EVENTS & WORKSHOPS
1/2 DAY BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION WORKSHOP WITH LAURA BROWNE
Sunday 30th July 2023 10.30 am until 12.30pm
Cost: £30
Participants: 10 max
Enjoy taking time to look closely at beautiful flora and fauna on the grounds. Participants will learn how to observe and draw the complex and captivating structures of the plant.
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3 DAY BRONZE CASTING WORKSHOP WITH DAVID SNOO WILSON
7June to 9 June 2024
10am until 5pm daily
Cost: £355 inc 1 kilo of bronze
This course involves three consecutive days introducing you to lost wax bronze casting, using the ceramic shell casting technique. The workshop is taught to a small group (maximum of 8 participants) to allow as much contact time as possible. You'll learn an overview of the foundry process while creating your own small bronze sculpture to take home with you.
The course is geared so that all people and levels of skills can participate, learn, and come away with knowledge as well as a bronze sculpture at the end. You may have never picked up any sculpting tools or be an advanced metal worker, you will learn and create on this course.
Please email clare@mattblackbarn.com to find out more.
PREVIOUS COURSES AND EVENTS
OPEN DAY AT MATT BLACK BARN
Saturday 15th July and Sunday 16th July 2023
10.30am to 4.30pm
You are invited to Laura and Andrew's open studio when you will have the opportunity to see their studios, gallery and sculpture installed in the land that surrounds them.
Email clare@mattblackbarn.com for more information.
UPCOMING COURSES AND EVENTS
MEET AND DRAW ALPACAS WITH LAURA FORD AND OUR BACK GARDEN
Saturday 12 August 2pm – 3.30pm
Cost: £30, materials provided
Participants: 20 max
Our Back Garden, a local family run rare breed farm, will be bringing along two of their alpacas for this unique drawing workshop. Learn more about the alpacas and their herd whilst having the opportunity to draw them in action. With materials provided, Laura will help you find ways to capture on paper these beautiful creatures.
SOLD OUT Please email clare@mattblackbarn.com to be added to the waitlist.
https://ourbg.co.uk/
THREE DIMENSIONAL TAPESTRY WEAVING WORKSHOP WITH CARON PENNEY OF WEFTFACED
Saturday 7th October 10am until 4.00pm
Cost: £65 All materials are included in the price. All required Equipment will be available to borrow on the day.
Participants: 8 max
In this workshop we will explore how to make shaped three dimensional tapestry commencing with flat pieces woven on the loom.
From this starting point we will explore the numerous ways in which conventional tapestry work can take on form through a variety of sculptural procedures including moulding, pulling and shaping.
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https://www.weftfaced.com/
3 DAY BRONZE CASTING WORKSHOP WITH DAVID SNOO WILSON
30 June to 2 July 2023
9.30am until 4.30pm daily
Cost: £280 inc bronze
This course involves three consecutive days introducing you to lost wax bronze casting, using the ceramic shell casting technique. The workshop is taught to a small group (maximum of 8 participants) to allow as much contact time as possible. You'll learn an overview of the foundry process while creating your own small bronze sculpture to take home with you.
The course is geared so that all people and levels of skills can participate, learn, and come away with knowledge as well as a bronze sculpture at the end. You may have never picked up any sculpting tools or be an advanced metal worker, you will learn and create on this course.
SOLD OUT Please email clare@mattblackbarn.com to be added to a waitlist.
1 DAY WORKSHOP DRAWING FROM THE LANDSCAPE WITH BEN RISK
Saturday 9th September 2023
10am until 5.00pm
Cost: £65
Participants: 8 max
This day-long drawing class will encourage participants to think beyond the page, giving participants the tools and techniques to develop a deeper understanding of looking and drawing from the landscape. The participants are encouraged to abandon traditional notions of what they think the landscape signifies, instead adopting a more playful intuitive approach to developing an image.
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