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What's On 2023
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2024 workshops coming soon!
2023 Workshops
Our workshops are designed to extend and challenge current art practice of members. Workshop leaders will advise on any materials that participants will need for each session.
Dates and details are still being confirmed - this page will be updated with the latest information!
Please email [email protected] to book a place
Saturday 11th February 1-4pm
Knighton Parish Hall, Church Lane, Leicester LE2 3WG
Associate members - Developing Art Practice
Tutors: Vivien Blackburn and Toni Northcott
A workshop for Associate Members which will focus on ideas for developing practice in art work. The aim is to help and provide support for Associates in preparing for application for full membership of the club.
The workshop will cover ideas for developing and building a body of work, including collecting resources for ideas and the importance of using sketchbooks to achieve this, and the process of giving and receiving feedback on work both formally and informally.
Participants will have examples of sketchbooks and finished work to study, and will be able to discuss the processes used to develop work, and to share their own methods and processes. They will be given opportunities to comment on and discuss work, and to suggest ways of moving forward, using both their own and others’ work.
There will be no charge for this workshop, and we hope Associates may be able to suggest further ways in which we could support them in their work.
Knighton Parish Hall, Church Lane, Leicester LE2 3WG
Associate members - Developing Art Practice
Tutors: Vivien Blackburn and Toni Northcott
A workshop for Associate Members which will focus on ideas for developing practice in art work. The aim is to help and provide support for Associates in preparing for application for full membership of the club.
The workshop will cover ideas for developing and building a body of work, including collecting resources for ideas and the importance of using sketchbooks to achieve this, and the process of giving and receiving feedback on work both formally and informally.
Participants will have examples of sketchbooks and finished work to study, and will be able to discuss the processes used to develop work, and to share their own methods and processes. They will be given opportunities to comment on and discuss work, and to suggest ways of moving forward, using both their own and others’ work.
There will be no charge for this workshop, and we hope Associates may be able to suggest further ways in which we could support them in their work.
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Saturday 25th Feb, 1pm - 3.30pm and
Saturday 29th April, 1.30pm - 4.00pm (please note later time) Knighton Parish Centre, Church Lane, Leicester LE2 3WG 15 places £30 per session Scott Bridgwood - Life drawing workshops 'Expressive Life Drawing' We will experiment with various drawing techniques and ways to take the drawings on to another level. we aim to push the boundaries of each participating artist's drawing methods. The goal is to be as expressive as possible rather than a mere accurate depiction of a life model. The workshop will run from 1.00 pm - 3.30 pm at Knighton Parish Centre, Church Lane, Leicester LE2 3WG. There is parking at the Centre (turn into Cademan Close next to the Centre.) You are advised to arrive in time to set yourself up prior to the start of the workshop. Tea and coffee will be available. Materials: For this session we will be using paint and you will need:
Scott advises that ideally you would work on to a light grey ground (or bring grey paper) just to save time. He suggests that personally he would bring a canvas with a grey ground already painted on it, but paper or canvas are both suitable. About Scott Bridgwood:
Scott Bridgwood is a figurative painter, based in Leicester. He graduated from Chelsea Art College in Fine Art Painting in 1991. After exhibiting around London, at a range of venues including The ICA and Westminster Gallery, he moved to Rome, where he learnt to cook spaghetti carbonara and drive on the wrong side of the road. He painted and taught at the BCI (British Cultural Institute) for 8 years and is responsible for many of the murals and signs around the Italian capital. Over the last 3 years, he has exhibited and sold widely across the Midlands and won various prizes, including the prestigious Windsor and Newton, Patchings and Windows On, amongst others. He was recently featured in a national magazine, ‘The Artist’. He currently teaches life drawing at Leicester University and The Ten2 Gallery, Hinckley.He is also soon to be the Artist in Residence at UHL (University Hospitals Leicester-the first since 1946) For more information see @bridgwoodscott on Instagram |
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Saturday May 13th, 10am - 3pm
