2025 Summer Workshops: 30th of June - 4th of July
This year we offer workshops in Still Life Painting with Isabel Koger
Portrait Painting with Theodora Capat and Etching with Hans-Peter Szameit.
See more information below.
Book a workshop by sending us an email to: info@sara-academy.se
Österlen/Simrishamn offers a number of attractive B&B’s and hotels during your stay, here’s a link and a suggestion in finding suitable accommodation: https://www.xn--sterlen-80a.se/sv/bo-pa-osterlen/.
The closest airport to Simrishamn is Copenhagen (2,5 hours), from there you take the train to Simrishamn. If you have any questions about our workshops, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Still Life Painting with Isabel Koger
30th of June - 4th of July
Instructor: Isabel Koger
Time: 09.00 - 16.00, 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
Price: 9.500 SEK (including VAT and 1000 SEK non-refundable deposit)
Included: All materials (oil paint, canvas, paintbrushes, palette, easel etc)
This workshop is for anyone who would like to focus on still life painting, it suits both beginners as well as more experienced painters. Regardless of what style and medium you are used to creating with, we will go through the basics of still life painting; from how to organise your palette and mixing colours, to how to apply the paint onto the canvas and how to build the painting like the old masters did. Isabel will guide you through it all, step by step, and paint alongside you. We will talk about things such as composition, the history of still life painting, complementary colours, values and material care.
Isabel is currently working as a painting and drawing instructor at SARA and has years of experience painting from life and exhibiting her work.
There are 8 spaces available in this workshop and students will work in our ateliers at SARA Academy. All materials are included, as well as lunch and fika (typically consisting of a Swedish pastry/cake with tea/coffee) and will be served at the school.
Please note that if less than 4 students sign up for the workshop we will inform students at least one month before start and a full refund will be paid, otherwise the deposit is non-refundable.
To book Still Life Painting workshop, or if you have any questions about the workshop, please email us on:
Summer Workshop Flower painting
Portrait Painting with Theodora Capat
30th of June - 4th of July
Instructor: Theodora Capat
Time: 09.00 - 16.00, 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
Price: 9.500 SEK (including VAT and 1000 SEK non-refundable deposit)
Included: All materials (oil paint, canvas, paintbrushes, palette, easel etc)
More detailed information about the Portrait Painting workshop will be posted soon.
Theodora is currently teaching on the three year program at SARA as well as exhibiting and painting in her studio in Kastellet, Vaxholm, Stockholm, where she also has private students.
There are 8 places in total available on the Portrait Painting Workshop. All materials are included.
Please note that if less than 5 students sign up for the workshop we will inform students at least one month before start and a full refund will be paid, otherwise the deposit is non-refundable.
To book Portrait Painting, or if you have any questions about the workshop, please email us on:
Summer Workshop
Etching with Hans-Peter Szameit
30th of June - 4th of July
Instructor: Hans-Peter Szameit
Time: 09.00 - 16.00, 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
Price: 9.500 SEK (including VAT and 1000 SEK non-refundable deposit)
Included: All materials
Learn the basics of the intaglio printing techniques of etching, dry point and aquatint, and use them to create your own etching from a copper plate. Participants will be guided through the process of etching all the way from the transferring the initial drawing to the copper plate, etching and inking the plate, to pulling the final print through the press by hand.
Hans-Peter Szameit, co-founder of SARA, will lead the workshop.
We will have 8 places in total available on this workshop.
Students will work in our ateliers at SARA Academy.
Materials are provided.
Materials included:
– Copper plate
– Paper for 20 prints (including proofs)
Additional copper plates and paper may be purchased at the school.
All other tools and materials necessary for etching are provided for use.
If you wish to make an etching from an existing drawing that you have created, please bring it to the workshop. Note: not all drawings may be suitable given the limited time and scope of the workshop. Ideally, drawings should be the same size or slightly smaller than the copper plate that is provided.
Please note that if less than 4 students sign up for the workshop or if the workshop needs to be cancelled due to the pandemic, we will inform students at least one month before start and a full refund will be paid, otherwise the deposit is non-refundable.
To book the Etching workshop or if you have any questions about the workshop, please email us on:
Summer Workshop Etching
“I have been on a one-week workshop in Landscape painting. Wonderful nature and with a very knowledgeable and generous instructor I have been able to learn more and increase my ability in Landscape painting. It is a privilege to have the opportunity to learn a little bit of the knowledge available at The Swedish Academy of Realist Art."
Participant at the Landscape Painting Workshop, Summer 2019