Ref: SWE37567
This course is as much about process as it is about outcomes. It is about using techniques and materials, combined with gathering visual information from outdoors at West Dean, to make work that is a response to nature, experimental in attitude and sketchbook-like in nature. It is a catalyst for ideas and further development.
Initial studio time will introduce you to some materials and techniques, and you will prepare marks and backgrounds on paper to work on. Going outdoors, and walking in the grounds of the College as a group, you will gather visual information and impressions through mark-making, collecting natural objects, making rubbings and using graphite. Returning to the studio with your findings, you will be encouraged to further explore and express your feelings about the walk and nature, using various low tech print and drawing techniques, plus making small scale pressings from textures and embossed surfaces using clay.
You can expect to produce a collection of pieces in response to the walk that are like tests and samples in character and generally small scale.
On this course, the tutor will supply most of the materials to be shared equally within the group, including:
The cost of any work that is large in size and quantity may be charged extra.
If you have any of the following materials or tools and would like to use them, you could bring them:
Available from shop: A good variety of art materials are available to buy, including graphite crayons, graphite powder, graphite sticks, watercolour paints, Quink ink, soft oil pastels, pencils, paint brushes, thin papers for making rubbings, glue stick, folios.
Available from tutor: The cost of extra materials used in the making of any work large in size and quantity
Firing options:
Please wear appropriate clothing/aprons for the workshop or studio, this includes stout covered footwear (no sandals or open toes).
Arrival day
Residential students can arrive from 4pm, non-residential students to arrive by 7.15pm for registration. Students arriving earlier are welcome to purchase dinner in the College Dining Room from 6pm.
Students meet their tutor in the Bar at 7.30pm prompt to go to studios.
First Teaching session: 7.30pm - 9pm (attendance is essential)
Daily timetable
Course teaching: 9.15am - 5pm
Morning session: 9.15am - 12.45pm including coffee/tea break
Lunch break: 12.45pm - 2pm*
Afternoon session: 2pm - 5pm including coffee/tea break
Teaching finishes: 5pm
Evening working: students may have access to workshops until 9pm, but only with permission from the tutor and provided any health and safety guidelines are observed.
Departure day
Course teaching: 9.15am - 3pm
Teaching finishes: 3pm
Residential students will need to check out of rooms by 10am. Please note, the tutor may make slight variations to the daily timetable as required.
*Lunch can be purchased on campus, view options
Joanna tutors with a focus on surface qualities and 2 dimensional design. She trained initially in Printed Textile Design at Manchester and then in Ceramics at The Royal College of Art. She has 30 years of teaching experience in colleges, universities, schools, museums and galleries. Joanna is a long standing member of Contemporary Applied Arts.
Residential option available. Find out accommodation costs and how to book here.
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