SüessART Academy
Professional advanced and targeted specialized courses in small groups
The current offer of the SüessART Academy provides you with the basis and all possibilities for discovering and expanding new and individual forms of expression in a professional environment.
We grant you a quiet and safe work in small groups (max. 4-5 participants) in our suitable studio atmosphere with spacious, bright workplaces. In the confrontation with colors, materials and forms we awaken and expand your artistic potential.
If you would like to immerse yourself intensively in the world of painting, we recommend a professional painting workshop lasting several days. As described at ifolor, you are also in good hands as a beginner.
SüessART Academy
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Themes / Dates 2025
What next? – Finishing (finish painting)
D2025-08 / 22.10. – 24.10.2025 / 3 Days / CHF 480.-
Who doesn’t know them – the works that are never quite finished! When is a painting finished? This is a big question for all painters. However, doubts or uncertainties can often be resolved more easily when viewing and discussing in a small group.
How can different shapes or areas of color be combined to create a large, successful composition? Which parts of the picture will gain new expressive power through targeted reduction or even omission? Which color combinations, which ‘eye-catcher’ brings additional tension or even decisive depth and attention to the picture?
We will work together on various possibilities and techniques for completing the paintings you have prepared and brought with you (we will not start any new works in this workshop). We will deepen our knowledge of image structure and composition.
The ‘Finisher Workshop’ is aimed at advanced students and painters who have experience of working with acrylics or who may have already taken a course with Robert Süess (not compulsory).
Winter thoughts freely realized
D2025-09 / 09.12. – 12.12.2025 / 4 Days / CHF 630.-
Creativity is always a step into the unknown. The central theme of this course is inspiring and motivating work and translating your own lively world of ideas into the actual painting.
It is about the courageous development of powerful impressions in generous layering, new ways of expressing moods and the reflection of natural life processes in concrete material and spatial references. I love the ‘magic of the material’. Together we create surfaces with depth in several steps before we condense, reduce and bring the pictorial expression to an expressive finish in dialog with the world of color.
This course is aimed at those who are open to new approaches.
Themes / Dates 2026
Be free for your own creativity
D2026-01 / 12.01. – 16.01.2026 / 5 Days / CHF 790.-
In this course I will introduce you to your own creative path through a free and courageous way of working – away from previous constraints, guidelines and limitations, but through new impressions.
A surprising and uninhibited interplay of technical possibilities is complemented by your own world of ideas. You will practise the impulsive gesture that gives a picture its expressiveness and reveals the freedom of the painter. You will experience a new creative and artistic process, both experimentally and expressively, which will lead you further into your artistic signature.
Embark on a creative journey of discovery and join me on an unstoppable, unrestrained and in-depth plunge into the world of colour and material.
This course is aimed at people who are open to new approaches.
Speaking with colours
D2026-02 / 09.03. – 13.03.2026 / 5 Days / CHF 790.-
Rich areas of colour, poured, filled or painted, cover our substructure of collages and layers of material. Some colours speak loudly, others whisper softly, some spread out boldly, others withdraw elegantly. Colours are not simply a means to an end – they live, change, demand space. Sometimes they even seem to have their own little life of their own. And we can achieve a lot even with just a few colours and pigments.
I will skilfully guide you into the surprising compositions of the world of colour and work with you to find the right mixtures for your compositions.
We also work with the different qualities of the colours and find surprising and harmonious whispers of colour not only through complementary effects.
This course is aimed at people who are open to new approaches.
Develop cheeky image compositions
D2026-03 / 07.04. – 10.04.2026 / 4 Days / CHF 650.-
In this workshop, we want to break new ground and achieve the extraordinary through our courage and boldness. Away from our usual work and our own routine, we will overcome boundaries and blockages, free ourselves from inner constraints and gain a new, strong self-confidence with more freedom in the realisation of our personal works.
The focus is on trying out different new materials and techniques with a variety of applications and possible combinations.
We control coincidences, find surprising, but nevertheless functioning compositions and, despite more freedom in painting with different techniques, regain an organised framework for the further development of our personal form of artistic expression.
This course is aimed at people who are open to new approaches.
Small pictures with a twist
D2026-04 / 20.04. – 24.04.2026 / 5 Days / CHF 790.-
Even the small format – whether canvas, cardboard or paper – has the full potential to create fascinating pictorial spaces in the interplay of pictorial planes, surfaces, forms and condensations, to paint over them again, to reduce them and to set specific accents.
