About Workshops
My printmaking and ceramics workshops not only teach traditional techniques but also encourage participants at all ability levels to feel increased confidence in their personal expressiveness, to experiment with art materials, and to value both process and results. Workshops can link to specific ideas and subjects, add new dimensions to ongoing work or be open-ended and experimental. Individual or group projects.
In recent years, I have lectured and run printmaking and ceramics residencies and workshops at the British Museum, the University of Leicester as well as in schools, hospitals and community centres throughout the UK. In conjunction with the Medical Research Council, I have led workshops in Beijing and Shanghai, China. Currently, my community-based workshops include ceramics for visually impaired, multi-cultural print-making and mixed media for women, and screen-printing and ceramics in schools. From my home-based studios I lead day-long master classes in both ceramics and print-making.
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Photographs of Printmaking and Ceramics Workshops
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| May 2010 - Screen-printed wall-hanging made in 2010 by 40 Year 1 and 2 children from St Michael's School, Lincolnshire, as part of a community cohesion project with Waterleys Primary School, Leicestershire. |
Printmaking Workshops
One-off workshops and residencies in screen-printing and mono-printing. For children and adults at all ability levels, including disabled. In schools, galleries and community venues. Portable equipment, ideas and sample prints, demonstrations and handouts. Also master classes in home-based studios.
These workshops are ideal for working figuratively or abstractly on paper or fabric, expressing ideas with bold forms and colours, enjoying accident and experimentation and developing a series of varied images. Individual prints or group wall hangings.
No prior experience necessary but bringing along design and image ideas can be useful as a starting point. Participants will look at sample prints, watch demonstrations, make paper stencils and print in a variety of colours.
Ceramics Workshops
One-off ceramics workshops and term-long residencies for all ages and ability levels. In schools, galleries and community venues. Particular experience using this tactile, plastic medium with children and the blind. Portable equipment, ideas, samples, demonstrations and handouts. Also master classes in home-based studios, including wheel-work, decorating, firing and glazing.
These ceramics workshops offer the opportunity to make three-dimensional forms using the traditional techniques of slabbing, coiling and pinch pots, as well as experimental and sculptural approaches. In addition, participants can develop surface decoration with impressed designs, slip-painting and many other methods.
Learn to make individual functional items such as plates, bowls, mugs and platters. Experiment with unusual forms. Individual or group projects.
The all-day ceramic master-classes for 3-4 people held in the artist's Oadby studios include step-by-step demonstrations of various hand-building methods (pinch pots, coiling, slabbing) and wheel work. Also surface decoration with slips, incising, impressing and many experimental possibilities. Examples, individual support, feedback and discussions. Work fired and glazed on site for subsequent collection.
Print-making & Ceramics Workshops/Forthcoming, ongoing & recent
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Throughout 2011 - One-day printmaking/ceramics master-classes for 3-4 people at artist's Leicester studio. Includes examples, demonstrations, individual work, feedback, discussions and handouts. Traditional or experimental as requested. On Fridays or Sundays, 10am-4pm. Fee £60 per person including materials and lunch.
Ongoing - VISTA local services for the visually impaired. Pottery and printmaking for adult
groups from all over Leicester. Individual and group projects.
Autumn 2010 - Buckminster Primary School, Leicestershire. All-day ceramics workshop with 47 children aged 7-11 making and decorating outdoor environmental sculptures to be fired in artist's kiln.
June 2010 - Shepshed High School, Leicestershire. Half-day ceramics techniques taster session for all year 7 students as part of Arts Week 2010.
Spring 2010 - Community cohesion project with Waterleys Primary School, Leicester, and St. Michael's School, Lincolnshire, in which all Year 2 children in each school design and screen-print a wall-hanging representing the identity of their school to give as a gift to the other school. ‘Who do we think we are?' DCSF award.
Spring 2010 - Peepul Centre, Leicester. ‘Faces, Forms and Flowers’- a new 10-week workshop for
women of all ages, abilities and cultural traditions to experiment with drawing,
painting, screen-printing and photography. With exhibition of participants’ work.
To enrol phone (0116) 261 6000.
2009 - Young Brit Art Award. Led art workshop on theme of identity for students at King
David High School, Manchester. One student selected as finalist.
2008 - Groby College. Traditional and experimental screen-printing workshop with
demonstrations, practical session, feedback and handouts.
