Through a focused week of learning portraiture skills, discover and enhance your techniques in your chosen art medium. In daily art workshops we’ll learn to capture the outline, have courage to go deeper and see with new eyes, and be released to interpret the character and identity of our sitter, ourselves, and Jesus himself.
No experience necessary, but a love of learning and a desire to be challenged. Materials provided, or bring your own as preferred. Please bring your own easel.
Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in Textile design, Mark has taught art for many years. He also worked in a Christian home for ex-offenders for 12 years. The last eight years he has been running a retreat house with his wife Val in Hereford, encouraging all forms of creativity.
Parent, teacher, vicar and college chaplain, Val and her husband Mark now run a small retreat house in Hereford. Val has walked alongside many bereaved families and spends a large portion of her time training head teachers and their staff in how to journey the tragic circumstances that many children and their families find themselves in as a consequence of bereavement.
20–24 October 2025 (Mon–Fri)
Ruth Hassall
For the Apostle Paul, a desire for a deeper knowledge of God and the conviction of its necessity flows through all of his words, actions…
Book now for £380 per person (£480 en suite)
11–15 April 2025 (Fri–Tue)
Janey Petterson
A little teaching, a lot of listening and reflection and quite a bit of making in air dry clay, over three days, we’ll look at…
Book now for £405 per person (£505 en suite)
14–20 July 2025 (Mon–Sun)
Mark and Val Turner
Each morning, as we engage in prayer, thought and paint, find an oasis opportunity to worship while we observe and record what we see within…
Book now for £595 per person (£745 en suite)
9–15 August 2025 (Sat–Fri)
Sam and Rachel Chaplin, Simon Guillebaud
Jesus promised us life in abundance, life to the full. Join us as we explore that offer, get re-envisioned together, and commissioned to live out…
Book now for £570 per person (£720 en suite)
29 Sep–3 Oct 2025 (Mon–Fri)
Lynne Pugh
We are surrounded by signs and symbols in our everyday life which communicate so many things without words. Christians have long used symbols, from the…
Book now for £380 per person (£480 en suite)
6–10 October 2025 (Mon–Fri)
Gretel White, Vittoria Hancock
A creative retreat to focus in on tapestry, embroidery or handicrafts. Whether you are a beginner at stitching, or an expert, come and join us…
Book now for £380 per person (£480 en suite)
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Wondering what it will be like to stay at Lee Abbey for a retreat or a holiday?
You will receive a warm welcome from our international Community, a beautiful and spacious home to stay in, delicious meals prepared and served for you, a well resourced library, quiet spaces to relax in, lawn games to play, 288 acres of our estate to explore, the wild north Devon coastline and the South West coastal path (literally on our doorstep), and our own beach.
Any questions? Please get in touch…
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