A unique selection of ceramics by a world renowned maker, Jill Fanshawe Kato. Jill explores many techniques including coiling, slabbing, sculpting, using moulds and throwing and altering. She regards her work, which is held in collections worldwide, as sitting somewhere ‘between sculpture and painting’.
The Wildlife Art Society International’s annual exhibition of wildlife art. Around 300 paintings, drawings, original prints, photographs and sculpture by professional and part-time members of this active organisation will be on display, the majority for sale. Members will be demonstrating throughout the exhibition. (Free access to this exhibition without visiting the museum).
During the Bank Holiday weekend (27th -29th May) TWASI will be running a series of workshops taught by artist members.
Saturday 27th:- Paint a Bird on a Feather with Mandi Baykaa-Murray
Sunday 28th:- Big Cats Coloured Pencil Workshop with France Bouduin
Monday 30th:- Space to Breathe. Design, Space and a Touch of the Abstract with Gregory Wellman
Find out more HERE
Workshops will run from 10am – 5pm with lunch included
Please contact John Horton for further information and to book your place.
Tel: 01905 381605 Email: johnhorton47@hotmail.com
Come a hear from Denise Coble who uses gold leaf in many of her paintings.
Temari Japanese textile balls are breath taking in their intricate design, detail and time spent creating them. However we have quick cheat method to make these decorative balls. It great way to find out more about this Japanese art , geometry and pattern. PLEASE BOOK YOUR PLACE IN ADVANCE!
Temari Japanese textile balls are breath taking in their intricate design, detail and time spent creating them. However we have quick cheat method to make these decorative balls. It great way to find out more about this Japanese art , geometry and pattern. PLEASE BOOK YOUR PLACE IN ADVANCE!
Art Course
with Cath Hodsman 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 11
Dragonflies and Damselflies are the biggest of British insects and also the most mystical. They are great survivors and date back as far as the dinosaurs. They are notoriously shy, but are skilled and ruthless hunters. In this water colour painting workshop, participants will have the chance to study and paint these beautiful creatures in much greater detail.
Cath and the course participants will discuss how these insect leviathans fly, hunt, reproduce and why they are so colourful and powerful. As with Cath’s other courses, each student will have access to their own high powered microscopes and specimens to study the anatomical beauty of these impressive insects.
Participants will then use a mix of microscopes, specimens and macro photographs to produce a detailed and unique painting.
Course Cost
Members: £84
Non-members: £110
Course Suitability: Beginners
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List The full materials list can be supplied to you, please ask at the shop or email:
education@natureinart.org.uk
Artist’s Profile Cath Hodsman is a skilled and widely acknowledged British wildlife and natural
history artist and an enthusiastic and encouraging tutor. She is also one of the most technically accomplished and accurate entomological (insects) artists – and as such, the Natural History Museum sells her work. Cath believes that, in order to pay homage to insects using art, it is necessary to capture their anatomical intricacy and she therefore strives for 100% accuracy.
To help conserve and preserve the future of insects, she works closely with many relevant organisations, such as the RHS, the Wetlands Trusts, the Wildlife Trusts and the National Trust.
Liz Brooke Ward is a contemporary stitched textile artist whose work is informed by the natural world. Her techniques have their roots in the traditions of embroidery and patchwork but she also uses digital and mixed media techniques to extend their boundaries.
An evening with the creator of our latest special exhibition, textile artist Liz Brooke-Ward
Art Course
with Jamie Boots 10am – 5pm
Maximum Participants: 12
On this 2-day course you will learn all about working with graphite pencil from experienced artist Jamie Boots.
Graphite pencil can be used to produce so much more than just a sketch.
Jamie will show participants that. whether or not you are using a pencil that is blunt or sharp, pressing lightly or hard, or using a variety of tones, the realistic texture of skin and the glassy look of an eye can be achieved.
Course Cost
Members: £84
Non-members: £110
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Advanced
ART COURSE BOOKING FORM
Materials List All materials will be supplied free of charge to use during the course by Jamie Boots.
Artist’s Profile Originally from New Zealand, Jamie is a renowned, but self taught, artist whose work is produced in graphite pencil. Jamie first exhibited his work in 2004 and has won a number of awards for his artwork.
In a very short period of time a hobby became a profession and with a limited number of originals being available each year his drawings have become highly collectable.
The romances of Robin Hood give us one version of the Forest, but the reality is even more intriguing. This talk is a tour through medieval greenwood, with its laws, landscapes, buildings, people and works of art. It is also a guide to what still remains to be seen. Tim is an itinerant lecturer, who has worked in theatre and adult education and is renowned for bringing the medieval world to life. He has given hugely entertaining talks at Nature in Art in the past.
Event includes finger buffet.
PLEASE BOOK YOUR TICKET IN ADVANCE.