Workshop | Abstracting the Landscape – Julie Cusack, Artform

The workshop explores abstract landscape through drawing, painting and collage. It will encourage an intuitive response to materials.  The emphasis will be on energy, expression colour and mark. We will look at how to make your palette, composition and application work to support your own visual voice. Exercises will be of particular interest to anyone who wants to develop a loose, fresh more gestural style. This workshop will help participants to generate ways of developing consistent formats for abstract landscape. We will work on several pieces at once where possible. We would look to the surrounding landscape of Dunmore East to source initial drawings and sketches (using both drawing materials and paint) from which small scale paintings will evolve. Materials used will be water based – e.g. acrylic, ink, water based oils and collage materials. Pace of the group will be taken into account and each visiting artist will be supported to produce a number of finished or near finished paintings.

*The course takes place in Artform modern light-filled seaside studio with 24hr access for each visiting artist, and its beautiful seaside surroundings, and runs from 11am to 5pm on the first day and from 10am to 4pm on the subsequent days. Cost does not include accommodation, on request Artform offers artist accommodation options. Details on art materials and safety will be provided after signing up to the course. Artform operates Health and Safety studio policy in keeping with updated national guidelines (for further information please see here https://www.artform.ie/covid-19/).

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