IFoundation for Extreme Beginners
Your first, softest steps. The language of paper, water and pigment.

A place where adults rediscover their creativity without fear.
Whether you've never painted before or you're returning after many years, discover how Watercolour Mastery gently introduces you to the world of Spirit Art through a calm, supportive and structured live online learning journey. Anne-Marie Bond, teacher, artist and mentor with over 28 years of teaching experience, gently guides you from uncertainty to confidence.
Learn How to Paint in Watercolour
Spiritual Minded Beginners Welcome
You do not need talent, training or any experience. You just need someone to show you how to begin. If you have never held a brush, or a self-taught novice, you are exactly who this was created for.
Who this is for
You do not need to be actively walking a spiritual path. An interest in spiritual art is more than enough. And if you are a developing or experienced medium, unable to draw or paint, these first steps in painting will deepen and elevate the work you already do.
Every technique is taught slowly, step by step, from the very beginning. Those with a little skill are just as welcome, you will simply build on what you already know. Nothing here is advanced, rushed or judged.
Begin Your Journey
The mere thought of learning to draw is scary for beginners, let alone painting. However, Anne-Marie teaches how watercolour becomes more than a painting technique; it becomes a quiet practice of observation, expression and creative wellbeing. This spiritual watercolour painting discovery journey opens the door to painting with intuition, sensitivity and personal meaning.
When you paint with water, you are working with the very medium that already flows through you, and the pigment becomes a quiet mirror of what moves within. For new and developing psychic artists, spirit artists and spiritual mediums, this makes watercolour a language of the unseen, and the natural sensitivity of water helps deepen your connection to spirit.
Fully booked for 2026
Private 1:1 Development
Available, Next intake
Saturday 07 November 2026
Available, Next intake
Friday 06 March 2027
You Can Do This
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Your journey, step by step
Extreme Beginners
Start with the foundations, learning to see, mix and lay your very first washes with confidence.
Beginners / Lower Intermediates
Build skill through ink and wash, developing control, atmosphere and your own quiet style.
Higher Intermediates
Paint expressively and intuitively, opening the door to spirit portraiture and personal meaning.
Next course commences
Saturday 07 November 2026
Course 2, Ink and Wash, exclusively limited to nine students.
Improve Your Intuition
Watercolour is the most honest of mediums (no pun intended). It rewards patience, presence and surrender. Water itself is a conduit: the same element that makes up nearly seventy percent of the human body carries memory, feeling and subtle energy.
Mediumship, spiritual speaking, healing and other spiritual modalities are all deepened when you open to the inner peace and calm that watercolour painting provides. Just as mediumship development teaches you to sit in the power, hold the power and use the power, connecting to spirit through watercolour teaches you to be at one with the power of patience.
Awaken your eye. Watercolour teaches you to see light, shadow and spirit with quiet precision.
Ideal for novices, you learn to truly see before you paint.
Learn to trust your hand as pigment meets paper, every mark a step into your own voice.
No prior experience needed, confidence is built brushstroke by brushstroke.
Loosen the grip of perfection. Discover a fluid, intuitive practice that mirrors the soul.
Perfect for beginners who wish to grow beyond copying, into their own style.
For developing psychic artists, spirit artists and mediums seeking to paint what they sense.
A gentle, supported path for those taking their very first steps into art.

, Your mentor & guide

Anne-Marie at the easel
Professionally Qualified Educator
Anne-Marie is a Level 5 qualified adult educator (DTLLS) and holds the Training Accreditation Programme Diploma (TAP.Dip). With over 28 years of teaching experience, she has designed and delivered learning programmes that have helped thousands of adults develop new skills with confidence.
Her Watercolour Mastery Mentorship combines proven teaching methods with a calm, encouraging approach that enables beginners to learn at their own pace while building lasting artistic confidence.
For nearly three decades, Anne-Marie has guided adults, whether via technology software or spiritual development, mediumship, public speaking, spirit portraiture, art and healing, including the quiet mastery of watercolour. Her teaching is intimate, unhurried and profoundly personal. She opens her creative sanctuary so you may find the doorway to yours.
A mentorship rooted in structure, intuition and personal growth.
