Welcome to the School of Painting’s online learning centre.
The same inspirational, high quality tuition as our studio courses in St Ives but delivered to you at home in our art courses online. A range of live broadcasts, small group zoom courses and pre recorded courses to watch at your leisure.
If you’ve already registered, please login here to view your courses. If you are under 18, check the booking email for a link to access your course.
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Active Instance: a024J00000BQ8NNQA1, 01-Sep-2026
Following Martha’s hugely successful first webinar with us, we welcome her back to explore a rich Autumnal palette. Delve into abstract expressionism to create a landscape painting in oils with this two-part recording.
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Active Instance: a024J000008PxZkQAK, 01-Sep-2026
Over 4 recordings, explore Liz’s processes of painting, collage and print. Emerge confident in experimentation with a cohesive collection of new works and ideas.
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Active Instance: a024J00000DPmySQAT, 01-Sep-2026
Over 3 sessions, Liz takes you through common questions asked on her previous courses: finding your own, unique content; form versus line; and scaling up.
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Active Instance: a024J00000CRz2MQAT, 01-Sep-2026
Take a journey with artist Alice Mumford to explore the intimately lit domestic spaces of Bonnard’s paintings. Learn how to capture the warm diffused light of Bonnard’s tabletop settings and see how he captured the poetry of everyday life as it played out in living rooms, kitchens and bathrooms.
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Active Instance: a024J00000ArIcPQAV, 01-Sep-2026
Over the course of nine classes, explore this intuitive way of making work in tune with the dynamic patterns, energies and qualities of the calendar year.
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Active Instance: a02Nz00000AhrJVIAZ, 01-Sep-2026
A chance to find out more about our year long ‘Calendrical Art’ course, creating in tune with the seasons. This is a taster session so you can decide if you would like to join the full year long course.
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Active Instance: a02Nz00000C8F6ZIAV, 01-Sep-2026
Join artist, Gary Long, on location and in the studio as he shares his oil painting journey, from preparatory drawings, discussing colour mixing, layering, brush techniques to the creation of depth and dimension in his drawings and paintings of Pendeen Watch.
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Active Instance: a02Nz0000091dlLIAQ, 01-Sep-2026
Drawing inspiration from Zennor’s rugged landscape and folklore, Hilary Jean Gibson, will guide you through her watercolour painting process, emphasising the importance of sketchbooks and research in addition to the painting process itself, extending beyond the artwork.
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Active Instance: a02Nz00000DwIGeIAN, 01-Sep-2026
Local artist, Victoria Gillow, shares new ways of working to inspire your creative process and help you paint the places you love. Discover techniques to create vibrant and expressive paintings.
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Active Instance: a024J00000Bdy9NQAR, 01-Sep-2026
Learn how to use watercolour to depict coves, rocks and cliffs with artist David Webb in this webinar recording. Learn to look at a scene with an artist’s eye and choose which elements are important and which can be left out.
Online Pre-recorded – Mixed Media – Personal Development
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Active Instance: a02Nz000004YtarIAC, 01-Sep-2026
In this course you will be encouraged to explore creative play in your art journals, allowing you to capture your personal curiosities and interests to develop your visual language and bring clarity to your practice.
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Course ID: a00Nz0000095jKN
Active Instance: a02Nz000003y4DXIAY, 01-Sep-2026
Practice your life drawing skills in this regular online Life Drawing class. With professional tutors, learn about form, proportion and composition by sketching the clothed figure in a variety of short and long poses.
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Active Instance: a024J00000Ci443QAB, 01-Sep-2026
Join artist Tom Rickman for a Degas-inspired recording. Recorded live from our studio in St Ives with a model, you are invited to join in at home with guided exercises.
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Active Instance: a024J00000DYYlyQAH, 01-Sep-2026
Join artist Ilker Cinarel for this experimental, expressive webinar inspired by Antony Gormley’s drawings and paintings of the human figure. Recorded from our studio in St Ives with a model, you are invited to join at home with guided exercises.
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Active Instance: a024J00000CagK3QAJ, 01-Sep-2026
Join artist Gary Long for this David Hockney-inspired life drawing webinar. Recorded from our studio in St Ives with a model, you are invited to join at home with guided exercises.
