Find a new way of working
Love putting different colours and textures together?
This workshop will seek to enable you to have a fun time arranging colours and textures. The workshop is not only about birds but also about their environment and collage provides a means to make an eye catching semi-abstract background.
Bring some of your own discarded old sketches, try-outs, scribbles, doodles, ideas etc, as well as any matt pieces of paper from magazines, catalogues, envelope linings etc. – any colours or textures that catches your eye. It is important that all papers are matt.
First we will experiment with making patterns and textures, and generally making a mess! Then we can begin to play around cutting and tearing and putting things together. All materials, as well as bird templates provided. Suitable for all, at the end of the day you will have a collage to take home.
Bring lunch, or go out to one of the many cafés.
DATE Sunday 22 September TIME 10.00 – 4pm
PLACE Leamington Studio Artists Gallery, Satchwell Court, (Opposite Carluccio’s) Leamington
TIME 10-4pm
PRICE £75 to members of the LSA, nonmembers £85
About Eleanor Allitt
ELEANOR ALLITT BA Textile Design Central St Martins
Painter and Illustrator. Featured Artist with RSPB
My work is about the rich abundance of our seashore. The birds are part of this amazing diversity, they show us something of what it is like to survive within an uncertain environment. I seek to draw attention to this precious habitat and to encourage action to take care of it. My work is a mixture of imagination, memory and above all feeling.
When I return from the coast, I retain a sort of atmosphere of what I have seen. Perhaps it’s a solitary gull, perhaps it’s a flock of sanderling. Above all, it is freedom, the total wild freedom that these birds embody.
Being a keen environmentalist I make use of as much discarded material as possible. I also paint on old fragments of fence panels,subjects are often birds in flight. It is very satisfying to make use of the inherent knots and grain to suggest their natural habitat.
Perhaps you saw my recent exhibition at the Slimbridge shop last Autumn?
My work is on view at Leamington Studio Artists Gallery in Satchwell Court in Leamington, and at Yew Tree Gallery with Warwickshire Artisans at Wootten Wawen.