Online & In-Person Workshops
Interior Landscapes - Drawing from Memory, Atmosphere and Place
Monday, 19th October, 2026
10.00 am - 4.00 pm
In-Person in West Horsley Place, KT24 6AN
Price: £105
Explore West Horsley Place through observation, memory and mark-making in this immersive drawing workshop. Explore drawing as a way of seeing, sensing and remembering in this immersive workshop set within the evocative interiors of West Horsley Place. Beginning with a quiet walk through the house, you’ll make small, observational sketches, tuning into atmosphere, detail and feeling.
Back in the barn studio, these impressions will be transformed into larger, expressive drawings using charcoal and other materials. Guided by gentle meditation and memory-based exercises, you’ll work intuitively—recalling spaces, movements and sensations, and allowing your hand to respond freely on the page.
Through a combination of drawing, writing and poetic prompts, you’ll explore how memory softens, distorts and reshapes what we see, creating images that are as much felt as observed. By the end of the session, you’ll have created one or two powerful drawings, along with new approaches to working from memory and imagination.
Practical Information:
All materials will be provided.
No experience required.
Suitable for ages 16+, those under 18 must be accompanied.
Tea/coffee included.
Drawing with your Senses
Saturday, 3rd October, 2026
10.30 am - 4.00 pm
In-Person in Atelier by the Sea Kings Arches, Brighton
Price: £120
As we move into Autumn spend a day by the sea, drawing with your whole body alive and awake to your surroundings. Guided by mindful meditation and some simple movement exercises to heighten your senses, you will be encouraged to draw with all your senses, often with your eyes shut!
Open instead your awareness to the sound of the ocean, the taste of salt on your lips, the smell of the sea air, the feel of the wind on your skin or a pebble in your hand. Draw with your eyes shut, without judgement, as you listen to and feel into the space around you.
We will take a walk on the beach to breathe it all in and explore, where possible making drawings outside, directly in response to the sensory experience. Back in the studio, we will explore how the memory of sensations stay with us, and experiment with making more drawings based on our experience of the world outside. Your drawings can remain quite abstract, or they might include aspects of the visual. Come without any expectations.
This will be an experimental and meditative workshop, suitable for all. You do not need any drawing experience, just a willingness to be curious and open to the process, to draw without judgement, and enjoy a sense of place.
We will be working with charcoal, graphite, coloured pencils, pastels and other basic drawing materials, in an A4 sketchbook. All materials will be provided, although you are welcome to bring your own preferred materials and sketchbook if you have one.
Tickets include lunch.
Colour and Light on the Downs – Development into Paintings
Wednesday 21- Friday 23 October, 2026
9.30 am - 4.30 pm
In-Person in Emily Ball at Seawhite
Price: £380
This 3 day course is suitable for any students who have attended the two day Colour and Light courses that Emily and Katie have run from the Trueligh Centre on the South Downs either in 2025 or 2026. The freshness, freedom and immediacy of the studies made in situ are qualities that are often wished for in sustained and finished paintings.
The studies are not there to be copied but to be used as inspiration and triggers for new work. This course is all about unpacking and using the content in these studies to make new painted studies and work towards finished paintings. The colours, marks, layers and memories are material to play and invent with. They have become your landscape for you to walk through and explore. They are reminders of the sensations, the light, the weather and the feelings of being out on the hill.
Students will bring the many beautiful studies that they have made in the landscape and the tutors will demonstrate and provide processes that will enable you to explore the possibilities in them to make new work using either acrylics or oils on canvas, board or paper. Experimentation with paint, tools and mark making will help everyone find the necessary language to make powerful and exciting paintings.
Embodied Drawing Inspired by the Sea
Saturday, 21 November
10.30 am - 4 pm
In-Person in Atelier by the Sea Kings Arches, Brighton
Price: £120
November can be a wild month, especially here on the South coast in a studio so close to the sea. A good time for embracing the weather and moving the body, making large gestural drawings inspired by the energy of this place. Come and immerse yourself in the experience, whether taking a walk by the water’s edge or sheltering in the studio, and translate those invigorating sensations into marks on the page.
Using pencil, charcoal and mixed media, you will make small drawings outside (November weather permitting!), observing the natural rhythms and patterns of sea, sky and shore, as well as more abstract responses to sound and movement. In the studio these observations and marks will be put through a process of repetition and layering until the surface is covered, working further, rubbing out, sticking on to find a connection to the space and energy of the great outdoors.
