One of the extra pleasures you’ll enjoy on a Watermill creative course is the food. As well as inspired tuition, warm hospitality, beautiful accommodation and stunning locations, we offer you…
It was said of the late Prime Minister of the UK, Harold Macmillan that he liked nothing better than taking a good trollop to bed. [I’m sorry I’ll type that…
In the last six years our hidden array of photovoltaic panels has produced more than 90,000* KwH, (kilowatt hours) of electricity from the sun and saved the emission of 63…
Silently and unseen, the leaves have fallen for more than half a century in our bamboo glade between the millstream and the river, creating a cushioned pathway through the towering…
There hasn’t been enough snow yet for skiing in the Apuan Alps near us, but I’m happy to say that my favourite online art magazine DailyArt has made up for…
A tandem bicycle, a friend, and a spark of creativity I don’t know whether you have ever been on a tandem bicycle, but in my experience, you need a good…
Do you have an NPP? We are always delighted to welcome them to the Watermill, as well as NKPs, NWPs and NILPs! (For the uninitiated, that’s Non-Painting Partners, Non-Knitting Partners,…
We are not in the habit of passing on cute social media pictures, amusing and uplifting as they may be, but we couldn’t resist this one (or rather, these two:…
We suppose, in this age of instant communications on social media, that postcard-sending, like letter-writing, is a dying art. But we think there’s nothing nicer, especially for the children and…
There used to be an expression “the Greeks had a word for it,” a coded comment, the ‘it’ being something that could not be openly expressed at the time of…
Learning to blow one’s own trumpet doesn’t come easy to Englishmen like Bill, who are taught diffidence from the year dot. But when a man you admire gives unstinting…
We call our Watermill courses ‘convivial creativity’ and we believe that creativity is often a communal, collaborative affair. There is individual genius, of course, but for it to flourish fully…