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Lime Open Studios – Meet the Artist
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No need to book! Drop into the new Lime Art Studio and find out all about our Create.Connect.Unwind+ Staff creative wellbeing programme, meet Lime lead visual artist, Colette Whittington, have a tour round the studio and try your hand at some short activities. Colette Whittington is an artist, printmaker and educator who has been leading...
Bags + Blocks with Jacqui Symons
Printmaking & Textiles
Print your own fabric bag with a block-print repeating pattern using natural dye colour. Have fun designing geometric shapes and make them into printing tools using fun foam and wooden blocks, before printing onto a fabric tote bag. This is a simple technique that needs little equipment and is easy to repeat at home. No...
Writing Objects with Rebecca Hurst
Creative Writing
During this 90 minute online workshop we explore our emotional relationship with objects, as well as the tangible and relaxing creative writing method known as ‘Cut-up’. Creative writing is one way we can carve time for ourselves out of our busy and often stressful lives. Whether you want to try something new, step out of...
Lime Open Studios – Meet the Artist- CANCELLED
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Please note we have needed to cancel this event No need to book! Drop into the new Lime Art Studio and find out all about our Create.Connect.Unwind+ Staff creative wellbeing programme, meet Lime lead visual artist, Colette Whittington, have a tour round the studio and try your hand at some short activities. Colette Whittington is...
The Power of Pattern with Ibukun Baldwin
Printmaking
Explore colour and pattern! Join visual artist and fashion designer Ibukun Baldwin for a fun, creative printmaking workshop where you will use simple stencil printing and painting techniques to create vibrant and dynamic patterns. Express yourself using colour and shape to create patterns which are uniquely you! No prior experience necessary - accessible for all...
Spring Forward with Alison Waters
Bookmaking
Join artist Alison Waters for a two-part workshop to explore colour and collage and create a large scale concertina book for public exhibition. As part of Lime’s Create.Connect.Unwind+ Festival May ‘22 we’ve commissioned artist Alison Waters to work with MFT staff to create a large-scale concertina book. Spring inspires many people to think about the...
Origami with Jacqui Symons
Origami
Explore the ancient art of paper folding. Join artist Jacqui Symons and learn the basic origami folds alongside making several different pieces of origami using beautifully patterned and handmade papers. We will also explore different ways to display and present your artwork with a view to exhibiting pieces at the Create.Connect.Unwind festival May '22 ....
Augmented Reality with Helen Farley
Augmented Reality
There’s more to augmented reality than Pokemon Go! Join artist Helen Farley for a fun, relaxed and creative session, using your imagination to transform your everyday environment with virtual / augmented reality creations. In this two-hour workshop you will learn how to create simple but beautiful and inspiring augmented reality art to decorate and share...
Stop Motion Animation with Helen Farley
Stop motion
Have you ever wanted to create your own animation? Artist Helen Farley will guide you through the process bringing your ideas to life. Work as part of a group and use various materials such as found objects, plastercine, coloured paper, foam boards for backgrounds and more! At the end of the session everyone will have...
Writing the Body with Rebecca Hurst
Writing for Wellbeing- the Body
During this 90-minute online workshop we will use creative writing to explore what it feels like to be embodied, and how gesture and movement is connected to our thinking and language-making brains. Creative writing is one way we can carve time for ourselves out of our busy and often stressful lives. Whether you want to...
Lime Open Studios – Meet the Artist
DROP IN
No need to book! Drop into the new Lime Art Studio and find out all about our Create.Connect.Unwind+ Staff creative wellbeing programme, meet Lime lead visual artist, Colette Whittington, have a tour round the studio and try your hand at some short activities. Colette Whittington is an artist, printmaker and educator who has been leading...
Wood Block Printing with Colette Whittington
Printmaking
Come and join Lime printmaking artist Colette Whittington for an introduction to wood block printmaking and help us create a unique alphabet. Learn how to create your own fonts using hand drawn graphic design processes and have a go at carving and printing your own block. No prior printmaking experience necessary, everybody is welcome. No...