2016

St Ives School of Painting is a place of retreat, a space to fire up your creativity. We specialise in the timeless medium of painting and drawing. It is part of the fabric of our studios where artists have made work for over a hundred years. So we are the right place for you if painting is your passion.

Our courses take place in the award winning Porthmeor Studios, “with the best sea views in Britain”. Today it is a vibrant building, filled with the energy of contemporary artists in their studios, working fishermen and our students. Our carefully designed courses and highly skilled tutors ensure you have the best experience possible. For our 2016 programme we have listened to your feedback and made important changes. We have capped many courses to a maximum of ten students, installed extra sinks in the studio and invested in new equipment. This ensures more time and space for you to be creative so you can make the most of your time with us.

Come and join us. Whether you come to our weekly figure class, course or even our new year long Porthmeor Programme, it will feel like coming home.

COURSES AT A GLANCE

“Well structured and thoroughly enjoyable ” Sue Southorn

Getting Started with Watercolour 16 - 18 May 3 £245

Getting Started Painting Landscapes in Oil 16 - 20 May 5 £375

Painting the Tuscan Landscape 21 - 31 May 6 £445

Art of Keeping it Simple 23 - 25 May 3 £245

Lanyon’s Landscape 23 - 25 May 3 £285

Developing Drawing 28 - 29 May 2 £165

Getting Started with Acrylics 31 May - 3 Jun 4 £325

Revealing Landscape - Surfaces and Layers 6 - 10 June 5 £395

The Sensory Landscape 13 - 15 Jun 3 £245

Portraiture Painting 13-17 June 5 £395

Exploring the Human Hand and Foot 18 - 19 Jun 2 £165

Painting Landscape with A Palette Knife 20 - 22 Jun 3 £245

Paths to Abstraction 20 - 24 June 5 £355

Vibrant Still Life in Oils 27 - 28 Jun 2 £165

Expressive Landscape in Oils 27 - 30 Jun 4 £375

St Ives Harbour and Town 2 - 3 Jul 2 £165

Unlocking Your Creativity 4 - 6 Jul 3 £245

Getting Started with Oils 4 - 8 Jul 5 £375

Expressive Watercolour 11 - 13 July 3 £245

Lanyon's Landscape 11 - 15 Jul 5 £395

Sea and Rocks 16 - 17 Jul 2 £165

Big Space 18 - 20 Jul 3 £285

Colour into Abstraction 25 - 27 Jul 3 £245

Materials Taster 25 - 29 Jul 5 £375

Illustrating St Ives 1 - 3 Aug 3 £245

Painting Your Stories 1 - 5 Aug 5 £395

The Sensory Landscape 6 - 7 Aug 2 £165

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The Ocean and Abstraction 8 -10 Aug 3 £245

Getting Started with Acrylics 8 - 12 Aug 5 £375

The Sensory Landscape 15 - 17 Aug 3 £245

Exploring Surrealism 15 - 19 Aug 5 £395

Painting Landscape with A Palette Knife 22 - 24 Aug 3 £245

Down to the Sea Again 22 - 25 Aug 4 £320

Spirit of Tuscany 29 Aug - 8 Sep 6 £445

Introduction to Mixed Media Landscape 30 - 31 Aug 2 £165

Expressive Landscape in Oils 30 Aug - 2 Sep 4 £375

Unlocking Your Creativity 3 - 4 Sep 2 £165

Where Sea Meets Land 5 - 8 Sep 4 £320

Turner Sea and Sky 19 - 21 Sep 3 £245

Simplicity and Form 26 - 27 Sep 2 £165

Exploring Forms 26 - 30 Sep 5 £395

The Three-Day Portrait – Inspired by Hockney 30 Sep - 2 Oct 3 £295

Revealing Landscape - Surfaces and Layers 3 - 7 Oct 5 £395

After Matisse 10 - 12 Oct 3 £295

Portraiture Painting 17 - 21 Oct 5 £395

Advancing Mixed Media Painting 24 - 26 Oct 3 £285

Materials Taster 31 Oct - 4 Nov 5 £375

The Art of Keeping it Simple 7 - 9 Nov 3 £285

Paths to Abstraction 14 - 18 Nov 5 £395

The Ocean and Abstraction 19 - 20 Nov 2 £165

Painting the Figure 21 - 24 Nov 4 £395

Developing Drawing 28 Nov - 1 Dec 4 £320

Getting Started with Mixed Media Painting 16 - 20 Jan 5 £375

Advancing Mixed Media Painting 23 - 25 Jan 3 £285

Materials Taster 30 Jan - 3 Feb 5 £375

Mixed media Oils Water-based Drawing

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Getting Started with Watercolour 16 – 18 May | Waterbased £245 Hilary Jean Gibson - 3 days

This course covers the basics of this rewarding and beautiful medium. Learn the essential techniques to get you started and understand your materials. Experiment with different papers, learn how best to use them and select the right brushes for the job. Through demonstrations, theory and practice you will develop confidence in essential techniques. An ideal first step to painting and a springboard for enjoying this medium to the full.

