WORKSHOPS STARTING TUESDAY 24TH!!

 🎨🌈🌻  Hello!  🦋🙌👩‍🎨

I'm really looking forward to meeting you all on Tuesday and excited to be doing the art workshops again. 

I thought I should introduce myself a bit for those of you that haven't met me. My name's Harriet (Harry for short). I've been working with WASLER freelance since 2015. I also work for an organisation called Art in Hospital delivering art sessions for patients in Care for The Elderly and Rehabilitation (Gartnavel General Hospital), and in the Stroke Rehabilitation Unit at Langlands QEUH. 

I have a background in Fine Art Drawing and Painting. In my practice to date I draw a lot, paint and also work with sound, ceramics, textiles, printing.  I really enjoy working with people and sharing my enthusiasm for the arts. It's been my experience personally and as a Creative Practitioner that engagement with the arts and art-making can be transformative, and can have a positive impact on our health and well-being.

Importantly the workshops are an informal and safe space to meet others, socialise over a cup of tea or coffee, slow down and relax, as well as offering a space to have fun experimenting with different forms of art-making.

Below is some information on the kinds of things we'll be doing over the next 6 weeks.

6 WEEK WORKSHOP PLAN

The workshops will centre around trying out different art-making processes to create a home furnishing; cushion cover, throw, poster or wall hanging. 

 WASLER's refuge team came up with the nice idea of creating a soft furnishing that could be gifted to new women coming into refuge accommodation, collectively we'll come up with a (text-based) design that will be screen printed onto fabric and included in a DIY cushion cover kit. 

We'll also be creating a furnishing for you to keep for your own accommodation.

The design, pattern or image for the furnishing will come out of the different kinds of art making we'll be doing such as collage, cyanotype printing, painting and mark-making. There is also the opportunity to send one of your final designs to be digitally printed onto a cushion cover or soft furnishing.

WORKSHOP TIMES

East Kilbride group: 10am - 12pm

Barrhead group: 12: 45pm - 2 45pm

(you can leave before though if need be and we will probably start to clear up 15 minutes prior to the finish times above)

No previous experience is needed. 

ALL ART MATERIALS WILL BE PROVIDED SO YOU DON'T NEED TO BRING ANY, THERE WILL BE TEA, COFFEE AND SNACKS, YOU MIGHT WANT TO WEAR OR BRING OLD CLOTHING AS WE WILL BE USING PAINT AND WET MEDIA.

COVID health and safety: MASKS WILL BE AVAILABLE, AS WELL AS HAND SANITIZER AND THE ROOMS WILL BE WELL VENTILATED.

WEEKS 5 & 6

MARK MAKING, PATTERN

& COLLECTIVE CUSHION COVER DESIGN

for the

'WELCOME GIFTS' DIY CUSHION KIT

In these workshops we'll try out different kinds of mark-making using a variety of brushes, sponges and other tools. From these mark-making experiments we might develop repeated patterns using digital software such as Photoshop, or by drawing or tracing imagery free-hand.

We'll look at artists such as David Hockney, Van Gogh, Lourdes Sanchez, Sonia Delauney, Louise Bourgeois, Odili Donald Odita and textile designers such, Laura Spring, Humphries & Begg, Liberty, Bauhaus. 

As a group we will come up with a message, or text-based image that will then be screen- printed onto fabric that will be included in a DIY cushion kit that will be gifted to women coming into refuge accommodation. For inspiration we'll look at text-based art and discuss what kind of typeface/font and colour we want the finished design and print to have. 

NOTE: (Sometimes the plans get slightly adapted from week to week depending on people's interest and how work is developing)

An end of project get together will be arranged in discussion with the group. 

Any designs that are sent to the digital printers for completion will be delivered to you by post or in-person, this will be arranged with the refuge teams and myself.