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Who lives here” A creative workshop for children
About the event:
This workshop will encourage children to respond imaginatively to the Braziers Park house and gardens through sketching, drawing and collage. The workshop will start outside, sketching parts of the front of the house and, back inside, adding ideas by completing the drawing using photographic references. The children will add collaged windows and we will then guide an imaginative response to encourage their thinking about who or what may live in a house like this. The children will then draw their ideas in the windows of inhabitants looking out. Finishing touches may include printed textures or collaged details such as plants and trees. This workshop is aimed at children aged between 6-12 years.
About the facilitator:
Catherine Hale is a self-taught artist living and working in the Chilterns Hills. She uses mixed media to create paintings that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. Walking provides inspiration for her works that suggest visual journeys and a narrative response to the landscape. Within her practice, Catherine is drawn to fragments that catch the eye – pools of light, unusual forms or incongruities and juxtapositions in the countryside. What she sees ignites her imagination and evokes memories and emotions. As a teacher, she has a life-long interest in children as artists and she continues to support young people in responding creatively to heritage as part of her work for a local charity. Over the years her skills and knowledge of the creative process have been enhanced by inspirational teaching at Sunningwell School of Art, Ruskin College of Art, and St Ives School of Painting where she has recently completed the year long Porthmeor Programme.
www.catherinehaleart.co.uk
This workshop will encourage children to respond imaginatively to the Braziers Park house and gardens through sketching, drawing and collage. The workshop will start outside, sketching parts of the front of the house and, back inside, adding ideas by completing the drawing using photographic references. The children will add collaged windows and we will then guide an imaginative response to encourage their thinking about who or what may live in a house like this. The children will then draw their ideas in the windows of inhabitants looking out. Finishing touches may include printed textures or collaged details such as plants and trees. This workshop is aimed at children aged between 6-12 years.
About the facilitator:
Catherine Hale is a self-taught artist living and working in the Chilterns Hills. She uses mixed media to create paintings that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. Walking provides inspiration for her works that suggest visual journeys and a narrative response to the landscape. Within her practice, Catherine is drawn to fragments that catch the eye – pools of light, unusual forms or incongruities and juxtapositions in the countryside. What she sees ignites her imagination and evokes memories and emotions. As a teacher, she has a life-long interest in children as artists and she continues to support young people in responding creatively to heritage as part of her work for a local charity. Over the years her skills and knowledge of the creative process have been enhanced by inspirational teaching at Sunningwell School of Art, Ruskin College of Art, and St Ives School of Painting where she has recently completed the year long Porthmeor Programme.
www.catherinehaleart.co.uk
Saturday 10 May
Braziers Park School Oxfordshire OX10 6AN
10am-11:30am & 2pm-3:30pm, Saturday 10th May
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