Summer Schools 2024
Thank you all who came to our summer schools
The Ceramic Surface with Katch Skinner
Monday 22nd to Wednesday 24th July 2024
10.30am to 4.30pm
A three day summer workshop to really immerse yourself in playful decoration of the ceramic surface. Using slips and underglazes, traditions slip trailing to stenciling. This workshop is an introduction to surface design using wet and firm surfaces. Using coloured clay slips and underglazes you will experiment with traditional tools, techniques, transfers and layers to develop decorative themes. Using a range of tools from slip trailing, brushing, mono printing, stencils and sgraffito. You will get the opportunity to really experiment with wet slip decorating and traditional pottery techniques.
Make a Modroc Animal with Sally Barker
Mod-roc, or plaster impregnated bandage, is an easy to use, versatile sculptural material that allows you to build & shape your sculpture quickly You will make an animal with wire and newspaper , covered with mod-roc which you can then choose to paint and take home at the end of the session.
Friday 26th July 2024
10am to 4pm
The Figure in the Landscape with Simon Manfield
Sunday 28th July 2024
10am to 4pm
A day’s workshop of life drawing in the landscape. Venue to be confirmed closer to the date.
In this day-long session we will be working from observation with a model in a secluded and safe environment. While considering both figure and landscape we will also be looking at elements such as light and shade and composition.
One-to-one guidance and feedback will be given throughout the session.
Please bring materials of your own choice (including drawing pad), something to sit on, a packed lunch and flask.
Experience level: All welcome
Cast a Wall Plaque with Sally Barker
Casting is a great way to accurately capture form and texture . In this session you will use clay to make your mould and plaster of paris as the casting material . Choosing from a selection of natural and textured materials you will create a small cast and a large wall plaque to take home.
Monday 29th July 2024
10am to 4pm
Still Life Painting with Dominic Vince
Tuesday 30th July to Thursday 1st August 2024
10am to 12.30pm
Spend three sessions painting from one set up of your choice. A chance to learn how to develop your composition, colour mixing and visual analytical skills with tutor Dominic Vince. Focus will be on getting more out of the experience of looking and mixing, thinking in a more abstract and analytical way, the joy of looking and responding, and the use of painting as a jouurney that allows us to see more; concentrating on resolving a painting and taking it the full distance rather that making something "good."
Mixed Media Still Lifes with Amanda Allan
Tuesday 6th to Thursday 8th August 2024
10am to 12.30pm
In this summer school of three sessions you will learn techniques including ink drawing, watercolour painting, oil pastels, making printed papers and collage. You will look at a variety of artists and learn about observation, composition, colour theory and drawing for different purposes, in the making of mixed media still life works of art.