This Painted Earth - 5-day Art Course
THIS PAINTED EARTH
A 5-day course in soulful art-making & paint-making with Rima Staines & Caroline Ross
Outline:
Together, internationally-known artist and Devon resident Rima Staines and bestselling artist and author Caroline Ross (Found and Ground) have devised a 5-day journey in drawing and painting with natural materials from first principles to final painted piece. We’ll explore charcoal, pencil, natural paints and finally work on a wooden roundel, a speciality of Rima's, using repurposed bread boards, helping you grow in confidence and explore the mythic and imaginal realms through your art over our time together.
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Both of them have backgrounds in detailed observational drawing and long to bring some technical rigour into self-expression. Between them they have many decades of experience as successful working artists.
✷
Starting on the first day with learning how to make and use natural charcoal, we'll draw from a huge, beautiful still life set up. We’ll make charcoal in a bonfire, tell folktales and dig deeper into the impetus to draw and to paint.
✷
The next day we'll make pigments from mostly local earths and rocks and learn how to turn them into watercolour paints, then use them to paint from the human body (either from a model, from ourselves or from each other). We'll explore where the urge to draw and paint comes from, and how we can align our art and our souls with Earth.
✷
Wednesday and Thursday will be spent devising and creating our paintings on wood with either tempera (egg paint) which Caroline will teach, or with water-based ‘oil paints’, a regular choice of Rima’s. From preparing the surface, drawing the subjects and making the paintings, all with natural materials and one-to-one help and advice on hand, the participants will create their unique paintings home with them, and the knowledge of how to make personal, powerful art that has ecological and social integrity. Friday will be spent completing our final pieces and rounding off the course by sharing what we’ve learned and made.
✷
With a wealth of books, materials, art, experience and inspiration to draw on and share during the week, plus the deep pleasure and joy of working alongside kindred folk, we will uncover wonderful forgotten practices and approaches which can revitalise our artistic lives.
✷
This unique course is suitable for practising artists of any level, whether professional, part time, amateur or returning after time away from creativity. We’ll help create a warm, supportive atmosphere where you’ll be expected to dive into the exercises and opportunities on offer. So, if you haven’t drawn or painted for a while, but would love to come along, get yourself back into working in a sketchbook in the meantime, to reconnect the hand, eye, mind and heart.
✷
All you need to bring are an apron or clothes you’d usually wear to make your art, plus a large hardback spiral or easy to keep open sketchbook (A3 is ideal). If you like to work on a drawing board, feel free to bring a small one, but it’s not essential. A pencil case of your favourite pens, pencils and brushes would also be handy, and a notebook for written notes. After the course, a tailor-made pdf for your own personal continued study will be sent out complete with art materials-recipes, links, bibliography and any other relevant information that comes up during the course.
✷
Rima and Caroline will have books and prints for sale as well as a cornucopia of their art, craft and materials to share with you. We are excited to welcome you to Devon for the debut outing of this new rich and inspirational course.
✷
Dates: July 7-11 2025.
Maximum 20 participants.
Fees: £495
There are 2 bursary supported places available for those who need it, get in touch by email.
Meals: bring a packed lunch or use the on site or local cafes
Accommodation:
Buckfastleigh is a sweet small creative town on the edge of Dartmoor, just a bus ride from the quirky and artistic Totnes, a historic South Devon town known for its alternative thinking and grassroots projects, and the beautiful Dartington Estate and village, home to early radical rural arts, spirituality and ecology study. All these places have plenty of varied cosy accommodation options, from camping, B&Bs to hotels. The nearest beach is just over half an hour's drive, and the wild beauty of Dartmoor just close by.
The workshop will be held at the wonderful Moor Imagination Centre - an old Methodist chapel that has become the home of a vibrant, regenerative and inclusive community arts hub in Buckfastleigh.
Transport:
Train to Totnes (from London, Bristol, Glasgow, Penzance etc) and then 88 Bus to Buckfastleigh (there's even a steam train from Totnes which takes you alongside the beautiful river Dart to Buckfastleigh!)
Parking:
One of the car parks in Buckfastleigh (Mardle Way is nearest)
(Caroline is seeking a lift from Bournemouth to the venue and back after the course. If you feel able to provide this, she’ll pay all your fuel costs and meals en route! Please email -Many thanks.)
Terms and Conditions:
This Painted Earth
Terms & Conditions / Cancellation Policy
Your place on This Painted Earth is secured by booking and paying in advance, in full. Staggered payment options are available via PayPal’s checkout system.
If you cancel your booking for any reason, including illness, travel disruption, or any other reasons beyond your control, the following conditions apply:
More than 28 days before the event an 85% refund.
Less than 28 days before the event there is no refund payable. However, if you want to pass your place on to a friend, that’s possible if you supply their name and contact details no less than 48 hours before the event.
