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Micro-fiction and artist book creation - 15th Feb 2025
Abigail Shepherd & Beverly Wainwright - One day writing and drawing workshop
Abigail Shepherd & Beverly Wainwright - One day writing and drawing workshop
Abigail Shepherd & Beverly Wainwright - One day writing and drawing workshop
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15th
9.30am - 4pm
£75
A picture tells 1000 words, but how many words do you need to tell a story? In this fun workshop with local writer Abigail Shepherd and Comrie Art Hut owner and artist Beverly Wainwright, you will learn how to use micro-fiction and drawings to expand your thinking and spark new ideas and creative work
About the workshop
Abigail Shepherd & Beverly Wainwright - One day writing and drawing workshop
Abigail Shepherd & Beverly Wainwright - One day writing and drawing workshop
In the morning we’ll talk about what makes a good story and how to say a lot with only a few words, then you’ll have the opportunity to get your own creativity flowing in an exercise that brings words and drawing together to help unlock the stories in the things around us and an item special to you.
After lunch, we will expand on the ideas
In the morning we’ll talk about what makes a good story and how to say a lot with only a few words, then you’ll have the opportunity to get your own creativity flowing in an exercise that brings words and drawing together to help unlock the stories in the things around us and an item special to you.
After lunch, we will expand on the ideas of story structure that we discussed in the morning and develop a piece of micro fiction. The final part of the afternoon will be an opportunity to bring all the work you have done so far together into an artist book, which will be a mix of words, drawing and collage.
This workshop is suitable for everyone and has been designed to inspire you to use storytelling to deepen your creative output, whether you are writing, drawing or both.
All materials included.
About Abi and Beverly
Abigail Shepherd & Beverly Wainwright - One day writing and drawing workshop
About Abi and Beverly
Abigail Shepherd is a business copywriter and marketing content creator based in Perthshire. She loves writing anything, but feels a particular affinity to flash fiction. She’s had numerous stories published, including in The Drabble, Flash Fiction Press, Mystery Weekly and Coffin Bell Journal. Her work features everyday scenes or activit
Abigail Shepherd is a business copywriter and marketing content creator based in Perthshire. She loves writing anything, but feels a particular affinity to flash fiction. She’s had numerous stories published, including in The Drabble, Flash Fiction Press, Mystery Weekly and Coffin Bell Journal. Her work features everyday scenes or activities, often ending with a surprisingly dark twist or unresolved question for the reader to answer.
Beverly Wainwright has studied art courses at Leith School of art, Edinburgh and Bridgehouse Art School in Ullapool where she completed her portfolio course. Her first business was ceramics and her studio was in East Lothian. She has worked in photography and with a group of artists in Barcelona to produce portraits for sale around the world. She currently runs Comrie Art Hut where she teaches short courses in still life and abstract mixed media processes. The art hut is used for her own art practise over the winter
Winter Blues - Cyanotypes -Katherine Gallacher -22nd Feb
Katherine Gallacher - CYANOTYPES - 1 day workshop - 22nd Feb -£90
Katherine Gallacher - CYANOTYPES - 1 day workshop - 22nd Feb -£90
Katherine Gallacher - CYANOTYPES - 1 day workshop - 22nd Feb -£90
Join Katherine Gallacher for a one day workshop which will introduce you to the historical cyanotype printing process. This is a camera-less form of photography. The workshop will guide you step-by-step through the process of mixing chemicals, coating papers, exposing, and fixing your prints. You will have plenty of opportunity to experim
Join Katherine Gallacher for a one day workshop which will introduce you to the historical cyanotype printing process. This is a camera-less form of photography. The workshop will guide you step-by-step through the process of mixing chemicals, coating papers, exposing, and fixing your prints. You will have plenty of opportunity to experiment and leave with your own cyanotype masterpieces, as well as the knowledge to carry on creating at home.
