Camilla Dixon
I find tutoring to be a constantly evolving project. It supports my creative work as it requires that I not only understand my processes but can apply them in a way that is useful to other people in their quest for creative flow. Harnessing a fluid and responsive working method, can address all sorts of practical or emotional obstacles that students face. It can be quite literally life-changing.
Currently a senior lecturer at Falmouth University, I have delivered courses for twenty years for BA and MA students all over the UK, from Glasgow School of Art to The Royal College of Art.
The subject matter in my own work can be anything in the visual field – observed and simplified through drawing, remembered and abstracted through painting, and developed into an image or object through endless re-arrangement of materials and waiting; allowing time for the scraps to find their place and purpose.
What our students say
The course adverts really don’t get across the inspirational elements of the experience. It reawakens the artist in everyone.
The course adverts really don’t get across the inspirational elements of the experience. It reawakens the artist in everyone.
I liked being taken somewhere I’d never imagined going. I’d follow Camilla anywhere she wanted to lead (artistically speaking, and within reason).
Camilla so skillfully met the individual needs of all the right participants. My confidence was boosted through her genuine interest and understanding in what I have been doing.
Please pass on my thanks to Camilla for the all absorbing webinar… I have just gone through it again here in my studio and I have found it incredibly interesting as it takes my sketching possibilities to a whole new level!
Camilla was inspirational and adjusted the plan to the group perfectly. There was a great atmosphere, and I certainly learnt a lot. I came home with a renewed creative energy!
Camilla was an interesting and inspiring tutor. The studio and setting were beautiful, and we were made to feel welcome. Despite being a beginner to art, I felt that the course was as appropriate and accessible to me, as it was for those with more experience.
I was completely demoralised and void of creativity but after the course I am full of confidence and enthusiasm for my art.
Inspiring instructors… Ilker Cinarel and Camilla Dixon made for a brilliant week of individual creativity and group discussions that went beyond art into emotions.
I enjoyed this course, and will use it as a method to draw the figure and other things. It helped me to see pose and volume.
It has really wet my appetite and I intend to try these techniques myself asap!
I have enjoyed two of Camilla’s sessions so far and cannot wait for more, as I love the way she teaches.
Camilla is a fabulous tutor and demonstrates the process in an engaging and creative way. Never forgetting the need for freedom and self-expression during the ‘process’.
As a practicing artist the course allowed time for experimentation in new materials with a focus on the development of ideas & concepts. The guidance from Camilla throughout the course was encouraging and valuable. Camilla covered every aspect and talked about any related subjects in an inspiring and open manner. It was a very inspiring and well-structured course.
Camilla presented what could, certainly for me, have seemed daunting work practices in a very relaxed manner, accommodating the varied needs and experience of the student group. Camilla seemed to keep the plates spinning for the full three days. This was the first course I’ve done at the School of Painting. It won’t be the last.
Camilla’s teaching style enabled us all to be released into understanding the process and possibilities within abstraction and how we could explore this through distilling our observations and approaches to mark making. I felt encouraged and supported during the three days, which affirmed me and boosted my sense of self as a creative person. It was a great boost to my confidence, and I am most grateful!
Freedom to progress our work was the emphasis, not in making a finished piece, there were no rights or wrongs. Camilla was very generous in her interactions with each student and gave us each affirmation. The team were all very supportive and helpful. Thank you!
Great tutor, great team, great space. What more could one ask for.
Courses with Camilla Dixon
Figure - Colour Blocking for movement + pose (rec)
Online Pre-recorded - Drawing - Figure
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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.
| £30 | Book |
Figure - Form, Shape + Colour (rec)
Online Pre-recorded - Mixed Media - Figure
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Course ID: a004J00000Qpzei
Active Instance: a024J00000DyxGtQAJ, 01-Sep-2026
Learn how to extract the essence of the figure from life and onto paper, with simple guided exercises working from a live model.
| £30 | Book |
Looking For Colour
Art Courses - Mixed Media - Abstract
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Course ID: a00Nz00000PHiMS
Active Instance: a02Nz00000HCju1IAD, 14-Jul-2025
Discover a vibrant world of colour in the back streets, gardens and harbour of St Ives. This course will ignite and motivate your passion for finding colour and help you gain confidence to use new colour stories in your own art practice.
| 14 - 16 Jul - 3 days - £425 | Book |
Looking For Colour (rec)
Online Pre-recorded - Mixed Media - Abstract
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Course ID: a00Nz000004eTsI
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.
| £30 | Book |
Mixed Media Landscape
Short Art Workshops - Mixed Media - Landscape
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Course ID: a00Nz00000BUbVG
Active Instance: a02Nz00000MDVUMIA5, 24-Jul-2025
Record your personal take on the stunning St. Ives surroundings, learning new ways to combine collage with paint and discovering exercises that loosen up your mark making.
Mixed Media Landscape
Short Art Workshops - Mixed Media - Landscape
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Course ID: a00Nz00000BUbVG
Active Instance: a02Nz00000MDxTpIAL, 14-Aug-2025
Record your personal take on the stunning St. Ives surroundings, learning new ways to combine collage with paint and discovering exercises that loosen up your mark making.
Mixed Media Landscape
Short Art Workshops - Mixed Media - Landscape
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Course ID: a00Nz00000BUbVG
Active Instance: a02Nz00000MDtN3IAL, 27-Aug-2025
Record your personal take on the stunning St. Ives surroundings, learning new ways to combine collage with paint and discovering exercises that loosen up your mark making.
Observation + Abstraction
Art Courses - Mixed Media - Abstract
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Course ID: a004J00000IR4SO
Active Instance: a02Nz000009BnUsIAK, 22-Aug-2025
Explore the possibilities of abstraction on this three-day course drawing inspiration from your direct surroundings. Experiment with new ways of working from figuration to abstraction.
| 22 - 24 Aug - 3 days - £395 | Book |
Observation + Abstraction
Online Pre-recorded - Mixed Media - Abstract
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Course ID: a004J00000FH0Sb
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.
| £30 | Book |