Book for the Drawing Workshop and the Walk and Draw activities at Avalon Marshes

 

To sign up for either or both events, 

please email Pauline Lerry at pauline.lerry@btinternet.com

Collaboration pieces

 

We decided to each take one square and develop a piece of work, responding in an individual way. This is the square we all chose to work from and below are the individual responses.

Traces of Time Collaboration. Manipulating surface. Pauline Lerry - above and below

Sian Martin - below - using thread and fabric fragments to suggest the marks.

Lesley - l cut up parts of our collaborative piece and introduced colour and rhythm to make it more interesting! 

Collaboration

The three of us, Sian, Pauline and Lesley, have set ourselves a collaborating project. This is different to how we have previously worked together by working on a mutually agreed theme - usually an environmental one - and resolving each piece as separate, individual artwork.

This time, we spent a day indoors together drawing, making marks that were part of our memory bank built up over our many drawing and observing visits to Avalon Marshes.

 Choosing our own media, we worked on long pieces of plain paper, making marks alongside of and on top of each others that we individually felt evoked the atmosphere and landscape of Avalon Marshes. Each strip of drawings tied together our individual responses to this in an intimate way.

 

Each strip of paper was from a roll of wallpaper lining. It was interesting to see the results and how each type of mark co-ordinated and contrasted with others. It was a fulfilling way of exploring the different media and finding ways of using it.

Having discussed ways of grouping the strips, we then tried selecting square portions from these marked strips and tested ways of making a balanced composition by selecting just nine squares as below which we felt made a cohesive rhythm. 

The next stage was to select just one square to interpret as individual artists. The debate between us at all these decision-making stages was remarkably affable. I feel we found that our eyes seemed to respond positively o similar groupings.

The results will be shown at the Black Swan Gallery soon as part of our Traces of Time exhibition.

Sian - finishing touches

 Finishing touches to this multi-layered textile hanging. Only a few weeks left to finish all the fixtures and fittings.

Pauline

 

Speckled light

Sian - drawings plus wax

 A day at the studio to develop drawings made at the marshes.

Miniature drawings of different close-ups of grasses and reeds.

Using a different medium of melted wax gave welcome interesting incidental effects. Looking forward to developing these into textile medium.

Lesley

 

Lesley - Silhouettes and reeds along the Sweet Track.

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