Ian Scott Massie & Josie Beszant

We are two creative people who set up Happy House Masham to make people happier through online courses aimed at developing everyone's potential to grow and enjoy their creative talents .

Ian Scott Massie
I'm a painter, printmaker, writer and musician, known to all as Scott. I believe that the arts are something everyone can enjoy and my teaching is based on this philosophy.

​Josie Beszant
As an artist I mainly work in mixed-media and collage. Since 1994 I've also run Masham Gallery and taught a variety of creative courses , mostly at Artison. I have a degree in language and human communication and an ongoing fascination with story telling. ​​


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5 Easy Watercolour Ideas

5 watercolour projects perfect for painting novices or children. 

  • £25

Adventures in Drawing

A course to develop skills you didn’t know you had.  Learn techniques and stylistic tips through a series of 7 video modules and 8 downloadable sheets of information and exercises.Perfect if you are a beginner but full of ideas for the more experienced artist.

  • £19

An Introduction to Painting with Gouache & Watercolour

An introduction to a way of painting which gives opaque images using watercolour techniques. Great for French Impressionism fans!

  • £25

Architecture in Watercolour 1: Essential Techniques

Architecture in Watercolour 1: Essential Techniques A course of 6 videos and 8 downloadable sheets of information and ideas A course which takes you from the very beginning: how to use materialshow to master basic techniques how to tackle simple architectural subjectshow to combine these skills in three satisfying painting projects 

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Architecture in Watercolour 2: Using Layers

Architecture in Watercolour 2: Using Layers A course of 5 videos and 7 downloadable sheets of information and ideas A course which takes you up a step: how to blend colourshow to draw more complex buildingshow to combine layers to compose a picturehow to use layering to complete three inspirational painting projects 

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Architecture in Watercolour 3: Pen & Ink

A course in 7 video modules and 9 downloadable sheets of information and exercises.Perfect for the beginner or more accomplished artist.

  • £70

Architecture in Watercolour: Bundle

Three courses which look at techniques for painting architecture in watercolour guided by Ian Scott Massie. Includes videos, download sheets and email support.

  • £99

Art Beginners Bundle

A bundle to get you started with lots of options: watercolour, gouache, collage, drawing and pen and ink. A little foundation course to help you choose your way.

  • £12

Collage Course: Escape

An introduction to collage exploring the theme of escape with Josie Beszant

  • £19

Colour Beginnings Skies: Revised Edition

A revised, shortened version of Colour Beginnings Skies, this focuses on single layer skies: calm, dramatic and moonlit. 9 videos and 11 information sheets. This course takes you from understanding colour combinations to a range of watercolour effects.

  • £19

Colour Beginnings: An Introduction to Watercolour Painting

From the basics to a finished painting including: colour mixingintroducing tools & materialspainting washesbrush techniquesproducing a finished picture

  • £95

Colour Beginnings: Courses 1-5

A bundle of five courses for the watercolourist who wants a complete grounding in landscape painting. A saving of 20% when bought together.

  • £25

Colour Beginnings: Hills & Horizons

A guide to painting hills, horizons, skies and foregrounds, including a wealth of techniques.

  • £25

Colour Beginnings: Hills & Horizons - Extended Edition

This course is a revised and extended edition of Colour Beginnings: Hills & Horizons and 9 video modules focusing on great techniques - brush control, colour mixing, tone, composition and painting layered landscapes. Full of essential information with an accompanying download of information and further projects.

  • £25

Colour Beginnings: Skies

An online course of nine video modules and project sheets which introduces the concept of using a limited palette, understanding colour combinations and culminates in creating some amazing skies over simple landscapes. Over 70 minutes of video instruction. 

  • £45

Colour Beginnings: Summer & Winter Trees

2 Courses: A guide to how to paint trees in summer and winter. Understanding the structure and foliage of trees, simulating window, ideas on composition and a host of great techniques. Save 10% on the usual cost of the courses.

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Colour Beginnings: Summer Trees

A watercolour painting course focusing on summer trees including:mixing summer coloursbrush techniques for treespainting summer skiesproducing finished pictures

  • £74

Colour Beginnings: The Essential Beginner's Bundle

4 Courses: An introduction to watercolour and how to paint hills and skies including a wealth on tuition and information on colour mixing, brushwork, tone, materials and great techniques. Save 10% on the usual cost of the courses.

