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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

From 3 to 103
Every Sunday is family day where we have two workshops for people aged 3 to 103. The theme of the workshops is 'family' too - so it's for you to bring your family, create work about family and have fun too.

Last Sunday we had three generations of participants, all intently focused on clay pictures: waves and sand, palm trees and sunny days.






Starting today we have a week of drawing - scratching, ripping, cutting and collaging. There are so many more ways to draw and materials that you can use to draw than you would have thought - you can even try to draw in sand and washing-up liquid. Watch this space for photos - or ring the box office and join in!

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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Exhibit Me! in action
Last week Exhibit Me! began with a week of workshops making Clay Sculptures. Terry O'Farrell, who leads the workshops, has a number of pieces displayed in our Longroom and Gallery, which she uses as the starting point for the workshops. Children and adults are brought through the process of making art and displaying it in a gallery.

Here you can see Terry demonstrating how to glaze your pieces. As she says, it's a bit like painting in yogurt but has much better results.


The theme for the Exhibit Me! workshops is family...dogs, cats, uncles, aunts and great-great-grandparents included. Here is one participating artists impression of their family.




And last but not least are the finished artworks! A lot of them have been fired but there are so many patiently waiting for their turn in the kiln.

The first few pieces have gone up in the gallery, lit with spotlights or displayed on pillars. You can come and view this exhibition in progress all summer from Wednesday until Sunday.

Week two is Clay Pictures and this runs until Sunday the 25th July - so book now if clay is your material of choice. Week three is Drawing... but this will be no ordinary drawing workshop... participants can rip, scratch, cut or collage paper to dazzling effects.

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