EVERY TUESDAY MORNING 9.30 - 10.30AM ON ZOOM - THIS IS A WEEKLY ONGOING DROP IN

You are invited to join me on Zoom for an hour in my virtual studio as we share an hour of quiet, contemplative creativity. These sessions are for non-artists and artists alike, and can weave into the rest of the day however you choose. Think of it as you might a yoga class, a time to nurture yourself, to come away feeling nourished and enriched. Suitable for all.

EVERY TUESDAY EVENING 6.30-7.30PM ON ZOOM - THIS IS A WEEKLY ONGOING DROP IN

You are invited to join me on Zoom for an hour in my virtual studio as we share an hour of quiet, contemplative creativity. These sessions are for non-artists and artists alike, and can weave into the rest of the day however you choose. Think of it as you might a yoga class, a time to nurture yourself, to come away feeling nourished and enriched. Suitable for all.

Available to purchase anytime for ongoing access.

A choice of 3 pre-recorded courses taught by Katie, available from Emily Ball at Seawhite Studio website. The Museum of Self and Coming to Your Sense are both sketchbook based, with From Sketchbook Into Painting being the ideal follow up. Each recorded as a 3-5 day course, but designed to be followed at your own pace, to be repeated in your own time as often as you like. Cost £130-£160

These Drawing and Meditation workshops combine my love of drawing with my personal practice of meditation. You don’t need any experience, or any special equipment. A pen or pencil and a scrap of paper would be enough, along with an open heart, an open mind, and a willingness to play.

Some workshops are available for download (unlimited access) on Vimeo. Some are available for a limited time only, for a lower fee, with downloads available on request. Purchase access to the videos anytime direct from Katie, to follow at your own pace.

Drawing with all your senses, using pencils and coloured pastels in the cathedral itself, you will be encouraged to make expressive and experimental studies on a small scale as you directly experience the immensity of the building. Back in the studio you will be encouraged to make large, expressive drawings, using meditation and memory to bring back a sense of the space.

A three-day, intensive and experimental drawing course with 2 tutors, who specialise in drawing and creating inventive processes to encourage fresh ways of looking and creating images.

A four day painting course with 2 tutors. Emily and Katie share their love of painting as a process of exploration and discovery. This exciting course is an intense and unique opportunity to explore colour and gesture in response to the moving figure. The large space of the studio will be transformed using colour installations for the figure to move through and interact with. The walls will be generously covered with rolls of paper and canvas for the atists to work on. Students bring their own paints and brushes, but paper and canvas is all provided.

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Spend 6 days immersed in one of the world’s top 20 Mountain Retreats* nestled in the mountains of the Aragonese region of Matarraña, Eastern Spain. This is an area of untouched natural wilderness which has been likened to Tuscany because of its “bucolic beauty, vineyards and hill towns”. You will be looked after by your teacher Katie Sollohub and host Alasdair Grant, in this exquisitely restored traditional masia farmhouse, with top quality food and accommodation, drawing classes, and sightseeing trips into the surrounding areas.

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This 5 day painting course takes its inspiration from the beautiful Highdown Garden near Worthing, a unique chalk garden on the Downs. We will spend 2 days in the gardens making studies in situ, in full colour, followed by 3 days painting in the Seawhite studio

In June the Prairie Garden is just beginning to grow into itself, with a sense of emergence, of burgeoning growth. On this creative workshop you will be experimenting with making marks and simple abstract compositions. Daubs of colour, painting with fingers, homemade tools and natural materials.

This 5 day painting course takes its inspiration from the beautiful Highdown Garden near Worthing, a unique chalk garden on the Downs. We will spend 2 days in the gardens making studies in situ, in full colour, followed by 3 days painting in the Seawhite studio

This is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the gardens and work freely in a concertina sketchbook for 2 days. Treating the sketchbook as a place to play and experiment with mixed media, working directly in the garden, surrounded by colour, shape, texture, sounds and smells. You will undoubtedly feel alive and refreshed by the experience and will create an exciting, expressive, full to bursting sketchbook.