  • £25

Colour Beginnings: Winter Trees

An online course on painting winter trees in watercolour includingmixing cold coloursbrush techniques for treespainting backgroundsproducing finished pictures

  • £49.95

Energy Medicine Online Course with Kay Turner

Energy Medicine with Kay Turner Energy medicine is powerful therapeutic method which causes a healing shift and creates space in a person’s energy field, therefore creating change within the mind, body and soul.   This online course provides you with a downloadable workbook, video and/or audio lessons and has five sections for personal exploration.  Topics covered are: Introduction to Energy MedicineHow to mainta...

  • £37

Essential Beginner's Bundle Gift Voucher

The Essential Beginners Bundle Gift Voucher includes: An Introduction to Watercolour PaintingHills & Horizons, Extended EditionSkies 1, Revised EditionSkies 2 When you buy this product you will receive an email containing a gift voucher which includes a link giving access to the Essential Beginners Bundle. Simply give the voucher, either by email or by printing it out, as a gift to the person of your choice.  ...

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Guerrilla Art

Make art where it's least expected - make your world more beautiful

  • Free

Having Fun With Drawing: Rubbings

Create drawings using textures.

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Introduction to Collage

A comprehensive guide to beginning collage.

  • £25

Introduction to Somatics

An Online Somatics Course specifically for Stress Reduction. Comprising a downloadable PDF and 6 short audio lesson practices.

  • £12.50

Keeping it Simple: A Pen, Ink & Watercolour Landscape

How to paint a pen, ink and watercolour picture by learning all the techniques and steps gradually before putting it all together. A course packed full of top tips and information.6 subject modules, 80 minutes of video tuition + a PDF download booklet.

  • £25

Meditative Watercolour

Meditative watercolour painting is an excellent approach to painting and a great way of lowering stress levels and increasing happiness.

  • £49.95

Online Oneness Course with Kay Turner

This Oneness Spirituality Exploration course supports your evolution and growth as a Sacred Human; fully Human and fully Divine and whom you work with.  This online course provides you with a downloadable workbook, video and/or audio lessons and has five sections for personal exploration.  Topics covered are: Making Connection and Staying ConnectedSpirituality and the BodySpirituality and the MindSpirituality and...

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Online Sacred Arts & Mysticism Course with Kay Turner

Sacred Arts are the Devotional Rituals and Ceremonies for the Earth and the Divine.Mysticism involves coming into Union and Oneness with the Divine. This online course provides you with a downloadable workbook, video and/or audio lessons and has five sections for personal exploration.  Topics covered are: Moon CyclesWheel of the YearThe Divine FeminineSacred Heart ActivationMystical Divine Union The course is a m...

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Online Shamanism Course with Kay Turner

This online course provides you with a downloadable workbook, video and/or audio lessons and has five sections for personal exploration.  Topics covered are:Introduction to ShamanismSerpentJaguarHummingbirdEagle/Condor The course comprises, worksheets, creative tasks, videos, guided audio journeys, rituals and ceremony which provide you with the knowledge, tools and journeying skills you need to embark on your Sha...

  • £25

Painting the Seasons

A course packed with ideas on how to tackle the seasons: choosing colours, mastering tone, inspiring brush techniques and how to compose great paintings. 7 videos and 9 downloadable sheets of information, exercises, tips and ideas Over 2 Hours of video instruction

  • £19

Skies 2

A second skies course designed to develop techniques learned in Colour Beginnings Skies. This course teaches how to layer skies, drawing on inspiration from JMW Turner and Rowland Hilder.

  • £76

The Painter's Bundle

A collection of 4 online courses which cover several really useful aspects of painting: working with silhouettes, gouache, single colour paintings and painting for relaxation.

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Top Tips for Making Art in the Landscape

All you need to know to create sculptures from natural materials.

  • £25

Water In Watercolour: Coast

Water in Watercolour: Coast is a course for novice and experienced artists. It’s full of useful techniques taught through a series of video lessons and information sheets.

  • £25

Water In Watercolour: Lakes

Water in Watercolour: Lakes is a course aimed at the novice artist, or the experienced painter who wants to perfect the techniques to portray this amazing subject. The course comprises a series of video lessons and information sheets.

  • £45

Water in Watercolour Bundle

Learn to paint water in watercolour with 2 courses: Coast & Lakes - 3 great projects in each course.

