WILD CRAFTED MARK-MAKING. A COLLABORATIVE INDOOR/OUTDOOR WORKSHOP WITH JEMIMA HALL AND ELLIS O’CONNOR

Information on the workshop

This workshop is a unique combination of Jemima’s skills in working with the land, foraging and deepening the connection with the landscape around us whilst also learning many alternative mark making methods and mixed medium techniques with Ellis. This is a wonderful collaboration that we are so excited to bring to you as a brand new workshops where our work, fascination with nature and practises weave beautifully together, each practise informing the other allowing for more inspiration and giving the art more depth.

This workshop involves learning how to forage for various mark making tools which can also be used as a medium to draw with, learning alternative mark making skills, mixed medium techniques and ways in which to paint the landscape in your own style whilst finding your own inner expression. We provide all materials and we work with water-based substances and natural found objects.

This workshop is about foraging for materials in the landscape and using them as part of the art work. It is a call to let go of the inner pressure of being scared to put something down on the paper and give yourself the outlet to allow what is inside come out onto the paper. I realise through running this type of workshop that everyone’s style is different and that is the beauty of art, we all interpret what we see around us differently, that is how it is meant to be, uniquely your own and that’s what we’ll be encouraging you to find and harness on this short course.

The landscape will be our inspiration as we will be able to see it change clearly from our surroundings. We will show you different ways in which to capture what we see around us with confidence and through demonstrations of many techniques.

 

Added information on Jemima’s wildcraft workshop

WildCraft
In her foraging workshops Jemima educates people of all ages on local plants, wild foods and elements of bushcraft. Jemima has been running these walks in Glasgow for two years, in each of the seasons. In Jemima’s WildCraft workshops we make our own inks from oak galls, seaweed, berries and leaves. We make paints using different pigmented soils that Jemima personally collects from all over the UK that give us a whole range of colours to create with.

Participants of WildCraft workshops will have an increased understanding of their natural environment, and from that hopefully live with a larger awareness of their relationship to the landscapes they live and work in. By foraging our materials sustainably from the nature around us and sharing that knowledge with those attending workshops, WildCraft functions sustainably with an ever-growing awareness of the local and wider environment. WildCraft workshops are accessible, diverse and inclusive to all individuals and groups. They are a safe space for people to create and communicate.

 

Info on tutors

Jemima Hall www.jemimaelisabethhall.com

Jemima Hall is an artist and student/teacher of ancestral skills based in Scotland where she provides her foraging and WildCraft workshops. She encourages people of all ages to reconnect to their natural surroundings through art, craft and play whilst being educated on local plants, wild foods and elements of bushcraft.

Jemima seeks to regain a knowledge of ancestral skills through play, survival and intuition with what material is there, provided by the landscapes in each of the seasons. Her art practice is a record of her time spent in intimate interactions with wild natural landscapes. She captures this interaction through sculpture, visual poetry and performative art.

Ellis O’Connor www.ellisoconnor.com

Ellis O’Connor is a Contemporary Landscape Artist from Scotland working in the field of painting and drawing. Ellis has been an artist for over 7 years exhibiting her work widely and internationally whilst facilitating drawing and painting workshops encouraging people find to their own inner expression and explore various ways of mark making and mixed medium techniques.

The dynamic energy to be seen in Ellis’s paintings are responses to observed changes in the landscape; ‘the movement and rhythms of the sea and the land … the merging of sea with air, advancing rain and mist, ever changing light – elements that seem to be about something intangible.’

Ellis currently lives and work on the Sleat Peninsula on the Isle of Skye.

Accessibility

This 3-day course is accessible for everyone. It is for those who have never so much as picked up a paintbrush before and want to be vulnerable and grow out of their comfort zone or for those who already have experience in art and want to try something new which will overall feed into their practise.

The Space

We will be using the beautiful big and bright open space at An Crubh which sits on the Sleat Peninsula in South Skye looking out east towards the mainland and varied mountain range of Scotland.

Places

10 spaces

Time

Saturday/ Sunday/ Monday, 10:00– 4:30pm all days.

Itinerary

Saturday

10:00: Meet at a location outdoors on the Sleat Peninsula, welcome talk on both myself and Jemima’s practises and what we will be covering through the workshop.

10:20: Morning session outdoors where we will spend time foraging for mark making tools and natural materials that we can use to create art.

11:00: Go to An Crubh which will be the venue for the course with our materials and show demonstrations.

12:30: Lunch Break

1:30: Demonstration from Jemima. Learning how to create paints and watercolour inks from the natural materials we foraged. This will include items such as creating inks from seaweed, oak galls and berries, paint from soils and charcoal from willow and sticks.

2:00: Afternoon session making our materials to draw and paint with whilst experimenting with texture.

4:00: Finish for the day, discuss and show what we have learned from day 1.

4:30: End of first day.

 

Sunday

10:00: Settling into the space, a brief talk on what we will be covering today.

10:30: Demonstration from Ellis & Jemima. Using natural tools we foraged for alternative mark making methods.

10:45: Morning session on drawing and mark making with materials.

12:30: Lunch Break

1:30: Demonstration of building up texture and depth using mixed materials.

2:00: Afternoon session on bringing everything we have learned together to create works that are layered, vibrant and full of expression.

4:00: Finish for the day and show what we have learned.

4:30pm end of workshop.

Monday

10:00: Settling into the space, a brief talk on what we will be covering today.

10:30: Demonstration from Ellis. Building on from what we have learned over the past two days.

10:45: Morning session on using natural materials to create vibrant and expressive works. Building up confidence in mark making and using mixed mediums.

12:30: Lunch Break

1:30: Demonstration of building up texture and depth using mixed materials.

2:00: Afternoon session on bringing everything we have learned together to create works that are layered, vibrant and full of expression.

4:00: Finish for the day and show what we have learned over the 3 day course.

4:30pm end of workshop.

Cost

£375 for 3 days which covers 3 full days of one to one teaching and all supplies covered.

All supplies included, feel bring to bring a small sketchbook and a selection of natural or man-made tools you would like to use throughout the workshop that are good for mark making.

Lunch is not included but you can bring your own or use the facilities at the café which is also in An Crubh and provides lunches, coffees, teas, cake etc.