Start Date: 07/05/2022
Finish Date: 12/05/2022
Timings: 9.30am - 5.30pm
Duration: 6 days
Location: The Old Lifeboat House
Places Available: 7 artists: 2
Cost: £530

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The unspoilt fishing-village of Porthleven, with its' iconic clock- tower and unique double-harbour, is the setting and inspiration for this 6-day painting course in Cornwall. Our studio is the Old Lifeboat House, dramatically positioned at the head of the harbour. Uniquely on our courses, artists will be working towards a one-day exhibition on the Thursday 12 May. This is an opportunity for artists with some experience to work in a small group – maximum seven - in a wonderful location that has inspired many of Ashley's own paintings. 

Click here for review and gallery from the Autumn 2021 Porthleven courses

Click here for review and gallery from the Autumn 2020 Porthleven courses

This course is an opportunity to work in a small group (7 max) in the Old Lifeboat House, in Porthleven, Cornwall, dramatically positioned on the edge of the harbour, facing the open sea.  Unique to the Porthleven courses, artists work towards a one-day exhibition on the final day. 

’Image, structure, movement, all the ingredients are here to inspire. During the week, the artists will be exploring and responding to its’ richness, rawness and complexity, making their own personal interpretations of Porthleven, adding to its rich tradition of painting'  Artist-tutor Ashley Hanson, member of the Newlyn Society of Artists.

The course begins with drawing exercises around the harbour, collecting information and ideas for paintings. During the week, there will be a mixture of group exercises, demonstrations and discussions to help artists engage with their paintings and take it somewhere new. Colour, mark-making, space and composition are all areas that will be explored and there will be plenty of opportunity for one to one tuition and mentoring with Ashley. As part of the course and his teaching, Ashley will be working on a new Porthleven painting. With this longer course, half a day is put aside for visiting galleries and seeing the best of the current exhibitions in Cornwall.

The course is designed for painters who wish to enhance their creativity and look towards abstraction and beyond the representational. Ashley looks forward to sharing his wide knowledge and passion for colour and landscape with the group.

Please be aware that there are narrow steep steps with a handrail that lead down to the studio entrance.

 

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Throughout the pandemic we have successfully run many of our courses. Your safety is important to us and you can rest assured knowing we will be following Government COVID advice and giving you up to date requirements in your Joining Information Pack.

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Ashley Hanson

Ashley Hanson

"Ashley's concern as an artist and teacher, is to unleash the emotional response to the subject matter that enables the painter to take risks, discover a 'personal colour palette that excites' and to provide the fresh vision of Britain's natural beauty that places him within the long tradition set by the masters of the landscape genre." Dr. Sally Bulgin, Editor, ‘The Artist’ magazine, February 2013

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