You will also be introduced to a range of different materials to experiment printing with, including natural objects and working with acetate negatives.
No prior experience is needed to participate.
All materials will be provided but you are welcome to bring your own botanicals. These could be leaves or flowers you've picked up on your way to the workshop or flat objects such as pieces of lace, feathers and even negatives.
It’s best not to wear your favourite clothes just in case you get chemicals on them.
Workshop details
Katherine Gallacher - CYANOTYPES - 1 day workshop - 22nd Feb -£90
Katherine Gallacher - CYANOTYPES - 1 day workshop - 22nd Feb -£90
SATURDAY 22nd February
9.30-4pm
£90
What we will cover in the workshop:
1. Introduction to the process and a little history of cyanotype printing.
2. Introduction to different printing materials including plant materials, household objects and using acetate negatives.
3. Mixing chemicals and coating paper using dry and wet cyanotype process.
4.
SATURDAY 22nd February
9.30-4pm
£90
What we will cover in the workshop:
1. Introduction to the process and a little history of cyanotype printing.
2. Introduction to different printing materials including plant materials, household objects and using acetate negatives.
3. Mixing chemicals and coating paper using dry and wet cyanotype process.
4. Making your own prints.
5. You will receive a workbook with step-by-step instructions to continue your cyanotype journey at home.
Katherine’s approach is collaborative and inclusive, participants will be encouraged to pursue their own creative interests.
About Katherine
Katherine Gallacher - CYANOTYPES - 1 day workshop - 22nd Feb -£90
About Katherine
Katherine is a Scottish artist with a passion for cyanotype, the creative process where ‘Art meets Science’. Alongside creating her artwork, she leads workshops sharing her love of cyanotype and works as an art and design teacher in Falkirk.
In 2020 Katherine began developing her photography work through the Cyanotype process. Her inter
Katherine is a Scottish artist with a passion for cyanotype, the creative process where ‘Art meets Science’. Alongside creating her artwork, she leads workshops sharing her love of cyanotype and works as an art and design teacher in Falkirk.
In 2020 Katherine began developing her photography work through the Cyanotype process. Her interest in Cyanotypes comes from Anna Atkins, who was a Botanist and named the first female photographer. Atkins took the process for creating blueprints and transformed it to catalogue her work.
Katherine loves the unpredictable nature of this process and experiments with traditional formulation by using elements such as vinegar and salt, adding them to the process to change the colour and texture of each piece.
By collecting flora from her garden and the Scottish countryside Katherine aims to highlight the individuality of each variety and bring wild unforgotten plants and weeds to the fore. Katherine uses many surfaces as her canvas from watercolour paper, natural fabrics, sheet music and maps. Her
newest collection is an exploration of how colour can be altered in the cyanotype process pre and post-exposure. She has been experimenting with acrylic paints, watercolour inks and watercolour paint with a variety of intriguing outcomes.
charity McArdle - draw realistic portraits - Sunday Feb 23rd
1 day portraiture workshop - 23rd Feb - 9.30-4 - £95
1 day portraiture workshop - 23rd Feb - 9.30-4 - £95
1 day portraiture workshop - 23rd Feb - 9.30-4 - £95
LEARN TO DRAW REALISTIC PORTRAITS with CHARITY McARDLE
“Great day of portrait drawing. Lots of useful tips, practise, encouragement and methods of creating pieces we were all very happy with.”
We are running This course for the second time! This day-long course is an introduction to monochrome portraiture using pencil and conté crayons. Sui
LEARN TO DRAW REALISTIC PORTRAITS with CHARITY McARDLE
“Great day of portrait drawing. Lots of useful tips, practise, encouragement and methods of creating pieces we were all very happy with.”
We are running This course for the second time! This day-long course is an introduction to monochrome portraiture using pencil and conté crayons. Suitable for beginners through to more experienced students, Charity McArdle will tailor tuition to each individual student and their level of previous experience.We will develop tools and knowledge for looking, measuring and recording the human head.
