Spend three days with Rosie painting and drawing, with an imaginative, playful and creative attention to colour and composition.

This 3 day course will begin by drawing from a still life looking at colour and composition, drawing upon the plants and flowers that surround Coombe. Through a series of exercises, you will build on experimentation and observation before planning and painting a diptych on canvas, capturing the personality of your chosen flower(s).

This course is ideal if you are looking to build on your colour theory and immerse yourself in the intimate world of flowers and the myriad of patterns and colours in nature.

Rosie Harbottle is an english artist and designer based on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon. She’s a self-taught painter, originally working as a commercial illustrator across homewares, fashion and stationery before transitioning to selling her original paintings and artwork. Rosie now works with acrylics, watercolour and oil pastels to create contemporary, playful and poetic pieces that explore her relationship to the natural world. Using a palette of rich colours, brush strokes and mark making, she takes note from the changing seasons, landscapes, flowers and the simple joy of everyday objects. Her clients include Anthropologie, Liberty London, Liz Linkleter, Monica Vinader, Print Club London, Seedlings, Soho House, The Conran Shop, TOAST and she’s been featured in Blumenhaus Magazine, Collagerie, Financial Times, Frederic Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, Homes & Antiques, Sheerluxe, Vogue, Over the Moon.

EXPERIENCE LEVEL: This course is designed for anyone that wants to paint in an imaginative and playful way, exploring the cross over between design/illustration painting. If you have no painting experience this is a great place to start, if you already have painting skills but you’re feeling ‘stuck’ and want to free up your work, come and immerse yourself in a world of colour and experiment with Rosie.

OUTLINE SCHEDULE: Thursday // 5-7pm Residents arrive // 7pm non residents arrive // Followed by welcome drinks and dinner for all.

Friday-Saturday // Breakfast for residents 8.30am, tuition starts at 9,30am for all. 1pm Lunch, tuition resumes 2-5pm.

Sunday // Breakfast for residents 8.30am, final tuition session runs 9.30am-1pm followed by final lunch 1-2pm

ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS: Residential and non-residential spaces available. NB residents are not required to share bedrooms, see accommodation for more info.

COST: £600 + VAT for residential which covers all your tuition, food, accommodation and materials from arrival on Sunday through to departure after

lunch on Friday. Non-residential fees are £422 + VAT include all tuition, welcome drinks on Sunday and lunch from Mon-Friday.

MATERIALS LIST: There’s a full materials list for this course listed below, which you need to organise, buy and bring with you.

HOW TO GET HERE: Our address is TQ6 0JA [What3words: What3words: fulfilled.exploring.branching] and we have plenty of free onsite parking. Trains > nearest station is Totnes then we can arrange lift shares or send taxi details. We are about 20 minutes from the station.

HOW MANY PEOPLE ON THE COURSE? Min 6 max 12 to allow the tutor to give everyone enough time & attention.

SEASON

Spring at Coombe, particularly April, is a gorgeous time of year. Starting to get warm, flowers and greenery coming out. We will be in the studio and going out sketching down the lanes and in the garden weather permitting. If it’s cooler weather we’ll bring the flowers and greenery into the studio and light the fires. If it’s sunnier and warmer we may even get to eat outside. Whatever the weather, the combination of studio and great location mean we have options each day.

MATERIALS LIST / please bring the following with you

-              2 x canvas, Rosie is recommending 40 x 50cm. Rosie also prefers a fine grain canvas as she prefers the feel of painting on a smoother surface. Stretched cotton canvas, something like this , Stretched linen something like this

-              A selection of coarse round brushes (different sizes) and a palette knife – Rosie tends to use old cheap brushes such as Daler Rowney

-              A selection of acrylic paints – Rosie’s go-to brand is ‘Golden’ but she also uses Jacksons own brand studio paints too – heavy body.

-              A selection of ‘Sennelier’ oil pastels. They come in a range of sets for example these

-              A range of papers suitable for oil pastel (ideally not stark white) These are good for sketching: Or I love this ‘toothed’ paper for more ‘finished’ works. They come in cool or warm tones see here and here

-              A pack of Caran Dache neo colours like this

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ROSIE HARBOTTLE - RESIDENTIAL [£720 inc VAT] APRIL 2025

The total price for this residential course is £600 + VAT (£720 including all your food, accommodation and tuition.

At the point of booking/adding to cart, you are asked to pay a non-refundable* deposit of £150.

The remaining balance (£570) is payable three weeks before the course starts (either by bank transfer, cheque or card over the phone)

*Non-refundable and non-transferrable. Please read our full Terms & Conditionsincluding cancellations.

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ROSIE HARBOTTLE - NON-RESIDENTIAL [£507 inc VAT] APRIL 2025

The total price for this residential course is £422 + VAT (£507) including all your food, accommodation and tuition.

At the point of booking/adding to cart, you are asked to pay a non-refundable* deposit of £150.

The remaining balance (£357) is payable three weeks before the course starts (either by bank transfer, cheque or card over the phone)

*Non-refundable and non-transferrable. Please read our full Terms & Conditionsincluding cancellations.

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