Karen Stamper
8th - 9th October
£255
Creative Concertina Sketchbook - Moving into Abstraction
This is a fun two day workshop, you do not need to prepare anything, just come along and develop your sketchbook pages in a supportive and beautiful environment. There is very little observation drawing in this workshop, it is much more about mark making and responding to the materials and techniques used. Karen will lead you through different wet and dry techniques to build up layers in your sketchbook.
Karen will lead you through many techniques and materials as you develop 15-20 pages in your concertina sketchbook. She will give you exciting collage based starting points to respond to, in wet and dry media. Playing and pushing techniques will help you identify how you can include some in your own work, or simply have fun exploring in a sketchbook!
Lunches and refreshments included. Days run from 10am to 4pm (ish)
About Karen
When heading out with my sketchbook, I am drawn to old towns (and boat yards!) My sketchbooks are a memory bank, not just the scene in front of me but all around; the shapes, textures, smells and sounds, they are all of equal importance.
Growing up on the east coast of Yorkshire as a happy beachcomber, I was attracted to the faded painted wood, scraps of gaudy plastic, brightly coloured fishing floats and nets: all sun dried, sand blasted, salted and weathered. My Dad’s passion was sailing, each Friday we would pack up and spend the weekend on the coast. I was free to wander, explore and collect only returning at mealtimes. This freedom set my path. After art college I worked and wandered the world for ten years, all the time constantly sketching and collecting a rich resource of tickets, labels, packaging, stamps, paper bags and scraps of lettering; each one telling its own story; scraps of city life ready to become the first layers of a collage or sketchbook page.
Working in collage, combining found papers with drawing I can create a patchwork of places, people and journeys, all bonded together; some fading, some peeling, some permanent. The slick, neat and new makes little impression on me; it is pin holes, crease lines and torn edges of paper that fires my imagination.