About the course
1 day portraiture workshop - 23rd Feb - 9.30-4 - £95
1 day portraiture workshop - 23rd Feb - 9.30-4 - £95
In the morning we will touch on
- Warm-up/ loosening exercises.
- The proportion of the head
- Measuring
- Clues for features.
- The power of tone.
The afternoon will be spent working on a longer drawing from a photocopy, screen image or, depending on the confidence of the group, from a live model. Students will be supported in using proportion, rhythm
In the morning we will touch on
- Warm-up/ loosening exercises.
- The proportion of the head
- Measuring
- Clues for features.
- The power of tone.
The afternoon will be spent working on a longer drawing from a photocopy, screen image or, depending on the confidence of the group, from a live model. Students will be supported in using proportion, rhythms and measuring techniques to create an accurate portrait and to be able to build skills and confidence. A day fully focused and in the zone.
Sharing our learning over a cup of beautifully crafted tea will be encouraged .
All materials will be provided
About Charity McArdle
1 day portraiture workshop - 23rd Feb - 9.30-4 - £95
About Charity McArdle
Charity McArdle has been teaching for thirty years and has been a practicing artist alongside her teaching since 2016. Her practice is mainly in landscapes and portraiture and she has sold work in the UK, Europe and Australia. She has exhibited widely in Scotland. She has worked on a number of commissioned portraits but more recently is
Charity McArdle has been teaching for thirty years and has been a practicing artist alongside her teaching since 2016. Her practice is mainly in landscapes and portraiture and she has sold work in the UK, Europe and Australia. She has exhibited widely in Scotland. She has worked on a number of commissioned portraits but more recently is developing her own project called ‘Defiant Women’ Find out more on charitymcardlefineart.com
MORAG GRAY - textile printing - Sat 15th March - £75
Funky printed textiles - 1 day workshop - 9.30-4 - march 15th - £75
Funky printed textiles - 1 day workshop - 9.30-4 - march 15th - £75
Funky printed textiles - 1 day workshop - 9.30-4 - march 15th - £75
JOIN Morag for a relaxed and fun workshop to learn the art of fabric transfer printing and design. You will use your fabric to create a unique charger bag for your mobile phone to take home.
This course is suitable for - BEGINNERS and those with some experience using a sewing machine.
you will need to bring your own SEWING MACHINE
About the workshop
Funky printed textiles - 1 day workshop - 9.30-4 - march 15th - £75
Funky printed textiles - 1 day workshop - 9.30-4 - march 15th - £75
In the morning you paint your designs on paper which is then “heat set” onto synthetic fabric to give beautiful bold and vivid results.
In the afternoon using your sewing machine, you can make up a Mobile phone rest and charger bag to take home with you. This workshop is suitable for all abilities and will be a relaxed and sociable exper
In the morning you paint your designs on paper which is then “heat set” onto synthetic fabric to give beautiful bold and vivid results.
In the afternoon using your sewing machine, you can make up a Mobile phone rest and charger bag to take home with you. This workshop is suitable for all abilities and will be a relaxed and sociable experience. Bring a friend and have fun together. All materials provided and included in the price.
About Morag
Funky printed textiles - 1 day workshop - 9.30-4 - march 15th - £75
About Morag
Morag studied Fashion at Edinburgh College of Art where she designed hats and childrens’ wear with brightly-coloured applique. Working in Interior Design and Theatre Costume resulted in an interest in using recycled furnishing fabrics, vintage domestic textiles and lace for collaged compositions. The rolling hills of the Carse of Gowrie
Morag studied Fashion at Edinburgh College of Art where she designed hats and childrens’ wear with brightly-coloured applique. Working in Interior Design and Theatre Costume resulted in an interest in using recycled furnishing fabrics, vintage domestic textiles and lace for collaged compositions. The rolling hills of the Carse of Gowrie where she lives are a constant source of inspiration and have inspired Morag to create wonderful textural landscape pieces. As well as her own creative projects Morag’s many and diverse teaching commitments motivate her to continually explore textile techniques.
