A hundred free tutorials, no progress
You’ve watched the videos and half-finished the exercises, but it never adds up to work you’re proud of, because nothing joins it together.
Courses & Workshops
Learn to paint — and to build a life around it.
Self-paced online courses in the CP52 learning platform, and real, hands-on workshops at the Barn in Cornwall. Take any one on its own, or get every single one the moment you join H₂BA², the flagship programme.
Taught by a maker, not a middleman
Learn from the teacher one in three students book again.
Real technique, taught properly: online at your own pace, or hands-on at the Barn in Cornwall. Same teaching either way, and every course and workshop is included the day you join H₂BA².
Ask about a Barn workshop →Or browse the online courses · every one included with the programme.
Why learn here
The teaching record is real
Hand-counted from the register. No rounded-up marketing numbers.
708workshop attendances taught in person at the Barn
330individual students taught face-to-face
1 in 3come back for another workshop, a 37% return rate
1,000+people taught across the career
Sound familiar?
You can learn to paint on YouTube — you just never seem to get anywhere
Talent is rarely the thing in the way. It’s the lack of a path, and the lack of someone who can see what you can’t.
You can make it — you can’t sell it
The painting isn’t the hard part any more. Pricing it, talking about it, and turning it into something that actually earns is where it stalls.
No one looking over your shoulder
Alone, you can’t see the one habit holding you back. A teacher who’s taught a thousand people spots it in a minute.
Two ways in
Take one on its own, or get the lot
Same teaching either way. Pick the bit you want, or open the whole library with the programme.
Buy it on its own
Take any single online course or in-person workshop as a one-off. No membership, no commitment, just the bit you want when you want it. Online courses are register-interest while we wire standalone billing; workshops are booked in person at the Barn.
Best value
Or get everything with H₂BA²
Every course and workshop on this page is included in full when you join H₂BA², the 52-week guided path from creative drive to a working, earning art career, with a whole business run by your own AI. Two cohorts a year, ten places each. See the programme →
Online courses
Learn at your own pace, inside the platform
Video, rich lessons, downloads and exercises, all in the CP52 learning platform. It’s live in test today; standalone sales open the moment billing is wired, so register your interest and you’ll be first in.
Watercolour Foundations
Start painting in watercolour with real confidence: washes, wet-in-wet, and your first finished pieces you’re actually proud of.
Sketching on Location
Take a sketchbook out into the world and come home with something alive. Quick, confident drawing from real life.
Colour Mixing Masterclass
Mix any colour you can see from a small, deliberate palette, and finally leave the mud behind for good.
Sell Your Art Without the Cringe
Talk about your work and sell it without feeling like a fraud. Honest, human selling that actually sounds like you.
Pricing Your Work
Put honest, confident numbers on your art — and hold them. The maths, the mindset, and how to stop under-charging.
Instagram for Artists
Turn a scattered feed into a gentle, sustainable shop window (a rhythm you can keep without it eating your studio time).
More in the catalogue
New courses are added to the CP52 catalogue as they’re built. Register your interest and we’ll tell you the moment standalone purchase opens.
Live in test Honest status: the learning platform is running in test today. Standalone course sales open when billing is wired; until then it’s register-interest, and every course is already included inside H₂BA².
In-person workshops
Hands-on at the Barn in Cornwall
Real, face-to-face workshops grouped by medium: over 700 attendances by 330+ students, and more than a third book again. Dates are arranged in person at the Barn.
Watercolour
Loose, luminous washes. The Barn’s most-booked medium, for absolute beginners right through to confident painters.
Acrylics
Fast, forgiving and bold. Build up in layers, fix as you go, and finish a real painting in a single sitting.
Oils
Slow, buttery colour and real depth, in unhurried studio sessions with the medium the masters loved.
Mixed Media
Ink, collage, watercolour and more, combined on one page — full permission to experiment and play.
Printing
Hands-on printmaking — carve, ink and pull your own small editions and take real prints home.
Children’s Book
Illustrate and lay out your own picture book, page by page: story, characters and finished spreads.
Real & running Honest status: these are real workshops, taught in person and booked at the Barn in Cornwall. And every one is included when you join H₂BA².
The value stack
The cheapest way to get all of it
You can wait and pick courses off one at a time, or open the whole library at once with the programme.
Everything, one programme
£6,000£4,800founding place · first two cohorts- Every online coursethe whole CP52 catalogue, as it growsIncluded
- Every Barn workshop mediumwatercolour, acrylics, oils, mixed media, print & moreIncluded
- InkFox + WebDeck toolsyour own AI-run creative business£2,548
- The 52-week guided pathmentoring + a fortnightly 1:1 with DamianIncluded
Founding place£4,800/yr
See H₂BA² →Rather take just one?
A single course or workshop
Online courses are register-interest while we wire standalone billing; leave your email and you’re first in when purchase opens. No price invented in the meantime.
Workshops are booked in person at the Barn, arranged direct with Damian.
The programme runs just two cohorts a year, ten places each. Cohort 1 opens 1 October 2026, Cohort 2 in April 2027. The founding price is for the first two intakes only. Workshop dates at the Barn are limited by the room.
No pressure, no invented prices, no catch
Registering interest in a course costs nothing and commits you to nothing. You just hear first when standalone purchase opens, at a real price we set then. Asking about a workshop is a genuine enquiry, not a checkout. And the programme has a proper application and a Zoom chat first, so both sides know it’s the right fit before anyone pays a penny.
Straight answers
Before you get in touch
Can I buy a single online course right now?
Not yet — and I won’t pretend otherwise. The learning platform is live in test, but standalone billing isn’t wired, so single-course sales are register-interest for now. Leave your email and you’re first in the moment it opens. Every course is already included if you join H₂BA².
Are the workshops real, or a placeholder?
Real. They’re taught in person at the Barn in Cornwall: 708 attendances by 330 individual students so far, and more than a third book again. Dates are arranged directly with me.
Do I have to join the programme to learn from you?
No. You can take a workshop on its own, or register for a single course when purchase opens. H₂BA² is simply the best-value way to get the whole library at once, plus the tools, mentoring and 52-week path around it.
What does a single course or workshop cost?
Single-course pricing is set when standalone sales open. I’m not going to invent a number before then. Workshop prices depend on the medium and session, so ask and I’ll give you the real figure. The programme itself is £6,000/year (about £500/month), or £4,800 for a founding place in the first two cohorts.
Is it the same teaching online and in person?
Yes: same method, same eye, same standards. The online courses are how I teach when we can’t be in the same room; the Barn workshops are the hands-on version with me looking over your shoulder.
Two ways in · one teacher
Start with a single class — or open the whole library.
Ask about a hands-on workshop at the Barn, register your interest in a single online course, or get every course and workshop included the moment you join H₂BA²: the 52-week path to a working, earning art career with your own AI running the business behind it.
