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This site-specific workshop will use the landscape and gardens around West Dean as inspiration. Using found marks to inspire simple mordant prints, local plants collected to make dyes, piecing and hand stitch, you will explore ideas that evoke a quality or sense of place informed by this unique location.
This workshop is suitable for all levels of experience and will include time spent both inside and outside the studio and is inspired by contemporary concerns about sustainability and creative textiles.
You can expect to explore process in a relaxed supportive environment. Claire will encourage you to develop your own work through observation and experimentation.
During the course you can expect to:
• Learn simple natural dyeing techniques which could be used at home.
• Make connections between cloth, seasons and colour.
• Begin to understand the pleasure of slow stitching and making a real connection with a piece of work.
Arrival Day - this is the first date listed above
Courses start early evening. Residential students to arrive from 4pm, non-residential students to arrive by 6.45pm.
6.45pm: Welcome, followed by dinner (included).
8 - 9pm: First teaching session, attendance is essential.
Daily timetable
Classes 9.15 - 5pm, lunch is included.
From 6.30pm: Dinner (included for residential students).
Evening working - students may have access to workshops until 9pm, but only with their tutor's permission and provided any health and safety guidelines are observed.
Last day
Classes 9.15am - 3pm, lunch is included.
Residential students are to vacate their rooms by 10am please.
(This timetable is for courses of more than one day in length. The tutor may make slight variations)
Claire Wellesley-Smith is an artist and author. She has an MA in
Visual Arts and specialises in slow textile processes including the
use of natural dyes and hand stitch. She has many years experience
of teaching adults textile-based processes as part of long-term
projects. Her book, Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile
Art was published by Batsford in 2015.
Residential option available. Find out accommodation costs and how to book here.
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