Drawn to Woodcut (drawing and printmaking course0

Drawn to Woodcut NEW!
Tutor: Sandy Sykes MA

Woodcut and print with daring and originality using a variety of relief surfaces. Experience cutting with conventional and unconventional tools, rubbing and printing. Papers from luxurious to ‘throw away’ will enliven your ideas, which will spring naturally from the experimental processes.

Course Outline:Day 1
You will be drawing through a series of experimental methods and a variety of materials as suggested by Sandy. Different papers and printing surfaces will be tried and exploited in a rapid confidence building mark-making session. Playing with cutting, sticking and taping, new viewpoints, different spaces and a fun attitude will relax your old rules and stimulate fresh imagery.
A short demonstration on inking and rubbing a selection of surfaces, including wood and monotype drawing with a variety of tools and methods.
You will be working individually, drawing into inked surfaces to make monotypes, printing from wooden surfaces and making personal developments from ideas generated in the morning.

Day 2
Continuing individual practice with cutting and printing, and any other methods experienced so far. Experiment and play as you did in the morning but now with more focus and personal intent
How to carry the new experiences and experiments into a body of work in day three?

Day 3
Introduction to the final print project.
Personal discussions with Sandy throughout the morning as you continue to cut surfaces and print from them. You are narrowing your focus but not your fun.
Qualities of surface, scale, or colour of associated images, words or symbols will now start to demonstrate your intentions.

About the Tutor:
Sandy Sykes is a painter, printmaker and maker of artist’s books. She studied BA (Hons) Painting at Leeds Metropolitan University and MA and Fellowship in Printmaking at Wimbledon School of Art and Design. Lecturing in many British universities over the years. Her awareness of the natural world is a major catalyst to her thinking. Since 1970 Sykes has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally in solo and group shows, some of which have toured in Britain, Europe, USA and Russia. Represented in International Art Fairs in New York, Chicago and London, her work is held in numerous Public Collections including Tate Britain, Victoria and Albert Museum, Ashmolean Museum, The Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Course includes:
Group and individual tuition
Basic materials
Artists talk
Access to Gallery and archive of original works
Research Art Library
A well equipped drawing studio and printroom
Access to the countryside