Course summary:
As the days get warmer, and summer is just around the corner, spend a day by the sea, drawing with your whole body alive and awake to your surroundings. Guided by mindful meditation and some simple movement exercises to heighten your senses, you will be encouraged to draw with all your senses, often with your eyes shut!
Open instead your awareness to the sound of the ocean, the taste of salt on your lips, the smell of the sea air, the feel of the wind on your skin or a pebble in your hand. Draw with your eyes shut, without judgement, as you listen to and feel into the space around you.
We will take a walk on the beach to breathe it all in and explore, where possible making drawings outside, directly in response to the sensory experience. Back in the studio, we will explore how the memory of sensations stay with us, and experiment with making more drawings based on our experience of the world outside. Your drawings can remain quite abstract, or they might include aspects of the visual.
Come without any expectations. This will be an experimental and meditative workshop. You do not need any drawing experience, just a willingness to be curious and open to the process, to draw without judgement, and enjoy a sense of place.
Suitable for all, including beginners.
Tutor biography:
Katie looks at the world intensely, noticing everything, making connections, finding narratives. Her work records the process of looking, crossing through time and space, drawing on memory and history.
Katie’s work has been selected for the Discerning Eye, Lynne Painter Stainers Prize, Royal Academy Summer show, Jerwood Drawing Prize. In 2020 she was awarded 1st prize in the Derwent Drawing Prize for The Blue Bedroom, selected for Wells Contemporary and Broadway Arts Exhibition, and Glyndebourne Festival Exhibition.
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Location:
Arch 3 at Atelier Beside the Sea and Brighton Beach. Please check in with a member of staff at the Atelier Beside the Sea shop till to be directed to the correct area.
Atelier Beside the Sea
165 Kings Road Arches
Brighton, BN1 1NB
Refreshments provided:
Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided during class. Please bring a packed lunch, or visit one of the neighbouring seafront cafes.
What to bring with you:
All materials are provided by Atelier Beside the Sea, although you are welcome to bring your own preferred materials and sketchbook if you have one. We will be working with charcoal, graphite, coloured pencils, pastels and other basic drawing materials, in an A4 sketchbook. If there are specific colours or materials you would like to incorporate into your piece, please bring them along.
Booking terms & conditions:
You can view the booking terms & conditions here.
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Contact us:
If you have any questions about this course, please feel free to contact us at make@atelierbrighton.co.uk.
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