Getting Started Painting Landscapes in Oil 16 – 20 May | Oils £375 Greg Humphries - 5 days

Ideal for total beginners to oils, our tutors will give you simple and dynamic approaches to painting in oils with a focus on capturing the Cornish landscape. Develop your initial sketching and studies made out in the landscape back in the studio. Here you will look at how to select and mix a Cornish landscape palette with a focus on keeping it simple and fresh. Learn how to instil energy, movement and pace in your painting through experimenting with composition, marks and surfaces. This thorough introduction will send you home with a folder full of your own personal responses to the Cornish landscape. Just what you need to get you started on the road to being a landscape painter.

Painting the Tuscan Landscape 21 – 31 May | Oils £445 Gary Long - 6 days

Spring is a beautiful time of year to capture the Tuscan landscape. This Italian field trip brings together varied subjects. It explores the natural landscape as well as vibrant Italian life and architecture. Use sketchbooks to learn how to capture areas of interest and make notes on colour and light source. Back in the spacious studio, you will develop paintings from these studies. Initially using gouache to explore ways of working intuitively, you will move on to oils. There will be six days of tuition and on other days students can work self-directed in the spacious studio or enjoy the surrounding area.

COURSE DETAILSThe 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 75 years so we are confident that you will have a memorable experience that lasts a lifetime.

“Good group, fabulous environment and inspirational teaching, constructive and positive. Life class was a bonus! So priviledged to be able to work in this great space.” Anthea Simmons

Art of Keeping it Simple 23 – 25 May | Mixed Media £245 Marion Taylor - 3 days

Transform the way you work with tools and techniques to open up a fresh approach to your work. You will learn to control your colour palette, create interesting surfaces and overlay with strong marks and textures. Painting and drawing in the context of St Ives modernism will set the tone for this course, looking at Ben Nicholson, William Scott and Patrick Heron. You will work in the studio from still life as well as make the most of the town of St Ives and its coastal landscape that so inspired these artists. Although mainly working in oils you will also experiment with a mixed media approach.

Lanyon’s Landscape 23 – 25 May | Mixed Media £285 Liz Hough - 5 days

Learn the secret of creating lively and contemporary landscapes. You will start by sketching iconic locations around St Ives. This architecture and dramatic coastline inspired Peter Lanyon and countless other artists over the centuries. Transform these sketches into dynamic compositions using paint, mixed media and collage. This is an ideal course if you need to loosen up your approach and start on the path to abstraction. It is equally rewarding for beginners. The course includes a full day’s field trip around Cape Cornwall. Other days you will work in the studio, transforming sketches made on location into dynamic compositions using paint, mixed media and collage. There is a maximum of ten students on this course based in our larger studio. This gives you generous space to work and extra time with the tutor for personal feedback and guidance.

Creative Weekender: Developing Drawing 28 – 29 May | Drawing £165 Hilary Jean Gibson - 2 days

Create compelling drawings from observation and give yourself a completely new creative toolbox. Taught in a small group of eight, 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. You will work in the studio as well as out in St Ives studying the architecture of the town and the rugged coastal landscape. This is an ideal course to strengthen your drawing skills. It will increase your confidence in a range of approaches, develop vital skills and unlock a new creative passion.

Getting Started with Acrylics 31 May – 3 Jun | Waterbased £325 Ilker Cinarel - 4 days

Ideal for total beginners to the medium of acrylics, this course will give you the tips and tools you need to get started. Responding to the local landscape as well as still life set ups in the studio, learn how to colour mix effectively from a limited palette working on different surfaces. Explore how flexible acrylic can be by working thin like watercolour and thick with a palette knife. Learn how to work into acrylic using other mediums such as charcoal and collage to create dynamic contemporary looking paintings. Get a thorough introduction to this versatile and accessible medium whilst having a lot of fun.

The Sensory Landscape 13 – 15 Jun | Mixed Media £245 Greg Humphries - 3 days

In a small group of eight students, learn to explore the landscape around you by using all your senses. Create artwork that powerfully connects to the elements in unexpected ways, taking a step beyond the visual. Artist Greg Humphries will expertly help you to hone your eye to observe both the micro landscape such as the rock pools around Porthmeor Beach as well as the impressive vistas of the Penwith coastline. You will explore how the elements themselves can help you create artwork, developing mixed media drawings and paintings. Smell, taste and remember in this holistic approach to responding to landscape. By tapping into your inner and outer landscape learn to connect to place and go a step beyond the visual to create powerful and personal artwork.

Creative Weekender: Exploring the Human Hand and Foot 18 – 19 Jun | Drawing £165 Hilary Jean Gibson - 2 days

Do you avoid drawing hands and feet in the life class, as they seem too impossible to get right? This two-day intensive will help you tackle this subject by exploring the human hand and foot from the inside out. You will work initially from plaster casts and explore anatomy whilst referring to various artists from Durer to Hockney. On the second day, you will study the hands and feet of a model to put what you have learned into practice.

Vibrant Still Life in Oils 27 – 28 Jun | Oils £165 Emma Mc Clure - 4 days

Capture the essential nature of a subject in a fresh way and create a simple still life in oils that sings with colour. Emma will share with you the secrets of using vibrant colour with playful and simple compositions. You will learn new skills and tips on using drawing to plan your painting before moving on to using oils. Artists such as Winifred Nicholson and Mary Fredden as well as contemporary painters like Christine McArthur and Helen Napper, who have a simplified approach to their work, will be the starting point for the two days. It is an ideal course if you are new to painting or just want to learn how to simplify and liven up your work.

