“Inspiration does exist, but it has to find you working.”
Pablo Picasso
There are many ways to connect with what’s around you – but few are as magical, transformative and available as harnessing the quality of looking that allows you to respond authentically, to what you see, with marks on paper.
Making work is a reciprocal process. You make the work which in turn guides you towards a next step. Every piece, whether or not it succeeds in its own right, has the potential to take you further.
Most of the time we are forced to make rapid decisions about what things are. This means that we habitually impose limits on what we look for – and as a consequence, on what we see. In these classes we will explore different ways of working out how things are. When we invest in that, we make ourselves available to everything on offer – and then the possibilities are limitless!
Beginners and more experienced makers can both benefit from working alongside one another. The approach of someone who is trying something for the first time will often yield fresh possibilities to anyone for whom skill has become habit forming or inhibiting. And those with more experience can guide beginners with how to use materials and what to look for.
I hope that the exercises, experiments and projects that we will explore will present everyone with an opportunity to find what really works and matters to them, and will demonstrate that we all have something to share.
“You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down”
drawing inspiration
Why make art?
https://www.drawinginspiration.uk
“Inspiration does exist, but it has to find you working.”
Pablo Picasso
There are many ways to connect with what’s around you – but few are as magical, transformative and available as harnessing the quality of looking that allows you to respond authentically, to what you see, with marks on paper.
Making work is a reciprocal process. You make the work which in turn guides you towards a next step. Every piece, whether or not it succeeds in its own right, has the potential to take you further.
Most of the time we are forced to make rapid decisions about what things are. This means that we habitually impose limits on what we look for – and as a consequence, on what we see. In these classes we will explore different ways of working out how things are. When we invest in that, we make ourselves available to everything on offer – and then the possibilities are limitless!
Beginners and more experienced makers can both benefit from working alongside one another. The approach of someone who is trying something for the first time will often yield fresh possibilities to anyone for whom skill has become habit forming or inhibiting. And those with more experience can guide beginners with how to use materials and what to look for.
I hope that the exercises, experiments and projects that we will explore will present everyone with an opportunity to find what really works and matters to them, and will demonstrate that we all have something to share.
“You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down”
Ray Bradbury