Playper!
Cutting and Tearing with artist Lisa Takahashi In this new series of sessions, artist Lisa Takahashi invited group members to playfully explore the creative potential of paper, revealing the expressive range of this everyday material. We began with rhythmic folding and cutting to create a small booklet-style zine for collecting our experiments. Inspired by Ernst…
Introducing Lisa Takahashi
Artist, printmaker and educator Lisa Takahashi invites you to join us in the Online Art Group over the winter months for PlayPer! – an exploration into the creative potential of the simplest of material: paper. Through cutting, tearing, folding, and layering, we’ll discover the surprising expressive range of this everyday medium. No specialist tools or…
Everyday moments, Celebratory messes
We are wrapping up the final two, brilliant, Express & Illustrate sessions with the wonderful Jess Knights! Hosting my Express & Illustrate sessions on the Somerset Art Works Online Art Group over the summer and autumn months this year has been so rewarding and fun! I loved how the change of season subtly influenced the…
Online Art Group Film
Over the last few months we’ve been busy making plans to help protect the future of our beloved Online Art Group. To help us shout about the importance of this group and the space it creates for everyone who takes part, we’re proud to launch our new short film and online exhibition! The Film Filmmaker…
Energy, Seasons & Self
Over in the Online Art group we’ve been continuing with the brilliant Express & Illustrate sessions with artist Jess Knights. We’ve been invited to slow down, connect to movement and the seasons, and respond with mark making, texture and collage. Movement & Rhythm Reflecting on an activity we love – be it dancing, knitting, gardening…
Express & Illustrate
We’re excited to share what we have been doing at the first two Express & Illustrate sessions with the wonderful Jess Knights! Session one, If You Were a Plant, began with Jess leading a much needed moment of mindfulness, taking a few breaths and settling into our bodies. This led on to playing with different…
Collage and Coffee
For his last two sessions with the Online Art Group, Gary Mills kept things fun and accessible, building on the playful mark-making and image-making techniques we’ve explored together so far. Living near the coast, a lot of Gary’s own artistic practice is influenced by nature. Across all four sessions, he’s encouraged us to draw inspiration…
Welcome to Jess Knights
We’re excited to introduce illustrator Jess Knights as our new Online Art Group artist! Over Jess’s seven forthcoming sessions, participants will be guided through relaxed, playful drawing and illustration activities. The ‘Express and Illustrate’ workshops will start with a short warm-up (sometimes mindful and reflective) to help ease us into the creative flow. We’ll then…
Shapes in Nature
We are delighted to welcome artist Gary Mills back to the Online Art Group! For the first two sessions we’ve been experimenting with the idea of doodling – how this can help unlock those creative blocks we all have from time to time, and how to reconnect to accessible, mindful creativity, no matter what materials…
Line, tone and shadow
For our final two experimental at-home printmaking sessions with Gemma Dunnell over in the Online Art Group, we pared things back to really hone in on accessible new ways of capturing and making line, tone and shadow. We began by trying wipe-away mono printing. A fun and loose method that challenges our level of control,…
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