Expressive Landscape in Oils 27 – 30 Jun | Oils £375 Mixed tutors - 4 days

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. You will learn the practical steps you need to take to create expressive, loose and vibrant work that combine observation with your senses and memory. Build your confidence in creating an effective colour palette as well as unlock the potential of oils as a medium. Develop by observing demonstrations as well as enjoy regular one to one support. There is a maximum of ten students on this course based in our larger studio. This gives you generous space to work and extra time with the tutor for personal feedback and guidance. There will be several hours spent outside each day, weather permitting, sometimes walking on rough ground.

“The approach is very good, anybody would feel at ease. I have done four courses now, you feel relaxed and comfortable. It is like coming home, everyone is very friendly – I love it!” R. Jolliff.

Creative Weekender - St Ives Harbour and Town 2 – 3 Jul | Mixed Media £165 Liz Hough - 2 days

This workshop starts with looking at renowned Cornish artist Terry Frost to show you how to combine collage and painting to capture the essence of a landscape. You will learn a fast and effective approach so that you can create an impressive piece of work in just a few hours. Work initially from the harbour in St Ives and return to the studio to experiment with a process of layering collage with painting.

Unlocking Your Creativity 4 – 6 Jul | Mixed Media £245 Ilker Cinarel - 3 days

This course will give you permission to play and provides you a structure to take a piece of work from start to finish. You will initially gather ideas in sketchbooks and journals then move on to colour studies, learning how to create compositions and scale up from first ideas. Exercises and demonstrations will help you connect to your innate creativity and loosen up your approach. You will explore your needs and desires as an artist so you can understand your conceptual approach to making work. In the last two days you will develop work using acrylics and oils. This transformational four days will give you the freedom to have fun with your painting. An ideal course for those with prior experience either from courses at the School or similar who feel they want to explore their personal approach to making art.

Getting Started with Oils 4 – 8 Jul | Oils £375 Mixed tutors - 5 days

Ideal for total beginners to oils, our tutors have designed this course to give you the tips and tools you need get you started. Tutors will give you simple and dynamic approaches to painting in oils with a focus on both 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.

Lanyon’s Landscape 11 – 15 Jul | Mixed Media £395 Liz Hough - 5 days

Learn the secret of creating lively and contemporary landscapes. You will start by sketching iconic locations around St Ives. This architecture and dramatic coastline inspired Peter Lanyon and countless other artists over the centuries. Transform these sketches into dynamic compositions using paint, mixed media and collage. This is an ideal course if you need to loosen up your approach and start on the path to abstraction. It is equally rewarding for beginners. The course includes a full day’s field trip around Cape Cornwall. Other days you will work in the studio, transforming sketches made on location into dynamic compositions using paint, mixed media and collage. There is a maximum of ten students on this course based in our larger studio. This gives you generous space to work and extra time with the tutor for personal feedback and guidance.

Sea and Rocks 16 – 17 Jul | Oils £165 Ashley Hold - 2 days

Take advantage of our location and use the sea and the rocks along the rugged edges of St Ives for your inspiration. Artist Ashley Hold will take you through the techniques you need to compose fresh and lively studies in oils, capturing colour, movement and texture. Working directly from observation you will explore the tension between reality, pictorial composition and imagination to help you create a compelling painting. There will be some walking on rough terrain and if the weather allows large parts of the day will be spent outdoors.

“Very accepting, unthreatening atmosphere, gentleness of approach and encouragement. I felt supported and gained confidence to paint from a sketch straight onto board without using charcoal or pencil. To be free. Both tutors were outstanding and it has been an inspiring few days.” Tricia Gill

Big Space 18 – 20 Jul | Mixed Media £285 Neil Canning - 3 days

This is a unique chance to work with Cornish based artist Neil Canning. Learn to create bold abstract paintings to give voice to sensation and feeling. The dialogue between the American abstract expressionists like Franz Kline and the St Ives modernists will set the context for the course. You will explore their shared concerns for conveying expansive space and the use of gestural marks to capture the senses. Explore the powerful landscape around Porthmeor Beach and return to the studio to work on a large scale with water-based mediums such as acrylic on paper and board. Take away new techniques and increase your confidence to explore colour and gesture in your own work. There is a maximum of ten students on this course based in our larger studio. This gives you generous space to work and extra time with the tutor for personal feedback and guidance.

Colour into Abstraction 25 – 27 Jul | Waterbased £245 Iain Robertson - 3 days

Develop your own individual approach to abstraction and improvisation, learning to harness bold colour and developing a direct contemporary practice to create purely abstract paintings. Working with water based paints like acrylic will help you focus on maintaining rich vibrant colour. Through exploring the dialogue between intuition and intention, you will gain confidence in working with instinct and improvisation. With the expert guidance from the artist tutor discover and explore your own individual approach to methods and materials. This will let you return home with a new found confidence in using colour and free form activity that will help you take your abstract painting to another level. Included in the course is a unique chance to visit the artist tutor’s own inspirational studio at Porthmeor.

