FRIDAY 17 – SATURDAY 18 JANUARY or FRIDAY 7 – SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2025 are Catherine’s next Cotswold art retreats for beginners at Packhorse Bath: Including pub meals, materials and an element of one-to-one tuition. Brush up on your painting skills at a beautiful Jacobian pub on the edge of Bath.
Please follow this link to book.

Paint Bath Experience partnering with The Royal Crescent Hotel

TAILORED PRIVATE RETREATS & PAINT BATH EXPERIENCE : Catherine can design a retreat for you and friends at venues in and around Bath. For example combine a stay at the Royal Crescent Hotel with a relaxing watercolour workshop in their stunning gardens. Or be guided down a beautiful stretch of Bath’s Canal with its pretty bridges and dramatic locks. Other painting venues can be arranged. Just ask Catherine.

ART CENTRE PARTNERS AND HOLIDAYS: Catherine is proud to work with the following selected art centres:

NEXT ON AT CORNWALL SCHOOL OF ART, TRURO:
MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2024 – Atmospheric coasts
A theme in her new book ‘Capturing light’ – Catherine will explore how to create a coastal seascape with an atmosphere of mystery. The day will be full of demonstrations designed to show the range of wet-in-wet techniques she employs to suggest form through mists as well as textured rockpools. Develop your own subtle landscape from your source photo with added mystery and memories.
TUESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2024 – Wet in wet watercolour lilies
A perfect opportunity to work on a steep tilt and employ drips to create a watery scene punctuated with saturated colour.
Please follow this link to Cornwall School of Art and book direct.

NEXT AT ROYAL WEST OF ENGLAND ACADEMY, BRISTOL:
9 SEPTEMBER 2024 Semi-abstract watercolour landscapes
10 SEPTEMBER 2024 Watercolour figures from life
Please follow this link to contact RWA Drawing School directly to book through their website.

NEXT ON AT WHITE HORSE BOOKSHOP, MARLBOROUGH
MONDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2024 – Line & wash
I love returning to this ancient timber building in the middle of Marlborough High Street. They also sell my new book ‘Capturing light’. See you there to render an isolated moorland farm in line and wash. Book direct at White Horse Bookshop

NEXT ON AT CHAPEL COTTAGE STUDIOS, ABERGAVENNY
SATURDAY 1 MARCH 2025 – Dramatic skies and dusk
SATURDAY 19 JULY 2025 – The illusion of sunlight in watercolours
Please contact Chapel Cottage Studios direct to book.

ALPHA PAINTING HOLIDAYS: SIMONSBATH HOUSE IN EXMOOR NATIONAL PARK
An opportunity to become absorbed in the stunning landscape of Exmoor. This location is right on the river. Explore the Barle Valley with me and your sketchbook. Improve your line and wash skills and develop deeper connections while developing full painting subjects back at the studio. Suitable for beginners and intermediate painters.
Please contact Alpha painting Holidays direct to book.

NEXT ON AT BLACKDOWNS ARTISTS RETREAT, SOMERSET/DEVON BORDER
FRIDAY-SUNDAY 11-13 April
and 26-28 SEPTEMBER 2025
This is a gorgeous venue set in a farm building in rolling countryside with lovely food too! Our retreat will help you to light up your watercolours using the area around the retreat as your subject. At the heart of the session is my loose “gravity painting” watercolour technique, which enables freer painting styles and brighter colours. Learn to contrast loose washes with the deep tones of solid tube paint, sharp ink line and white paper, all to create a dramatic woodland landscapes with atmosphere.
Contact Blackdowns Artists Retreat direct to book.

Catherine painting at Cornwall School of Art, Truro:

Customers’ comments:
“I was so pleased to have experienced Catherine’s art class and …truly amazed at her extraordinary talent which blew me away not to mention what a gorgeous person she is. I won’t give up my day job yet to become a painter but it was really interesting to see what on earth I would create when given the time just to paint.”
“Catherine, the art teaching was fabulous and I’d love to try one of your courses”
“I am enjoying getting to grips with watercolours and to tapping into my own creativity. See below for the picture I produced at Brecon (Mentoring Plus Corporate Wellbeing Weekend) which I have framed as I love the colours so much!”
“Thanks again for your fantastic and innovative intro to watercolours.” 

Line and wash paintings from Catherine’s May 2023 Painting holiday to Turkey: