Recorded Courses
Working in your own space and time
1. Drawing and Meditation Introductory Course
2. Drawing For All Course
3. NEST - Recorded Series of Drawing & Meditation
4. Human Animal Workshop
5. Get Grounded Workshop
6. Colour in the Garden Workshop
7. Summer in the Garden Course
8. Colour and Light in the Landscape Course - Part 1
9. Museum of Self - Keeping a Visual Diary Course
10. Coming to Your Senses Course
11. From Sketchbook into Painting Course
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Have you ever wondered how to maintain the freshness and freedom of the work in your sketchbook when it comes to painting?
If this sounds familiar, and you have sketchbooks full of exciting and experimental studies, just waiting to become inspire paintings, then this is the course for you!
This exciting painting course is designed to follow on from Katie’s two inspirational sketchbook courses, Coming to Your Senses (landscape based) and Museum of the Self (on the subject of home). However, it could be used by anyone who has found themselves often pondering the same questions.
The main aim of this course is to demonstrate how your sketchbook can and will inspire a series of paintings, by removing the boundary between the work we do in a sketchbook, and the ‘proper’ painting. Throughout this course you will be invited to revisit the processes that you may have only used in sketchbooks before, including mark making, pouring ink, accidental marks, layering, rubbing out, collaging over, allowing the image to emerge from ‘chaos’.
Once registered, students have access to the films for as long as you need.
Course Details
There are 10 short films of varying lengths that guide you through this course. Whatever your subject matter, you will be looking at your sketchbook for most of the inspiration - this is now your subject, your landscape to walk through - this is where all your memories, smells, sensations have been recorded. Now is your opportunity to spend time immersed in it, walk though it, take glimpses, find marks, shapes, ideas, as starting points, as fragments, as layers of a painting.
You will be given a series of exercises, sometimes from one page in particular, other times ‘picking and plonking’ marks and imagery from throughout the sketchbook. Always with a sense of play and curiosity. These exercises will be used to start at least 3 paintings, and the experimental approach will be used throughout, so the paintings remain alive and changing, maintaining the spirit and looseness of the original, without having to copy. You will be given advice for choosing which images to work from - these will not necessarily be the most resolved, but rather the ones that feel unfamiliar, which have the uncertainty that leads to curiosity and transformation.
There will be mindful meditations to help you pay attention to your work without judgement - ways of looking at your work, reconnecting with your subject, through memory, sensation, traces, glimpses. You will be encouraged to take risks in your paintings. You will be offered ways to resolve paintings, but this course is not necessarily about finishing paintings. It is ok to leave them unfinished for a while, like you might in a sketchbook. What is more important is, does it excite you, will it encourage you to keep going? Let your work feed itself, back and forth, from sketchbook to painting and back again. You may find weeks, months, or years of work in one sketchbook. You will never be bored!
Price: £130
This 4-part course brings together drawing and meditation into a practice that is quiet, unhurried, and genuinely accessible to everyone. You don't need to be an artist. You don't need special materials. What matters more is a willingness to slow down, pay attention, and let yourself play.
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Drawing for All is exactly what it says: a course for anyone who has ever wanted to draw, or who draws already and wants to understand more about what they are doing and why.
Over four sessions, we work through the fundamental building blocks of drawing — tone, perspective, organic form, and the figure and landscape — as a way of looking at and understanding the world.
Each session combines a short warm-up, some practical exercises, and a deeper exploration of the session's theme.
The emphasis throughout is on observation, curiosity, and process rather than outcome.
Price: £150
Drawing for Allis exactly what it says: a course for anyone who has ever wanted to draw, or who draws already and wants to understand more about what they are doing and why.
The emphasis throughout is on observation, curiosity, and process rather than outcome.
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Nesting — weaving together, bringing things in, gathering around, making a space for comfort and safety.
NEST can also be a space for the emergence of something new.
What do we bring into our nest? What do we need around us, for comfort, for protection, for beauty or adornment?
This might be something we wear, or something we build around ourselves.