This mentorship combines structured watercolour tuition with creativity, intuition and personal artistic growth. Rather than simply teaching you to copy paintings, Anne-Marie guides you to understand the techniques behind watercolour, so you build confidence and, in time, create artwork in your own unique style.
Every lesson is taught live in small, supportive groups, with step-by-step demonstrations, personal feedback and encouragement. Students progress through a carefully designed pathway that develops both technical ability and creative expression.
For those drawn to Spirit Art, the mentorship also explores how watercolour can become a gentle, expressive medium for intuitive painting, symbolism and spirit portraiture, always built on strong artistic foundations.
Taught the way Beginners Deserve
Welcome to Anne-Marie's creative sanctuary, where you begin a journey into watercolour painting to strengthen your artistic connection to spirit. Three courses, one continuous artistic journey, from your very first brushstroke to the luminous portrait of spirit.
IYour first, softest steps. The language of paper, water and pigment.
IIEnter the realm of expressive mark-making and evocative spirit forms.
IIIPaint the felt presence. Master atmosphere, form and luminous spirit.
Join any one course, or all three for a Watercolour Mastery Mentorship completion certificate.
Extreme Beginners
START HERE if you are a complete beginner.
This is where it all begins, with no experience needed and nothing to prove. You will discover how water, pigment and paper speak to one another, learning washes, water control, colour blending and brush pressure at a gentle, unhurried pace. Each week you complete one simple painting, so confidence grows quietly with every brushstroke.
By the end you will hold real, repeatable skill, ready to carry into spiritual and intuitive art. Perfect for the first-timer, the newbie and the novice who has always wanted to paint.
Higher Beginners
START HERE if you have completed Course 1 or a private foundation training session.
You already know how to hold the brush; now you learn how to speak with it. Building on Course I, Anne-Marie guides you through expressive ink and wash, deepening your colour understanding with seven tips for colour readings. Each week you paint twice, once with the tutor and once alone, developing edge control, tonal contrast, loose line work and atmosphere.
You will paint a spirit guide, a three-aura boat seascape, six varied watercolour backgrounds, a neuro spirit artwork for self-healing, a creative swash for blending colours, two ink and wash spirit portraits, and an auragraph created as part of a spiritual reading through your own art (and a little surprise extra).
Intermediate
START HERE if you have completed Course 2 or hold equivalent painting experience.
This is where technique becomes voice. You will explore expressive portraiture, spirit animals and intuitive painting, working with layering, glazing, mood, abstraction, colour harmony and emotional storytelling. Refresher videos from Courses I and II remain at your side as your water control matures into artistry.
By the end you will have painted a spirit animal owl, a magical robin, a lady in an orange dress, tulips in a vase, a true spirit portrait and a Christmas gift card project, and revisited colour theory for the class challenge project (more revealed in the first session). All of your skills are then brought together in an exclusive session: Discover How to Connect Mediumship with Watercolour Art.

Entry Level · Complete Beginners
No previous drawing or watercolour experience required.
If you missed Course 1 group training, private development is available until October 10th, 2026 (limited availability).
Course 1 — Dates
3 July, 31 July 2026
Duration
Five Fridays
Time
7pm, 9.30pm UK
Developmental Process
(up to 4 hrs) Additional Practice Between Classes
Investment
Course fully booked.
Why this investment is worth it
Six empowered mastery painting sessions with Anne-Marie for intimate teaching (limited group size), step-by-step demonstrations, guidance throughout the paintings, spiritual associations, and how watercolour, mediumship and other spiritual work connect together. Limited Replay recordings available to all students during each week.
Your journey doesn't have to wait.
Why many students choose private tuition
Private tuition offers something even a small group cannot...
Every lesson is designed entirely around you. Instead of following the pace of others, every brushstroke, technique and question receives individual attention, allowing you to progress with greater confidence and understanding.
Many students are surprised by how much quicker they develop when learning in a personalised environment.
The Discovery of Watercolour (Course 1) has now reached capacity for the 2026 intake, and all places have been reserved. Rather than waiting until the next intake, you can still begin your artistic journey through private one-to-one tuition with Anne-Marie.
