Seabournes Studios has been set up at our home, as a space for workshops with professional artists and for non-taught art retreats.

It is a place where individuals (with or without partners) can come on workshops to be tutored by professional artists or, on retreats, where artists can spend a few days, simply focussing on their art, alongside other artists. No tuition will be given on retreats .

On taught workshops, tuition can take place in the studio or, en plein air in the beautiful gardens which run down to and along the River Wye. Likewise with retreats, the studio, gardens and river bank are to be enjoyed as a space to rejuvenate and ‘breathe’ whilst painting.

The gardens were laid down in the 1920s along Arts and Crafts lines. Some of the structure has now gone but we are slowly restoring as much as we can. There are fabulous mature trees, both native and specimen, with formal areas, wilder areas and the natural habitat along the river bank.

The house was once part of an ancient complex which includes Fawley Chapel . There is a natural ford on the river here, where in the 11th Century, Fawley acted as a distribution centre. The monks residing here, received produce from both sides of the river, placing them onto boats to be taken up and down stream.

Our local market towns are Ross on Wye, Ledbury and the cathedral City of Hereford,. We lie on a stretch of river known as the Middle Wye.