Come fill a sketchbook in 2 days, working directly on the beach. Be inspired by the sea and the senses - wind and salt on your skin; the sound of waves, and people’s voices; the twisting flight of sea gulls; shifting pebbles underfoot.

Using ink, pastels, drawing materials, mixed media and some collage, you will be encouraged to play and let loose in long concertina sketchbooks, moving back and forth in them like the tide. This maybe a new approach to the sketchbook for some, letting it unfold, working non-chronologically, layering, changing, going with the flow, observing the accidental.

This is an unmissable opportunity to escape, breathe, walk, draw and write freely to see where your thoughts and observations take you. Writing is an integral part of the experience and will inspire the drawing s directly over the 4 days. Writing, like walking, like drawing, is a continual thread, a movement in thought, forming how we interpret the world.

During the 4 days you will be immersed in this spectacular, expansive landscape, using walking, drawing and writing to travel through it, absorb it, and engage creatively with it. You will be gently guided and supported in the space throughout by Katie and Emily. NB. All of your materials, vegetarian food and shared accommodation* are included in the price.

Have you ever wondered how to maintain the freshness of your sketchbooks while making a painting? It’s not enough simply to copy. Instead, the sketchbook itself has to become the subject, a fresh source of inspiration, to be walked through like a landscape, to surprise and inform you, to pick and choose what you want from it. This course is suitable for those with some drawing and painting experience and a basic understanding of their materials, or those willing to experiment from the outset.

This retreat is set in the beautiful coastal Nature Reserve at the Western end of the Algarve. A short walk from the fishing village of Salema, and the rugged untouched coves nearby, you will be staying at the villa of artist Ros Hodges where you will be treated to the most delicious food and relaxing surroundings including a pool. During the 5 days you will be immersed in this spectacular, expansive landscape, using walking drawing and writing to travel through it, absorb it, and engage creatively with it. You will be gently guided and supported in the space throughout by Katie NB. All of your materials, food and shared accommodation* are included in the price.

Come fill a sketchbook in 2 days, working directly on the beach. Be inspired by the sea and the senses - wind and salt on your skin; the sound of waves, and people’s voices; the twisting flight of sea gulls; shifting pebbles underfoot.

Using ink, pastels, drawing materials, mixed media and some collage, you will be encouraged to play and let loose in long concertina sketchbooks, moving back and forth in them like the tide. This maybe a new approach to the sketchbook for some, letting it unfold, working non-chronologically, layering, changing, going with the flow, observing the accidental.

This is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the gardens at their best. Spend two days making large drawings, and 3 days painting, looking for structure, colour and texture, listening to the sounds. You will be guided through specific exercises using rhythm and repetition, aimed at easing you into abstract painting by building up layers of colour, evocative of the multitude of textures and sounds of the garden. Painting with acrylics/oils/gouache or mixed media, you will make large scale layered, abstract compositions.

In this course you will be working fast and freely from a still life set up in the studio (to which you are invited to contribute) with both drawing and painting materials, and anything in between. The objects will not be still, they will move, or rather, be moved - by me, by you, by other participants on the course. You will be encouraged to cut, collage and rethink the composition every now and then throughout the day.

November can be a wild month, especially here on the South coast in a studio so close to the sea. A good time for embracing the weather and moving the body, making large gestural drawings inspired by the energy of this place. Come and immerse yourself in the experience, whether taking a walk by the water’s edge or sheltering in the studio, and translate those invigorating sensations into marks on the page.

Embodied Drawing - An experimental 2 day drawing course embracing the physicality of drawing on a large scale - using your own body, gesture and sensation as your subject. Using the generous space of the Seawhite studio there is almost no limit as to how large you can go. This course is for anyone wishing to expand their drawing practice and find new limits, beyond the scale of your average drawing, by working large, freely, involving body and breath.

This week long residency is for anyone wishing to use drawing to expand their practice, giving dedicated time and a generous space to commit to making your work. This might be a space where you choose to work large and experimentally, or it might be a space to spread out and look at lots of your work together, making helpful connections so that you can develop it further. It will be a space where you are supported and inspired by the company of other artists. We learn from each other.