Join in a fun and creative morning where you will be encouraged to explore the natural world and be more adventurous with your art.
Get close up to gnarly old trees, sit on a bench and look up through the tree branches, take a closer look at individual plants and flowers, and experiment with ways of reproducing these views in drawings.
Liz Charsley will show you how to use a different media at each session, including charcoal, pencil, and ink, to express your ideas. You can learn new techniques or develop those you already know.
Tickets are £36 for all three sessions. Materials will be provided, including paper and drawing boards. A few sessions are available this Sunday and you can book a place using the code SUNDAYART
Open to ages 8 - 12. All abilities welcome.
About Liz Charsley:
Liz Charsley is an artist with a fondness for wild spaces. Born and raised in Canada, Liz has always spent as much time outdoors as possible. Moving to London upon completion of her BA in Fine Art, Liz has become familiar with most of the parks in South London, cycling through them and along the Thames, gathering ideas for drawings. Liz works on paper, using charcoal, oil pastel, ink, or watercolour to make large drawings of wild, unpopulated landscapes, or wildflowers and weeds. She has also produced hundreds of cyanotypes of weeds and grasses.
Liz was appointed Canadian Artist in Residence at Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2011, to support the exhibition Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, and stayed on as Teaching Artist until 2019. Liz led workshops in drawing and painting for children and adults, and now teaches 2 weekly classes for adults in her home in Herne Hill (and on Zoom since the beginning of Covid). Liz was also Artist in Residence 2018-2019 at Winton and Hugh Myddelton schools in Islington, teaching a different aspect of drawing to each class in the school throughout the year.
Tickets:
£36 for all three sessions, materials included. We have a couple of bursary tickets available, please email info@bellhouse.co.uk for more information.
A few sessions are available this Sunday and you can book a place using the code SUNDAYART
Session One: Sunday 12th September 10am-11.30am
Session Two: Sunday 19th September 10am-11.30am
Session Three: Sunday 3rd October 10am-11.30am
The sessions will take place in the Garden of Bell House; 27 College Road, Dulwich SE21 7BG, weather permitting.
This event will be taking place following government guidance on Covid-19 measures.