A nest can be a home, a skin, a cocoon. Whether a Spring nest for new life or an Autumn nest for rest and hibernation, each gives a sense of creating a space to be held.
Price: £39
This 4-part recorded workshop series with Katie Sollohub on Drawing and Meditation on the idea of nest, or shell, or home.
A sense of comfort, of space, of where we are in our environment.
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This is a three-hour workshop that invites you to explore the body as it actually is — an animal body, shaped by weight, instinct, breath and gravity. Over the course of the session, we move through four states of being: standing, lying, crouching, and standing again. As the body changes position, the way we feel, perceive and draw changes with it.
There is no technique to follow. The workshop is not about learning how to draw in a particular way — it is about letting the body lead, and allowing drawing to become a record of physical experience rather than an idea. The aim is to trust the animal in you: the part that moves before it thinks, that knows how to rest, to stretch, to shift weight, to find comfort.
‘During the workshop, see if you can let the body lead the drawing rather than the mind. Shifts in weight, movement, gesture, scale, fluidity, speed, even colour, will change through the structure of the body and the feelings that come with it.’
The session includes guided qigong movements, periods of unguided free movement and drawing, two unguided rest breaks of around 20 minutes each, and poetry read aloud throughout. At all times, work at your own pace and within your own body’s needs. There is no right or wrong way to do this.
Price: £40
A three-hour workshop that invites you to explore the body as it actually is — an animal body, shaped by weight, instinct, breath and gravity.
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This workshop brings together qigong, meditation and direct mark-making with natural materials — connecting the body to the earth through movement, touch and the making of marks. It is a workshop about presence: about feeling where you are, what surrounds you, and what the ground beneath you has to offer.
There is no finished product to aim for. The session moves between guided qigong, outdoor exploration, mark-making with foraged and natural materials, short-form poetry, and periods of reflection. Each part feeds the next, and the drawing grows from sensation and experience rather than observation or technique.
Where possible, part of this workshop takes place outside — hands in the earth, feet bare on the ground, eyes open to what the season has left in the landscape. If outdoor access is limited, come prepared with some foraged or gathered materials, or simply work with what you find at home.
Price: £40
Get Grounded is a three-hour workshop that brings together qigong, meditation and direct mark-making with natural materials: connecting the body to the earth through movement, touch and the making of marks. It is a workshop about presence.
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This is a three-hour recorded online workshop exploring colour, mark-making, movement, and creative play inspired by the natural world. The emphasis is not on painting a picture of the garden but on using the garden as a source of energy, sensation, and memory — and letting that move through you onto the page.
The session moves through five parts: arriving and setting intentions; a sensory foray into your garden or outdoor space; a qigong movement practice to connect body and creative energy; drawing and mark-making from memory using colour in a free, layered, experimental way; and finally, small intense studies using masking tape.
Price: £40
Colour in the Garden is a three-hour recorded online workshop exploring colour, mark-making, movement, and creative play inspired by the natural world. The emphasis is on using the garden as a source of energy, sensation, and memory — and letting that move through you onto the page.
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The structured course guides you through the whole process of making drawings in the garden to making paintings in your studio. It encourage you to work expressively and move away from copying the view.
It deals with the stuff of paint and the luminosity and richness of colour. It gives guidance in how to use marks and gestures to make work that is physical, full of movement, depth and meaning. It will give you confidence in your decision making and trust in your intuition.
It is designed to expand your practise and introduce new ideas into your work.
Emily and Katie explore how to make paintings that grow and expand from the experience of making studies and being in your garden. They look and arrange, improvise and organise, prune and propagate; curating and organising the spaces in the paintings, as you would in your garden. They plant ideas and see them grow. It is a wonderful excuse to spend time in your garden.
To sit in reverie. To celebrate the beauty and the light, the colour and the textures. Your paintings become an abundant new garden that nourish yet more work.