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Active Instance: a024J00000CjKujQAF, 01-Sep-2026
Join us for this recording of a two hour online figure class inspired by the Bay Figurative artist Richard Diebenkorn. Broadcast from our studio in St Ives with a clothed model.
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Active Instance: a024J00000CjKx7QAF, 01-Sep-2026
Join Gary Long as he explores the distinctive mark-making of Austrian artist Egon Schiele. Recorded from our studio in St Ives with a model, you are invited to join in at home with guided exercises.
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Active Instance: a024J000008QN2MQAW, 01-Sep-2026
Join us and enjoy a recording of our wonderful two hour online figure class inspired by the work of artist Henri Matisse looking at energetic line, pattern and form.
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Active Instance: a024J00000CzucmQAB, 01-Sep-2026
Join us for this two hour online figure class focusing on light, shade, and the qualities of tone to create atmosphere. Recorded from our studio in St Ives with a clothed model, join in at home with guided exercises and watch live or later.
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Active Instance: a024J00000CkZAWQA3, 01-Sep-2026
Join us for the second part in this online figure class inspired by the work of artist Henri Matisse. Extending from the last session, this time we’ll be adding rich colour to Matisse’s lively compositions.
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Active Instance: a024J00000Ck7EGQAZ, 01-Sep-2026
Join us for this two hour recording of a figure class inspired by the Bay Area Movement artist David Park. Broadcast from our studio in St Ives with a clothed model.
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Active Instance: a024J00000CkZvvQAF, 01-Sep-2026
Join artist Tom Rickman for this exploration of folded material on the human form. Working from a model learn how drapery not only covers or reveals but animates and extends the body in this online webinar.
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Active Instance: a02Nz00000POA7tIAH, 31-Dec-2026
Join artist Gary Long for an inspiring two-part webinar, where you’ll explore techniques for drawing and painting the human figure within a landscape. The sessions will feature scenic footage evoking the landscapes depicted by Dame Laura Knight in the early 1900s.
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Active Instance: a024J00000DR3PaQAL, 01-Sep-2026
Join us for this two-hour online figure class inspired by artist Paula Rego. Broadcast from our studio in St Ives with a clothed model, join in at home with guided exercises.
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Active Instance: a02Nz00000AhlqkIAB, 31-Aug-2026
Over 4 hours tuition in manageable chunks to give you a thorough grounding to painting with oils,. Learn simple and dynamic approaches to landscape and still life.
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Active Instance: a02Nz00000Eh66wIAB, 31-Aug-2026
Over 5 hours of tuition in bite-sized segments, to give you a thorough grounding in painting with watercolours. Learn essential techniques that will help you to avoid common mistakes in watercolour painting.
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Active Instance: a024J00000B1tRIQAZ, 01-Sep-2026
In this 2 part course led by artist Alice Mumford, learn how Matisse used pattern to create the illusion of three dimensions and immerse yourself in the joy of looking and painting in oils.
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Active Instance: a024J00000BeE3TQAV, 01-Sep-2026
Watch Jill Eisele in this recording as she takes us on an artist’s journey to Joan Eardley’s Catterline on the wild east coast of Scotland. Explore how Eardley continues to inspire painters today.
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Active Instance: a024J00000D10f7QAB, 01-Sep-2026
Enjoy creating luminous abstract paintings using coldwax painting. Learn how these three fundamental aspects – texture, line and shape – can help develop your unique visual vocabulary.
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Active Instance: a02Nz00000158NlIAI, 01-Sep-2026
Discover a whole new world of colour through fun and experimental exercises along with exploring the art of ‘simply looking’. This class recording will stimulate and inspire your quest for colour.
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Active Instance: a024J00000Ckac1QAB, 01-Sep-2026
Explore the possibilities of abstraction drawing inspiration from your direct surroundings. Experiment with new ways of working from figuration to abstraction.
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Active Instance: a02Nz00000JQUcGIAX, 30-Aug-2026
Paint the stunning Cornish Coast with expert guidance from three of our professional artists. Learn how to capture the essence of place, both in the landscape and back in the studio.
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Active Instance: a02Nz000001sWAQIA2, 01-Sep-2026
In this two-part webinar series, Dorset based artist, Nina Squire, shows you different ways of working with soft pastels to create painterly dynamic seascapes.
