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Autumn 2010 Art Exhibition and Workshops.

We welcome Peter Ursem and Lal Hitchcock to Colmers View.

Peter Ursem Exhibition - Sep 18-24

Workshop- Sep 25-26 weekend 10.30-16.30. £90
(max 10 participants)
please email Ruth for application form.

Landscape in Print
Lino printing workshop with Peter Ursem
Dates: Saturday & Sunday 25 & 26 September 2010

One of the benefits of simple printmaking is that you can do it on a corner of your kitchen table. Even a simple spoon can make a very good press. In this workshop Peter Ursem will guide you through a range of basic techniques lino printing. The (optional) theme will be taken from the beautiful landscape around 'Colmers View'. This subject matter is ideal to experiment with the flow and fall of light and to explore the importance of composition and mark making for bringing your print to life. As part of this two day workshop Peter will present many inspiring examples of printmaking, with a particular focus on the woodcut, woodengraving and linocut. There will also be an opportunity to see an exhibition of Peter’s work at Colmers View.

About Peter Ursem:
Graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague (1995), Dutch artist Peter Ursem worked mainly on large multi-panelled canvasses. After his move to Dorset in 1999 he initially had to make do with a kitchen table for a studio, which rekindled his love for relief printmaking: woodcuts and linocuts. The simple principle of carving a relief demands finding the essential shapes, textures, patterns and rhythms that define the character of a print. With ‘Reflections, a book of woodcuts of the river Stour’ (2000) Ursem successfully combined the expressionist potential of the medium with his romantic adoption of his new surroundings. Ursem went on to establish his name, the landscape becoming an ever stronger inspiration for his multi-coloured relief prints and paintings. ‘Dorset Footprint’, Ursem’s exhibition in the Dorset County Museum earlier this year, showed new paintings, drawings and prints in the context of a first decade in Dorset.

Accomodation at Colmers View is availible on request.

Lal Hitchcock Workshop

Reclaim Art.
Lal Hitchcock runs workshops in assemblage,putting together found objects,flotsum + jetsam with a great sense of humour.
Dates: Sunday Oct 17 10.0-15.30 . £45 (max 10 participants)
please email Ruth for application form

Bring broken + found objects,leave preconceived outcomes behind and let the materials dictate the artwork.

About Lal Hitchcock
Lal graduated in sculpture and printmaking.Since 1998
alongside her career as an artist creating sculpture using a wide variety of materials with an underling green message,she has run workshops.
Initially working with primary school children using reclaimed and recycled
materials she then went on to become artist in residence for Dorset's local Arts developement agency 'Artsreach' and Dorset County Hospital,where she worked with patients,visitors + staff.

Lal was comissioned to make a sculpture from flotsum + jetsam washed up in Portland, it is now in the visitor centre,Ferrybridge.

Solo Exhibitions since 2005.
2007 'Sea Change'. Town Mill Galleries,Lyme Regis.
2006'Lal Hitchcock' Thelma Hubert Gallery,Honiton.
2006'The Arty Lady'Dorset County Hospital.
2005'Beached' Bridport Art Centre

Accomodation at Colmers View is availible on request.

 

CONTACT

Ruthatcouturegardens@btinternet.com

Tel.01308 458787

Accommodation

B+B is £45 per person per night-shared occupancy
£85 per person per night - single occupancy

Ruth Collier holds a number of gardening courses during the year, please click here to find out more