It is a course that once bought you get to keep and revisit as often as you like. There is so much content that you will find you can use the processes for other subjects too and continue working from the studies, paintings and ideas for all four seasons of your garden and beyond.Price £150
This course is all about celebrating the garden. Whether you have created your own garden or just love being in a garden; with its treasured plants, sunlit curated borders full of colour and its inviting shady spaces where you can rest and view, then this is a great subject.
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Colour needs light. Once the colour is switched on then it is has its own magical and surprising language, it has a seductive quality all of its own. Layering colours can create a shimmer and luminosity that is palpable. To convey the physical experience of being in the landscape is challenging and enticing. You can endeavour to capture what you see, but also so much more; bird song, a warm breeze on your skin, the buzz of insects and the verdant space surrounding you. Perhaps the feeling of being grounded and held by the landscape as it rolls and folds, or just the scent of wild flowers at your feet, or the contrast of the wildness and the tamed. Who knows what will be the inspiration for your paintings? The reason for doing the paintings is to find out.
This course will provide you with the creative processes and practical instruction to give you the confidence to go outside to your favourite location to make drawings.
This work will go beyond copying the view and instead help you create studies that are rich, painterly and experimental; studies that are perfect for translating into paintings back in your studio with the help of Part 2 of the course.Price: £50
This course will provide you with the creative processes and practical instruction to give you the confidence to go outside to your favourite location to make drawings. This work will go beyond copying the view and instead help you create studies that are rich, painterly and experimental.
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Once registered, students have access to the films for as long as you need.
If you are finding drawing yet another tea pot just a little uninspiring, this 5 day course will give you a fresh way of looking at the everyday, and aims to encourage a regular practice on a small scale.
All the work will be done in a sketchbook, with guided exercises and suggested self-study throughout. It can be seen as a way into a new subject, making you see your home life with new eyes, maybe inspiring more work to develop from it. Or, it might help you rediscover the joy of keeping a sketchbook as a visual diary, for no other purpose than the process itself, a record of these times.
There will be 5 sessions, which you can choose to do in 5 consecutive days, or, take your time, and see how much work can come out of each online session, let the sketchbook fill up over days or even weeks.
Course DetailsThere will be a mixture of exercises and meditations to guide and inspire you: experimenting with materials as well as exploring ideas, finding ways of starting, planting seeds for growing a creative practice.
We will begin with the ordinary, an object in your pocket, getting in touch with where you are right here and now. From this anchor point you will be invited to explore your own home, create your own story, visually though observation but also through memory and association. Using only a small, portable selection of materials, you will be free to move about your home, find your favourite spots to sit and draw or dream. As you let things unfold, taking time to explore, you may be surprised at what connections you find, what inspiration awaits you, in the every day.In the process of making this film, I have been enjoying my own process of free flowing creative ‘thinking’ through doing. Sometimes it is the material that leads the way - an ink line, a cut edge, a splash of pattern. Sometimes the idea takes over - a memory of my morning walk, the act of cleaning my teeth, a collaged photo of my own work stuck into this new context. I have found myself rediscovering recurring thoughts and images, subconsciously connecting to what is important in my practice. I shall certainly be continuing with the sketchbooks I started here.
I am so excited to be offering this course as a pre-recorded session as I can imagine you all in your own homes, something that would be impossible in a studio based course. I can feel you seeing your spaces afresh with new eyes. I can picture you moving about your homes, sitting in a sunny window, lying on the floor, climbing a dark staircase, drawing what you see and feel as you move and respond.
Price £160
A pre-recorded online 5 day course that will give you a fresh way of looking at the everyday, and aims to encourage a regular practice on a small scale.
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Once registered, students have access to the films for as long as you need.
Come to your senses - and spend time being creative in the great outdoors in this 5 day prerecorded course led by Katie Sollohub, inspirational teacher, artist, and experienced yoga and meditation practitioner.
This course will give you a fresh way of looking at the everyday, and aims to encourage a regular practice on a small scale. There are 17 short films ranging from approximately 10 minutes to an hour long.Course Details
If you’re feeling inspired to make work outdoors, as the weather warms up, and we are once again able to venture a little bit further afield, then this is the course for you. Take a sketchbook on a journey with you, open your body and mind to the sensory experience of being outside in the elements.
