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Half-day summer workshops are now available to book ☀️
You can now choose your date, pick your medium and head to the studios to get inspired. Everyone’s welcome!
This year, alongside our familiar favourites, we’re excited to introduce brand new workshops led by artists including @houghliz, @emmamcclure_artist and @rogertowndrow.
Every Friday throughout the summer holidays we will also be running short workshops for children aged 7-13.
We look forward to welcoming everyone to the sunny studios over the next few months!
🔗 Book your workshop places in advance, follow the link in our bio
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St Ives in Watercolour 💫
A stunning three days with David Webb on his latest watercolour course! The group captured the character of the streets and iconic landmarks of St Ives through sketching, before heading back to the studio to develop their paintings.
Take a look at David’s upcoming courses:
🗓️ 9-11 June, Watercolour Painting en plein air
🗓️ 7-10 July, Seascape Impressions in Watercolour
🔗 Links in our bio via ‘Shop’
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June in the studio ☀️
We have a few places left on a limited number of courses in June, from Watercolour Painting en plein air to mixed media landscapes inspired by the rugged Cornish coastline.
Soak up the last few weeks of spring and the start of summer in St Ives!
🗓️ Watercolour Painting en plein air with @david_webb_art, 9-11 June
🗓️ Figure in a Landscape with @julianvilarrubi, 19-22 June
🗓️ Turner Sea + Sky with @hilaryjeangibson.illustrator, 23-25 June (last place)
🗓️ Telling Your Stories with @ilkercinarel, 27-29 June
🗓️ The Texture of Nature with Kieran Stiles, 30 June-2 July
🔗 Follow June Courses via the link in our bio
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Drawing + Painting on the beach 🏖
Join us in two weeks time for a weekend of food, drink, and drawing & painting on the beach!
We`ll be at St Ives Food & Drink Festival where you will be able to try your hand at Life Drawing on the Saturday and learn how to paint a still life on the Sunday.
No experience necessary, just turn up and have a go! Booking in advance is recommended but we will also try to take bookings on the day. See you on the beach.
✏ Life Drawing
Sat 17 May, 10.30-13.00 and 14.00-16.30
🎨 Still Life
Sun 18 May, 11.00-13:00 and 14.00-16.00
🔗 Book now via our Shop in bio, follow `Short Workshops`
Figure in a Landscape | @julianvilarrubi
This brand-new course focuses on integrating the human figure into the landscape through outdoor and studio-based study, encompassing both drawing and painting.
You will have the opportunity to explore various poses and perspectives of the model both in the studio and out in the landscape, as you hone your drawing and observation skills.
📅 19 - 22 Jun
📍 St Ives, Cornwall
🔗 Book now via the link in our bio
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BRUSHWORK | CAMILLA DIXON 🎬
As part of our short series of films, artist Camilla Dixon takes us into St Ives, a place where she lives and works, before heading back to the studio to start exploring the materials collected that day. Hear how her studies in fashion design inspired her work, and about the artists who have influenced her along the way.
🔗 Follow BRUSHWORK via the link in our bio
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Camilla will be teaching three upcoming courses in the studio:
🗓️ 16-20 May, Artist Retreat Week with Ilker Cinarel
🗓️ 14-16 July, Looking for Colour
🗓️ 22-24 August, Observation + Abstraction
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Learn to Paint the Cornish Coast 🎨
Through our new online course learn how to capture the essence of place as we share three different artist approaches.
Suitable for all levels, you will:
🔹Get access to 8 hours of instructional content
🔹 Learn to setup and work en plein air
🔹 Learn new techniques in acrylics, oil and watercolour
You can buy the individual courses, or save £30 when you buy all three together in our new longer course - available now!
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Last chance to win with @seasaltcornwall! ✨
To celebrate the launch of Seasalt`s spring range, we`ve partnered up, along with @tatestives to offer a creative getaway for two this July. Spend your days sketching in Barbara Hepworth`s Sculpture Garden before heading back to the studios during our 3-day course with Hilary Jean Gibson. Enjoy your evening`s on the beach, exploring everything that St Ives has to offer.
Travel and accommodation is all included, and you will also get free entry to Tate St Ives and a £200 Seasalt voucher.
What`s not to like?
Entries close this Wednesday 30 April! T&Cs apply.
🔗 Enter now via the link in our bio
That’s a wrap 💫
We’ve just finished an amazing three days of Expressive Painting in the Elements with @amyalbrightartist
Take a look at how much work was produced! 👏🏼
🔗 Link in bio to discover our upcoming studio courses
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Born #onthisday in 1775 ⏮
Painter, printmaker and watercolourist, J.M.W. Turner was born and became to be known as `The painter of light`. From tempestuous seas to golden sunsets, Turner`s works blur the line between Romanticism and emotion.
And 250 years later, he`s still teaching us how to capture highly expressive studies that evoke the boundlessness of the sea and sky.
