Gemma Lessinger Repurposed Beach Waste Painting Workshop

Join Gemma at 10am at Bay Bar in Fistral Beach Hotel, from there we will head down to the beach in front of the hotel for a beach clean, sponsored by Waterhaul. We will be using their beach clean equipment, which is all created using upcycled ghost fishing net which they gather from the Cornish coast, saving it from harming oceanlife.

Here we will gather any beach plastic, rope, driftwood, and most importantly some sand to use in your painting. Anything we find here we can experiment with in our workshop.

Then if the weather plays ball we will paint on the beach, creating a textured shoreline beach scene onto either a canvas provided by Gemma or something you would like to upcycle. It could be anything, from an old canvas you have, an old skateboard deck, bellyboard, big piece of flat driftwood. If you have something and want to check whether it might work in the workshop just let me know in advance.

I will have ghost fishing net fragments from Waterhaul for us to create texture with, as well as lots of other materials from Cornish businesses, even tea bag paper!! But again, feel free to bring anything along you want to experiment with.

If the weather doesn’t behave, we will head back up to the hotel and paint in the beautiful comfort and shelter of the hotel.

All materials provided by Gemma – unless you want to bring something along to use as a canvas or to experiment with texture.

Ticket price: £70

Tickets are non refundable

Please note, this event has a minimum numbers requirement.

Host or Publisher Fistral Beach Hotel