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This week at St Ives School of Painting 💫

We have a jam-packed week full of courses and workshops, and @porthmeorstudios will also be bustling with various talks and events taking place throughout @stivesseptemberfest.

Here`s what`s coming up at St Ives School of Painting:

🗓️ Mon-Weds: @victoriagillowart leads our sold out 3-day course, Expressive Landscape Painting

🗓️ Mon: The first of our sold-out festival workshops take place with @ionasanders

🗓️ Tues: Liz Luckwell leads a morning session, Abstract Colour in St Ives, and has one place remaining on her afternoon course, Love Drawing Landscape!

🗓️ Weds: You can still join @greghumphriesart on his morning workshop, Surrealism, Magic + The Spirit of Place, in the afternoon he will be leading Mondrian, Landscape + The Roots of Abstraction (currently sold out)

🗓️ Thurs: @amyalbrightartist leads her two new sold out workshops Beyond the Brush and Land Meets Water

🗓️ Fri: We have 2 places left on @kittyhillier morning workshop, Mindful Ways to Paint ahead of her sold out Abstract Coastline workshop on Friday afternoon

🗓️ Fri-Sun: David Webb heads out into St Ives for his final 3-day watercolour course of the year!

And that`s not all...

🗓️ Sat-Sun: We have a special opportunity for you to join experienced tutor Roger Towndrow on his two-day course, Explorations in Drawing

What a week!

🔗 Head to the link in our bio to book your places ...

Gain inspiration from your everyday surroundings 🌊

Starting with a slow meander on Porthmeor Beach, learn close observation and how being in the moment can help you make more intuitive, abstract work - through our course, Abstracting Nature.

Guided by artist Kitty Hillier, benefit from her contemporary take on landscape and nature; discover your unique colour stories, how to create successful compositions, and how to resolve your abstract collages and paintings.

📅 26 - 28 Sep
📍 St Ives, Cornwall
🔗 Find out more via the link in our bio ...

2026 Courses Incoming 👇

We will be releasing the first group of our 2026 studio courses in just over a week`s time!

If you are looking to join us, sign up to our newsletter and keep an eye on our socials so that you can be the first to hear about our programme for next year.

🔗 Follow the link in our bio to sign up now ...

This week at St Ives School of Painting 💫

A short break from workshops this week before we head into a celebration of the arts, music, and more as the September Festival returns to St Ives! In the meantime, here`s what`s coming up this week:

🗓️ Mon-Weds: Kitty Hillier leads our 3-day course, Unlocking Your Creativity, helping you to silence those doubting gremlins and generate new ideas.

🗓️ Fri-Sun: The brilliant Nina Squire leads our sold out course, Porthmeor Seascapes, where students can dive in and discover the unique techniques that are possible when painting with soft pastels

🗓️ The studio team are prepping for our first set of St Ives September Festival workshops, kicking off with Iona Sanders on Monday 15th!

🔗 Head to the link in our bio to find out more ...

"I don’t think I will stop creating. I have weeks where caring makes creating feel unreachable, but even in those weeks it can be as simple as a thought, some words in a note on my phone, a few lines. It doesn’t always have to be a long process in the studio."

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In 2018, Sue Watt embarked on the Porthmeor Programme, our yearlong development course. As a mother and primary carer for her son Tom, he was and still is her inspiration for creating art. Sue took the decision to take the next step and join us in the studio after realising she needed more one to one guidance to enable her to move her practice forward, and she needed an opportunity to meet like-minded artists.

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As we recruit students for our 2026 Porthmeor Programme, we caught up with Sue eight years later, to see how her life has changed since joining us in St Ives; and we share some of her moving work that she continues to create.

@suewatt1
🖼 Featured artwork: Uplifted, Oil on Canvas
👉 Read the full inspirational interview via the link in our bio ...

This week at St Ives School of Painting 💫

It`s our final week of summer workshops! We have a limited number of spaces left, take a look at what`s coming up:

🗓️ Liz Luckwell leads our sold out 3-day course, Abstract Colour in St Ives

🗓️ Wednesday - Iona Sanders explores ways of freeing up your art during our sold out Liberating Landscape workshop

🗓️ Thursday - Hilary Jean Gibson leads Love Drawing Landscape, there`s just 3 places left!

🗓️ Thursday - Emma McClure guides students on our sold out workshop, Vibrant Florals

🔗 Head to the link in our bio to book your place ...

This week at St Ives School of Painting 💫

What’s on:
🗓️ We`re part way through our sold out course `Dynamic Landscape` with Jill Eisele

🗓️ Wednesday - Camilla Dixon explores mixed media landscapes during our short workshop

🗓️ Thursday - Hilary Jean Gibson leads St Ives in Line + Wash, whilst Emma McClure teaches you how to create delightful lino cut postcards

🗓️ Friday - Kids can discover printmaking, led by the brilliant Ellen Love, where they will learn about repeat patterns!

There are still opportunities for you to join us...

🔗 Head to the link in our bio to book your place ...

Learn to embrace the happy accidents 👇

Artist @@kerryharding_art believes the best work comes when your shoulders are down and the hours disappear - and so it has been her guiding principle through her years of teaching.

Her upcoming course, Poetry of Process, will be an opportunity for you to develop your painting in several directions through the act of painting itself, treading that fruitful bridge between intention and invention.

Don`t miss your chance to work with Kerry this year!

🗓 8-10 Dec
📍 St Ives, Cornwall
🔗 Link to book your place is in our bio
Work featured: Night Chapel, Kerry Harding ...

This week at St Ives School of Painting 💫

What’s on:
🗓️ Students will be using line and wash to capture St Ives during our 3-day course with Hilary Jean Gibson

🗓️ Wednesday - Learn the essentials of painting with oils, guided by Steven Buckler

🗓️ Thursday - Love Drawing Landscapes? Head out with Liz Luckwell on her 3- hour workshop!

🗓️ Thursday - For the first time, artist Emma McClure leads our sold out workshop, Vibrant Florals

🗓️ Friday - Kids can experiment with ink, paint and paper on our Friday morning workshop

🗓️ Friday-Sunday - Camilla Dixon will be exploring the possibilities of abstraction on her next 3-day course `Observation + Abstraction

We`re looking forward to this! Will you be joining us?

🔗 Head to the link in our bio to book your place! ...

"I really needed a fresh approach and to break out of habits and blocks. The nature of the programme gave me the opportunity to really think about what I wanted to do and how to experiment in new ways." 💫 @alison_cooksey_

Over recent months, we caught up with Porthmeor Programme Alumni including Alison Cook who joined our Porthmeor Programme Online. Read all about her experience, before, during, and after the 10 month programme - and how it changed her practice.

🔗 Read the full story via the link in our bio
📝 Applications are now open for Porthmeor Programme 2026 ...