If you`re inspired, we have one final place remaining on our upcoming Turner inspired course with @hilaryjeangibson.illustrator:
🎨 Turner Sea + Sky
📅 23-25 June
📍 St Ives, Cornwall
🔗 Link to book is in our bio
Featured: J.M.W. Turner, circa 1845, Sunrise with Sea Monsters
"The most important thing is to keep it optimistic - the world is not ending any time soon, and we should all aim to inspire our children, not frighten them." 🌍
This #EarthDay, we`re catching up with artist, tutor, and EarthDay.org’s Artist for the Earth, John Dyer.
Head over to our blog to read our Q&A and discover his inspiring work with Last Chance to Paint — a global art initiative that connects school children to environmental issues, tribal cultures, and the natural world through art.
In partnership with the Born Free Foundation and the Eden Project, Last Chance to Paint provides valuable resources for more than 400 schools around the world.
🔗 Follow the link in our bio to find out more!
@johndyergallery
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Long weekends in Cornwall 🩵
• Early morning strolls
• Afternoon’s hiking
• Evening’s on the beach
• Early morning dips
And repeat 🔁
Who’s joining us in St Ives for the next Bank Holiday?
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New Workshop @stivesfoodfest 🎨
Have fun painting a vibrant and colourful still life inspired by Matisse and his beautiful French Riviera still lives. No experience necessary, just come along and have fun with artist @victoriagillowart! All materials will be provided.
📍 St Ives Food & Drink Festival, located at the community tent on Porthminster Beach
📅 Sunday 18 May: 11.00-13.00 or 14.00-16.00
🎟 Booking recommended but walk-in spaces might be available!
🔗 Book now via the link in our bio
Featured artwork: Vase of Amaryllis, 1941 by Henri Matisse
Last chance to join | Magical Landscapes with Kate Southworth and Greg Humphries 💫
Join us at the end of the month for a unique opportunity to explore the landscapes of West Penwith and the rich, unconscious landscapes of the soul.
Aligning with the major Ithell Colquhoun retrospective at Tate St Ives, during this four day course you will explore Colquhoun’s abstract landscapes and pioneering use of automatic techniques to unlock the unconscious.
Deepen your creative process or simply reconnect with nature and art.
🗓️ 28 Apr - 1 May
📍St Ives, Cornwall
🔗 Link to book in our bio
Featured:
Fume Field, Kate Southworth
Imaginary Landscapes, Greg Humphries
Dissolving Field, Kate Southworth
BRUSHWORK | A SERIES 🎥
Get an insight into the lives of 12 artists through our series of short films; taking you into their studios, hearing about their practice, and visiting places that offer each of them inspiration.
We’ll be releasing a short clip each week, or you can head over to our YouTube channel to watch the full series now.
🔗 Follow the BRUSHWORK link in our bio
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Happy World Art Day ✨
We`re celebrating the wonderful art created by our students who visit us in St Ives or join us online!
We have an amazing alumni community, offering advice and feedback to one another during or after a course. When you sign up to any of our courses, you will be given the opportunity to join our community too, so you can benefit from ongoing peer support.
Here are a few recent pieces from some of our students:
🔸 Lynne Wise, work inspired by Laura Menzies` online course, Coldwax Painting
🍎 Diane Hartley, work inspired by Alice Mumford`s online course, Bonnard + the Electric Light
🌅Julia Renner, work inspired by Tom Rickman`s online course, Painting Twilight in Oils
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The Month of May 💐
The studio has had such an energetic feel to it over the past few weeks - thank you to everyone who has joined us!
We`re now looking ahead to May, where we`ll be embracing Spring; capturing St Ives` dynamic botanicals and dramatic coastlines. Still chance to book the final few places:
📅 2-4 May, Mindful Ways to Abstraction with @kittyhillier
📅 5-7 May, St Ives in Watercolour with @david_webb_art
📅 9-11 May, Dynamic Botanical with @lizzyluckwellart
📅 16-20 May, Artist Retreat Week with @camilladixon1968 + @ilkercinarel
📅 23-25 May, Figure by a Window with @e.crow.studio
📅 26-28 May, Where Sea Meets Land with @garylongartist
🔗 Follow `Studio Courses` via the link in our bio
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Blue seas, dramatic coastlines and the famous light… to name just a few 🌊
Browse our upcoming studio courses and discover this iconic creative location.
🔗 Book now via the link in our bio
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*Applications closed*
Join our friendly team in the artistic heart of St Ives 🎨
We`re looking for a self-motivated and reliable technician to help us set up and clear the studios for our art courses! This is a perfect role for a practical problem solver who is hard working and enjoys being around creative people.
This role is for a full day every Sunday, but with potential to increase hours in the future or to work overtime if required.
