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.

Learn to love the sketchbook, to accept that anything can go in it, and that it is a moveable, changeable feast.

This 2 day course is hosted in the wonderful setting of Creative Beings, Devon - in a garden studio surrounded by colour and nature, for endless visual and sensory inspiration.

April 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 ink 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 colour and marks on the page.

Inspired by the 'Matisse in his Studio’ exhibition, we will be creating simple still life set ups in the studio, bringing a sense of domestic space, though props, objects, fabrics and furniture. The way objects inhabit a space can be so evocative, suggesting something that has, or is about to happen, a half drunk cup, an open book. Still life has also been used by artists as a simple, manageable subject with which to play with much more universal themes, the play of light on forms, the effect of colour and pattern in a composition.

Learn to love the sketchbook, to accept that anything can go in it, and that it is a moveable, changeable feast. Learn to love it like a garden - cut, prune, mulch, mow, graft, transplant, propagate… Let it grow and flourish!

If you have ever been put off by the clean blank pages of a new sketchbook, this is the course for you. Let’s rewild our ideas of what a sketchbook is, and be free. We will begin by deconstructing the book, taking pages out of the spiral binding, to cut, tear, fold, pour ink, draw, and layer, putting them back in any order, so there is no longer a first page!

Cost: £160 email Katie to book

Come celebrate midsummer with a weekend by the sea, in a studio so close to the beach. Make the most of the long daylight, and the urge to move 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 back in the studio, and translate those invigorating sensations into marks on the page.

£170 booking via Atelier website

Sitting in the garden at the height of summer is heaven. Whether you have a beautiful garden of your own or you love to visit a garden for your inspiration, this course is a celebration of the abundance of the summer garden. A month before the date of the live online sessions you will be sent a collection of short films that give you demonstrations of ways of working. These will help you make lots of studies which you will need in preparation for the live classes. During the live online sessions Emily and Katie will show you how to unpack and select from your many studies and create expressive paintings that bring back the glorious riot of colours, patterns, mood and memories of being in the garden.

Sitting in the garden at the height of summer is heaven. This course is a celebration of the abundance of the summer garden, taking 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

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 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, with meditation and optional yoga to ease you into your flow. NB. All of your materials, vegetarian 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.

A 6 day creative retreat, drawing and exploring an area of untouched natural wilderness and outstanding beauty in the Spanish mountains. This is a very special opportunity to rest and refresh your creative juices, take a break from every day life, and experiment with different approaches to drawing, guided by Katie’s unique and inspirational way of combining meditation with drawing, which will help set you at ease and awaken your senses more fully to your surroundings.

*Sunday Times 2022

Come celebrate midsummer with a weekend by the sea, in a studio so close to the beach. Make the most of the long daylight, and the urge to move 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 back in the studio, and translate those invigorating sensations into marks on the page.

£170 booking via Atelier website

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.