CLARE ROBINSON- floral watercolours - Friday 21st March
Seasonal florals - 1 day watercolour workshop - Friday 21st March - £90
Seasonal florals - 1 day watercolour workshop - Friday 21st March - £90
Seasonal florals - 1 day watercolour workshop - Friday 21st March - £90
Join Clare for a relaxing painting workshop at the beautiful rural retreat of Comrie Art Hut which is based at Comrie Croft, Perthshire. This is a one day, non-residential course focusing on sketching and painting seasonal flowers and plants. You will learn about and experiment with a loose style of watercolour. The workshop is designed t
Join Clare for a relaxing painting workshop at the beautiful rural retreat of Comrie Art Hut which is based at Comrie Croft, Perthshire. This is a one day, non-residential course focusing on sketching and painting seasonal flowers and plants. You will learn about and experiment with a loose style of watercolour. The workshop is designed to introduce beginners to watercolour and if you are familiar with watercolour already to help nurture and develop your own style.
Suitable for beginners and those wanting to improve their technique.
About the course
Seasonal florals - 1 day watercolour workshop - Friday 21st March - £90
Seasonal florals - 1 day watercolour workshop - Friday 21st March - £90
1 day workshop
Friday 21st March
9.30am-4pm
This is a one day, non-residential course focusing on sketching and painting seasonal flowers and plants. You will learn about and experiment with a loose style of watercolour. The workshop is designed to introduce beginners to watercolour and if you are familiar with watercolour already to help nu
1 day workshop
Friday 21st March
9.30am-4pm
This is a one day, non-residential course focusing on sketching and painting seasonal flowers and plants. You will learn about and experiment with a loose style of watercolour. The workshop is designed to introduce beginners to watercolour and if you are familiar with watercolour already to help nurture and develop your own style. There will be plenty of one-on-one guidance and demonstrations to help enhance your observation and develop expressive painting skills
About Clare
Seasonal florals - 1 day watercolour workshop - Friday 21st March - £90
About Clare
CLARE ROBINSON is a watercolour artist and textile designer with a love for the painterly and softly hand drawn images. She grew up in Cheshire and her love of flowers and fine detail was apparent at a young age. Studying at Manchester College of Art & Design, then graduated with a BA (Hons) in Textile Design from Loughborough College of
CLARE ROBINSON is a watercolour artist and textile designer with a love for the painterly and softly hand drawn images. She grew up in Cheshire and her love of flowers and fine detail was apparent at a young age. Studying at Manchester College of Art & Design, then graduated with a BA (Hons) in Textile Design from Loughborough College of Art and Design. Working for Menswear and Womenswear brands, London Savile Row as a product developer/buyer and then Samsung Textiles Division, California. She later took a creative design role at the iconic British Heritage Brand, Mackintosh, Glasgow brought her to Scotland. Her watercolours and illustrations are full of delicate, subtle colours, with a hand drawn & sketchy feel to them. Interiors and magazines seems the natural choice to display her work, with a collection of paintings & drawings at deVOL kitchens showroom in New York, illustrating for Liz Earle Wellbeing Magazine and exhibiting in galleries in Scotland.