“A good serious approach, constructive criticism. Excellent tutors, really inspiring and improved my skills in just one week.” Chris B.

Materials Taster 25 – 29 Jul | Mixed Media £375 Mixed tutors - 5 days

This five-day course will guide you through some of the key materials painters use. Ideal if you are a beginner, it gives you an overview of how to find your own way into painting. The focus will be on how to enjoy the expressive qualities of paint rather than getting it right or wrong. Work in the studio from a simple still life set up and if the weather allows use the local landscape as inspiration. Explore a new medium each day - acrylics, watercolour, oils and simple printmaking. Tutor demonstrations and one-to-one guidance structure your learning with space to experiment. This helps you develop a feel for how to approach each medium separately and on the final day you will explore combining mediums for a mixed media approach.

Illustrating St Ives 1 – 3 Aug | Waterbased £245 Gary Long - 3 days

Explore the architecture and landscape of St Ives with waterbased mediums, drawing and oils. You will explore a range of techniques to ensure your sketchbook is a useful tool back in the studio. Learn to capture vivid visual notes to develop your gouache studies into a small figurative oil painting on the final day. In the spirit of so many artists before, capture your time in St Ives using line, colour and shape. Teaching will be through demonstrations and one to one time with each student. The tutor Gary Long also works on his own piece during the sessions so students can observe the process of development.

Painting Your Stories 1 – 5 Aug | Mixed Media £395 Ilker Cinarel - 5 days

Use your own personal histories as a springboard for art making. Work in depth with international artist Ilker Cinarel to explore the rich source material of your own life. Mine your own personal autobiography for symbols and narratives. Choose what to reveal or keep hidden in your work and explore why so many of us obsessively want and need to be make art. As well as exercises designed to reveal these rich creative ideas you will have practical instruction and guidance on working in acrylics. Over the week, learn to develop sketches and ideas, scale up and create a compelling mixed media painting. There is a maximum of ten students on this course based in our larger studio. This gives you generous space to work and extra time with the tutor for personal feedback and guidance.

Creative Weekender - The Sensory Landscape 6 – 7 Aug | Mixed Media £165 Greg Humphries - 2 days

In a small group of eight students, learn to explore the landscape around you by using all your senses. Create artwork that powerfully connects to the elements in unexpected ways, taking a step beyond the visual. Artist Greg Humphries will expertly help you to hone your eye to observe both the micro landscape such as the rock pools around Porthmeor Beach as well as the impressive vistas of the Penwith coastline. You will explore how the elements themselves can help you create artwork, developing mixed media drawings and paintings. Smell, taste and remember in this holistic approach to responding to landscape. By tapping into your inner and outer landscape learn to connect to place and go a step beyond the visual to create powerful and personal artwork.

The Ocean and Abstraction 8 – 10 Aug | Mixed Media £245 Amy Albright - 3 days

Explore how you can convey the ocean with its ever shifting moods and colour. You will use abstraction to capture your emotive as well as visual responses to time spent out on Porthmeor Beach just outside our studio. Think about being under the sea, looking down on it from a glider, feeling it wash up on the beach over your toes. We will look at how artists use paint to harness these senses like Rothko and the Fauves. Explore an abstract and loose creative approach to painting and help establish your own style and identity. Using acrylics and oils in an expressive and gestural way, learn to create layers, depth and emotion in your paintings. 

Getting Started with Acrylics 8 – 12 Aug | Waterbased £375 Mixed tutors - 5 days

Ideal for total beginners to the medium of acrylics, this course will give you the tips and tools you need to get started. Responding to the local landscape as well as still life set ups in the studio, learn how to colour mix effectively from a limited palette working on different surfaces. Explore how flexible acrylic can be by working thin like watercolour and thick with a palette knife. Learn how to work into acrylic using other mediums such as charcoal and collage to create dynamic contemporary looking paintings. Get a thorough introduction to this versatile and accessible medium whilst having a lot of fun!

The Sensory Landscape 15 – 17 Aug | Mixed Media £245 Greg Humphries - 3 days

Learn to explore the landscape around you by using all your senses. Create artwork that powerfully connects to the elements in unexpected ways, taking a step beyond the visual. Artist Greg Humphries will expertly help you to hone your eye to observe both the micro landscape such as the rock pools around Porthmeor Beach as well as the impressive vistas of the Penwith coastline. You will explore how the elements themselves can help you create artwork, developing mixed media drawings and paintings.  Smell, taste and remember in this holistic approach to responding to landscape. By tapping into your inner and outer landscape learn to connect to place and go a step beyond the visual to create powerful and personal artwork.

Exploring Surrealism 15 – 19 Aug | Mixed Media £395 Iain Robertson and Clare Wardman - 5 days

Extend and explore your work through the directed application of specific Surrealist and Dadaist techniques such as Abstraction, Automatic Drawing, Chance, Collage, Cubomania, Decalcomania, Frottage, Over-painting, Photomontage and Soufflage. Create new works ranging from small intimate studies to larger experimental pieces. Develop an understanding of imagery and subject through these surprising processes in a combination of mediums, including Painting, Drawing, 3D Construction, Monoprint and Photography. Bring a Dream! There is a maximum of ten students on this course based in our larger studio. This gives you generous space to work and extra time with the tutor for personal feedback and guidance.

