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Join us for this relaxed class, learning drawing tips and techniques to bring your sketchbooks to life.Work with experienced artists, Mags Orson in September and Kerry Tristram in October, taking inspiration from natural finds of the season and the woodland setting of Watts Gallery. With a different theme each session – whether it be nature and the woodland at Watts Gallery observing natural materials such as leaves, feathers and plants or being inspired by our collections.You will have the opportunity to explore a variety of media and experiment with different techniques to create a collection of observational or experimental studies. Enjoy mindfully combining elements of drawing, writing, painting or collage, and printing on your sketchbook pages to capture the essence of time and place.
Artist bios
Mags Orson is a creative artist-teacher, spending most of her working life at Charterhouse, Surrey.
Observation is always the beginning. A sunrise during the Spring Equinox, a neolithic burial chamber, or profound experiences such as birth or grief. Her work is primarily autobiographical and emotional. She works thematically using whatever medium is appropriate, painting, mixed media, printmaking, film, installation, or sculpture.
Although techniques vary, there are recurring preoccupations: transience, liminal spaces and the tension that can exist between space and matter.
Since 2020 her focus has been creating fabric designs based on the garden. After taking Rebecca Street’s Pattern Cutting course, she has started developing a new body of work called “Wearing the Garden”.
www.magsorson.com
Kerry Tristram is a mixed media artist, creating jewellery and collages, inspired by the natural world and the deep connection humans have felt with it throughout history. Collections of found objects and natural forms are the starting point for her work. Fragments are combined to tell stories of the woodlander, the beachcomber, the mudlarks, and the artisans. Many of her pieces are cast directly from miniature natural objects in fine silver. Drawn to curated collections of objects in museums, both natural and made by human hand, she aims to create her own evolving collection of curiosities; amulets for the modern age. An experienced teacher, she has worked in both primary and specialist art education. She is now a freelance educator for Watts Gallery, Guildford, The Lightbox, Woking and Creative Response, Farnham. Her work can be found at www.studio-cuckoo.com.
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