These personalised sessions have been designed to help complete beginners develop the same essential foundations taught in Course 1, allowing you to build confidence and prepare for Course 2 without losing momentum. It's about understanding why techniques work, developing confidence with every brushstroke, and creating strong foundations that will support your artistic journey for years to come.
Private tuition gives us the opportunity to work together at a pace that suits you, ensuring you gain the confidence needed before progressing into Course 2.
A personalised alternative for students who missed the Course 1 intake.

Entry Level · Beginners
Suitable for students who have successfully completed either:
Students should have a basic understanding of water control, washes and foundational techniques before joining this course.
Course 2 — Dates
7 November to 19 December 2026
Duration
Six Saturdays
Time
7pm, 9pm UK
Developmental Process
(up to 4 hrs) Additional Practice Between Classes
Investment
£290 (with discount) / £325
Why this investment is worth it
Six empowered mastery painting sessions with Anne-Marie for intimate teaching (limited group size), step-by-step demonstrations, guidance throughout the paintings, spiritual associations, and how watercolour, mediumship and other spiritual work connect together. Limited Replay recordings available to all students during each week.
Discounts are available, save £70 when you book Courses II and III together, and unlock VIP status with early booking (see offers below).

Starting your watercolour art journey is not only about watercolour paintings.
If you sense that aspects of your mediumship or other spiritual practices have grown quiet or stagnant, perhaps it is time to consider a path of art that may gently recalibrate the alignment you have been seeking.
Woven through every session are the deeper teachings of spiritual mediumship, spirit connection, public speaking and intuitive expression, gifts you will carry into every other area of your spiritual development long after the final brushstroke.
Through her painting demonstrations, Anne-Marie explains when, how and where your spirit connection grows, and how the very essence of painting mirrors and heightens aspects of your mediumistic development.
Confidence isn't built by collecting more courses. It's built by staying the course.
"A seed never grows if it's planted somewhere new every week."
, ANNE-MARIE BOND
You Can Do This

Entry Level · Higher Beginners to Developing Artists
Suitable for students who have successfully completed either:
Students should already feel confident with the fundamentals of watercolour and be ready to develop more expressive techniques and portraiture.
Course 3 — Dates
6 March, 10 April 2027
Duration
Six Fridays
Time
7pm, 9pm UK
Developmental Process
(up to 4 hrs) Additional Practice Between Classes
Investment
£290 (with discount) / £325
Why this investment is worth it
Six empowered mastery painting sessions with Anne-Marie for intimate teaching (limited group size), step-by-step demonstrations, guidance throughout the paintings, spiritual associations, and how watercolour, mediumship and other spiritual work connect together. Limited Replay recordings available to all students during each week.
Discounts are available, save £70 when you book Courses II and III together, and unlock VIP status with early booking (see offers below).
You Can Do This
Early Bird
Book Courses II and III together before 30 August 2026 and receive a £70 saving on your journey.

Available
Next Mentorship begins: Saturday 07 November 2026
Book Courses II and III together before 31 July 2026 to receive:
Early Bird Investment
£580
Discount already applied, Courses II and III together.
Everything You Need to Know
You are going to develop watercolour art skills to increase intuition for furthering your spirit connection.
More Than A Few Sessions
When you join Watercolour Mastery Mentorship for Spiritual development, you're not simply booking a handful of online lessons.
You're joining a carefully structured mentorship where every week builds upon the last. Each live session is supported with printable resources, replay recordings, practice exercises, additional learning, reference material, and personal encouragement to help you develop your confidence both during and between classes.
Anne-Marie has spent almost thirty years teaching adults, has a recognised teaching qualification and has designed this mentorship to remove the fear that so many beginners carry. Rather than rushing through techniques, she will support you in building stronger foundations, helping you understand not just what to do, but why it works.
One of the biggest reasons beginners struggle isn't a lack of talent. It's trying to learn from ten different teachers, each showing a different way. Watercolour becomes confusing when every voice tells you something different. Mediumship development becomes confusing too, when one teacher teaches psychic mediumship and others teach evidential mediumship, and so on.
Either Course 2, or 3 and across the weeks together, Anne-Marie simply ask you to trust the process.