🕘 09.00 - 17.00, every Sunday
📍 Porthmeor Studios, St Ives
🔗 Apply now via the link in our bio
Create dynamic seascapes 🌊
On May Bank Holiday weekend, escape to the dramatic Cornish coastline and learn to capture the drama and movement that’s created when waves crash onto the shore.
🔹 Where Sea Meets Land
🗓️ 26-28 May
📍 St Ives, Cornwall
🔗 Book now via the link in our bio
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Where do you gather inspiration for your art? 🎨
Our upcoming courses with Kitty Hillier will help you use all your senses when gathering inspiration from the Cornish coastline.
Create experimental and abstract compositions from a process of close observation, slow-drawing and playful mark-making.
🗓️ 2-4 May, Mindful Ways to Abstraction
🗓️ 25-27 July, Abstract Coastline
🗓️ 26-28 Sept, Abstracting Nature
📍 St Ives, Cornwall
🔗 Follow the link in our bio, ‘Courses with Kitty Hillier’
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New Solo Exhibition | `Edged by the Sea`
During the past six months, Cornish artist and tutor @victoriagillowart has been working – exploring and painting around our coast – soaking up the longer days and brighter weather. And her exploration has now come to fruition, as she launches a brand new exhibition @trebahgardencornwall in Falmouth.
‘Edged by the Sea’ is a deeply personal exploration into a bit of coast which Victoria is well-connected to, Helford and Falmouth Bay. The collection of work explores the importance of the sea being ever present. Call in to see Victoria throughout April!
📅 1 April - 1 May 2025
📍 Trebah Gardens Exhibition Space, Falmouth
🔗 Read more about the exhibition via the link in our bio
20 seconds to pause and reset 😌
We’ve been lapping up the sunshine over the last few days! Will you be visiting us in April? ☀️
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Natural Forms with the Community and Hospital Education Service 🌿
Our inclusion project with 15 of the young people from CHES came to an end last week, after 6 months of inspirational workshops!
The young people are unable to attend mainstream school due to their physical or mental health, which means they need part-time education in a smaller, more therapeutic setting. So, we’ve been working in partnership with CHES since 2021, to provide a range of experiences within the arts and culture space.
During the past 6 months, the young people:
🔹 Cut and made their own clay tiles, guided by potter Jackie Clark
🔸 Visited the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden for a photography workshop (their photos featured!)
🔹 Worked with Printmaker Ellen @render.press to create prints inspired by Hepworth’s sculptures
🔸 Used ink to display mood in images, guided by @victoriagillowart
🔹 Created landscapes using textiles with mixed media artist @laurakentpaintings
🔸 At @tatestives they made concertina sketchbooks with collage, and finished by making a collaborative artwork!
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We’re so proud of each of the young people who took part, and grateful to the team at CHES for their hard work and dedication.
All of this is made possible by the support of our funder Taylor Money, and generous donations from our kind customers - thank you.
🔗 Find out how you can donate to our Youth Programme and inclusion projects via the link in our bio
@porthmeor_youngartists
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Visit us at @stivesfoodfest 💫
We’re pleased to share that we’ll be at the St Ives Food & Drink Festival this year, which is taking place on Porthminster Beach, 16-18 May.
You will be able to find us in the community tent during the times below, where we will be running a ‘have-a-go’ group painting activity suitable for children and adults - and depending on the weather, we’ll be running workshops on the beach on Saturday and Sunday!
🔗 Visit the link in bio and keep your eye on our socials for more details on how to book the workshops
Community Tent:
🗓️ Friday: 12.00-18.00
🗓️ Saturday: 11.00-18.00
🗓️ Sunday: 11.00-18.00
Outdoor Workshops:
🗓️ Saturday morning & afternoon: Life Drawing
🗓️ Sunday afternoon: Painting Workshop
N.B. weather dependent
Time to push your creative boundaries? 🎨
Our Artist Retreat Weeks & Weekends are designed for those seeking to advance their practice. You can benefit from a supporting environment with a mixture of one to one tutorials and a fun, practical few days of making!
📅 16-20 May, Ilker Cinarel & Camilla Dixon
📅 4-6 July, Kieran Stiles & Kate Southworth
📅 31 Oct-2 Nov, Liz Hough & Ilker Cinarel
📅 21-25 Nov, Liz Hough & Ilker Cinarel
🔗 Follow `Personal Development` via the link in our bio
This April, soak up the atmosphere in our spacious studio overlooking Porthmeor Beach 💫
We have a few places remaining - follow the link in our bio for all the details:
🔸7th April: Getting Started with Mixed Media Landscapes with Steven Buckler + Liz Luckwell
🔸14th April: Revitalising Colour with @eiselejill
🔸22nd April: Expressive Painting in the Elements with @amyalbrightartist
🔸 28th April: Magical Landscapes
with @kate_southworth + @greghumphriesart
🔗 Follow the link in our bio
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