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Active Instance: a024J00000ASAhoQAH, 01-Sep-2026
Following the major retrospective of Barbara Hepworth’s work at Tate St Ives, join us for this Hepworth-inspired webinar using the artist’s remarkable series of drawings as a starting point.
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Active Instance: a024J00000CimUQQAZ, 01-Sep-2026
Join artist Kate Southworth for this Ithell Colquhoun-inspired recording. See how living and working in the sacred sites and magical landscapes of west Cornwall shaped Colquhoun’s diverse practice.
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Active Instance: a024J00000CkZNRQA3, 01-Sep-2026
Join us for this Patrick Heron-inspired webinar. See how Heron’s aerial approaches to depicting the landscape of St Ives in gouache can be integrated into your own way of working.
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Active Instance: a024J00000ChJUYQA3, 01-Sep-2026
Capture the Cornish landscape in simplified shapes, lines and motifs in this Victor Pasmore inspired recording. See how this seminal artist pioneered a new way of working with abstraction.
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Active Instance: a024J00000CRz44QAD, 01-Sep-2026
James Whistler and Walter Sickert painted together in St Ives in 1884. What can we take from their energetic studies to help you with your own landscape painting in oils?
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Active Instance: a024J00000BlFQoQAN, 01-Sep-2026
Enjoy creating abstract and experimental paintings and drawings inspired by the iconic Downalong rooftops of St Ives, with drawing, simple printmaking and waterbased painting.
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Active Instance: a024J00000BQj0lQAD, 01-Sep-2026
Follow in the footsteps of St Ives artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and explore her unique approach to painting and drawing the rocks and waves of the famous rugged coastline of St Ives.
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Active Instance: a024J00000BFjEtQAL, 31-Aug-2026
When artists talk about light, what do they mean? How does it work, and what does it say? Explore different concepts and methods of representing light in this 2 and a half hour recorded online course led by artist Kieran Stiles.
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Active Instance: a02Nz000005S7OgIAK, 08-Sep-2026
We welcome back Martha Holmes into the studio, for what will be a captivating insight into how she approaches the subject of ‘still life’, which has recently become one of her main painting focuses.
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Active Instance: a02Nz00000FPInXIAX, 01-Oct-2026
Explore the playful and naïve painting style of artist Holly Razavi, whose oil paintings showcase delightful characters engaged in their daily activities, in various coastal and city landscapes.
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Active Instance: a024J00000CzkgYQAR, 01-Sep-2026
Join us for this explorative webinar using a combination of psychogeographical approaches to deepen your relationship with your surrounding environment.
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Active Instance: a024J00000CtKxfQAF, 01-Sep-2026
Explore acts of self-expression through this experimental online course using the home, clothing and everyday objects as a starting point for inspiration.
Online Pre-recorded – Mixed Media – 10 week course
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Active Instance: a02Nz000008ElYkIAK, 31-Aug-2026
Do you sometimes wonder why a composition works in some paintings and not so well in others? Join Alice Mumford to investigate the common themes that underpin paintings from different eras in Western Art and how this can help your work.
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Active Instance: a02Nz000003tIkAIAU, 01-Sep-2026
Join us for a webinar exclusive, as we visit the studio of Brighton based contemporary artist, Faye Bridgwater, who will be sharing her knowledge around using Instagram to tell the artists story.
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Active Instance: a024J00000BeEcZQAV, 01-Sep-2026
Join artist Liz Hough in our studio to demystify abstract painting and explore alternative ways of seeing the world around you. Fire up your creativity with this one hour live online session designed to inspire and get you making and investigating at home.
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Active Instance: a02Nz000001yP1NIAU, 01-Sep-2026
Join practising artist, Victoria Gillow, in this playful exploration of building history and narratives into paintings, through the use of coloured grounds and under painting.
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Active Instance: a024J00000C3DleQAF, 01-Sep-2026
Learn to convey the drama and energy of a stormy sea encountering the land in oils. Capture the movement of the sea as it clashes with an iconic Cornish harbour.
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Active Instance: a02Nz0000007x0AIAQ, 01-Sep-2026
Have you ever wanted to paint outside but unsure where to start? Delve into the practice of oil painting en plein air inspired by the remarkable Cornish landscape.