Winter Landscapes: Paper Structures with Dagmara Rudkin

Create decorative paper structures and concertina books using cyanotype, ink drawings and mixed media.

Cyanotype is a 19th century technique which uses sunlight, objects and negatives of photographs to create ethereal blue images on paper or textiles. In these sessions, we will explore cyanotype techniques, ink drawing, painting, creative typography, collage, mono printing and simple paper manipulation techniques to create figurative or semi abstract imagery inspired by real and imaginary landscapes, natural forms, winter stories and seasonal rituals. You will then have an option of combining your artwork with words into a decorative foldable structure that celebrates Winter Solstice or Christmas.

This course is suitable for all levels including beginners and is particularly suitable for anyone interested in illustration or storytelling through Fine Art practice or would simply like to have an opportunity to make their own winter paper decoration to celebrate seasonal changes.

Basic art materials will be provided. As the course and ideas unfold, students may want to use their own materials. Dagmara will advise on this during the course.

Costs: £160

Days: 6 Monday evenings

Dates: 4 November to 9 December

Times: 18:30 - 21:00

Location: Red Room

Maximum: 12

Dagmara Rudkin is a Phoenix-based Polish-British fine artist who creates paintings, drawings, collages and 3D mixed media work using predominantly discarded materials and objects to re-tell stories of real and imagined people, places and their relationships. Over the past 20 years, she has produced personal and collaborative projects with poets, theatre professionals, and film-makers, worked as an artist-in-residence, and held exhibitions in the South East. Currently, she specializes in shroud making for green and traditional burials, utilizing the emotive power of storytelling through textiles to honour rites of passage and commemorate the sacred.

Dagmara holds a Joint Honours degree in Painting and Glass, an MA in Sequential Design and Illustration, and a PGCE in Art and Design. She works as an artist educator at Hastings Contemporary and as an Associate Lecturer at Greater Brighton Metropolitan College. Alongside photographer and film-maker Wendy Pye, she offers community and well-being arts projects and workshops through their art organization, Luna Arts. Luna Arts - Luna Arts

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