Silk Painting Workshop with Aysha Yilmaz in Manchester

In this workshop, motifs and designs from The Silk Road ( Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkey etc) will be used

to produce a Silk Painting. A briefing will be given by Aysha on how Silk is produced and its origins.

Also, she will touch upon the origins of the motifs used.

Aysha will demonstrate how to apply the design to the Silk fabric from a drawing, followed by

techniques of filling in with Silk paints.

About Aysha

Aysha classes herself as a Multidisciplinary Artist/ Creative Practitioner as her

practice consists of Painting, Textiles and Mixed Media. She teaches Arts and Crafts to

different groups ( Age Friendly , Womens Groups, Children, Families). The workshops she

teaches are mainly textile based such as Silk painting, Felting and Mixed Media. Her work is

mainly Nature inspired. She has taught in many Primary schools as an Artist in Schools. She

currently teaches regularly at the Whitworth Art Gallery on their Handmade programme and

is a regular artist for UnityArts Manchester. She is on the Whitworth Art Gallery’s Advisory

Group.

Hosted by: Danny Middleton, Service Development Officer, Central Library.

Host or Publisher MACFEST - Muslim Arts and Culture Festival.