This is a short post to let you know that I’m running a short hand drawn map workshop at ONCA Gallery in Brighton alongside the exhibition ‘The Long View’ by somewhere-nowhere, a creative team comprising of Harriet Fraser and Rob Fraser, a writer and photographer respectively. For more than two years, somehwere-nowhere have been visiting seven trees in Cumbria – a hawthorn, a rowan, an alder, a Scot’s pine, a sycamore, a birch and a sessile oak and documenting their time with them. In the spirit of the exhibition, we will be mapping a brief walk taken around the gallery, observing the urban wildlife, people and buildings along the way.
8th June, 10am – noon
£15 – tickets via Eventbrite
For adults of all levels of artistic experience.
By the end of this 2 hour workshop you will have all the skills to make a basic hand drawn map!
Participants will learn how to:
Walk the turf and make observations
Grid up and draw out
Create basic but elegant hand lettering
Draw decorative compass roses to complete your map
Please bring a notepad (or equivalent), a pencil, a ruler and clothing appropriate for taking a short walk outside.
Then stay and enjoy The Long View exhibition in the gallery.
Address:
ONCA Gallery
14 St George’s Place
Brighton
E Sussex
BN1 4GB
Telephone: 01273 607101
See you there!
When is your next workshop? I’m thinking it could be a present for my husband for his birthday- he would love that!
Hi Anna,
That’s a great idea but I don’t know when there’ll be another workshop at present. It really depends when galleries and museums book me in. I can keep you on a mailing list and message if you’d like though (just let me know). Otherwise, I’ll post upcoming workshops on my news page here…
With best wishes,
Helen
Yes please to the mailing list! Will cross my fingers it will be soon, your maps are lovely