Follow one path. Build one strong foundation. Then, once those foundations are in place, you'll have the confidence to explore your own artistic voice. Because what you're investing in isn't simply a few evenings together. It's the beginning of a skill that can bring peace, creativity and confidence for years to come.
"My greatest joy isn't creating another painting. It's watching someone who once whispered, 'I can't paint,' quietly smile because they've just proved themselves wrong."
Course II
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Course III
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Students who complete the full Watercolour Mastery pathway receive an Anne-Marie Bond Watercolour Mastery Certificate of Completion, a lasting mark of your artistic and spiritual growth.
Each certificate is hand-signed, wrapped and posted directly to your door, and every graduate is warmly invited to a private online award ceremony where achievements are celebrated together as a community.

Wrapped by hand, sealed and sent with love.
Every painting you see has been taught using the same step-by-step approach you'll experience throughout the Watercolour Mastery Mentorship. Whether your goal is peaceful landscapes, expressive florals, colourful animals or beautiful portraiture, your journey begins with simple brushstrokes and grows one lesson at a time.
If you've missed Course 1, or Course 2, the foundations, book a private session with Anne-Marie to build the confidence and skill-development fundamentals before Course 2 begins.
"I highly recommend Anne-Marie's Spirit Art and Watercolour classes. She is an exceptional teacher who explains watercolour techniques with great precision and attention to detail, making them easy to understand regardless of your experience level.
"Just completed the first watercolour class in Anne-Marie's Mentorship programme. I am so excited to continue learning. Because I know her teaching style totally matches my learning style, I have full confidence that I will grow as an artist week by week.
"I would like to thank Anne-Marie for so generously sharing her knowledge, wisdom and guidance. Her encouragement and belief in me helped strengthen my confidence every step of the way. Not only did I develop new skills, but I also gained the confidence to create Spirit Art portraits and establish meaningful connections with the spirit world.
"First lesson watercolour, learned that water and paint can create magic. Looking forward to the next lessons.
"The watercolour lesson was a very intense and helpful first dive into different colour washes and it was very well taught and easy to follow with really nice first results. I loved reconnecting with watercolour on a new level.
"First attempt at watercolours, feeling brave attempting this, for me, unknown territory! It's amazing how much we learned in just one session. Anne-Marie has got the skills to keep you interested and inspired. Looking forward to the next session.
"I'm really happy to start this new course with Anne-Marie, where I will finally learn all the basics and hopefully improve my techniques. I also look forward to continuing working with the lovely students met during previous courses.
"I have just finished the Spirit Portrait mentorship. Anne-Marie has an amazing way to teach spirit art, very encouraging and supportive. Before I started to work with her, I always thought I can't draw and now I dare to fill a blank paper, feel very much connected with myself and spirit and enjoy whatever comes up. It was an absolutely joyful journey and has enriched my mediumship in ways I never expected. Anne-Marie has easy and very helpful techniques for drawing faces with an eye for details and at the same time being open to let spirit take its part. Thank you, Anne-Marie, from the bottom of my heart, I never thought I would come so far and will definitely come back to other courses.
"Anne-Marie's Spirit Portrait Mentorship has helped me to move from a diffuse feeling of how to draw a spirit portrait to a very structured and logical approach of how to draw a face that looks human with proper proportions. This was my main goal in participating in this class and Anne-Marie really helped me get there. But I did not expect to become so much faster in drawing portraits and so much more confident in my abilities. Now I know how I can proceed and keep practicing with a great foundation of knowledge on which I can build upon. The student group was very supportive of each other and it also helped to gain confidence and to receive inspiration from all the other ways of drawing portraits. It also helped me to keep going. It sure was a lot of work, but SO worth it. Thank you from my heart, Anne-Marie. You are a great teacher.
"Overall, this course has given me much more self-confidence in my drawing abilities. Looking back at where I started and seeing how much I have progressed has been incredibly rewarding. If someone wants to make significant progress in a short period of time, I highly recommend this course. It is definitely worth investing the time, completing all the homework, and attending every single session. The commitment truly pays off. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and I know I will be back for another course to continue developing my skills. You are a fantastic teacher.