  • £25

Watercolour Collage

Make beautiful painted papers and use them to create stunning collages. 94 minutes of video instruction + info sheets & email support

  • £34

Watercolour Made Simple - 4 Course Bundle

A 4-part series of courses looking at colour, brushwork, texture and special effects. 5 videos and an accompanying download booklet make up each course by Ian Scott Massie, a well known professional artist. Perfect for the beginner but a great resource for the more experienced painter, Watercolour Made Simple is a great collection of techniques to enhance and inspire your creative work.  SAVE over 10% by buying al...

  • £9.50

Watercolour Made Simple: 1: Controlling Colour

Let's take all the mystery out of watercolour and look at the simple techniques which lead to great pictures. The first of a 4-part series looking at colour, brushwork, texture and special effects. 5 videos and an accompanying download booklet by a well known professional artist.

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Watercolour Made Simple: 2: Brilliant Brushwork

This is a course packed with useful brush techniques and information for the watercolour artist: brush control, dry-brush techniques, lifting out colour and much more.

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Watercolour Made Simple: 3: Tactile Textures and Print Techniques

How to use sponging, texturing and edge printing techniques to expand your range of watercolour skills.  

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Watercolour Made Simple: 4: Special FX & Awesome Additives

This course covers a host of techniques: blowing, spattering, additives, scoring and more. The fourth of a 4-part series looking at colour, brushwork, texture and special effects. 5 videos and an accompanying download booklet by Ian Scott Massie,  a well known professional artist. Perfect for the beginner but a great resource for the more experienced painter. This is the fourth of a group of courses which make up ...

  • £29

Watercolour Painting in Monochrome

A course packed with ideas and techniques on how to create brilliant paintings in a single colour. 8 videos and a downloadable guide to the course.

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Watercolour: Keeping It Simple - Buildings in Silhouette

Keeping it Simple: Buildings in Silhouette A course of painting projects focusing on:Drawing buildings in an uncomplicated wayUnderstanding tone and colourProducing simple but effective paintings5 videos, 1 PDF booklet, 3 painting projects

  • £49

Ways of Seeing

In this course we explore different ways of seeing the world through a creative lens, looking “behind the scenes” of how the artistic mind works . Creativity can lead to us feeling happier, turn our thoughts and feelings into new and original things which are just for ourselves and connect us more meaningfully to the world around us.

  • £54

Writing Poetry - Courses 1-3

All 3 Writing Poetry Courses: Finding Inspiration, The Rhythm of Words & Rhyme. Save by buying in one convenient bundle. Over 104 minutes of videos + sheets of exercises & information. 

  • £19

Writing Poetry 1: Finding Inspiration

An introduction to writing poetry, focusing on ways to find and develop inspiration.8 video lessons and 9 downloadable sheets of information and projects by Ian Scott Massie, a poet with over 50 years of experience as a writer.

  • £19

Writing Poetry 2: The Rhythm of Words

How to use the rhythm of words to make a poem reflect its subject and feel and sound great. 5 video lessons and 6 downloadable sheets of information and projects by Ian Scott Massie, a poet with over 50 years of experience as a writer.

  • £19

Writing Poetry 3: Rhyme

Building on courses 1 and 2, combine rhythm and rhyme to create great poetry. 5 video lessons and 6 downloadable sheets of information and projects by Ian Scott Massie, a poet with over 50 years of experience as a writer.

Kay Turner

The main gifts I can offer you are compassionate support, non-judgement and guidance entirely focused on your wellness and evolution.  I do this by acting as a catalyst, helping you to activate your light. This ignites the healing, self-supporting and sustaining fire and wisdom within you, which allows you to navigate your way back to well-being, empowerment and joy.

I have a background in teaching and working with children and adults in a pastoral and healing capacity since 1996.  I also hold a Counselling qualification, and an MA in Theology.

I've been qualified as a Wellbeing Coach, Yin Yoga Teacher and a Trainer and Advanced Practitioner in Energy Medicine, Mysticism and Shamanic Healing since 2016.  Currently, I am training as a Rose Lineage Priestess.  I work as a Body, Mind & Soul Evolution Coach, Energy Medicine & Shamanic Trainer throughout North Yorkshire.  To find out more visit www.anotherlogonthefire.com

Sacred Human was founded in 2020.  The Spiritual School, with its variety of on-line and in person courses and the Sacred Heart Sanctuary launched in the summer of 2020.