Painting Landscape with A Palette Knife 22 – 24 Aug | Oils £245 Gary Long - 3 days

Learn to paint confidently in oils using a palette knife inspired by the dramatic coastline around St Ives. Artist Gary Long will share with you the secrets of harnessing the power of the knife to lift a painting. Through demonstrations and practice, learn to create texture, life and depth. You will combine it with brushwork to explore how the two techniques work together. This course will show you how to make your paintings come to life and create a dynamic landscape of your own. There will be a maximum of eight students, ensuing a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Teaching will be through demonstrations and one to one time with each student. The tutor Gary Long also works on his own piece during the sessions so students can observe the process of development.

Down to the Sea Again 22 – 25 Aug | Mixed Media £320 Hilary Jean Gibson - 4 days

Explore the power of the sea and create your own personal response. Music, poetry and the ocean outside the studio will be your inspiration. Study imagery from Turner to Pasmore, explore local legends and listen to the sea shanties of fishing communities. The installation in the Porthmeor Studios, with objects from the fishing and artistic heritage of the town, is a rich source for your study. You will develop skills in drawing, printmaking and painting with gouache. Through demonstrations and one to ones, you will improve how you use composition and scale in your work. This course will broaden your creative response and give you the confidence to explore other subjects in new ways.

Spirit of Tuscany 29 Aug – 8 Sep | Mixed Media £445 Liz Hough - 6 days

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.

Introduction to Mixed Media Landscape 30 – 31 Aug | Mixed Media £165 Greg Humphries - 2 days

Explore the rugged landscape around St Ives and learn to gather and record ideas and observations in your sketchbook. Combine these with memory and imagination to create expressive, mixed media paintings. You will experiment in layering acrylics with charcoal and collage gaining confidence from watching demonstrations as well as receiving one to one guidance from your tutor. The course will help you take your first steps to transform your observations and experiences into powerful mixed media paintings. There is a maximum of eight students on this course. This helps you progress faster with lots of time with the tutor for personal feedback and guidance in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.

Expressive Landscape in Oils 30 Aug – 2 Sep | Oils £375 Mixed - 4 days

You will spend time out in the rugged landscape on our studio doorstep in St Ives gathering a variety of material. Back in the studio, use these sketches and studies to generate dynamic landscapes in oils. You will 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 build your confidence in creating an effective colour palette as well as unlocking the potential of oil as a medium. Develop by observing demonstrations as well as benefiting from regular one to one support that help you take your first steps into painting landscapes with oils. There will be several hours spent outside each day, weather permitting, sometimes walking on rough ground.

Creative Weekender: Unlocking Your Creativity 3 – 4 Sep | Mixed Media £165 Ilker Cinarel - 2 days

This course will give you permission to play and provides you a structure to take a piece of work from start to finish. You will initially gather ideas in sketchbooks and journals then move on to colour studies, learning how to create compositions and scale up from first ideas. Exercises and demonstrations will help you connect to your innate creativity and loosen up your approach. You will explore your needs and desires as an artist so you can understand your conceptual approach to making work. This transformational two days will give you the freedom to have fun with your painting. An ideal course for those with prior experience either from courses at the School or similar who feel they want to explore their personal approach to making art.

“Everyone has been friendly and professional, efficient, caring and a joy to be around. The atmosphere is happy and relaxed, everyone made amazing progress in a short time. I really don’t want the experience to end!” Ana Anstead

Where Sea Meets Land 5 – 8 Sep | Oils £320 Gary Long - 4 days

Explore an expressive approach to capture the dramatic encounter between the sea and the land in oils . On visits to beaches around St Ives, you will observe and sketch the coastline. You will learn how to work with gouache to make annotations on colour and weather. Back in the studio, develop these visual notes and sketches 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.

Turner Sea and Sky 19 – 21 Sep | Waterbased £245 Hilary Jean Gibson - 3 days

JMW Turner, the pre-eminent painter of water, with his unique ability to represent the elemental power of the sea, will be the inspiration for this three day course. In particular his rapidly made and highly expressive watercolours, known as colour “beginnings”.

Turner’s subject was light itself, reducing the landscape to its simplest forms to create a fusion of elements. Adopting a bold approach to using watercolour, students will work on different scales, using different coloured papers and develop a minimalist style to reduce to the barest description of sea and sky. This might be to create finished work or be a means of training your eye, developing imagination and thinking about landscape in pure colour, whilst gathering raw material to inform your painting as Turner did. You will learn to create vibrant watercolour, denote the sky, sea and beach, and animate and transform unadulterated colour into a boundless seascape.

Simplicity and Form 26 – 27 Sep | Waterbased £165 Emma Mc Clure - 2 days

Would you like to create a simple still life that is bold and striking? Emma will share with you the secrets of using vibrant colour and playful compositions to create your own painting. You will learn new skills, tips on using drawing to plan your painting and then move to working with acrylic on board. It will be an ideal course if you are new to painting or just want to try out a fresh approach. Artists such as Winifred Nicholson and Craigie Aitchison will be the starting point for the two days. Capture the essential nature of a subject in a fresh and colourful way and take away a finished piece of work.