Bookings are not transferable from this event to another.
In the unlikely event of us cancelling the event, you’ll be given a full refund and given priority booking on any replacement dates offered.
Age suitability: This event is designed for adults. However, 16-18 year-olds are welcome if accompanied by a responsible, participating adult. Please get in touch before booking if you have any queries regarding age suitability.
Accessibility: The venue we have chosen for this event is generally easily accessible but if you have mobility issues or other physical needs please get in touch prior to booking, so we can see how your needs can be accommodated.
Dogs: apart from assistance dogs, dogs are not permitted at this event.
Alcohol: please do not bring alcohol (or any other intoxicant) with you to this event.
Intellectual copyright: The content provided during our course, including all in-person teaching and printed handouts, is the intellectual property of Rima Staines and Caroline Ross. These are meant for the private use of in-person participants. Please refrain from sharing these resources online or with anyone outside of the course. Respecting our work in creating and delivering unique courses helps us continue to do so.
Other questions: please get in touch.
Rima Staines and Caroline Ross reserve the right to decline any booking.
Newsletters:
We will not sell, distribute or disclose information about you as an individual unless required to do so by English law.
If you provide us with personal information by emailing, telephoning, writing or by placing an order, this information will be collected and stored our internal records. Personal information such as Email, Name, Phone Number, Postal address, including Postcode, will not be shared with anyone except to comply with the law, or protect our rights.
If you are subscribed to our newsletters, you will receive newsletters about workshops and events. We will also notify you of special offers, make announcements affecting our services, or contact you in response to your enquiry.
When unsubscribing from our email/newsletter your data will be deleted from the subscribers database.
THIS PAINTED EARTH
A 5-day course in soulful art-making & paint-making with Rima Staines & Caroline Ross
Outline:
Together, internationally-known artist and Devon resident Rima Staines and bestselling artist and author Caroline Ross (Found and Ground) have devised a 5-day journey in drawing and painting with natural materials from first principles to final painted piece. We’ll explore charcoal, pencil, natural paints and finally work on a wooden roundel, a speciality of Rima's, using repurposed bread boards, helping you grow in confidence and explore the mythic and imaginal realms through your art over our time together.
✷
Both of them have backgrounds in detailed observational drawing and long to bring some technical rigour into self-expression. Between them they have many decades of experience as successful working artists.
✷
Starting on the first day with learning how to make and use natural charcoal, we'll draw from a huge, beautiful still life set up. We’ll make charcoal in a bonfire, tell folktales and dig deeper into the impetus to draw and to paint.
✷
The next day we'll make pigments from mostly local earths and rocks and learn how to turn them into watercolour paints, then use them to paint from the human body (either from a model, from ourselves or from each other). We'll explore where the urge to draw and paint comes from, and how we can align our art and our souls with Earth.
✷
Wednesday and Thursday will be spent devising and creating our paintings on wood with either tempera (egg paint) which Caroline will teach, or with water-based ‘oil paints’, a regular choice of Rima’s. From preparing the surface, drawing the subjects and making the paintings, all with natural materials and one-to-one help and advice on hand, the participants will create their unique paintings home with them, and the knowledge of how to make personal, powerful art that has ecological and social integrity. Friday will be spent completing our final pieces and rounding off the course by sharing what we’ve learned and made.
✷
With a wealth of books, materials, art, experience and inspiration to draw on and share during the week, plus the deep pleasure and joy of working alongside kindred folk, we will uncover wonderful forgotten practices and approaches which can revitalise our artistic lives.
✷
This unique course is suitable for practising artists of any level, whether professional, part time, amateur or returning after time away from creativity. We’ll help create a warm, supportive atmosphere where you’ll be expected to dive into the exercises and opportunities on offer. So, if you haven’t drawn or painted for a while, but would love to come along, get yourself back into working in a sketchbook in the meantime, to reconnect the hand, eye, mind and heart.
✷
All you need to bring are an apron or clothes you’d usually wear to make your art, plus a large hardback spiral or easy to keep open sketchbook (A3 is ideal). If you like to work on a drawing board, feel free to bring a small one, but it’s not essential. A pencil case of your favourite pens, pencils and brushes would also be handy, and a notebook for written notes. After the course, a tailor-made pdf for your own personal continued study will be sent out complete with art materials-recipes, links, bibliography and any other relevant information that comes up during the course.
✷
Rima and Caroline will have books and prints for sale as well as a cornucopia of their art, craft and materials to share with you. We are excited to welcome you to Devon for the debut outing of this new rich and inspirational course.
✷
Dates: July 7-11 2025.
Maximum 20 participants.
Fees: £495
There are 2 bursary supported places available for those who need it, get in touch by email.