This workshop will focus on a variety of applications and possible combinations of different collage materials, supplemented with drawings and typographic elements, with which we will create fascinating compositions and series in small format.
New forms of artistic expression are created through experimental work and the playful learning of easy-to-use techniques and materials. And in the final revision, courage is required in the use of pencils, chalks and ink.
This course is aimed at anyone interested in capturing ingenious and spontaneous ideas in small pictures.
With impressions directly into the material image
D2026-05 / 18.05. – 22.05.2026 / 5 Days / CHF 790.-
Creativity is always a step into the unknown. The central theme of this course is the inspiring and motivated work and realisation of your own lively world of ideas in the current picture.
It is about the courageous development of powerful impressions in generous layering, new ways of expressing moods and the reflection of natural life processes in concrete material and spatial references through overlapping forms and ambiguous structures.
I love the ‘magic of the material’. Together we create surfaces with depth in several steps before we condense and reduce the pictorial expression in dialogue with the world of colour and bring it to an expressive finish.
This course is aimed at interested parties who are open to new approaches.
What next? – Finishing (finalising pictures)
D2026-06 / 01.06. – 03.06.2026 / 3 Days / CHF 490.-
When is a painting finished? This is a big question for all painters. However, doubts or uncertainties can often be resolved more easily when viewing and discussing in a group.
How can different shapes or areas of colour be combined to create a large, successful composition? Which parts of the picture can gain new expressiveness through targeted reduction or even omission? Which colour combinations, which ‘eye-catchers’ bring additional tension or even the decisive depth and attention to the picture?
Together we will work out various possibilities and techniques for completing your own prepared and brought along works of art.
This course is aimed at anyone interested in completing works they have already started.
This course is aimed at those interested in completing works that have already been started.
Pouring – but then the right way!
D2026-07 / 15.06. – 19.06.2026 / 5 Days / CHF 790.-
Experiments, planned chaos, controlling coincidences – and lots of surprises! Together we will try out the many possibilities of the pouring technique step by step. You will learn how to use the new techniques and apply them confidently to create authentic and generous works in mixed media.
With my support, your own instinct and plenty of courage to experiment fearlessly, we will process unusual structural materials, condense numerous high-contrast layers and develop your own personal visual language.
In this way, you will immerse yourself in the wonderful world of creative expression and find your own multidimensional images with depth through free and powerful work.
This course is aimed at those who are open to new approaches.
Impressions of a colourful autumn
D2026-08 / 21.09 – 25.09.2026 / 5 Days / CHF 790.-
Creativity is always a step into the unknown. The central theme of this course is inspiring and motivating work and translating your own lively world of ideas into the current picture.
It is about the courageous development of autumnal-coloured impressions in generous layering, new ways of expressing moods and the reflection of natural life processes in concrete material and spatial references. I love the ‘magic of the material’.
Together we create surfaces with depth in several steps before we condense and reduce the pictorial expression in dialogue with the world of colour and bring it to an expressive finish.
This course is aimed at those who are open to new approaches.
Letting go and becoming free
D2026-09 / 12.10 – 16.10.2026 / 5 Days / CHF 790.-
In this course, I will gradually introduce you to a detached and free way of working – away from previous constraints, guidelines and restrictions. Various new techniques will be complemented by your personal impulsiveness.
You will practise the impulsive gesture that gives a picture its expressiveness and reveals the freedom of the painter. With collages, the diverse beauty of colours and skilful material effects, you will learn to create impressive new works.
By intensively discarding and repainting ‘half-finished compositions’, we experience the creative journey of discovery with the surprising pleasure of the unexpected, a new personal result.
This course is aimed at those who are open to new approaches.
Winter thoughts freely realised
D2026-10 / 07.12 – 11.12.2026 / 5 Days / CHF 790.-
Together we will revitalise the cold winter landscape step by step with authentic works. We work with unusual materials on canvas, collage, overpaint and reduce. By condensing numerous contrasting layers and working patiently, a multi-dimensional picture with depth is created.
With my support, your own instinct and plenty of courage to experiment, we will develop a personal visual language in the personal realisation of free winter thoughts.
The aim is for you to learn to handle the new techniques with confidence, to work out your compositions with courage and to immerse yourself in the wonderful world of creative expression in reduced, colour-coordinated mixtures from the winter world.
This course is aimed at those who are open to new approaches.