"I have just completed the Portrait of Spirit Mentorship and I have enjoyed the complete experience from the very first lesson to the last. It has been said what an experienced, thoughtful tutor Anne-Marie is and I will endorse that, as she has taught me and I found this reflected throughout the entire mentorship. Each lesson was well structured and layer on layer you came away having added to the previous week by building. I knew from week one we were in safe hands and I was mesmerised when Anne-Marie displayed her skills by demonstrating live with us within the lesson. It is fascinating to watch an artist at work and you learn so much just watching before you go and try.
"I have learned so much by taking this course and I am more confident in taking time to draw faces on a regular basis. My personal experience has been one that has given me confidence to connect and draw portraits of spirit and the tools and knowledge to continue developing this skill. I am extremely grateful for all the tuition from Anne-Marie, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and encouraging me to develop more.
"I've always liked art drawings since I was in high school, thanks to my art teacher, who got me interested. It's been some time since I did art, but after today's first session, I could feel my happy heart rising again. Thank you to all and to Anne-Marie. Very lovely class!
So many arrive here whispering the same quiet worry, "I've never painted, I'm not creative, I wouldn't know where to begin." Please hear this gently: you do not need to arrive creative. You only need someone to help you discover the creativity that is already, quietly, inside you.
Anne-Marie is a professional medium, spiritual artist, international demonstrator, public speaker, mentor and coach of more than twenty-eight years. She has spent her life showing adults, many of whom had never held a brush, that watercolour is not a test of talent. It is a doorway. A doorway into stillness, into intuition, and for those on a mediumistic path, into a far deeper connection with spirit.
Watercolour teaches the very qualities mediumship asks of us: presence, surrender, trust and the courage to let something move through you. Each wash of colour is a small act of listening. Each brushstroke, a rehearsal for the sensitivity your mediumship depends upon. Students consistently share that their readings deepen, their symbols sharpen and their confidence blossoms after only a few weeks at the paper.
If you have ever felt drawn to spirit art, to psychic portraiture, to healing or visionary work, and told yourself "one day, when I'm more creative", this is your one day. Come exactly as you are. Anne-Marie will meet you there, and together you will uncover an artist and a medium you did not know you were.
You Can Do This
You have simply never been shown the door. Creativity is not a talent reserved for a chosen few, it is a birthright waiting to be uncovered.
The rhythm of water and pigment quiets the analytical mind, the very state in which mediumistic sensitivity naturally awakens.
With a mentor who is medium, artist, demonstrator, speaker and coach, every step is held. You are never alone with a blank page.
"You do not need to be an artist to begin. You need only be willing to be met."
, Anne-Marie Bond
Yes. The Foundation course is designed for extreme beginners, you need only bring curiosity and a willingness to begin.
This is an adult mentorship for those aged 25 and above. It is not a children's art class.
All teaching is delivered live via Zoom, in small, supportive groups so every student is seen and held.
A curated materials list is included in your prospectus. Anne-Marie recommends professional-grade watercolour paper, brushes and paints for the truest experience.
Each course stands beautifully on its own, though students who complete all three receive the Watercolour Mastery Certificate of Completion.
Every live class is recorded and made available for a limited replay period, giving you time to revisit each lesson, practise between sessions and absorb the teaching at your own pace.
Yes. If you already have some watercolour experience, or have completed a Private Foundation Programme with Anne-Marie, you are warmly welcome to begin at Course 2.
Course 1 is fully booked for 2026. You can either join the waiting list for the 2027 intake, or book a Private Foundation Programme with Anne-Marie to fast-track your foundations before Course 2 begins.
Yes. Private one-to-one tuition is available for students who prefer a bespoke pace, deeper personal guidance, or who have missed the current Course 1 intake.
Students who successfully complete Courses 1, 2 and 3 receive the Watercolour Mastery Certificate of Completion. VIP students receive a hard-copy, hand-signed certificate posted to them.
Watercolour, like any quiet practice, rewards consistency. A little painting between classes, even an hour or two, allows the techniques to settle and your confidence to grow naturally.
Neuro spirit art, auragraphs and reading through your own painting, answered simply.
