Lock-In Workshops 2020

This two-day workshop will guide you through a series of mixed media techniques on paper.
Learn to use a variety of layered processes. Experiment with mark making using acrylic paint, ink and bleach. Explore the use of gum arabic transfer printing as a creative tool using the humble photocopy as your print-plate.

Over two days you will create several sheets of delicious textures and marks to create a four-page sample booklet and explore your creativity. Learn how to beat that blank page syndrome that strikes us down as soon as we open a new sketch book.

Cost: £105.00 (inc £5.00 materials charge)

Using the theme of shadows & reflections and the beautiful distortions & designs nature creates in this form, you will explore the exciting marks and effects created by using different types of resist – batik (hot wax), oil pastels, cold wax resist and stencils.

With tissue paper and paper as the base you will work with these resists, inks and bleach. You will also explore the use of a wide range of traditional and non-traditional tools to apply the hot wax. Many samples will be developed as well larger pieces. Some of the papers created can be used to develop collaged images and designs by cutting, tearing, selecting and composing. The work will be suitable for further development by adding stitch at a later date.

Cost: £98.00 (inc £4.00 materials charge)

Numbers will be limited to a maximum of 10

Discover the surprise of combining colour-mixes with stitch at each stage of the felt making process.

Exploring the intensities of colour using dyed wool tops can create various degrees of vibrancies or depths of greys. These different scales of colour or grey areas within the composition will be considered with the use of pre-felts before fully felting.
Hand-stitching with coloured threads creates interesting marks and texture, while seeding and running stitch with various thread types into pre-felts will distort after fully felting. Yet more interesting effects can also be achieved by stitching into the finished felted cloth.

These pieces will become the ideas for future work or a small finished item, depending on what emerges through the process. Individual guidance will be available to extend your personal approach and development.

Cost: £137.00 (inc £7.00 materials charge)

Numbers will be limited to a maximum of 10

Booking for this workshop commences on Thursday 20th Feb at 10am

This workshop will push ideas further and build on previous Layering Print and Transparency and Chasing Shadows workshops but will also be suitable for those new to print and working with semi-transparent materials. We will explore transparency and layering using a range of experimental print methods, stitch and applique using hand/machine stitch as the student prefers. Participants will work with a range of semi-transparent surfaces in paper and fabric to produce complex incidental layered images which explore shifting and fleeting shadows. Working from the student’s own imagery, such as plant and tree forms, human and animal figures, water and reflections or man-made structures we will produce a range of highly individual and atmospheric pieces culminating in more resolved personal work, supported by individual tutorials.

Cost: £135.00 (inc £8.00 materials charge)

Numbers will be limited to a maximum of 8

Booking for this workshop commences on Thursday 20th Feb at 10am