Following a series of bestselling books on watercolour painting including "Flower Painting", "Intimate Landscapes" and "The Watercolour Workshop", Paul Riley’s latest book is The Magic of Watercolour Flowers and this is the classic and popular accompanying course to the title.

Join Sarah on this course and have guidance to the limitless and varied mark making opportunities possible within her methods.

Achieve energetic work in the studio as an interpretation of sketches, words and information gathered outside in the stunning South Devon landscape. Sarah will demonstrate regularly, and offer frequent individual tuition

An experimental intuitive painting course working with acrylics and mixed media, this course is suitable for painters of all abilities. It will be particularly useful if you have some painting experience and want to experiment with abstraction and how you use colour, or if you have a more experience but you want to free up from your current style and spend some time experimenting with a different approach.

On this course you will work initially from observation, collecting imagery from the inspiring surroundings at Coombe. Later we will explore your findings and working from imagination you will start to transform them into exciting new compositions whilst developing your own particular visual language.

An experimental intuitive painting course working with acrylics and mixed media, this course is suitable for painters of all abilities. It will be particularly useful if you have some painting experience and want to experiment with abstraction and how you use colour, or if you have a more experience but you want to free up from your current style and spend some time experimenting with a different approach.

Trees for all seasons is a new watercolour painting course led by Coombe lead artist and founder Paul Riley. During the five days you will explore trees in depth and learn techniques for painting them in detail and how to abstract trees in the landscape.

This is our second course in 2022 with Sarah Bee and we are delighted that she’s returning again this year and that we can regularly offer a pastel tutor to our stable of professional artists. All our artists share their skills and knowledge with you, enabling you to advance your work in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Sarah has a huge amount of knowledge and skill and a fantastic process that results in powerful paintings. Her work has always been informed by nature

This is our first course in 2022 with Sarah Bee and we are delighted that she’s returning again this year and that we can regularly offer a pastel tutor to our stable of professional artists. All our artists share their skills and knowledge with you, enabling you to advance your work in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Sarah has a huge amount of knowledge and skill and a fantastic process that results in powerful paintings. Her work has always been informed by nature

Silkscreen monoprints- the painterly print. In this course Tessa will introduce you to the fabulous techniques for making monoprints using a silkscreen. This very experimental and unpredictable printmaking method uses no prepared matrix and each print is basically a one off painting created from layers of handpainted and drawn imagery pulled through a screen .

Bettina has been teaching at Coombe for many years as well as courses she runs herself in Scotland and abroad. Her relaxed courses are suitable for all, from absolute beginners to accomplished painters. They are designed to help you to make the most of your abilities and to find a personal approach and her tuition will be mainly in watercolour, which enables you to experiment and work freely but other media are also welcome.

If you are keen on experimentation and want to experiment with different media, to draw and get to grips with colour, this is an ideal course for you.

Gerry has taught throughout his professional painting career most recently one day master classes from his studio in Dorset. As a regular exhibitor at Coombe Gallery since the mid 90s we are delighted to build on those one-day courses by offering his intensive residential courses at Coombe, which have been sell outs year-on-year.

This 3 day course is dedicated to those participants who have already taken part in Gerry’s courses and/or are at an intermediate or more experienced level of painting and want to push their skills and advance their work (NB for those that haven’t attended Gerry’s courses or those that consider themselves at an earlier stage of skill level, he runs at five day course open to all here at Coombe in August) . If you are keen on experimentation and want to experiment with different media, to draw and get to grips with colour so you can unlock your creativity, then this is an ideal course for you.

Understanding your tools and their uses will release the potential of your creative mind, for you will paint with greater freedom if you are at ease with your the means of getting colour onto your paper.

This new watercolour course with Coombe’s lead tutor Paul Riley, combines two of Paul’s great loves, flowers and his growing interest in extensive use of multiple brushes in each painting. If you want to feel liberated in your watercolour painting, free from using pencil or other medium, to focus exclusively on your brush work, then this is an ideal course for you.