Exploring Forms 26 – 30 Sep | Mixed Media £395 Marion Taylor - 5 days

The inspiration for this five-day course is a trio of renowned artists who worked in St Ives at the height of the modernist era. You will delve into the abstracted forms of Barbara Hepworth, the vibrant collages of Sandra Blow and the intense mark making of Wilhelmina Barns Graham. The materials and forms that surrounded them were their inspiration. You will be immersed in the very same environment, visiting the Hepworth garden and working in the Porthmeor studio complex overlooking the ocean. Develop your own response using painting, drawing, simple printmaking and collage. The artist tutors will ensure you have the space to bring all this rich material together. Over the five days, you will form your own personal response to your time here in St Ives. There is a maximum of ten students on this course based in our larger studio. This gives you generous space to work and extra time with the tutor for personal feedback and guidance.

The Three-Day Portrait – Inspired by Hockney 30 Sep – 2 Oct | Waterbased £295 Ashley Hold - 3 days

David Hockney’s show this year at the Royal Academy displays a return to the quiet contemplation of portraiture, with all his subjects being friends, family and acquaintances. Each work is the same size, showing his sitter in the same chair, against the same vivid blue background and all were painted in the same time frame of three days. On this course you will work with similar constraints and explore how to use paint to allow a sitter’s personality to leap off the canvas with warmth and immediacy. You will work from a model on all three days in a small group of only six students. This gives you lots of time for one to one support from the tutor.

“Fantastic tutors and great facilities including materials, reference books, spaces and life models. Gary and Marion provided really good tuition and feedback throughout the course. The space and facilities are amazing and the location is exceptional. Thoroughly enjoyed the week!.” Stuart Mitchell

“I LOVED THE BEAUTIFUL STUDIO SPACE, THE LIGHT AND THE FRIENDLINESS OF THE OTHERS ON THE COURSE. I FEEL I NOW HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE AND EXCITEMENT TO DO MORE PAINTING AT HOME.” SUE TIMMINS

Revealing Landscape - Creating surfaces and layers in your painting 3 – 7 Oct | Mixed Media £395 Kerry Harding and Amy Albright - 5 days

Learn to create enigmatic paintings inspired by landscape. Use oil paint with fresh and fluid methods that reveal and respond to traces of marks and colour. Artists Amy Albright and Kerry Harding will show you how to enjoy the process of layering, erasing and exposing in an organic and exciting way. Work on a series of semi-abstract oil paintings using layered glazes and a range of tools to create subtle and refined marks. Along the way, you will also create many smaller works on paper. Tutors will demonstrate dynamic painting techniques such as imprinting with rags, dripping paint, glazing and using delicate detail marks to help you create your own layered painting. Some experience of painting would be useful to get the most from the course. It is a great opportunity to build your confidence using oils, loosen up and widen your painting repertoire. There is a maximum of ten students on this course based in our larger studio. This gives you generous space to work and extra time with the tutor for personal feedback and guidance. Please note there will be some use of household paints, varnishes and glazes during the course. If you are sensitive to solvents it may not be suitable.

Portraiture Painting 17 – 21 Oct | Oils £395 Gary Long and Hilary Jean Gibson - 5 days

This five day course will be an opportunity to examine in depth approaches to portraiture using artists such as Lucian Freud and Stanley Spencer as the initial inspiration. You will examine the visual language Spencer and Freud created by working yourself from direct observation with a clothed model. On the first day you will get to know the face through drawing, exploring anatomy, tone and composition. You will then move on to paint with gouache and oils to explore the essence of portraiture.

Teaching will be through demonstrations and one to one time. The tutor Gary Long also works on his own piece during the sessions so students can observe the process of development. Places are limited to eight to enable everyone to see the model’s face, so reserve your place soon!

“Kerry succeded in ejecting me from my comfort zone and showing me a whole new language I can use to develop my style with confidence, thank you!.” Giles Hall

Advancing Mixed Media Painting 24 – 26 Oct | Mixed Media £285 Liz Hough - 3 days

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. Artists such as John Piper, Barbara Rae, Ivan Hitchens and Howard Hodgkin will set the context. Through demonstrations, group exercises as well as one to ones with the tutor you will understand better what you want to convey about a place and landscape. Over the three days start to discover the approach unique to you. This is an ideal next step if you have been on a mixed media course before and want to deepen and develop your practice. There is a maximum of ten students on this course based in our larger studio. This gives you generous space to work and extra time with the tutor for personal feedback and guidance.

Materials Taster 31 Oct – 4 Nov | Mixed Media £375 Mixed tutors - 5 days

This five-day course will guide you through some of the key materials painters use. Ideal if you are a beginner, it gives you an overview of how to find your own way into painting. The focus will be on how to enjoy the expressive qualities of paint rather than getting it right or wrong. Work in the studio from a simple still life set up and if the weather allows use the local landscape as inspiration. Explore a new medium each day - acrylics, watercolour, oils and simple printmaking. Tutor demonstrations and one-to-one guidance structure your learning with space to experiment. This helps you develop a feel for how to approach each medium separately and on the final day you will explore combining mediums for a mixed media approach.

