• Home
  • Our Cottages
    • Hay Barn
    • Swallow Barn
    • Cider Cottage
    • Apple Cottage
  • Book Now
    • Pay Balance
  • About
    • Our facilities
    • Getting Here
    • Accessibility
    • Halsbeer history
    • Painting holidays
    • Covid-19
    • Ts & Cs >
      • Booking Protect
  • Contact
  • Local area
    • The Blackdown Hills
    • What to do
    • Where to eat
    • Family Fun
    • Beaches
  • Blog

2022 PAINTING COURSES

We have two painting courses running in 2022, an en plein air oil weekend with local artist Julie Dunster and a watercolour midweek with Sidmouth-based artist Lynda Kettle.

Details as follows. Please contact Katie to book on or if you have any questions. 

En plein air oil painting with Julie Dunster - Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd July

Optional Friday 1st July evening painting demonstration and tapas supper.
Tuition will run from roughly 10am til 3.30pm on both Saturday and Sunday with breaks for refreshments and lunch (provided). Obviously fair weather cannot be guaranteed, so we have the option of a spacious, light conservatory in case of rain, painting either from photographs taken outdoors or from still life. This course is suitable for people with some experience in using oils, either traditional or water-mixable.

Accommodation is available in a private ensuite room in one of our self-catering cottages from 4.30pm on Friday 1st July for three nights until 10am on Monday 4th July. You may need to share a cottage with one or two other course participants but will have your own room unless you wish to share a twin or double with a friend or partner).

Course cost without accommodation £165
Course cost with accommodation £385 

 Optional Friday evening painting demonstration and tapas supper £35

Non-painting partners welcome to stay for an additional £80 or £110 if lunch required both days (£145 with tapas painting demo on Friday night).


Watercolour painting with Lynda Kettle - Tuesday 5th to Thursday 7th July 2022

Tuition will run from roughly 10am til 3.30pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with breaks for refreshments and lunch (provided). Tuition will be in our spacious, light conservatory or around our grounds depending on the weather. Optional visit to Sidmouth Society of Artist's Summer Exhibition on Thursday evening, using own transport or sharing with other course participants. 

Accommodation is available in a private ensuite room in one of our self-catering cottages from 4.30pm on Monday 4th July for four nights until 10am on Friday 8th July. You may need to share a cottage with one or two other course participants but will have your own room unless you wish to share a twin or double with a friend or partner).

Course cost without accommodation £215
Course cost with accommodation £495 


Non-painting partners welcome to stay for an additional £110 or £155 if lunch required each day).​
​

Picture
About the artists: JULIE DUNSTER
​
Julie is an award-winning local artist who lives just down the road between Kentisbeare and Cullompton. She can often be seen out painting in the wonderful rural landscape around us or along the stunning coastline that we are blessed with here in Devon. 

Julie likes to work en plein aire (in the open air) and loves to share the technique with others at workshops and in one-to-one tuition. Julie is on both Facebook and Instagram as @pressinglifespausebutton and is well worth a follow. Her website is www.juliedunsterartist.com
​
Download equipment list to see what you are required to bring here: 
halsbeer_farm_plein_air_equipment_list.pdf
File Size: 27 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Download risk assessment for painting course here: (this is in addition to our Covid risk assessment available here)
risk_assessment_painting_course_halsbeer_farm.pdf
File Size: 53 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

A selection of Julie's paintings below. At left, the driveway here at Halsbeer after rainfall. Centre, Julie painting, my guess would be Beer beach. At right, a view from Broadway Tower that won the Great Broadway Paint Off. Julie has exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London with the Royal Society of Marine Artists, also at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Society of Women Artists and South West Academy.

About the artists: LYNDA KETTLE
​
Lynda is an award-winning artist based in beautiful Sidmouth where she has a studio. Formerly Chair and currently Treasurer of the Sidmouth Society of Artists, Lynda enjoys working with a diversity of media including watercolour, pastels, acrylics and oils and has a wealth of experience in demonstrating and teaching painting.

For more information visit Lynda's website.
Picture
Download equipment list to see what you are required to bring here: ​
kit_list_lynda_kettle_course_2022.pdf
File Size: 61 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Download risk assessment for painting course here: (this is in addition to our Covid risk assessment available here)
risk_assessment_painting_course_halsbeer_farm.pdf
File Size: 53 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File


Please watch this space for details of future course or email Katie at [email protected] to express an interest and she will add you to future emails about painting courses. 

Thank you. ​
Picture
book with us
Halsbeer Farm
Blackborough,
Cullompton
Devon
EX15 2HW
[email protected]
​01884 266699
subscribe
Picture
  • Home
  • Our Cottages
    • Hay Barn
    • Swallow Barn
    • Cider Cottage
    • Apple Cottage
  • Book Now
    • Pay Balance
  • About
    • Our facilities
    • Getting Here
    • Accessibility
    • Halsbeer history
    • Painting holidays
    • Covid-19
    • Ts & Cs >
      • Booking Protect
  • Contact
  • Local area
    • The Blackdown Hills
    • What to do
    • Where to eat
    • Family Fun
    • Beaches
  • Blog