Art Holidays - Courses 2025
Residential and Non-Residential
Whether you’re a beginner or more accomplished, our two day weekend painting holiday with professional artist tutors will help you to improve your technique. Our art classes are small and friendly, with no more than 8 people, starting around 10 am and finishing around 4pm, with a break for a delicious lunch. prepared by our chef.
Arrival is late afternoon Friday and departure is end of the afternoon on the Sunday. Mornings will usually be spent together in the spacious Old Dairy studio learning new techniques or improving old ones.
In the afternoon you can choose from many beautiful spots around the land to paint the stunning landscape ‘en plein air’, as the tutors visit everyone in turn for further one to one tuition and guidance. Discover our award -winning Art Tutors and book now for our upcoming courses for 2025.
Chris Howe
2 Day Courses 2025 | Watercolour
9th - 11th May / Course Full
15th - 17th August / Non res available
12th - 14th Sept / Non res available
Fresh and atmospheric, Chris uses bold strokes and a limited palette to capture the beautiful landscape of the South West. With a relaxed and enjoyable approach he teaches students at all levels, with interesting new techniques with materials to help improve your work.
Hester Berry
2 Day Courses | Oils
4th - 6th July 2025 / Course Full
10th - 12th Oct 2025 / Course Full
Shortlisted for many awards, including Sky Landscape Artist of the Year and the BP Portrait Award, Hester’s distinctive and evocative approach to oils uses brush strokes as economically as possible, exploring light, time, movement and climate and distilling the image into only what is necessary.
James Tatum
2 Day Courses in 2025 | Acrylics | Mixed Media
28th - 30th March / Places available
25th - 27th April / Non res available
23rd - 25th May / Non res available
20th - 22nd June / Places available
18th - 20th July / Places available
29th - 31st Aug / Non res available
Selected as ‘Landscape Painter of the Year’ by Devon Life, James’s unique approach will help you see the landscape as a painting before you begin.
Annie Musgrove
2 Day Courses | Oils
6th - 8th June 2025 / Course Full
1st - 3rd August 2025 / Course Full
Hugely popular among collectors for her evocative oil paintings of the South West, her background as a geographer gives Annie a deep understanding of meteorology and landscape processes. Interpreting the interaction of light and the landscape provide the starting points for her work and yours.
Catherine Beale
2 Day Courses | Watercolour
11th - 13th April 2025 / Course Full
26th - 28th September 2025 / Course Full
Specialising in radiant, light filled watercolours capturing atmospheric landscapes, Catherine combines juicy tubed colours with running washes using her ‘gravity painting’ technique to exploit the shape-shifting qualities of watercolour. A member of the the Society of Women Artists and a previous winner of The Artist Magazine Editor’s Choice Award, she has exhibited with the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. Catherine is also author of ‘Capturing Light’ with Search Press and has written a number of articles for The Artist Magazine.