Meals: bring a packed lunch or use the on site or local cafes
Accommodation:
Buckfastleigh is a sweet small creative town on the edge of Dartmoor, just a bus ride from the quirky and artistic Totnes, a historic South Devon town known for its alternative thinking and grassroots projects, and the beautiful Dartington Estate and village, home to early radical rural arts, spirituality and ecology study. All these places have plenty of varied cosy accommodation options, from camping, B&Bs to hotels. The nearest beach is just over half an hour's drive, and the wild beauty of Dartmoor just close by.
The workshop will be held at the wonderful Moor Imagination Centre - an old Methodist chapel that has become the home of a vibrant, regenerative and inclusive community arts hub in Buckfastleigh.
Transport:
Train to Totnes (from London, Bristol, Glasgow, Penzance etc) and then 88 Bus to Buckfastleigh (there's even a steam train from Totnes which takes you alongside the beautiful river Dart to Buckfastleigh!)
Parking:
One of the car parks in Buckfastleigh (Mardle Way is nearest)
(Caroline is seeking a lift from Bournemouth to the venue and back after the course. If you feel able to provide this, she’ll pay all your fuel costs and meals en route! Please email -Many thanks.)
Terms and Conditions:
This Painted Earth
Terms & Conditions / Cancellation Policy
Your place on This Painted Earth is secured by booking and paying in advance, in full. Staggered payment options are available via PayPal’s checkout system.
If you cancel your booking for any reason, including illness, travel disruption, or any other reasons beyond your control, the following conditions apply:
More than 28 days before the event an 85% refund.
Less than 28 days before the event there is no refund payable. However, if you want to pass your place on to a friend, that’s possible if you supply their name and contact details no less than 48 hours before the event.
Bookings are not transferable from this event to another.
In the unlikely event of us cancelling the event, you’ll be given a full refund and given priority booking on any replacement dates offered.
Age suitability: This event is designed for adults. However, 16-18 year-olds are welcome if accompanied by a responsible, participating adult. Please get in touch before booking if you have any queries regarding age suitability.
Accessibility: The venue we have chosen for this event is generally easily accessible but if you have mobility issues or other physical needs please get in touch prior to booking, so we can see how your needs can be accommodated.
Dogs: apart from assistance dogs, dogs are not permitted at this event.
Alcohol: please do not bring alcohol (or any other intoxicant) with you to this event.
Intellectual copyright: The content provided during our course, including all in-person teaching and printed handouts, is the intellectual property of Rima Staines and Caroline Ross. These are meant for the private use of in-person participants. Please refrain from sharing these resources online or with anyone outside of the course. Respecting our work in creating and delivering unique courses helps us continue to do so.
Other questions: please get in touch.
Rima Staines and Caroline Ross reserve the right to decline any booking.
Newsletters:
We will not sell, distribute or disclose information about you as an individual unless required to do so by English law.
If you provide us with personal information by emailing, telephoning, writing or by placing an order, this information will be collected and stored our internal records. Personal information such as Email, Name, Phone Number, Postal address, including Postcode, will not be shared with anyone except to comply with the law, or protect our rights.
If you are subscribed to our newsletters, you will receive newsletters about workshops and events. We will also notify you of special offers, make announcements affecting our services, or contact you in response to your enquiry.
When unsubscribing from our email/newsletter your data will be deleted from the subscribers database.
THIS PAINTED EARTH
A 5-day course in soulful art-making & paint-making with Rima Staines & Caroline Ross
Outline:
Together, internationally-known artist and Devon resident Rima Staines and bestselling artist and author Caroline Ross (Found and Ground) have devised a 5-day journey in drawing and painting with natural materials from first principles to final painted piece. We’ll explore charcoal, pencil, natural paints and finally work on a wooden roundel, a speciality of Rima's, using repurposed bread boards, helping you grow in confidence and explore the mythic and imaginal realms through your art over our time together.
✷
Both of them have backgrounds in detailed observational drawing and long to bring some technical rigour into self-expression. Between them they have many decades of experience as successful working artists.
✷
Starting on the first day with learning how to make and use natural charcoal, we'll draw from a huge, beautiful still life set up. We’ll make charcoal in a bonfire, tell folktales and dig deeper into the impetus to draw and to paint.
✷
The next day we'll make pigments from mostly local earths and rocks and learn how to turn them into watercolour paints, then use them to paint from the human body (either from a model, from ourselves or from each other). We'll explore where the urge to draw and paint comes from, and how we can align our art and our souls with Earth.
✷
Wednesday and Thursday will be spent devising and creating our paintings on wood with either tempera (egg paint) which Caroline will teach, or with water-based ‘oil paints’, a regular choice of Rima’s. From preparing the surface, drawing the subjects and making the paintings, all with natural materials and one-to-one help and advice on hand, the participants will create their unique paintings home with them, and the knowledge of how to make personal, powerful art that has ecological and social integrity. Friday will be spent completing our final pieces and rounding off the course by sharing what we’ve learned and made.