Neuro spirit art is a gentle, flowing form of intuitive mark-making where continuous lines and soft washes are allowed to move without a fixed plan. Rather than painting a subject, you follow the impulse of the hand while the mind quietens. In Course II you will create a neuro spirit artwork for self-healing, learning how the rhythm of the line settles the nervous system and opens the sensitivity that mediumship depends upon.
An auragraph is a symbolic painting of a person's energy field. Colours, shapes and placements each carry meaning, and together they form a visual map of someone's journey, their strengths, their challenges and the influences around them. You will paint your own auragraph in Course II and learn how to read the symbolism it holds.
You begin with a still mind and a blank sheet, then allow colour and mark to arrive without editing them. Once the painting is complete, Anne-Marie guides you through interpreting what appeared: where the colours sit, which symbols repeat, and what the composition is saying. The artwork becomes the evidence, and the reading is delivered from what your own hand has created.
No. Course II welcomes evidential mediums, developing sensitives and students who simply feel drawn to intuitive painting. The exercises meet you at whatever stage you are at, and no prior reading experience is required.
This is the most common worry, and it passes. The teaching is structured so that you are never sitting in front of a blank page unaided. Anne-Marie demonstrates each stage live, explains when and how the connection builds, and the techniques themselves invite the impression in. Trust grows session by session.
Only if you wish. Groups are limited to nine students so there is time for personal feedback, but sharing is always an invitation, never an expectation. Many students prefer to listen first and share when they feel ready.
Alongside the neuro spirit artwork and the auragraph, you will paint a spirit guide, a three-aura boat seascape, six varied watercolour backgrounds, a creative swash for blending colours and two ink and wash spirit portraits, plus a little surprise extra.
The exact process we follow in class, from the first grounding to delivering the message, and everything you will need to bring with you.
Every reading session begins the same way. Anne-Marie leads a short grounding and attunement, the lights are lowered, and the room becomes quiet. You place your paper, water and brushes within easy reach so that nothing interrupts you once the connection begins. This settling stage is never rushed, it is what allows the impressions to arrive cleanly.
You are guided to hold a single, simple intention, whether that is a message for yourself, for a fellow student, or for a sitter you have in mind. The intention is spoken silently and then released. You do not hold on to it while painting, because expectation is the one thing that blocks the flow.
With the intention released, you begin. Colour is chosen by instinct rather than thought, and the first marks are made without correcting or planning them. Anne-Marie demonstrates each stage live on camera so you always know what to do next. Whatever appears on the paper is left exactly as it is, because those first honest marks carry the most information.
Watercolour paper (300gsm cold-pressed is ideal, A4 or A3), a basic watercolour palette or pans, a round brush and a larger wash brush, two jars of clean water, kitchen roll, a pencil and eraser, masking tape and a board to stretch your paper, and a notebook and pen for recording impressions. A quiet, well-lit space and a warm drink complete the setup. Nothing expensive is required, your existing materials will be perfectly sufficient.
Only a little time. Arrive five minutes early so you are not rushing, have your water changed and your paper taped down before we begin, and switch off notifications. If you are painting for a specific person, simply hold their first name in mind. Nothing else is needed, you do not prepare the reading in advance.
Steps 4 to 8 are shared in full with enrolled students once your place is confirmed.
Places are limited to preserve the intimacy of each group. Reserve your seat, or request the prospectus to receive the full mentorship guide.
Why only nine seats
Courses II and III are deliberately capped at just 9 students. This intimate circle allows Anne-Marie to give each student focused, one-to-one guidance during every live session, review individual work in depth, and hold a truly personal space for your spiritual and artistic development, something impossible in a larger group.
The power of nine
In numerology, 9 is the number of completion, wisdom and spiritual awakening. It carries the energy of the old soul, the humanitarian and the creative visionary, those drawn to serve, to heal and to express something deeper through their art. Nine gathers the lessons of every number before it and offers them back as insight, compassion and quiet mastery. To sit within a circle of nine is to sit within a field of completion, where each student's journey strengthens the whole.
Save on your journey
Sign up before 30 August 2026 and receive a £70 discount when booking Courses II and III together. Sign up before 31 July 2026 and secure full VIP status including a hard-copy signed completion certificate.
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"The paper waits. So does your voice."
, Anne-Marie Bond
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