The Art of Keeping it Simple 7– 9 Nov | Mixed Media £285 Marion Taylor - 3 days

Transform the way you work with tools and techniques to open up a fresh approach to your work. You will learn to control your colour palette, create interesting surfaces and overlay with strong marks and textures. Painting and drawing in the context of St Ives modernism will set the tone for this course, looking at Ben Nicholson, William Scott and Patrick Heron.

You will work in the studio from a still life as well as make the most of the town of St Ives and its coastal landscape that so inspired these artists. Although mainly working in oils you will also experiment with a mixed media approach.

Paths to Abstraction 14 – 18 Nov | Mixed Media £395 Liz Hough - 5 days

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 over the five days. One day will be a self -study day, a time and space to experiment with what you have learnt. You will work both inside and outside to gather source material with a step by step approach to viewing still life and landscape in a new way. If you have a special interest in moving towards abstraction in your work and need to develop your confidence this is the ideal course for you. There is a maximum of ten students on this course based in our larger studio. This gives you generous space to work and extra time with the tutor for personal feedback and guidance.

Creative Weekender- The Ocean and Abstraction 19 – 20 Nov | Mixed Media £165 Amy Albright - 2 days

Explore how you can convey the ocean with its ever shifting moods and colour. You will use abstraction to capture your emotive as well as visual responses to time spent out on Porthmeor Beach just outside our studio. Think about being under the sea, looking down on it from a glider, feeling it wash up on the beach over your toes. We will look at how artists use paint to harness these senses like Rothko and the Fauves. Explore an abstract and loose creative approach to painting and help establish your own style and identity. Using acrylics and oils in an expressive and gestural way, learn to create layers, depth and emotion in your paintings.

Painting the Figure 21 – 24 Nov | Oils £395 Gary Long - 4 days

You will take an in-depth approach to capturing the human figure in paint using the nude model as the focus. This is an ideal next step for those who would like to take their figure drawing into paint. You will start working with a day of drawing moving on to gouache and then oils. Working from a nude model every day, there will be a mix of tutor demonstrations, group instruction and personal tuition. You will learn to lay out a palette, create strong compositions and experiment with using different painting techniques to create your own compelling figure painting. The tutor Gary Long also works on his own piece during the sessions so students can observe the process of development. There is a maximum of ten students on this course based in our larger studio. This gives you generous space to work and extra time with the tutor for personal feedback and guidance.

Developing Drawing 28 Nov – 1 Dec | Drawing £320 Mixed tutors - 4 days

Create compelling drawings from observation and give yourself a completely new creative toolbox. Taught by two artists over four days, 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. Learn to create mood with tonal values and master the power of the simple line. Move on to explore an intuitive and experimental approach to mark making that will combine observation with interpretation. You will work in the studio as well as out in St Ives studying the architecture of the town and the rugged coastal landscape. This is an ideal course if you are a beginner or an artist who wishes they had stronger drawing skills. It will increase your confidence in a range of approaches, develop vital skills and unlock a new creative passion.

Getting Started with Mixed Media Painting 16 – 20 Jan 2017 | Mixed Media £375 Mixed tutors - 5 days

Are you new to painting or unsure what a mixed media approach really means? Then our tutors have designed this course just for you. It will set you on the path to painting with confidence. The techniques of the St Ives artists Ben Nicholson and Peter Lanyon inspire the use of simple and dynamic approaches to painting. Like them, you will use a mixed media approach incorporating acrylics, oils, simple printmaking and drawing.

Advancing Mixed Media Painting 23 – 25 Jan 2017 | Mixed Media £285 Liz Hough - 3 days

Progress from previous mixed media courses, build your confidence and help your 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. Through demonstrations, group exercises as well as one to ones with the tutor you will understand better what you want to convey about your chosen subject matter. Over the three days start to discover the approach unique to you. This is an ideal next step if you have been on a mixed media course before and want to deepen and develop your practice. There is a maximum of ten students on this course based in our larger studio. This gives you generous space to work and extra time with the tutor for personal feedback and guidance.

Materials Taster 30 Jan – 03 Feb 2017 | Mixed Media £375 Mixed tutors - 5 days

This five-day course will guide you through some of the key materials painters use. Ideal if you are a beginner, it gives you an overview of how to find your own way into painting. The focus will be on how to enjoy the expressive qualities of paint rather than getting it right or wrong. Work in the studio from a simple still life set up and if the weather allows use the local landscape as inspiration. Explore a new medium each day - acrylics, watercolour, oils and simple printmaking. Tutor demonstrations and one-to-one guidance structure your learning with space to experiment. This helps you develop a feel for how to approach each medium separately and on the final day you will explore combining mediums for a mixed media approach.

“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 cant wait to get home and start painting!” Martin Stathom

With six days of intensive tuition, there will also be time to work self-directed in the spacious studios. You can also choose to explore the surrounding area with opportunities 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.

Accommodation starts from £80/night including transfers, use of studio, breakfast and dinner with wine and should be booked through the Art Centre’s office in Bristol. www.verrocchio.co.uk 0117 330 4973. The nearest airport is Pisa.

