Week long residential art courses
Our Ethos.
Triptych Courses begin with a simple idea: given the time and space, great strides in one’s art practice can be made. On the courses, a week is dedicated to working with hands-on guidance from an artist-tutor. You will be staying in beautiful houses with inspirational surroundings and have your every need catered for.
Upcoming Courses
Lucy Threlfall | 13 - 20 April, 2026
Tutor Lucy Threlfall returns to Verrocchio Arts centre in the heart of Tuscany for her second consecutive year. Looking to capture the essence of spring as it blossoms in the tuscan foothills, developing and nurturing ones visual language. this course will be a hybrid of plein-air and studio painting and drawing and open to all skill levels.
Eugenie Vronskaya | 21 - 28 June, 2026
Tutor Eugenie Vronskaya hosts for the first time in Verrocchio Art Center. In the walled Tuscan village of Casole d’Elsa, Eugenie Vronskaya will be teaching her week-long intensive in both the the Art Centers studios and in the surrounding countryside. This course looks to establish a process of abstraction via reduction over a process of simplifying the observable, using drawing and oils. This course is open to all levels.
Symondsbury Manor
Eugenie Vronskaya | 10 -17 September, 2026
Intensive week-long course lead by artist and Heatherley’s tutor Eugenie Vronskaya at Symondsbury Manor, situated in Bridport, England. Drawing inspiration from the stunning English countryside, Eugenie’s tutelage focuses on abstracting landscape through drawing and painting. This course is predmonitaly focused on oil paints and open to all skill levels.
“Triptych Course gives you the opportunity for six days of uninterrupted, full-on art making. You’re in the company of eight people, away from everyday distractions, in a state of eating, sleeping, and breathing art. Every day you make a little push forward, and that consistency amounts to a massive leap forward across the week.”
- Eugenie Vronskaya, Artist-Tutor
The artists are given the rare luxury of complete liberation from daily life: breakfast, lunch, dinner (not to mention dessert and wine!) are provided; cabs and transportation are arranged; grocery runs happen well before everyone wakes up; materials are sources, boards gessoed, and ready to use upon arrival.
The artists are freed from the little concerns of quotidian life and are able to dedicate themselves entirely to art.
