English immersion
for Creatives
A micro-residency-adventure for professional artists & makers needing to scale up their English for presenting work, collaborating and reaching their dreams.
Next Holiday: September 2026, Perthshire, Scotland.
Maker Takeover | A Creative Residency for English Skills
This is a CREATIVE BREAK: time & space with immersive English, a pencil in one hand and your ideas flowing.
Art is your priority but English will follow.
How many sketchbooks can you fill?
What intervention will you make in our town?
What object you are going to leave behind?
What’s the strange tool you’ll master?
What place will change your vision forever?
Week 1
Meet the Makers
Find inspiration exploring Crieff, Stratheran and Perthshire while growing fluent in presenting your creative work for artist talks, job interviews and meeting peers.
Adventure along a different Perthshire Open Studios 2026 art trail, visiting studios, local towns & beautiful countryside.
Quality Peer-to-Peer Art Talk Every Day
Relax and chat with artists in their studio.
It’s your inspirational, cultural immersion in contemporary Scottish art – all wrapped up in bespoke English coaching.
Week 1 | Language Goals
Target Language: English for Creative Careers, including Presentations, understanding ‘Fast’ English (native speakers), Making Introductions, Socialising, Describing Art and Design Work, Expressing Opinions, and Asking Questions.
Week 2
Mini-Artist-Residency
Get a daily maker’s challenge set by a local Perthshire artist.
Collaborate or fly solo, we’re here to make your idea happen.
Week 2 | Language Goals
Particular focus on English for collaboration and making, discussing and describing ideas.
Week 2 is less English-intensive (expect around 2 hours of English coaching per day, scattered throughout your day of art making).
Maker Takeover | A Creative Residency for English Skills
Booking Details
- Only 3 places per week
- Dates TBC
- Accommodation is with a local Homestay Host.
- This 15 day language course price is £3,600, (plus homestay accommodation of £25 per night).
We recommend you book a quick Video Chat to check your level/compatibility with the target language & course format.
English for Designers | Dundee Design Week 2026
(Dates TBC)
Our Design Week is £1,600 plus £ 25 per night accommodation.
3 places available.
Design Week | An English & Design Workshop for Designers
Booking Details
- Only 3 places per week
- Dates TBC
- Accommodation is with a local Homestay Host.
- This 7 day language course price is £1,800 (plus homestay accommodation of £25 per night).
We recommend you book a quick Video Chat to check your level/compatibility with the target language & course format.
About the Artist & Designer Festivals
September 2025 | Perthshire Open Studios
This is the 5-day public event our Mini-Residency is framed around.
Perthshire Open Studios is when 120 Perthshire artists open their studios to the public.
Perthshire UNESCO City for Craft
Perthshire, designated in 2021 by UNESCO for its importance to craft – and the only UK city/region with this title, is home to 100s of contemporary artists, designers and craftspeople.
For 5 days across the second week of September, many of their studio doors are open…
Dundee UNESCO City for Design
Dundee Design Festival
We use this public event to workshop your English for design.
Enjoy exhibitions, workshops, talks and events with an Englsih coach by your side.
Find inspiration in the work of more than 180 designers all under one roof, in the UK’s only UNESCO City of Design, Dundee.
Bonus
FREE English Course
Keep talking on your return.
All participants of the Maker Takeover Creative Residency or Design Week for English will receive a subscription to a 12-week Sketchbook English Online Course, by True Voice English (Price £1,225).
Who is this Workshop for?
Designers whose English is in the way of their dreams.
Artists whose English is in the way of their impact.
Find your English power.
What International Art Schools Know
The best way to improve in English for Creatives is to take PRACTICAL workshops in English, which links experiences of MAKING your artwork to language.