Large-scale drawings (4ftx8ft) will be worked on during the day to enable you to really investigate the process of change, the build up of marks, and the abstract potential of charcoal on paper. At the end of the course you may choose to take it away whole, cut it up into smaller pieces, wash it off in the sea, or leave it behind and take away only the memory of the experience.
Tickets include lunch.
Dancing and Drawing: An exploratory, interactive creative workshop
Wednesday, 2nd December 2026
9.30 pm - 4.30 pm
In-Person in Emily Ball at Seawhite
Price: £100
Another unique opportunity to make use of the expanse of the Seawhite Studio and the in-spiration and motivation from Katie’s particular form of teaching. You do not have to be a dancer! This workshop is suitable for all, for anyone with an open heart and mind, physi-cally able and willing to let go and get messy. Beginners welcome. An ideal gift for a friend or loved one.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to make work as big as your studio walls? Have you ever seen children lose themselves in a large sheet of paper, painting with their hands and feet. Think of this as an experience, rather than a technique or process to learn. Something you might never dare do at home, and most likely would never have the space for. Treat yourself to this one off, one day, moment of joy and madness! Think Jackson Pollock meets Moulin Rouge!
Dance like no one is watching
Paint like no one cares
Move like an animal
Laugh like a child
'Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listen-ing; live like it's heaven on earth.’ original quote source unclear, possibly William Purkey or Mark Twain
Embodied Drawing
Thursday, 3rd - Friday, 4th December 2026
9.30 pm - 4.30 pm
In-Person in Emily Ball at Seawhite
Price: £280
Embodied Drawing - An experimental 2 day drawing course embracing the physicality of drawing on a large scale - using your own body, gesture and sensation as your subject. Using the generous space of the Seawhite studio there is almost no limit as to how large you can go.
This course is for anyone wishing to expand their drawing practice and find new limits, beyond the scale of your average drawing, by working large, freely, involving body and breath. You will be your own model, working on 2 or 3 large sale drawings, guided by Katie’s exercises and meditation. She will encourage you to experiment, layer, develop and change the drawings over the course of 2 days.
Imagine shutting your eyes, and drawing yourself from the inside out. What does it feel like to be standing here, like this, breathing, still, steady; and now, on one leg, wobbling, stretching out to the top of the page, then crouching, curled into a tight ball, charcoal crunching underfoot? Working intuitively, drawing can be like a dance; full of movement, breath, weight, balance, repetition, grace, or imbalance and clumsiness.
By connecting the process of drawing to our own physicality, we can harness directly the power and sensations of the body to create marks; to fill space, to rub out, to scratch the surface, make our mark, to press into, walk through, push, pull, fight, or dance with, find harmony or discord, create movement or find stillness.
Drawing by Candlelight - A Creative Workshop
Monday, 7th December 2026
2.00 pm - 8.00 pm
In-Person in West Horsley Place, KT24 6AN
Price: £100
Experience the magic of drawing by candlelight at West Horsley Place. A sumptuous still life, lit by flickering candles, will inspire shifting shadows, reflections, and mysterious spaces.
We begin mid-afternoon with guided meditation and warm-ups before working from observation using ink and wax resist. As daylight fades into dusk, you’ll create a series of quick, fluid drawings, embracing the ambiguity of ink, watercolour, and shadow.
The evening ends with a sharing of work, reflections, and tea.
Practical Information:
All materials will be provided.
No experience required.
Suitable for ages 16+, those under 18 must be accompanied.
Tea/coffee included.
For more information about access, visit our access page.
DRAWING AND MEDITATION - Creative Nourishment Weeks
Various dates throughout the year
9.30am - 10.30am for a guided session (followed by studio/free time)
4.30pm - 5.30pm for an optional group share/discussion
Online
Cost £120 for 5 days (£80 for 3 days)
An online week of Drawing and Meditation is a precious a time to recommit to your practice and devote as much time as you can during this week. Each morning we will meet for a guided meditation session with a prompt to give you focus for that hour, or indeed the whole day. Each afternoon we work in our own spaces, with cameras on, audio off, in a quiet, focused co-working space. At the end of each day we meet for an hour to talk about our day, and what we might need for the following day. The discussions, connections, and shared inspirations are as much a part of the week as any individual projects you might have going on. The space becomes more than the sum of its parts. All you need do is show up, twice a day if you can. The rest will unfold.
