Enjoy exploring printing techniques with printmaker Ellen Love.
Design and print your own repeat pattern. Learn how to make a never ending repeat pattern through a satisfying trick in print-making! Take inspiration from the works of the artist Patrick Heron, who painted in Porthmeor Studios and was influenced by repeat pattern, as you design your prints.
For children aged 7-13, these Summer workshops are like no other, where children get to work in our studio overlooking the sea and use the same high art quality materials as our adult courses. They are taught by experienced artist tutors and leave feeling inspired with beautiful work. An ideal opportunity for your children to channel their inner artist, in our historic studios, whilst you relax.
TIMINGS: Workshops run 10:30am to 1pm.
SUBSIDISED LOCALS WORKSHOPS: 2pm to 4pm.
This year, we will continue to run our children’s workshops for locals throughout the summer holidays. Kindly funded by Little Parc Owles Trust, the locals workshops are just £12 for children living in Cornwall.
Please note that proof of a TR address will be required upon booking and attending the workshops.
We also have a number of free scholarship places for families on low income, though places are limited. Do contact us for a scholarship form to apply: [email protected].
What to Bring
All materials are provided and aprons, though we encourage you to wear old clothes.
Timings and Breaks
The workshop starts at 10.30am and finishes at 1pm, please aim to arrive ten minutes before the start time.
Afternoon workshop starts at 2pm, finishing at 4pm. Please bring proof of address for the subsidised locals workshop.
Meet Your Tutor
Ellen Love
My practice rolls with the seasons. When the buds are forming, when the growth is raucous and full of life, I want to be in it so during Spring and Summer I spend time gathering sketches and ideas from outside. In the Winter months I bring these sketches together inside into patterns and start carving and printing. And then the cycle begins again when Spring comes!
Although my prints often focus on plants, I try to use the plants as a way of telling a wider story about the places in which they grow. Sometimes I print, sometimes I draw, sometimes I make with clay!
I have a background teaching art and craft in a variety of settings from museums to prisons, hospitals to schools and galleries to community centers.
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