LOOPSHOP - writing workshop - REBECCA SHARP - 5/6th April
REBECCA SHARP - Creative writing workshop - 2 Days - 9.30-4pm - 5th and 6th April - £200
REBECCA SHARP - Creative writing workshop - 2 Days - 9.30-4pm - 5th and 6th April - £200
REBECCA SHARP - Creative writing workshop - 2 Days - 9.30-4pm - 5th and 6th April - £200
Join Rebecca for a creative/writing workshop with Rebecca Sharp, drawing from themes explored by her new poetry collection Long Field Loop. When so much of moving forward includes looking back, the poems in Long Field Loop make space for making amends – where land, humans and more-than-humans explore patterns of experience in times of reckoning. Set within the wider context of late-stage capitalism, seismic global unrest and climate crisis, Sharp’s poems consider how we find our feet again, the recovery of values and voice, what we must lay to rest and how we carry on. Unspooling all of this, the workshop – a Loopshop – explores geologic and other expressions of time, energy and ecology; layers, cycles, patterns, overlaps, interconnectedness, disruption and repair. Through a series of bespoke written, visual and combined exercises, we’ll identify loops we want to break for individual and collective progress; and those we want to reinforce or renew.
About the workshop
REBECCA SHARP - Creative writing workshop - 2 Days - 9.30-4pm - 5th and 6th April - £200
REBECCA SHARP - Creative writing workshop - 2 Days - 9.30-4pm - 5th and 6th April - £200
First presented at the Scottish Poetry Library in October 2024 as a 3-hour workshop, this 2-day extended Loopshop for Comrie Art Hut is a unique opportunity to experiment further with the themes and techniques, looping them into new written, visual and all forms of hybrid work.
“I have never come away from a workshop with so many new ideas and techniques. It has been a gamechanger for my own creative practice. It’s very rare to attend an event that offers so many new approaches, well researched information and unique techniques. Rebecca’s workshop was truly inspirational and also simply joyful.” Britta Benson
DAY 1 - Indoor presentation of concepts, themes and imagery. Some ice-breaker visual and writing exercises. A local walk – with creative note-taking. Indoors to close, mapping and writing.
DAY 2 - Gathering materials, then the walk again, different this time. Creative note-taking, mapping. Indoors to collate material into written and visual forms
About Rebecca
REBECCA SHARP - Creative writing workshop - 2 Days - 9.30-4pm - 5th and 6th April - £200
About Rebecca
Rebecca Sharp is a poet, playwright and interdisciplinary artist based in Fife. Poetry includes Long Field Loop (Tapsalteerie 2024), listed for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year, which she researched and wrote as the inaugural Artist in Residence with the Centre for Energy Ethics (University of St Andrews) 2022-2024. Rough Currency (Tapsalteerie 2021) explores the poetics of oil and the imagination, receiving a Literature Matters Award from the Royal Society of Literature, and an Art of Energy Award. Interdisciplinary collaborations have been shortlisted for the Scottish Landscape Awards and the Brush & Lyre Prize for Multimedia Poetry.
About Long Field Loop:
“…an extraordinary, utterly unique collection, exploring the faultline between science and poetry, and proving, in doing so, that science in the right hands can be a form of song. This intelligent, resourceful book is an antidote to the Anthropocene – hugely informative, hugely readable, written to remind us of the beauty and fragility of our relationship with the natural world.” – John Glenday, poet
THIS WORKSHOP IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY
THE CENTRE FOR ENERGY ETHICS
Gelli Plate Printing - 1 day workshop - NICKY SANDERSON
Gelli plate 1 day workshop
Gelli plate 1 day workshop
Gelli plate 1 day workshop
INFORMATION COMING SOON.
About the workshop
Gelli plate 1 day workshop
Gelli plate 1 day workshop
Information coming soon
About Nicky
Gelli plate 1 day workshop
About Nicky
Nicky Sanderson is from Edinburgh, based full time at Coburg House Studios in Leith. She works as a painter and printmaker and is interested in the many ways of interpreting the natural world, its underlying geology, coasts and local story.
Nicky studied Printmaking at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and at Post Graduate level for two years
Nicky Sanderson is from Edinburgh, based full time at Coburg House Studios in Leith. She works as a painter and printmaker and is interested in the many ways of interpreting the natural world, its underlying geology, coasts and local story.
