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| Lakes Collective Summer Showcase 2015 |
The Lakes Collective
Annual Summer Showcase
Tues 24 May - Mon 30 May 2016
Open daily 10am - 5pm
Bishop Bulley Barn
Rydal Hall
Rydal ( nr. Ambleside in the Lake District)
Cumbria
LA22 9LX
Please book and pay in advance through Rydal Hall on 015394 32050 or mail@rydalhall.org
www.rydalhall.org/arts-events/art-programme
Come to make a decorated cover for your favourite notebook or diary, learning how to include different textures into your felt. Learn about shrinkage and the many ways to achieve the thickness and size you want.
Go home with new skills and two useful objects and hopefully a desire to make more felt.
All materials will be provided, you will bring and old towel and lots of enthusiasm.
A relaxed workshop working with beautiful steam-fix dyes on silk - no drawing skills required! We will use hot wax, easily applied with brushes of tjanting to form patterns and shapes, and salt crystals for texture.
Rydal ( nr. Ambleside in the Lake District)
Cumbria
LA22 9LX
Lakes Collective is proud to announce our FIFTH Summer showcase at Rydal Hall. This exciting exhibition showcases high quality art and craft from all Lakes Collective members.
It is where you will find creative work that is playful, experimental, new and original.
This year's optional theme is
"A Single Source", and visitors can follow the mini trail around the room to see how our members have interpreted this theme.
It is where you will find creative work that is playful, experimental, new and original.
This year's optional theme is
"A Single Source", and visitors can follow the mini trail around the room to see how our members have interpreted this theme.
CREATIVE WORKSHOPS
Learn with some of The Lakes'
best known artists and designer makers
best known artists and designer makers
A new development for 2016 is the opportunity to join a day workshop to learn from some of the foremost, contemporary artists and designer makers in The Lakes. Each day of the exhibition features a workshop taught by one of our Lakes Collective members.
Each workshop has a basic fee of £50 per person, plus the cost of materials
used on the day.
Workshops will take place in the Bishop Bulley Barn,
Rydal Hall. The area where the workshops will take place does not have wheelchair
access, but personal assistance can be provided to use the stairs.
Participants have access to a kitchen for hot and cold drinks
(which will be provided free of charge) and can bring along a pack lunch or go
along to the lovely
Schoolroom Tea Shop in the grounds.
The workshops are designed for students aged 16+, but if you are slightly younger please contact the tutor to check through lakescollective@gmail.com
Please book and pay in advance through Rydal Hall on 015394 32050 or mail@rydalhall.org
www.rydalhall.org/arts-events/art-programme
Weds 25 May 2016
10am - 4pm
'Felt Making'
with felt artist
Jane Mallinson
£50 per person
plus £6 for materials
Min 1 / Max 6
Come to make a decorated cover for your favourite notebook or diary, learning how to include different textures into your felt. Learn about shrinkage and the many ways to achieve the thickness and size you want.
In the afternoon progress to make a fine scarf using silk and nuno techniques.
Go home with new skills and two useful objects and hopefully a desire to make more felt.
All materials will be provided, you will bring and old towel and lots of enthusiasm.
Thurs 26 May 2016
10am - 4pm
'Traditional Bookbinding'
with conservator
with conservator
Helen Golding Miller
£50 per person
plus £30 for materials
Min 1 / Max 6
Make a gorgeous leather bound journal, using traditional materials and techniques. Learn about the different types of paper and leather used & different sewing structures involved in bookbinding.
I am a Freelance Accredited Archive Conservator and Bookbinder with over 25 years experience in the field. Recent clients have included National Trust, Wordsworth Trust and Lakeland Arts Trust as well as many private clients throughout the region. I have taught classes, both in Conservation and Bookbinding for many years. Currently I have a studio workspace at Yew Tree Barn, Low Newton.
hgoldingmiller@gmail.com
Workshop participants will spend the morning learning different ways of using the simple concertina fold as a basis for a wide variety of book structures. By the end of the morning they will have several small samples which will form the basis for future work. During the afternoon session they will have the opportunity to develop at least one of the structures into a small, finished book.
All materials and equipment will be provided, but if participants wish to bring any of their own equipment or papers than that is fine.
Fri 27 May 2016
10am - 4pm
'The Concertina and Beyond'
with mixed media artist
Elizabeth Shorrock
£50 per person
free materials
Min 4 / Max 6
Workshop participants will spend the morning learning different ways of using the simple concertina fold as a basis for a wide variety of book structures. By the end of the morning they will have several small samples which will form the basis for future work. During the afternoon session they will have the opportunity to develop at least one of the structures into a small, finished book.
All materials and equipment will be provided, but if participants wish to bring any of their own equipment or papers than that is fine.
I am a mixed media artist specialising in the creation of handmade books. I exhibit regularly with Lakes Collective, Green Door and PagePaperStitch and have been selected for a variety of other exhibitions. I teach workshops for small groups on a regular basis.
Sat 28 May 2016
10.30am - 4.30pm
'Silk Painting'
with artist
Margaret Wilmot
£50 per person
free materials
Min 4 / Max 5
A relaxed workshop working with beautiful steam-fix dyes on silk - no drawing skills required! We will use hot wax, easily applied with brushes of tjanting to form patterns and shapes, and salt crystals for texture.
Students will learn to apply liquid dyes to silk, pin silk out evenly on a frame for painting, use hot wax as a resist and build up layers for depth and contrast.
All stages will be demonstrated.
Fixing of work will be demonstrated, but the tutor will fix students’ pieces on their behalf if desired.
Please bring an apron, and a medium sized paint brush.
Margaret started painting on silk in 1996 and has been developing her skills and understanding of design ever since.
She is a keen walker and is inspired by the wild flowers and landscapes of Cumbria and other wild places.
