‘Home for now’ multiple exposure image
One of my pieces being exhibited
‘Eels are like nature's enigma, confounding scientists and inspiring wonder’
The Book of Eels by Patrick Svensson
This has been a great opportunity, and privilege, producing work for this exhibition. I’ve learnt so much about the amazing eel, as well as contributed to a podcast that is available as you walk around the area - more details to follow.
Eels, 'Nearly Eternal as any Earthly Life' - Ruthie Collins
NWT Cley and Salthouse Marshes
02 May, 2024 - Saturday 02 June, 2024
10am - 4pm daily (just check though there is not a workshop going on that day you plan to visit)
Free, no booking required
Throughout May, Cley Marshes will be host to an exhibition celebrating the European eel as part of global celebration World Eel Day 2024. Cley Marshes and surrounding landscape provide vital habitat for the European eel. Come along and find inspiration from works that give visibility to the European eel, plus how Cley Marshes and the surrounding local landscape provide vital habitat to this critically endangered species, also one of the most trafficked animals in the world. Learn more about local memories of the species as well as efforts to restore.
Sign up for the next Reconnect workshop
Cyanotype
Saturday 8the June
10am - 12pm. £25
Begins Tuesday 18th June 2024
10am - 1pm 5 weeks
@ Artpocket Studios
£200 Booking deadline: 03.06.24
Creative Nature Portfolio course
Traces: barely detectable; a mark left by something passed; signs and evidence of something past; of a course or path one follows - interweaving understandings of this one word.
How do we trace our connection with the natural world? What traces are left on us from our interaction with nature, or vice versa? Are only traces becoming a reality in our present climate crisis? Which visual language best communicates the tracks we follow?
Questions and thoughts to explore as we respond to natural imagery that is pertinent to participants and produce work that is emotionally connected and resonant to them.
This is a 5 week course looking at ways we can connect with Nature: being inspired by it; using materials respectfully foraged from it and practicing processes that do not harm it. You will be supported as you develop skills including natural ink and pigment making and their use, papermaking and eco printing. A given theme will help guide your creativity as you produce a body of work, and creative practitioners whose work relates to this theme or processes will be reflected on. You will be given ways to explore further outside the studio if you wish.
This is a course for those with no experience; those wanting to extend their creative practice to embrace more sustainable processes or those looking for ways to integrate a theme into their natural ways of working. There is a focus on wellbeing; embracing the serendipity of unexpected results and the joy of connection.