Nicky studied Printmaking at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and at Post Graduate level for two years at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, following which she was awarded a year’s scholarship by the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA) to study experimental printmaking in Mexico City. On her return to Scotland she exhibited in London and Edinburgh, and taught art to adults as co-director of an art travel company and trained as a Blue Badge Guide for Scotland. In recent years she has taught the Scottish Art module for trainee Scottish tourist guides (STGA Blue Badge), and regularly leads courses to the Outer Hebrides for the creative travel company Wild at Art Scotland Ltd., involving en plein air information-gathering and studio development work.
Currently a member of the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA), Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) and Edinburgh Printmakers (EP).
KATY GALBRAITH - Mosaics for the garden - 26/27th April
Katy Galbraith - weekend Mosaics for the garden workshop - April 26th and 27th - 9.30-4pm - £200
Katy Galbraith - weekend Mosaics for the garden workshop - April 26th and 27th - 9.30-4pm - £200
Katy Galbraith - weekend Mosaics for the garden workshop - April 26th and 27th - 9.30-4pm - £200
Join Katy Galbraith of Recycle Me Mosaics in a two-day course learning the basics of making mosaics suitable for your garden. Using suitable discarded crockery and tiles, this workshop is ideal for beginners, improvers and curious crafters and offers a fun-filled weekend with step-by-step guidance in a small group.
It could be a picture on
Join Katy Galbraith of Recycle Me Mosaics in a two-day course learning the basics of making mosaics suitable for your garden. Using suitable discarded crockery and tiles, this workshop is ideal for beginners, improvers and curious crafters and offers a fun-filled weekend with step-by-step guidance in a small group.
It could be a picture on a board, roof slate, ceramic tile or reclaimed stepping stone or a small 3D piece or small pieces on slate. Or a combination of the above. Participants will be working directly onto the surface, so stepping stones will not be perfectly flat.
About the workshop
Katy Galbraith - weekend Mosaics for the garden workshop - April 26th and 27th - 9.30-4pm - £200
Katy Galbraith - weekend Mosaics for the garden workshop - April 26th and 27th - 9.30-4pm - £200
A selection of ceramics, tiles, nuggets, and glass will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own for your project, giving it a more personal feel, more akin to a traditional patchwork quilt idea, where only you will know the provenance of the pieces. Tools and other materials are also provided. We will be working on cement boar
A selection of ceramics, tiles, nuggets, and glass will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own for your project, giving it a more personal feel, more akin to a traditional patchwork quilt idea, where only you will know the provenance of the pieces. Tools and other materials are also provided. We will be working on cement board and structures/ slates / old stepping stones which are suitable for outdoors.
Tea and coffee will be provided throughout the day. Please bring a packed lunch, or there is a café on site.
About Katy
Katy Galbraith - weekend Mosaics for the garden workshop - April 26th and 27th - 9.30-4pm - £200
About Katy
Katy Galbraith has been working as a professional mosaic artist for over 15 years and is a professional member of BAMM (British Association of Modern Mosaic). The reuse of materials is a core part of her own work. She exhibits extensively and has two pieces in the National Museum of Scotland.
LIZ KEMP - Découpage Workshop - 3rd May
LIZ KEMP - one day découpage workshop - Saturday 3rd May - 9.30-4 - £80
LIZ KEMP - one day découpage workshop - Saturday 3rd May - 9.30-4 - £80
LIZ KEMP - one day découpage workshop - Saturday 3rd May - 9.30-4 - £80
Join Liz for a relaxing and fun day learning the art of découpage. Transform old used items you have at home into works of art and take home new skills as well as a finished item that you have transformed with a new lease of life!
Découpage is the art or craft of decorating objects with paper cut-outs with or without applied colouring or
Join Liz for a relaxing and fun day learning the art of découpage. Transform old used items you have at home into works of art and take home new skills as well as a finished item that you have transformed with a new lease of life!
