, TR26 1NG. Registered charity no: 1146825 28
PORTHMEOR PROGRAMME Is it time you took your work seriously giving it the space it needs to flourish?
The Porthmeor Programme gives you a unique chance to find and develop your own creative voice. We believe making should be at the heart of this process. Professional guidance and support from 1-1 tutorials with your lead artist is combined with practical making workshops with guest artists. The programme is now going into its fifth year. Our tutors have honed the process of helping you take those critical steps to achieve your ambitions as an artist. You will be encouraged to take risks and experiment, enabling you to gain confidence, moving your practice to the next level. The programme is delivered over weekends. This means you can to travel from across the UK and fit the programme in around other commitments. Applications for 2019 open in October 2018. Want to know more? Call us on: 01736 797180 or visit our website. www.schoolofpainting.co.uk
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– Courses start at 10am on the first day finishing at 4.30pm. On the following days they start at 9.30 and finish at 4. – Weekend courses start at 10am on the first day but vary thereafter. Please see website for details. – All materials are included in day courses. – For a list of ideas on where to stay, please visit the accommodation page on our website. – Our Porthmeor studio is wheelchair friendly with a lift.
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LIFE DRAWING CLASSES Our first class was established more than 30 years ago. Today our tutored figure classes are ideal for those wanting to learn and improve, build a portfolio or for beginners who would like to just have a go. Thursday 7.30 - 9.30pm Friday 7.30 - 9.30pm (from 3 Aug - 14 Sep) Saturday 10am - 12.30pm and 1.30pm - 4pm Book in advance to be sure of a space. We cap numbers to make the studio a comfortable space to work in and at busy times often have to turn people away. Beginners are very welcome. £16 (£8 members or if you are attending a course)
Develop skills or learn something new with our 1 day and ½ day workshops. £80/£40
BOOKING INFO
Every Wednesday and Friday 10am - 1pm and Thursdays 10am - 4pm from 11 Jul - 7 Sep
Please use our secure online booking facility at www.schoolofpainting.co.uk or call the office on 01736 797180
GIFT VOUCHERS From £10 upwards and valid for 18 months. An ideal gift for arty friends and family.
St Ives School of Painting Porthmeor Studios, Back Road West, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 1NG. Tel: 01736 797180 | info@schoolofpainting.co.uk Registered charity no: 1146825 Registered company no: 7871063