Art room at Leicester High School for Girls 454 London Rd, Leicester LE2 2PP Robert Dutton - ‘Developing a looser approach to landscapes with mixed media’ 10 places £55 per session Workshop with North Yorkshire professional artist, Robert Dutton. Learn the skills to bring your paintings together in a dynamic way. "The landscape paintings started in last year's workshop can now be further developed. If participants have other work they want advice about, need direction with or are struggling with in direction, they can bring these too. Paintings can also be started from scratch. "I aim to bring several unfinished unresolved with me. Concluding paintings with ‘how and why’ is fascinating and a confidence booster to all artists." You will need to bring your own materials - please download the materials list here For more information about Robert visit his website: https://rdcreative.co.uk/ |
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Saturday June 10th, 10am – 3 30pm Art room at Leicester High School for Girls 454 London Rd, Leicester LE2 2PP Jane Hutber - Gelli plate printing workshop - 'Exploring acrylic techniques on the gelli plate' 10 places £60 including an 8x10" gel plate and a 2" brayer £35 without the plate and brayer, but please bring your own. (Plate should be a commercial one, 8 x 10” or larger. Brayers can be 2 or 4” and hard rubber or soft, and need to be of reasonable quality, but don’t need to be professional printing standard.) Please download the full materials list here Exploring acrylic techniques on the gelli plate Gelli printing is a form of mono printing done without a press. The plate is either made from gelatin/glycerin or agar agar, or a commercial mineral based soft printing plate. The resulting one-off prints can be richly layered and/or textured and can be colourful or as subtle as you choose. The soft surface of the plate allows for detailed textures and designs. Many media can be used on the plate, but in this workshop we will be looking at the possibilities and potential of acrylic paint on a mineral based commercial plate - using layers, stencils and masking, with the addition of some other fine art materials as resist. It is a fascinating and experimental process. This workshop will be a playful exploration of acrylic gelli plate techniques producing a variety of prints that either stand alone or can be developed further in mixed media projects. |
Jane Hutber originally trained as a classical musician at Manchester University and the Royal Northern College of Music. She worked as an early music performer and as an accompanist, then gradually got more interested in the music of other cultures, primarily West and South Africa, teaching and performing. One day in 2008 she decided to do a course in drawing portraits because she was afraid of doing it - and hasn’t really left the art room since! She brings the same eclectic and curious approach to her artwork as she did to her music - and loves gelli printing, both on its own and combined with other artistic mediums and techniques.
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Saturday October 28th, 10am - 3pm
Art room at Leicester High School for Girls 454 London Rd, Leicester LE2 2PP Heather Harley - Mixed Media workshop 10 places £50 per session Manipulating surfaces and materials for your own practice: This workshop is a playful and fun way to explore creating and manipulating surfaces for your arts practice. Using a range of media and techniques and applying them to surfaces, papers and found materials you will develop a range of surfaces to use in your work. All too often we fall into our own habits and safe methods of working. We reach for the same starting points and materials we are familiar with. This will be on opportunity to try out some new elements and hopefully liven up your working methods. Also included in the workshop is a look at drawing techniques. The same lively and alternative approaches will be applied to your drawing practices to create some less obvious alternatives. Aims:
Materials and equipment requirements: Firstly, please don’t rush out and buy expensive materials. Please try and use what you have, found materials and recycling where possible. I’m sure we can all share as well. So if you have a plentiful supply of something and are willing to share, please bring some extra. I will bring as much as I can.
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Heather Harley (Heather Wharam) obtained a BA (Hons) in Fashion and Textiles at St Martin’s School of Art and worked in Fashion for several years in London.
She moved to Leicestershire and completed a PGCE in Art and Design Education. She taught GCSE and A Level in art and textiles and now teaches part-time at De Montfort University.
She has a MA in Fine Art Nottingham Trent University and has developed her own art practice and runs workshops.
https://www.leicestersocietyofartists.co.uk/lsa-artists/Heather-Harley.php
She moved to Leicestershire and completed a PGCE in Art and Design Education. She taught GCSE and A Level in art and textiles and now teaches part-time at De Montfort University.
She has a MA in Fine Art Nottingham Trent University and has developed her own art practice and runs workshops.
https://www.leicestersocietyofartists.co.uk/lsa-artists/Heather-Harley.php