This 5 day course will give you a fresh way of looking at the everyday, and aims to encourage a regular practice on a small scale. Get down and dirty, in touch with your materials and the landscape around you, with meditation exercises alongside. All work is sketchbook based, using mixed media, so it is portable, and suitable for all.Expect to fill a sketchbook or 2, either over 5 days if you have the time, or, spread it out and let each recorded session lead you into days or even weeks of exploration. A perfect way to come into Spring and Summer, and if you are planning to venture further afield this would also be a brilliant travelling companion, encouraging that elusive holiday sketchbook to come home with more than one page complete! These sketchbooks are a process in their own right, or, could be seen as a way into a new subject, providing material and inspiration for developing your own work from it.
Price: £160
A 5 day online pre-recorded sketchbook course for working freely and experimentally outdoors - on holiday, in the landscape, by the sea.
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Have you ever wondered how to maintain the freshness and freedom of the work in your sketchbook when it comes to painting?
If this sounds familiar, and you have sketchbooks full of exciting and experimental studies, just waiting to become inspire paintings, then this is the course for you!
This exciting painting course is designed to follow on from Katie’s two inspirational sketchbook courses, Coming to Your Senses (landscape based) and Museum of the Self (on the subject of home). However, it could be used by anyone who has found themselves often pondering the same questions.
The main aim of this course is to demonstrate how your sketchbook can and will inspire a series of paintings, by removing the boundary between the work we do in a sketchbook, and the ‘proper’ painting. Throughout this course you will be invited to revisit the processes that you may have only used in sketchbooks before, including mark making, pouring ink, accidental marks, layering, rubbing out, collaging over, allowing the image to emerge from ‘chaos’.
Once registered, students have access to the films for as long as you need.
Course Details
There are 10 short films of varying lengths that guide you through this course. Whatever your subject matter, you will be looking at your sketchbook for most of the inspiration - this is now your subject, your landscape to walk through - this is where all your memories, smells, sensations have been recorded. Now is your opportunity to spend time immersed in it, walk though it, take glimpses, find marks, shapes, ideas, as starting points, as fragments, as layers of a painting.
You will be given a series of exercises, sometimes from one page in particular, other times ‘picking and plonking’ marks and imagery from throughout the sketchbook. Always with a sense of play and curiosity. These exercises will be used to start at least 3 paintings, and the experimental approach will be used throughout, so the paintings remain alive and changing, maintaining the spirit and looseness of the original, without having to copy. You will be given advice for choosing which images to work from - these will not necessarily be the most resolved, but rather the ones that feel unfamiliar, which have the uncertainty that leads to curiosity and transformation.
There will be mindful meditations to help you pay attention to your work without judgement - ways of looking at your work, reconnecting with your subject, through memory, sensation, traces, glimpses. You will be encouraged to take risks in your paintings. You will be offered ways to resolve paintings, but this course is not necessarily about finishing paintings. It is ok to leave them unfinished for a while, like you might in a sketchbook. What is more important is, does it excite you, will it encourage you to keep going? Let your work feed itself, back and forth, from sketchbook to painting and back again. You may find weeks, months, or years of work in one sketchbook. You will never be bored!
Price: £130
This course demonstrates how your sketchbook can and will inspire a series of paintings, by removing the boundary between the work we do in a sketchbook, and the ‘proper’ painting.
What people are saying
“Katie gives wise words of advice at the beginning of the course “to just take your time” with this process and to simply enjoy the dynamics of the paint and painting. Thank you Katie for this invaluable course.”
“I have to say that I found the course excellent. The exercises were stimulating and clearly explained and helped me to look at and explore the landscape in depth. It has been really absorbing and rewarding.”
“Katie’s calm, meditative approach helped me to get back in touch with my drawing practice. I created work in my concertina sketchbooks that I will draw upon in my painting practice.”