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Studio setup for this weeks workshops 💫

We can’t wait to welcome everyone who’s joining us!

🔹Today: Mixed Media Landscape
🔹Thursday: Lino Cut Postcards
🔹Thursday: St Ives in Line + Wash
🔹Friday: Playful Print: Repeat Pattern (Kids)

🔗 Book your places via the shop in our bio! ...

Creative inspiration for your Bank Holiday weekend 💫

Join @marthaholmes_studio for Still Life: Colour & Composition.

Discover how to mix a considered colour palette and get a deeper understanding of how to compose a painting in this 2-part online course, available to watch now.

🔗 Find out more via the link in our shop bio!

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Why apply to the Porthmeor Programme? 🖊️

There’s no better way to hear about the experience than to listen to those who have already embarked upon the journey.

👂To hear more from our cohort currently taking our yearlong development course, head to our course pages via the link in our bio!

📢 Applications for our 2026 programmes are now open ...

Andrew Burgess | Nothing to Sea Here 🌊

We were thrilled to visit artist and 2025 Porthmeor Programme participant, Andrew Burgess at his latest solo exhibition ‘Nothing to Sea Here’ in the Salthouse Gallery, St Ives.

Alongside his work on our Programme, Andrew has continued to create and exhibit - with more planned for the future. Congratulations, Andrew!

🔗 Applications for our 2026 Porthmeor Programme are now open
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Space ✔️ light ✔️ those sea views ✔️

It’s impossible not to feel inspired when you step inside. Join us and experience it for yourself! 💫

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BRUSHWORK | GREG HUMPHRIES 🎬

As part of our short series of films, we visited Greg Humphries - artist, tutor, and environmentalist. He shares his route to where he is today, from woodland management to land art.

🔗 Watch the full film on YouTube via the link in our bio

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Greg, alongside Kate Southworth, leads our 2026 Online Porthmeor Programme, a yearlong development course designed to help you take your practice to the next level. Find out more via the link in our bio!

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Achieve a sweet spot of balance, harmony and reduction 🌅

It can be difficult to simplify a landscape, there’s an urge to over complicate a painting. In our upcoming 3-day course, Tom Rickman shares ways of distilling everything into the essentials we need to convey our ideas, to create a minimalistic landscape.

The Minimalist Landscape
🗓️ 13 - 15 Oct
📍St Ives, Cornwall

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🔈Introducing Porthmeor Programme 2026

We are now calling for applications for our yearlong development course taking place in 2026. Hear more from our Lead Tutor, @kate_southworth.

If you are looking to take your next step in the art world, or maybe you are feeling stuck creatively, find out more about our intensive programme which has been running for more than 10 years.

🗓️ Online: January - October 2026
🗓️ In-person: February - November 2026

🔗 Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, visit the link in our bio to find out more! ...

It’s the ✨light✨ and the constant inspiration around us that draws so many artists here from around the world.

Come and be inspired like so many before. ...

One month in to our summer of workshops 🫶🏼

From sketching in the sunshine to evening’s by the harbour - thank you to everyone who has joined us so far!

Next up:

🗓️ 6 Aug: Everyone Can Draw
🗓️ 7 Aug: Keeping it Simple
🗓️ 7 Aug: St Ives in Line + Wash
🗓️ 8 Aug: Playful Print (Kids!)

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Days like this ✨

We can’t wait to share more work from today’s workshops! Pure joy, especially when the sunshine made an appearance.

Congratulations to everyone on their wonderful work, from postcards in line and wash, to landscapes using mixed media - plenty to take away.

Next week? Let’s go!

🗓️ 30 July, Abstraction on the Beach
🗓️ 31 July, Kickstart Your Drawing
🗓️ 31 July, Oil Painting Essentials
🗓️ 1 Aug, Expressive Painting (Kids, 7-13)

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When you happen to catch @ionasanders working in our studios 🙌🏼

Iona was sharing techniques for working in a more responsive and intuitive way - working so intuitively is a great way of loosening your approach to painting and helps to stop any overthinking.

And it worked - as students created so much work during this 3-hour workshop! 👏🏼

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Thinking about trying life drawing for the first time? ✍️

Here are three things you’ll learn during our classes, guided by experienced artists:

1️⃣ Confidence through quick sketches: Short poses (gesture drawings) can help you loosen up, and stop overthinking, so you can enjoy putting pencil to paper.

2️⃣ How to let go of perfection: Life drawing teaches you to embrace loose lines, unfinished sketches, and mistakes.

3️⃣ How to really see: You’ll start noticing shapes, angles, and proportions differently, learning to observe rather than simply copying what you see.

We are proud to say that we have been teaching life drawing for more than 50 years. Next time you’re in St Ives, join us for guided tuition, and try it out for yourself!

🗓️ Every Thursday, 18.30-20.30
🗓️ Every Saturday, 10.30-13.00
🔗 Find out more via the link in our bio

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Our perfect summer evening in St Ives? 🌅

After a creative day in the studios, take a wander around the harbour, then enjoy some delicious food and drink @porthmeorcafeofficial.

End your day on the beach to catch the last of the sunset 💫

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