Découpage is the art or craft of decorating objects with paper cut-outs with or without applied colouring or hand drawn details. Paper is layered onto various surfaces including furniture, small items like trays or bowls or on wooden panels for framing giving countless possibilities to play with in terms of image, texture and colour.
About the workshop
LIZ KEMP - one day découpage workshop - Saturday 3rd May - 9.30-4 - £80
LIZ KEMP - one day découpage workshop - Saturday 3rd May - 9.30-4 - £80
You will start by planning your design and then work transforming whatever item you have chosen to bring. This could be a tray, brightening up a household item or making a start on decorating a small item of furniture in a day of découpage at Comrie Art Hut.
We will provide : assorted papers, acrylic paint, glue and varnish, however you ar
You will start by planning your design and then work transforming whatever item you have chosen to bring. This could be a tray, brightening up a household item or making a start on decorating a small item of furniture in a day of découpage at Comrie Art Hut.
We will provide : assorted papers, acrylic paint, glue and varnish, however you are welcome to bring any personal images or bits of text you might like to use to personalise your piece.
You need to bring: a small item of furniture primed and ready for use, a tray, wooden bowl, mirror or other frame / wooden panel that can be decoupaged and framed any bits and pieces of paper you might like to use.
About Liz
LIZ KEMP - one day découpage workshop - Saturday 3rd May - 9.30-4 - £80
About Liz
Liz trained in Fine Art and Sculpture at the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh School of Art and has gone on to develop a number of art practices that include découpage collage and paper sculpture. Much of her work is with other people through participatory workshops, classes and projects to encourage everyone to take part in visual art and have fun with it.
JAN BRECKENRIDGE - BOOKFORMS - 22/23rd June
Jan Breckenridge - Artist book creation - weekend workshop - 22nd and 23rd June
Jan Breckenridge - Artist book creation - weekend workshop - 22nd and 23rd June
Jan Breckenridge - Artist book creation - weekend workshop - 22nd and 23rd June
INFORMATION COMING SOON!
About the workshop
Jan Breckenridge - Artist book creation - weekend workshop - 22nd and 23rd June
Jan Breckenridge - Artist book creation - weekend workshop - 22nd and 23rd June
INFORMATION COMING SOON!
About Jan
Jan Breckenridge - Artist book creation - weekend workshop - 22nd and 23rd June
About Jan
Jan has a background in science and conservation but thankfully discovered a love of making books through courses in Ullapool and Salford.
her creative talents include; bookmaking and printmaking and she's a qualified geologist and herbalist. Jan has been teaching Artist bookmaking courses for several years.
Unfolding the landscape - Nicky Sanderson - 5-6th July
Creating a concertina sketchbook - 2 day weekend course - 5th & 6th July - 9.30-4pm- £200
Creating a concertina sketchbook - 2 day weekend course - 5th & 6th July - 9.30-4pm- £200
Creating a concertina sketchbook - 2 day weekend course - 5th & 6th July - 9.30-4pm- £200
Join artist and printmaker Nicky Sanderson for a creative weekend, connecting to the landscape and history of this lovely area . We will create a concertina sketchbook from scratch, inspired by a walk into the countryside near our studio.
Discovering stories about the area will help to connect us to the location as we immerse ourselves in the environment, using all our senses. The book that you take home will feel like a personal response to the location and a treasured artwork that only you could have made.
This workshop is suitable for all levels of art experience.
About the workshop
Creating a concertina sketchbook - 2 day weekend course - 5th & 6th July - 9.30-4pm- £200
Creating a concertina sketchbook - 2 day weekend course - 5th & 6th July - 9.30-4pm- £200
On day one, there will be an introduction to the structure of the weekend, showing of examples, discussion/demonstration of methods used to achieve interesting results, and reference to deeper understanding of the area. Everyone will then prepare their concertina papers.
The walk will start after lunch, taking with us a small bag of materials and pre-prepared paper. Participants will be encouraged to look for subjects that interest them, or reflect their responses to the location, for example, details of the rocks and lichens, or the wider view of hills and trees, or even words and sounds that spring to mind. These should be noted down. Found objects can also be collected for using as drawing implements back in the studio. Depending on the weather, we'll take time to draw on location.
Day two concentrates on putting together all of the ideas collected on day one. This will involve creating textures and colours on tissue paper to create a "palette" from which to choose for collaging onto the cartridge paper; paper created on the walk can also be worked on with a view to including it in the book, or using it as a cover; drawing or printing with any found objects on the cartridge or tissue; planning the layout of the concertina book; creating a cardboard cover.
Keeping an open mind, we decide if the concertina book is a narrative, or a series of views, or selected patterns from nature, or completely abstract in its composition. The final stages involve reworking the surface of the concertina, making sure the pages lead easily one to another.
About Nicky
Creating a concertina sketchbook - 2 day weekend course - 5th & 6th July - 9.30-4pm- £200
About Nicky
Nicky Sanderson is from Edinburgh, based full time at Coburg House Studios in Leith. She works as a painter and printmaker and is interested in the many ways of interpreting the natural world, its underlying geology, coasts and local story.
Nicky studied Printmaking at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and at Post Graduate level for two years at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, following which she was awarded a year’s scholarship by the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA) to study experimental printmaking in Mexico City. On her return to Scotland she exhibited in London and Edinburgh, and taught art to adults as co-director of an art travel company and trained as a Blue Badge Guide for Scotland. In recent years she has taught the Scottish Art module for trainee Scottish tourist guides (STGA Blue Badge), and regularly leads courses to the Outer Hebrides for the creative travel company Wild at Art Scotland Ltd., involving en plein air information-gathering and studio development work.
Currently a member of the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA), Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) and Edinburgh Printmakers (EP).
KATY GALBRAITH-Indoor Mosaics - 2 days -25th/26th Oct
KATY GALBRAITH - Create an indoor mosaic piece - weekend workshop - 25th-26th October - 9.30-4pm - £200
KATY GALBRAITH - Create an indoor mosaic piece - weekend workshop - 25th-26th October - 9.30-4pm - £200
KATY GALBRAITH - Create an indoor mosaic piece - weekend workshop - 25th-26th October - 9.30-4pm - £200
Join Katy Galbraith of Recycle Me Mosaics in a two-day course learning the basics of making a mosaic picture or mirror in discarded ceramics. This workshop is ideal for beginners, improvers and curious crafters and offers a fun-filled weekend with step-by-step guidance in a small group.
About the workshop
KATY GALBRAITH - Create an indoor mosaic piece - weekend workshop - 25th-26th October - 9.30-4pm - £200
KATY GALBRAITH - Create an indoor mosaic piece - weekend workshop - 25th-26th October - 9.30-4pm - £200
You will be given guidance about technique and the use of different materials involved.
Birds, fish, flowers are all possibilities, and can be colourful or monochrome, depending on your own style and the materials available. A selection of ceramics, tiles, nuggets, and glass will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own for your
You will be given guidance about technique and the use of different materials involved.
Birds, fish, flowers are all possibilities, and can be colourful or monochrome, depending on your own style and the materials available. A selection of ceramics, tiles, nuggets, and glass will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own for your project, giving it a more personal feel, more akin to a traditional patchwork quilt idea, where only you will know the provenance of the pieces. Tools and other materials are also provided. We will be working on wooden boards, so not suitable for outdoors. Tea and coffee will be provided throughout the day. Please bring a packed lunch.
About Katy
KATY GALBRAITH - Create an indoor mosaic piece - weekend workshop - 25th-26th October - 9.30-4pm - £200
About Katy
Katy Galbraith has been working as a professional mosaic artist for over 15 years and is a professional member of BAMM (British Association of Modern Mosaic). The reuse of materials is a core part of her own work. She exhibits extensively and has two pieces in the National Museum of Scotland.