Residential CBP

CIM Academy, Cookham, Berkshire

Details regarding Paul’s courses, along with other CBP courses, are shown on the Missenden School of Creative Arts website. Principle led teaching gives us the opportunity to explore subjects in detail while learning a host of brush techniques which can be applied to other subjects.

On The Wing: The heroic spirit of wild birds… 2026

Paul will be running a 2 day residential ‘Summer School’ course entitled ‘On The Wing: The heroic spirit of wild birds‘ at the CIM Academy (Google Map), Cookham, Berkshire on Monday 1st – Tuesday 2nd September 2026.

The weekend workshops will allow us to focus on how birds of prey are created in the Chinese style. Birds of prey are a striking symbol throughout Chinese history and elements of the historic foundation will be built into the teaching. We will also explore how to create your own composition through the inclusion of accompanying landscape elements. A Saturday night presentation will add to the foundation created by showing birds of prey masterpieces through time.

Eagle's head - detail
P Maslowski 2015

Double Happiness - 2 horses
P Maslowski 2025

On the run with Wild Horses… 2026

Paul ran a 2 day residential Spring course entitled ‘On the run with Wild Horses‘ at the CIM Academy (Google Map), Cookham, Berkshire on Saturday 16th – Sunday 17th May 2026. The weekend workshops allowed us to focus on how horses are created in the Chinese style. Horses are a major symbol throughout Chinese history and elements of the historic foundation were built into the teaching. We also explored how to create your own composition through the inclusion of accompanying landscape elements. A Saturday night presentation and demonstration built further on the foundation we had built by showing horse masterpieces through time.

Trees in Landscape… 2025

Paul ran a 2 day residential Spring course entitled ‘Trees in Landscape‘ at Missenden Abbey, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire on Saturday 10th – Sunday 11th May 2025.

This weekend workshop allowed us to concentrate on how trees are created in the Chinese style and built up depending on the composition of the painting…

Red Maple and water - Paul Maslowski 2021

Colourful Phoenix - P Maslowski 2024

A Chinese Phoenix is more than the sum of its parts… 2024

Paul ran a 2 day residential Spring course entitled ‘A Chinese Phoenix is more than the sum of its parts…‘ at Missenden Abbey, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire on Saturday 23rd – Sunday 24th March 2024. This weekend workshop allowed us to concentrate on how a Chinese Phoenix is built up in order that students could create their own…

Journey to the West 2023 Summer School

Paul & Claire ran residential/non-residential Summer School CBP courses at Missenden Abbey (map), Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire for the week 14-18 August 2023. The theme we explored was the great Chinese literary work ‘A Journey to the West’ which is also known as ‘The Monkey King’…

There were two parts to the week which could be accessed together or separately:

Journey to the West Part 1: Monday 14 – Wednesday 16 May with Paul

Journey to the West Part 2: Thursday 17 – Friday 18 May with Paul & Claire

Working on the principles of the Journey to the West gave us the opportunity to explore them while learning a host of brush techniques which can be applied to other subjects.

Monkey with iron cudgel - Claire Seaton 2022

Red Spring - Crane with Plum pine and bamboo - Paul M 2023

Red Spring 2023

Paul taught a 2 day residential Winter School entitled ‘Red Spring’ on the weekend of Saturday 25th – Sunday 26th February 2023 at Missenden Abbey (map), Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.

Over the course of the weekend this course entitled ‘Red Spring‘ explored plum blossom, Chinese cranes and bamboo along with other subjects which link with Chinese New Year, the central colour of which is the colour red.

Over the Misty Mountains 2022 Summer School

Paul ran a 3 day residential Summer School CBP course entitled ‘Over the Misty Mountains‘ at Missenden Abbey (map), Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire from Wednesday 17th – Friday 19th August 2022.

Stubborn Ox in the Lofty Mountains after Qu Ding - Paul Maslowski 2020

Double Dragon - Paul Maslowski 2021

A Chinese Dragon is more than the sum of its parts... 2022

Paul ran a 2 day residential Winter course entitled 'A Chinese Dragon is more than the sum of its parts...' at Missenden Abbey, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire on Saturday 26th - Sunday 27th February 2022.

This workshop concentrated on how a Chinese Dragon is built up in order that students could create their own...

Fish, Ponds and Trees 2021 Summer School

New for 2021, Paul taught a 3 day residential Summer School CBP course at Missenden Abbey, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire from Monday 16th to Wednesday 18th August. The course was entitled ‘Chinese Brush Painting: Fish, Ponds and Trees’. Available CBP courses are shown on the Missenden School of Creative Arts website.

Chinese Garden (Memories of Biddulph) - Paul Maslowski 2020

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