2008 - New Walk Museum, Leicester. Screen-printing drop-in workshop on themes from
museum displays. For individuals and family groups.
2008 - Church Hill Junior School. One-day print-making workshop for all 61 Year 2 children
working in small groups to make designs, stencils and colourful screen-prints.
2008 - Castle Rock School, Coalville. All-day art-science printmaking workshop with group
of 25 Year 8 students developing imagery from sound waves. Mono-printing, screen-
printing and relief with college, over-painting and drawing.
2008 - City of York Gifted and Talented Project. Key Stage 4 and 5 art-science masterclass
exploring mark-making in drawing, painting and printing based on images of cells.
With powerpoint presentation on development of my work in this area.
2008 - Fairmeadows Primary School, Derbyshire. Year 5 Project making ceramics boxes with
lids. Year 2 project making unique Willow Pattern plate designs.
2007 - The City Gallery, Leicester. Screen-printing on fabric. Full- and half-day workshops
for adults and teenagers screen-printing cushion covers, scarves, T-shirt logos etc.
2007 - Ashby Festival. One-day screen-printing workshop for adults at all levels.
Demonstrations, examples, ideas and handouts.
2007 - The City Gallery, Leicester. All-day ceramics workshop inspired by Picasso ceramics
and starting with guided tour of major Picasso exhibition at nearby New Walk
Museum. For adults at all levels.
2007 - New Walk Museum, Leicester. ‘Drawing into Print’, drop-in screen-printing
workshops inspired by exhibition of Picasso ceramics.
2007 - Water Leys Primary School, Leicester. Three-day residency. Screen-printing wall
hangings for school with 180 children 4-6 year olds on learning together.
2007 - Leicestershire Society of Botanical Illustrators. Talk on all types of printmaking,
demonstration and workshop screen-printing experimentally with stencils from nature.
2007 - Ravenswood Home, Berkshire. Series of workshops screen-printing on clay
and textiles with very disabled adults of all ages.
2007 - 27A Access Artscape Disability Arts Project, Leicester. Screen-printing workshop on
nature themes, with follow-up exhibition of participants’ work.
2006 - British Museum, London. ‘Drawing into print’ adult and family screen-printing
Workshops inspired by the museums’ exhibition on Bengali art.
2006 - Art-in-Action, Waterperry House, Oxfordshire. Abrahamic tent.
Demonstration and exhibition of Judaism-inspired one-off screen-prints.
2003 to 2006 - Richard Attenborough Centre, Leicester. Courses in relief, intaglio, mono-
printing and screen-printing. For adults at all levels, including disabled.
2006 - Fairfield CP School, Leicester. Three-day residency with 5-11 year-olds in
which all 195 pupils made their own screen-prints and contributed to fabric banners
to display in the school.
2006 - Blaby Festival, Leicestershire. Taster screen-printing sessions for design
students at Leysland High School and adults at Countesthorpe College.
2006 - Brocks Hill Primary School, Leicester. Two-day residency with 5-11 year olds.
Experimental screen-printing projects for mixed-ability groups.
2006 - Sir Jonathan North Community College, Leicester. Term-long residency with Years
9 and 10. Screen-printing on art-science themes, making banners and prints.
2006 - Ash Field School, Leicester. Screen-printing taster sessions with very
disabled 6-15 year olds, using presses adapted for wheelchair use.
2006 - Toot Hill School Adult Academy, Nottingham. Series of introductory
screen-printing workshops for adults. Traditional and experimental prints.
2006 - Beaconsfield School, Buckinghamshire. Screen-printing workshops with
GCSE art students on course themes. Sponsored by NADFAS.
2005 - Ravenswood Home, Berkshire. Series of workshops screen-printing on clay,
Paper and textiles with very disabled adults of all ages.
2005 - Beijing, China. Art-science screen-printing demonstrations and workshops in two
secondary schools, by invitation from Medical Research Council and British Council.
2005 - Granby Primary School, Leicester. Big Arts Week project with 5-11 year
olds. Screen-printing wall-hangings for school and individual prints.
2005 - Shanghai, China. Art-science screen-printing workshops in primary and
secondary schools, invited by Medical Research Council and British Council.
2005 - Leicester Royal Infirmary Hospital School. Ceramics and screen-printing
workshops for students unable to attend mainstream schools.