Explore strong use of linear brushwork, texture and colour to bring a real sense of personality and depth to your portraits – with plenty of demonstrations and information on technique we will be taking a deep dive into Egon Schiele’s approach to the model – focusing on longer more sustained poses to allow for building more depth and complexity.

 

Each week we will look at a different aspect of Schiele’s approach to painting-  line quality, brush work, composition and paint handling using either oils, acrylics or gouache.

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£95 EARY BIRD TICKETS  /  £110 regular price tickets

Build or enhance your oil painting skills with our Still Life Painting in Oils course, open to beginners as well as experienced artists. This hands-on oil painting course explores both traditional techniques and contemporary approaches to still life, helping you deepen your understanding of design, lighting, color, and form. Still life also makes for the best introduction to oil painting.​​​

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Through practical, studio-based sessions you’ll gain greater confidence and creative control over the painting process. 

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TUTORS: llaria Rosselli Del Turco and Kim Scouller

*Booking opens on 11th November 2025

Join me for a fun day of  exciting quick portrait painting using lush colour and confident markmaking. 

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We will be painting on several small prepared boards as a way of simplifying the subject and creating lively portraits, working quickly on several small-scale portraits during the day, from different angles.

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This is a great chance to play with mark-making, colour palettes and background colours with plenty of tips and advice on making decisive marks with broader stokes helping to free up your approach. 

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£95 (all materials provided)​​

Join us for a brand new two part Saturday course exploring mediums and mark making – with costumed models.​ This course brings together two masters of colour and expression—David Hockney and Vincent van Gogh—to inspire dynamic, character-filled portraits- and gives us not just one but two days to take a deep dive into their mediums and processes

 

You’ll explore portraiture through their eyes, starting with expressive pen and ink drawing inspired by their richly detailed mark-making. From there, we’ll move into painting with bold colour and energetic brushstrokes, focusing on capturing the personality and presence of your sitter.

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You’ll learn how to use mark-making to create movement and energy, and how to plan a portrait painting that feels confident, expressive, and alive.​

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£175 (early bird) or £190  (all materials provided)​​

Explore some of London's most magnificent urban landscapes  through structured weekly drawing classes. All you need is a sketchbook and some basic drawing materials.

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Each week will focus on a different aspect of drawing starting with how to simplify the subject, using tone, how to build a composition and working towards using colour materials such as pastels.

 

We will visit spaces including Hyde Park Italian Gardens, St James's Park and Hampstead Heath. ​

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The classes are suitable for beginners and those wanting to develop their drawing skills further.​​

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£120 (a materials list will be provided)

*Class size is limited to 10

This beginner friendly workshop will include a visit to the exhibition and introduce participants to Saville’s prolific oeuvre. You will get the chance to create your own painted portrait, experimenting with Saville’s smearing and distortion techniques.

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All materials provided. All abilities welcome.

 

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£250 (all materials provided)

£200 (members / concessions) ​​​​​

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image: Jenny Saville, Hyphen, 1999

Working with a mixture of self portrait and from the model, Kim will lead you week by week through and range of mediums and approaches - all of which will help to develop your confidence with handling materials and using colour.

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Week one will begin with self portraiture, drawing and brush work in ink, moving into tonal painting from the model in week two. Week three will move through colour in shadows via complementary colours full colour palette Fauvism, then colour and composition using a full colour palette, considering placement and shapes of colour in week four.

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This course is packed with demonstrations and guided painting, with group feedback and opportunities to show your work and get personalised tips and advice - a great chance to build your portrait painting language!​

This structured course introduces traditional approaches to drawing then painting portraits from observation of the life model. Suitable for all levels but some previous drawing experience an advantage.

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The course explores a variety of traditional drawing and painting techniques to develop your confidence in drawing portraits. You will first develop drawing skills in how to structure and proportion the human face then work towards constructing and composing a painting.

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TUTORS: Amanda Bracken and Kim Scouller 

Gesture, colour, character: Lose your painting inhibitions in this exciting and practical portrait workshop.

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Starting with an introduction to the ideas behind her approach and artistic influences, the workshop will guide you through her process from composition ideas to the finished painting. You will be shown new ways to make marks and explore gestural paint handling to build the structure of the head. With plenty of demonstrations and one-to-one tuition to keep you on the right track.

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£95 (all materials included)

Building on techniques and approaches covered in the Painting 1, this course enables you to work with more depth and a stronger emphasis on experimentation. This is suitable if you already have some experience in painting.

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​Broaden your understanding of visual language, and focus on particular areas in painting in more depth. Develop a greater proficiency in the use of acrylic or oil paint, and become familiar with a varied range of techniques and their appropriate applications.

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£449 (all materials provided)

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Enjoy the outdoors while honing your plein-air painting skills in London's urban green spaces such as St James's Park, Regent's Park and Hampstead Heath. Immersed in the landscape you will be given guidance on how to create interesting compositions and different approaches to building tone, suitable colour palettes and paint handling.

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During this structured course there will be plenty of demos and information given on techniques and artists working in this genre.

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The classes are suitable for beginners and those wanting to develop their painting skills further.​​

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£180 (a materials list will be provided)

*Class size is limited to 10