Painting and/or Drawing Holiday Course on the Cornish Riviera

Residential
Beginners and Advanced Students
Non-participating partners or friends welcome

Deadline for registration: New dates published soon

Date: New dates published soon

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Course begins: Monday morning   ends: Friday afternoon
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C o u r s e :

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Course programme                                        Setting and Accommodation
Style of teaching
Partners and friends, holiday time

Course hours are every day for 6 hours, excluding breaks, starting at 9am or 10 am, depending on the group’s preference.
If you wish to keep painting or drawing after the course hours – because you simply can’t stop -, you are welcome to continue the use of the studio.

After a short introductory lecture introducing the next subject of painting / drawing or technique, you  will be able to work intensively with my support. Every step of how to build up a work successfully will be covered so that you will most likely share the experience of many of my students, that you have learnt in one painting what you normally would have learnt over quite a period of time.

I am fully available during the course hours. In my experience it is impossible to give full individual attention and value for money if the teacher paints while the students work. A teacher has to keep close track of a participant’s work and his personal development to able to advise the exact right thing at the right moment. In addition I keep track of progress with digital photos which has proven invaluable in not only documenting achievements but also demonstrating to students where the development of a work has gone wrong and why. You may be familiar with the problem of “overworking” or spoiling areas that worked very well and you don’t know how you did it…

After the course time we usually have a short group discussion, where we look at the work, progress is reviewed and one can learn from each other.

At the end of the course, we will have a final group “crit” and look at the progress and achievements of the course.

Each participant will receive a certificate at the end of the course.

Materials to bring:
Sturdy outdoor easel for landscape and other outdoor painting
Light folding stool
Any painting materials you can bring (favourite brushes, extra Liquin, extra paints)

Materials provided:
Studio easels
Drawing boards
Basic range of paints
Basic brushes
Sketching paper
Painting mediums
Comprehensive theory course pack

Studio:
60 feet x 17 feet / 18.5 m x 5.20 m

Our studio is a lovely large barn conversion on the farm, with good light and access to outdoors

Outdoors:
We are surrounded by the most beautiful landscape with plenty of spots ideal for painting

Please arrange your own Travel Insurance!

S e t t i n g  a n d  a c c o m m o d a t i o n :

Ancient, listed manor and farm on the Cornish Riviera

Named after Sir Henry de Bodrugan who lived here some 500 years ago, Bodrugan Barton offers an outstanding level of farmhouse accommodation.

Everything’s just right – the setting, the gentle activity of the farm, the windy lanes, and delightful hosts who look after you with huge enthusiasm. What’s more, there are freshly decorated rooms, good bathrooms, family antiques and the promise of good food, all from local produce.

The old manor with matching barn cottages and huge courtyard, includes a heated indoor swimming pool, sauna, badminton and table tennis. Within the solid stone walls of the farmhouse, family portraits and paintings old and new line deep-coral-coloured walls. The enormous breakfast-cum-sitting room has deeply comfortable sofas and a wood-burning stove in the arched stone fireplace, and the large hall and stairway lead to some of the comfortable bedrooms with views overlooking the grounds and beyond. The meals are hearty, with most items home-produced, especially the bread.

All this is set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. An ancient lane leads to the Colona Bay and the beach nearby: small, secluded and full of rock pools. Blissful.

Rooms:
No single room supplement

Local attractions:
The Lost Garden of Heligan Carerhays Castle Gardens and the Eden Project are nearby.

http://www.greatbritishgardens.co.uk/caerhays_castle_gardens.htm
http://www.heligan.com/home/home.html
http://www.edenproject.com/

P r i c e  

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£ 595.00 (Subject to possible changes in accommodation prices 2005)

Included:
Course Fees, Accommodation, full board, pick-up from train station if required, course fees, studio use, listed materials

Excluded:
Travel to Cornwall
pick-up from airport (£ 10) (Approx)
Model fees to be shared in group ( £ 50.- per person for full week for group of 5, half for 10 students) (Approx)
Canvasses (can be ordered in advance, ranging from £ 10 - £ 25 for larger sizes ) (Approx)

T r a v e l

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Airport:
Newquay from Stanstead or Gatwick
tickets: BA Gatwick all year round £ 79 (Approx).-, Ryanair Stanstead £ 83 (Approx).-
pick-up service to accommodation £ 10 (Approx).

Train station:
train station: St. Austell, 7 miles
tickets: Apex £ 47 (Approx).- / on day £ 100 (Approx).-
pick-up service free

Please arrange your own Travel Insurance!

Directions:

• For Bodrugan Barton Farm Accommodation, Portmellon, Tel 01726 842094
• The best way of approach is through Mevagissey and Portmellon.
• Instructions, as for Gorran Haven, until:
• Go up hill from Pentewan. At top of hill go straight on with main road into Mevagissey (i.e. do not turn right to Gorran, Lost Gardens of Heligan)
• Follow the one-way system and road through centre of Mevagissey towards Portmellon and Gorran.
• Go through Portmellon cove, past "Rising Sun" Inn and on up steep hill.
• At top of hill, at second sharp corner, turn left into Bodrugan Barton.
  

Via St. Austell
By Road: M5 to Exeter. Then to St. Austell via A30 through Okehampton, Launceston, Bodmin.
After Bodmin take A391 to St Austell. or: M5 to Exeter. Then via Plymouth, Tamar Bridge on A38. from Dobwalls take A390 to St Austell.

By Rail: Services to St Austell from London (Paddington) or cross-country via Bristol.

By Air: through Newquay Airport (served from London Stansted) from Newquay A3058 to St. Austell.

By Sea: From France (Roscoff, Brittany) to Plymouth. From Plymouth A38 to Cornwall, Liskeard. From Dobwalls A390 to St. Austell.

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