✷
With a wealth of books, materials, art, experience and inspiration to draw on and share during the week, plus the deep pleasure and joy of working alongside kindred folk, we will uncover wonderful forgotten practices and approaches which can revitalise our artistic lives.
✷
This unique course is suitable for practising artists of any level, whether professional, part time, amateur or returning after time away from creativity. We’ll help create a warm, supportive atmosphere where you’ll be expected to dive into the exercises and opportunities on offer. So, if you haven’t drawn or painted for a while, but would love to come along, get yourself back into working in a sketchbook in the meantime, to reconnect the hand, eye, mind and heart.
✷
All you need to bring are an apron or clothes you’d usually wear to make your art, plus a large hardback spiral or easy to keep open sketchbook (A3 is ideal). If you like to work on a drawing board, feel free to bring a small one, but it’s not essential. A pencil case of your favourite pens, pencils and brushes would also be handy, and a notebook for written notes. After the course, a tailor-made pdf for your own personal continued study will be sent out complete with art materials-recipes, links, bibliography and any other relevant information that comes up during the course.
✷
Rima and Caroline will have books and prints for sale as well as a cornucopia of their art, craft and materials to share with you. We are excited to welcome you to Devon for the debut outing of this new rich and inspirational course.
✷
Dates: July 7-11 2025.
Maximum 20 participants.
Fees: £495
There are 2 bursary supported places available for those who need it, get in touch by email.
Meals: bring a packed lunch or use the on site or local cafes
Accommodation:
Buckfastleigh is a sweet small creative town on the edge of Dartmoor, just a bus ride from the quirky and artistic Totnes, a historic South Devon town known for its alternative thinking and grassroots projects, and the beautiful Dartington Estate and village, home to early radical rural arts, spirituality and ecology study. All these places have plenty of varied cosy accommodation options, from camping, B&Bs to hotels. The nearest beach is just over half an hour's drive, and the wild beauty of Dartmoor just close by.
The workshop will be held at the wonderful Moor Imagination Centre - an old Methodist chapel that has become the home of a vibrant, regenerative and inclusive community arts hub in Buckfastleigh.
Transport:
Train to Totnes (from London, Bristol, Glasgow, Penzance etc) and then 88 Bus to Buckfastleigh (there's even a steam train from Totnes which takes you alongside the beautiful river Dart to Buckfastleigh!)
Parking:
One of the car parks in Buckfastleigh (Mardle Way is nearest)
(Caroline is seeking a lift from Bournemouth to the venue and back after the course. If you feel able to provide this, she’ll pay all your fuel costs and meals en route! Please email -Many thanks.)
Terms and Conditions:
This Painted Earth
Terms & Conditions / Cancellation Policy
Your place on This Painted Earth is secured by booking and paying in advance, in full. Staggered payment options are available via PayPal’s checkout system.
If you cancel your booking for any reason, including illness, travel disruption, or any other reasons beyond your control, the following conditions apply:
More than 28 days before the event an 85% refund.
Less than 28 days before the event there is no refund payable. However, if you want to pass your place on to a friend, that’s possible if you supply their name and contact details no less than 48 hours before the event.
Bookings are not transferable from this event to another.
In the unlikely event of us cancelling the event, you’ll be given a full refund and given priority booking on any replacement dates offered.
Age suitability: This event is designed for adults. However, 16-18 year-olds are welcome if accompanied by a responsible, participating adult. Please get in touch before booking if you have any queries regarding age suitability.
Accessibility: The venue we have chosen for this event is generally easily accessible but if you have mobility issues or other physical needs please get in touch prior to booking, so we can see how your needs can be accommodated.
Dogs: apart from assistance dogs, dogs are not permitted at this event.
Alcohol: please do not bring alcohol (or any other intoxicant) with you to this event.
Intellectual copyright: The content provided during our course, including all in-person teaching and printed handouts, is the intellectual property of Rima Staines and Caroline Ross. These are meant for the private use of in-person participants. Please refrain from sharing these resources online or with anyone outside of the course. Respecting our work in creating and delivering unique courses helps us continue to do so.
Other questions: please get in touch.
Rima Staines and Caroline Ross reserve the right to decline any booking.
Newsletters:
We will not sell, distribute or disclose information about you as an individual unless required to do so by English law.
If you provide us with personal information by emailing, telephoning, writing or by placing an order, this information will be collected and stored our internal records. Personal information such as Email, Name, Phone Number, Postal address, including Postcode, will not be shared with anyone except to comply with the law, or protect our rights.
If you are subscribed to our newsletters, you will receive newsletters about workshops and events. We will also notify you of special offers, make announcements affecting our services, or contact you in response to your enquiry.
When unsubscribing from our email/newsletter your data will be deleted from the subscribers database.