Painting the Tuscan Landscape 20 – 30 May | Oils £445 Gary Long - 6 days

Spring is a beautiful time of year to capture the Tuscan landscape. This Italian field trip brings together varied subjects. It explores the natural landscape as well as vibrant Italian life and architecture. Use sketchbooks to learn how to

capture areas of interest and make notes on colour and light source. Back in the spacious studio, you will develop paintings from these studies. Initially using gouache to explore ways of working intuitively, you will move on to oils. There will be six days of tuition and on other days students can work self-directed in the spacious studio or enjoy the surrounding area. throughout the day and evening.

Spirit of Tuscany 29 Aug – 8 Sep | Mixed Media £445 Liz Hough - 6 days

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.

Join St Ives School of Painting next year 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 unspoilt landscape. Our experienced tutors will 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. We have a strong relationship with the centre based on shared principles that ensure a friendly, relaxed atmosphere.

COURSES IN ITALY 2017

“Great food, beautiful setting, the centre was so characterful and unique. Lots of laughs and Liz’s teaching was superb and challenging” Sandy

OUR TUTORSOur 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.

KERRY HARDING ASHLEY HOLD

ILKER CINAREL

AMY ALBRIGHT

HILARY JEAN GIBSON

NEIL CANNING

GARY LONG

MARION TAYLOR

LIZ HOUGH

LIZ LUCKWELL

CLARE WARDMAN

GREG HUMPHRIES

EMMA MC CLURE IAIN ROBERTSON

CAN YOU HELP CREATIVITY TRANSFORM A LIFE?

A GIFT IN YOUR WILLYou could also think about us in your will. A bequest will help us run our youth programme for future generations as well as improve and develop what we offer for all our students. Coodes Solicitors can offer our students free advice on setting up a bequest for the School. You can ring Louise Southwall on 01736 362294 to talk through the options.

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

I am sure you’ve heard on the news how creative subjects in schools are struggling for space and resources. The art room as a space of possibility, refuge and transformation is increasingly under threat.

With your help, we think we can make a difference and bring the beauty of art back into young lives. You might be sponsoring a future great artist or simply fill a young life with creativity, confidence and happiness. A solid foundation to a fulfilling life.

We need money to fund the creative journey of a young person from age five to eighteen. Working closely with the local schools we want to help those who have a passion for art. We don’t want the ability to pay to get in their way. Some of the income from your course fees help but we need to raise much more. A donation of £60 would help pay for all the materials one child would need to complete a year with us. £100 would pay an artist to work with them after school for eight weeks. £800 would pay for a year long creative journey of one student culminating in a prestigious Arts Award.

You may also want to help us keep our special studios equipped and well run so everyone enjoys them for many years to come.

We are a registered charity so any donations can be gift aided. A £10 gift from you will be worth £12 to us.

Give this lifelong gift of creativity to a young person by becoming a sponsor today. To find out more and donate please visit our Support Us page on our website and give whatever you feel you can or contact Jane at the School office on 01736 797180, email jane@schoolofpainting.co.uk.

FANCY A WEEKEND IN ST IVES?CREATIVE WEEKENDERS

Classes will be small with just eight students working in our studio overlooking Porthmeor beach and the ocean.

Need to escape London for a creative retreat? You can arrive Saturday morning on the Riviera Express sleeper and on Sunday catch the afternoon train back home.

Short on time or juggling commitments? Why not join us just for the weekend and immerse yourself in making art. Courses are designed to start promptly Saturday morning and end early Sunday afternoon to minimise any time off work. Subjects to suit all interests starting with Developing Drawing with Hilary Jean Gibson 28 - 29 May. See our brochure or website for more details.

GENERAL INFORMATION– Day courses start at 10am and finish at 4.30 except on Wednesdays when we start at 9.30 finishing at 4.

– All materials are included in day courses.

– Overalls are available although we still advise that you wear old clothing.

– The studio is wheelchair accessible with a lift.

– We recommend you bring warm, waterproof clothing and footwear if your course is venturing outside.

– Whilst on a course you receive the member’s discount rate for our drop-in life drawing classes.

– Refreshments are provided throughout the day.

– For a list of ideas on where to stay, please visit the accommodation page on our website.

SKETCH AND STROLLJoin one of our artists on a 3 hr sketching tour of St Ives learning drawing techniques as they tell you about this fascinating artists’ colony. £25

Every Wed (10 - 1) from 6 July - 21 Sep.

SHORT WORKSHOPSDevelop skills or learn something new with our variety of 1 day and half day workshops. £40/£80

Every Thurs (10 - 4) and Fri (10 - 1) from 7 Jul - 2 Sep

BOOKING INFOPlease use our secure online booking facility at www.schoolofpainting.co.uk or call the office on 01736 797180

LIFE DRAWING CLASSES–DROP-INOur first life drawing class was established nearly 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.

Wednesday 7.30–9.30pmWorking with short poses from the nude led by the highly experienced artist Steve Dove. (No need to book – just turn up ten minutes early.)

Saturday 10.00–12.30 and 1.30–4.00Taught by our team of specialist tutors each with a different approach and focus.

Sunday 7.30 - 9.30 from 31 July to 4 Sep BOOKABLE IN ADVANCE

Beginners are very welcome. £15 (£8 members or if you are attending a course)

MEMBERSHIPLife drawing costs just £8/session for members who also benefit from 10% discount on 1 day and half day workshops.

Join us for £30/year and become part of this historic art school and vibrant artist community.

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

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