Thank you for your interest in painting with me. I’m not taking new mentoring bookings at the moment.
PAINT LOOSE & ALIVE
Six weeks of 1:1 artist mentoring with Aly Harte
You already paint. You already know you want to make work.
But perhaps you’ve reached the point where another tutorial isn’t what you need.
You need someone to look properly at your work with you.
To notice what you keep returning to. To question what you’re holding onto. To help you recognise the colours, marks, subjects and ideas that are beginning to feel like yours — and give you the direction to push them further.
Paint Loose & Alive is six weeks of individual mentoring for artists who are ready to develop their work rather than simply learn another technique.
This isn’t six weeks of me asking you to paint like me.
Quite the opposite.
I want to help you recognise what is already happening in your paintings — and discover what could happen next.
WHAT WE COVER
Your work leads our six weeks together.
There is a framework underneath the mentoring, but it isn’t a rigid course and there aren’t six identical modules that every artist has to work through.
We begin with where you are now.
We look closely at your existing work: what excites you, what frustrates you, what you repeatedly return to and where you feel stuck. Together, we’ll start identifying the threads already running through your practice.
From there, our conversations and practical work can include:
Your visual language
The marks, subjects, materials, compositions and ideas that keep appearing in your work — and how to develop them rather than constantly starting again.
Colour & instinct
Understanding your colour choices, strengthening your palette and learning when to trust instinct rather than reaching for the safe option.
Gesture, tone & simplification
Using the foundations I return to in my own practice to help you make stronger decisions without becoming trapped in detail.
Developing a body of work
Moving beyond individual paintings and exploring what happens when an idea deserves more than one canvas. We can look at series, scale, repetition, experimentation and editing.
Your work in the world
How you present yourself and your paintings — your website, social media, mailing list and the language you use around your work. Not turning yourself into a marketing machine, but making sure the way you show your work reflects the artist you are becoming.
Direction
What deserves your attention next? By the end of our six weeks, I want you to have a much clearer sense of what you want to make, what you can leave behind and where you want to take your practice.
And if your work needs something completely different, we change the plan.
That’s the point of 1:1 mentoring.
HOW IT WORKS
We meet privately online for 75 minutes each week for six weeks.
Bring paintings. Bring unfinished work. Bring ideas, questions, experiments and the painting you nearly put in the bin.
I’ll look at the work with you, ask questions, challenge you when I think you’re playing safe and give you practical direction for the time between our sessions.
You don’t need to arrive with a perfectly formed style.
You need to arrive wanting to make the work.
INVESTMENT
£1,000 for the complete six-week mentorship.
Staggered payment is available.
The next mentoring block begins 10th February 2027
Places are deliberately limited so I have the time and headspace to properly engage with each artist and their work.
Thank you for your interest in painting with me. I’m not taking new mentoring bookings at the moment.
PAINT LOOSE & ALIVE
Six weeks of 1:1 artist mentoring with Aly Harte
You already paint. You already know you want to make work.
But perhaps you’ve reached the point where another tutorial isn’t what you need.
You need someone to look properly at your work with you.
To notice what you keep returning to. To question what you’re holding onto. To help you recognise the colours, marks, subjects and ideas that are beginning to feel like yours — and give you the direction to push them further.
Paint Loose & Alive is six weeks of individual mentoring for artists who are ready to develop their work rather than simply learn another technique.
This isn’t six weeks of me asking you to paint like me.
Quite the opposite.
I want to help you recognise what is already happening in your paintings — and discover what could happen next.
WHAT WE COVER
Your work leads our six weeks together.
There is a framework underneath the mentoring, but it isn’t a rigid course and there aren’t six identical modules that every artist has to work through.
We begin with where you are now.
We look closely at your existing work: what excites you, what frustrates you, what you repeatedly return to and where you feel stuck. Together, we’ll start identifying the threads already running through your practice.
From there, our conversations and practical work can include:
Your visual language
The marks, subjects, materials, compositions and ideas that keep appearing in your work — and how to develop them rather than constantly starting again.
Colour & instinct
Understanding your colour choices, strengthening your palette and learning when to trust instinct rather than reaching for the safe option.
Gesture, tone & simplification
Using the foundations I return to in my own practice to help you make stronger decisions without becoming trapped in detail.
Developing a body of work
Moving beyond individual paintings and exploring what happens when an idea deserves more than one canvas. We can look at series, scale, repetition, experimentation and editing.
Your work in the world
How you present yourself and your paintings — your website, social media, mailing list and the language you use around your work. Not turning yourself into a marketing machine, but making sure the way you show your work reflects the artist you are becoming.
Direction
What deserves your attention next? By the end of our six weeks, I want you to have a much clearer sense of what you want to make, what you can leave behind and where you want to take your practice.
And if your work needs something completely different, we change the plan.
That’s the point of 1:1 mentoring.
HOW IT WORKS
We meet privately online for 75 minutes each week for six weeks.
Bring paintings. Bring unfinished work. Bring ideas, questions, experiments and the painting you nearly put in the bin.
I’ll look at the work with you, ask questions, challenge you when I think you’re playing safe and give you practical direction for the time between our sessions.
You don’t need to arrive with a perfectly formed style.
You need to arrive wanting to make the work.
INVESTMENT
£1,000 for the complete six-week mentorship.
Staggered payment is available.
The next mentoring block begins 10th February 2027
Places are deliberately limited so I have the time and headspace to properly engage with each artist and their work.
