Kate Boucher

14th - 16th May

£380

Dark matter: an exploration of charcoal through landscape

This course is suitable for all levels; beginners and those who have some skills with charcoal and want to develop them further. This is because this three-day course will start with getting to know your tools: the different marks that different types of charcoal can make, the mark-making tools that can be used with charcoal and how can they all be combined to create different effects. Whether this is the first time you've used charcoal or if you're refamiliarizing yourself with the media, it's always good to begin with this foundation. There will then be a series of demonstration lead set tasks to build your ‘mark-making language’ skills. Each student will use their own imagery making the tasks personal and individual.

Kate will show examples of her own work, and ways to use sketchbooks and basic photography to record source material for your drawings. You will be working with photographs that you take on site to make a personal response to the landscape of Lund.

You will be able to work in a range of sizes to suit your ideas. This course is designed to be dense with techniques at the start then moving to supported, independent working so each of you can move towards imagery, styles, and scales that you become interested in.

Lunches and refreshments included. Days run from 10am to 4pm (ish)

About Kate

Kate Boucher is an artist, tutor and author who specialises in building students' creative confidence in a supportive learning environment.

She studied at Chelsea School of Art in the early 1990s, graduating from West Dean College with a Master of Fine Art 2016. She is a QEST Scholar and has received several awards. Her work has been exhibited with that of David Nash RA, Alice Kettle and Matthew Burrows, and is held in private collections internationally. She recently exhibited with Glyndebourne’s Gallery 94, The New Art Gallery Walsall, A Generous Space 2, and in September 2022 Petersfield Museum & Gallery, Alison Crowther & Kate Boucher: Traces in a Landscape. Her book ‘Drawing with Charcoal’ is available in all good book sellers.

Her charcoal drawings record responses to her chosen landscapes through intense study, habitual practices and serial working. She travels through the landscape, on repeated and habitual routes, using sketchbooks, photography, and found objects as her source materials. Each drawing she makes in a series, attempts to better express or expose the underlying reason, whilst lost in thought and immersed in the landscape, her attention might have been drawn to one thing over another. The drawings are not intended to be portraits of a place but rather to capture a more universal, emotional response to landscape.

Instagram: @misskateboucher

website: kateboucher.com