Session Six at Christchurch Mansion

Printmaking samples - Barbara Clarke

Last week Doug Selway came in and gave one to one tutorials to help start the individual projects.  There are some very interesting pieces of work on the go.  Painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and textiles.  Below are some of the ideas starting to emerge.

Resist examples in sketchbook - B B

Resist examples in sketchbook - B B

Sketchbook pages - E K

Felixstowe Library Exhibition

The Exhibition at Felixstowe Library

The Shadow Puppet course at Felixstowe Library has now ended.  There is an exhibition of the work in the library which will remain for several weeks.  A wonderful assortment of puppets, theatres, framed pieces of artwork, poems and stories were produced.

"I shall miss attending the course, now that it has finished.  Very relaxing and helps relieve stress."


"The course was very organised in teaching me new skills.  I gained confidence and tried new skills."

Scenery - P Bowman

Sketchbook page - P Bowman

Sketchbook page - P Bowman

Puppets - Janet

Painting on acetate - MP

Shadow puppet - SF

Christchurch Mansion ... again

We are now into our third week at the Mansion.  The theme of this course is 'collections'.  A collection is an accumulation of objects gathered for study, comparison or exhibition. Christchurch Mansion is set out with period rooms and covers 500 years of history from the 16th century through to the 19th century.  There are many areas to inspire from kitchen utensils, paintings, ceramics, toys and costume.

We started the first session with making sketchbooks and trying to identify a collection of objects from the museum that had a personal interest.  We did some word association exercises in order to pinpoint a particular colour or form that interested us and then explored the Mansion to find objects that contained or represented them.  For instance, the colour blue could be narrowed down into midnight blue and any object that had a deep blue, a night sky etc became the part of the collection.  A circle or sphere came to represent the sun and again any object that featured the sun in any way became a collection of 'sun objects'.

Using these collections of objects as starting points we engaged in a series of exercises looking at alternative ways of documenting them such as collage, word poems, drawing sections of the object and making patterns.

The fourth week will be spent in working up one of these initial ideas into a piece of artwork.

ALL OF THE WORK BELOW ARE PAGES FROM SKETCHBOOKS SHOWING INITIAL IDEAS:

Mixed media: B.B.

Pastel drawing: B.B.

Mixed Media: Barbara

Collage: Barbara

Mixed Media: Cathy Walsh

Drawing: Moya Copnall

Drawing: Moya Copnall

Collage: Mary Machin

Collage: Molly Pugh