Workshops, Demonstrations and Talks, etc...
Upcoming Sessions:
"More than Just Pencil" Drawing in Light on Dark, and Drawing in Wire- Poole and East Dorset Arts Society- 28th Feb 2024
(£3 entry for members, £5 entry for non-members)
If you run a local art group and are interested in having a different visiting artist, please do get in touch. I am looking to do demonstrations of artistic techniques, and lead workshops in the local area. I am still comparatively new to this, (although I have taught English as a Foreign Language, so standing up in front of a crowd isn't the thing) but, happily, feedback has been good, so far.
I am also looking to start teaching small groups, so if you would like to put your name down to be contacted if they begin, (no compulsion to join or commit, by doing that) then please get in touch.
The aim is to do a session that works for the beginner to the experienced artist, and hopefully brings something of interest for each person. In the case of the printmaking, my hope is that, even when just a demo, not a workshop, that the majority of folk will go home feeling that they can have a cup of tea and, without buying a load of fancy kit, get on and make a few prints, if they fancy it.
Possible sessions could be around further drawing techniques and approaches, printing with dry media, integrating printmaking and drawing, plein air work, working on metal or unusual surfaces, drawing or printing on a shoestring, from plein air to printmaking, experimental printmaking.
I need to work on the following a bit, but hope to be able to do sessions in 3D drawing, engraving of sorts, environmentally-friendly art, and some art history relating to drawing and printmaking, including lesser-known artists.
Previous Sessions:
Ferndown Arts Society, Oct 2023- Demo "Exploring Drawing" Techniques for fluent drawing.
Poole and East Dorset Arts Society, July 2023- Informal Plein-Air Painting day to accompany Top Drawer Exhibition.
Broadstone Arts Society, Feb 2023- Demo/Workshop "Exploring Drawing" Techniques for fluent drawing.
Poole and East Dorset Arts Society, Nov 2022- Demo/Workshop "Exploring Drawing" Techniques for fluent drawing.
Milford on Sea Arts Group, Jan 2020- 1 long demo with talk as I worked, of pressless printmaking- covering drypoint, woodcut, and monoprinting.
Forest Arts Centre, New Milton, 2019- (and in 2017 alongside artist Lisa Christopher) 2 small workshops in pressless printmaking, including monoprint and photodrypoint.