Catherine runs retreats in and around Bath and is proud to teach at a number of art centres in gorgeous countryside in England and Wales.
CATHERINE’S TWO DAY RETREATS AT PACKHORSE BATH: Dive deep into watercolours and gain valuable skills at a beautiful Jacobian pub in the countryside near Catherine’ studio on the southern edge of Bath.
NEXT AVAILABLE: FRIDAY 7 – SATURDAY 8 MARCH SKETCHBOOK MASTERCLASS: Includes your own sketchbook, pub meals and one-to-one tuition. Please follow this link to book.
(FRIDAY 17 – SATURDAY 18 JANUARY and FRIDAY 7 – SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2025 art retreats for beginners are now full.)
PAINT BATH EXPERIENCE WITH ROYAL CRESCENT HOTEL :
Catherine designs tailored retreats 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 to paint ‘plain air’. Other painting venues can be arranged. Just ask Catherine.
NEXT ON AT WHITE HORSE BOOKSHOP, MARLBOROUGH:
TUESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2025 – Lily pools Impressionistic watercolour techniques. I love returning to this ancient timber building in the middle of Marlborough High Street. Book this course directly through White Horse Bookshop
NEXT AT ROYAL WEST OF ENGLAND ACADEMY, BRISTOL:
MONDAY 31 MARCH 2025 Urban waterways in watercolour
TUESDAY 1 APRIL 2025 Still life in watercolours
Please follow this link to contact RWA Drawing School directly to book through their website.
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.
NEXT ON AT BLACKDOWNS ARTISTS RETREAT, SOMERSET/DEVON BORDER
FRIDAY 11- SUNDAY 13 APRIL 2025
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.
NEXT ON AT CORNWALL SCHOOL OF ART, TRURO:
Two days full of experiments, demonstrations and tuition :
TUESDAY 20 MAY 2025 – LINE AND WASH: NATURAL STILL LIFE: Build up a ‘language’ on the page in line and wash culminating in your own masterpiece from life.
WEDNESDAY 21 MAY 2025 – HISTORIC COTTAGES: Expand on built textures and materials in line and wash to create a rural building on the land or the coast.
Please follow this link to Cornwall School of Art and book direct.
Catherine painting at Cornwall School of Art, Truro:
10-14 NOVEMBER 2025: ALPHA PAINTING HOLIDAYS AT 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.
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:
