Playing in Silver 2

Another hugely successful Playing in Silver weekend workshop just completed! Tiril once again encourafged and cajoled her group of enthusiastic students to produce some amazing work. A very happy, but tired group of weekend silversmiths left clutching their beautiful items of jewellery

Ideas Without End - Sketchbooks

Eleanor has been away to the Yorkshire Dales as visiting tutor at Jack Beck House. A fabulous 3 days was had by all - the course took students on a personal journey exploring mixed media, text, image, drawing and observation, all contained within the sketchbook. The course aimed to help students gain the confidence to use sketchbooks regularly and understand the use of them as visual research tools.

Natural Impressions - Drawing into Printmaking

Straight after the Transformation summer school week, Eleanor was off as a visiting tutor to Edinburgh. She began the week by getting the students to develop observational studies from natural forms, exploring the transformative power of drawing and then developing the drawings into a series of work through various printmaking techniques. A superb display of work at the end of week exhibition included boxes, books and prints.

Transformation

The first summer school week at the riverside studios was blessed with great weather! The course started with students looking and gathering images from both close up source material such as objects and natural forms, and then go out into the landscape and gather images from wide and open vistas. The images gathered were then transformed by a selection process by drawing from drawings and discovering what was the focus and theme of the final paintings.