This page includes information on CBP courses and a list of colleges that have CBP courses (scroll to bottom of page). See their websites for current course dates. CBP courses may vary in date and may not be available every term, so CBPS cannot guarantee exactly what is on offer at any time. CBPS is not responsible for the content of any of these sites.
Note that courses may have been affected by Covid-19: check with the provider for the latest information. Many teachers and centres are now offering online classes.
London
CBPS member teacher William Cai has a CBP class at Charing Cross Library Saturdays, 11am to 1pm. To join, please contact Charing Cross Library, email info@orientalgallery.co.uk or phone 07956 227 997. Online classes.
Xiaolan Gu teaches at Hampstead School of Art.
Guanghwa Bookshop Chinese painting courses. They provide the materials. Contact them to book: Tel: 0207 437 3737, E-mailing info@guanghwa.com. Online classes.
The Princes School sometimes has CBP and calligraphy classes.
There are CBP teachers at the Sunny Arts Centre.
Cornwall
NEW workshops with CBPS member teacher Katrina Stephens, monthly at StableArt Bodmin. Full class details and cost on the Classes section of their website. Also one to one and small group tuition and demonstrations at her new studio in Fowey: Blue Feather Studio, 9b South Street, Fowey, PL23 1AR . Contact via her website.
Devon
CBPS member teacher Peng Su:
- Regular Chinese Ink Painting Group in Exeter, St Sidwell Community Centre, Old Chapel, Monthly, every third Saturday 10am-1:30pm. See Baozhangbrush for details & contact.
- Work shop group at The Art and Frame Centre at Kelly Bray, Callington (close to the Devon and Cornwall border), the first and third Thursday afternoon of each month from 1pm to 4pm. Contact: purpledragon@btinternet.com
Hampshire
Sussex
CBPS member teacher Pauline Molesworth teaches CBP in Horsham. Contact rogermolesworth
Kent
CBPS Member teacher Ann Fairchild teaches in Canterbury Adult Education.
Surrey
CBPS member teacher Angela Reich is teaching online and at her home studio. She also has classes with Kingston Adult Education. Online classes.
Berkshire
CBPS member teacher Jean Turton has a regular workshop 2nd Saturday of the month at Church House, Caversham, 10am to 1pm. jeanmturton@aol.com
Buckinghamshire
Missenden Abbey has CBP and calligraphy courses with CBPS Member teachers. Book through Missenden School of the Creative Arts.
Essex
CBPS Teacher Jane Evans teaches in October and March each year at Dedham Hall. Book directly through sarton@dedhamhall.demon.co.uk
Cambridge
Oxfordshire
CBPS member teacher Jean Turton will be at Denman June 2020 for Life on Water, and August 2020 for Pleasures of High Summer.
Oxfordshire Chinese Brush Painting Group Calendar of Events 2020. Please contact Tricia Wormald to book a place via cbpoxon
Leicestershire/Northamptonshire
CBPS member teachers Paul Maslowski and Claire Seaton form Double Happiness Studio MH. They run monthly Saturday workshops for Leicestershire Chinese Brush Painters (LCBP), open to all levels, at the University of Leicester Botanic Gardens, Leicester (map) and are on Facebook.
Claire also teaches CBP at Knuston Hall throughout the year on a residential or non-residential basis. Type Chinese in the search box.
Paul & Claire also teach around the country by invitation, having taught in Hampshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire & Warwickshire this last year alone. Please contact either of them by clicking on the links above.
Nottinghamshire
CBPS member teacher Peter Millward is teaching at:
- Nottingham Society of Artists studio on Friar Lane every Wednesday from 10.30 to 12.30
- Wednesday nights in Toton Tesco near Beeston/Nottingham 7.00pm to 9.00pm all year round.
Shropshire
CBPS member teacher Leo Donaghy teaches at Westhope College, Craven Arms.
Wales
- Kuen Shan (Llanfoist Village Hall, Church Lane, Abergavenny, NP7 9LP): classes monthly on a Thursday 10.am – 12 Mid day kwongkuenshan@aol.com
Non-residential CBP Classes
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- Chinese Centre in Islington, London
- The Bishop Ho Ming Wah Association runs CBP classes at St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London
- Sunny Art Centre, Westminster, London
- The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, London
- Guanghwa Company Limited, London
- Letchworth Settlement, Herts.
- Kingston Adult Education, Surrey.
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Colleges with residential CBP courses
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- Ammerdown Centre (Somerset) www.ammerdown.org
- Claridge House (West Sussex) www.claridgehousequaker.org.uk
- Denman College (Oxfordshire) www.denman.org.uk
- Dillington House www.dillington.com
- Higham Hall (Cumbria) www.highamhall.com
- Knuston Hall (Norhamptonshire) www.knustonhall.org.uk [type Chinese in the search box]
- Missenden Abbey (Bucks) http://www.missendenschoolofcreativearts.co.uk
- West Dean College (West Sussex) www.westdean.org.uk