STUDIO PRACTICE

The Studio Practice Programme supports those with an existing identity to their work to consolidate their practice by ensuring they are using the most appropriate materials, supports and scale, among other key considerations, to best complement the content of their work. This programme gives mentoring to artists with materials to hand, supporting you through a productive year of tutorials, workshops, group crits and talks centred around six two-day practical studio sessions over the year.  

In addition to receiving dedicated mentoring from the Lead tutors and a host of visiting artists, each participating artist completes the programme having gained focus, built confidence and made networks to sustain their future practice.   

Dan Pyne and Clare Wilson co-lead the programme, supported by visiting artists, creating a vibrant and varied source of input from our roster of professional practising artists across the year such as Elizabeth Saskia Langley, Nina Royle, Kate Walters, Anna Harris, Andrew Litten, Dan Turner, Marie-Claire Hamon, Una Da Aragona, Jessica Cooper and Karen Lorenz among others.

With one-to-one tutorials and sessions focussing on key topics, we look at creating bodies of work with coherent criteria and planned decisions. 

The themes for our two-day sessions include: 

1. Preparing for painting - Surfaces, supports and primers: their properties, colour and texture. 
2. Drawing and the materials of mark-making - appropriate media and processes. 
3. Understanding Paint - Pigments, binders and the expressive qualities of materials. 
4. The Journey of an artwork - Time and pace. Spontaneity, energy, layering and change.    
5. Building a body of work - Scale, range, thematic criteria, contexts and coherence. 
6. Reflection and future direction - Your profile: curated presentation of artworks with an informal celebration event, art statements and peer reflection. 

Newlyn School of Art provides a generous range of materials during these sessions. All materials used on the sessions are provided by the art school.

Each Studio Practice group has a maximum of 18 student artists and 3-4 tutors teaching at all times, providing a high ratio of tutors to students.  

Programme fee: £3,250
This fee can be paid in 3 equal instalments. The fee must be paid in full at least one month before the programme begins. Click here to read more information on payments.

Early Bird Offer
Save £150 when you apply before 31st March 2026 with code NSA150.
First instalment must be paid before 30th April 2026 for Early Bird rate to apply.
This offer is not applicable to the Year-Long Online Landscape Course.

Session Dates
Session 1 - Sat 14 & Sun 15 November 2026
Session 2 - Sat 16 & Sun 17 January 2027
Session 3 - Sat 20 & Sun 21 March 2027
Session 4 - Sat 15 & Sun 16 May 2027
Session 5 - Sat 10 & Sun 11 July 2027
Session 6 - Sat 11 & Sun 12 September 2027

Simply fill in our Application Form below (takes around 20-30 mins), and we'll be in touch to arrange a free informal one-one Zoom call with a lead tutor giving you an inspiring discussion on your work and an opportunity to ask any questions about the Programme.

If you have anything you would like to ask us, please get in touch via our contact form.

To view our other programmes, please click here.