Travelling & Commissioned

Workshops

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Saturday March 7th 

A Drawing Retreat : following the curve of the river

Venue: The Arches, Worcester  10.30 - 4.30pm

​Cost: £65 (to include all materials / refreshments)

​Group of 10

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Please visit INFORMATION & BOOKING  for further info

 

On the cusp of Spring, we will walk a small section of the River Severn that

flows through Worcester.

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Returing to the expansive space of The Arches, we will reflect on the presence, 

strength and journeying voices of the river, in relation to our own.  

Using an emerging and expanded scale, we will create solo and collaborative

drawings and make sculptural paper responses.

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We will call on our quiet observations of the curving river to guide our sense

of time, resilience and embrace. We will call on our drawings to support the

integration of all our creative voices.

 

Workshop activities include: table, floor and wall drawing. You will be guided

through simple mark making exercises to integrate and embody your thinking

into a drawing space; working with timed, blind and bilateral focus.  I will use

poetry and stories about the River Severn within the workshop.

 

This workshop is available to all those with creative curiosity. 

 

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I deliver workshops across museum, gallery and outdoor venues.  The joy of these drawing encounters, is the ease they create for those who take part. To draw together, to engage with abstract and visual narrative building is a stimulating and confidence building opportunity.  Workshops are adapted to suit a particular group, ages of participants and all creative abilities.  They are perfect for cross-cultural, inter-generational engagment.

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I am always interested to work in new spaces and places. Please contact me if you, you have a group / your organisation are interested in a workshop. ENQUIRY ​

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Workshops have been commissioned by:

• CPR Shropshire (Campaign to Protect Rural England) to celebrate Sense of Place; a Photography Exhibition celebrating people's favourite places in Shropshire. 'Sensing Place : Roaming Memory' an exploratory workshop. 2025

• KeeleArts commissioned an inclusive workshop Drawing a Summer Sky for their Three Counties Open Exhibition launch event. 2025

• The Hive, Victoria Street, Birmingham through funding from Jewellery Quarter Common Room, to deliver a workshop looking at scale - from micro to macro, for their Creative Habits Group. 2025

• Rural Art Hub, Shropshire - a weekend indepth engagement with the land and mosses in the Ellesmere area.2023

• The Glass Museum, Stourbridge - a closed museum session, drawing amongst the collection. 2022

• BAAT - a number of CPD sessions for The British Association of Art Therapists.

• Creative Black Country for their Creative Community programme. Family workshops 'Welcoming Spring' 2022

• Creative Black Country pilot workspace creative wellbeing programme in Wolverhampton. 2022

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The following images are from workshops held at various venues across the Midlands.   Including, this August at the extraordinary Pam's Pool, a place of permaculture and site of wildlife just outside Bridgnorth, workshop ' Embracing a Summer Landscape'.

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A favourite venue is The Arches in Worcester with its high ceiling and generous windows and an outdoor space. This has been used to work with a group of art therapists for a BCAT CPD day. An 'Absorbing a Summer Sky' workshop was delivered here last Summer - making the most of the outdoor space.