TARA AXFORD | WORKSHOP
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6 Day | Saturday 13 – Thursday 18 March 2021
SENSE OF PLACE workshop full waiting list being take
Looking at the familiar with fresh eyes. The workshop will look at how to capture the essence of a place, how to distil its essence and represent this in a new form. With a focus on composition and creating a visual language, you will focus on structure using monoprints, mark marking and gelli plate as the creative tools. Reworking prints into accordion artist books with covers, postcards, works on paper or fabric vessels.
SENSE OF PLACE workshop full waiting list being take
Looking at the familiar with fresh eyes. The workshop will look at how to capture the essence of a place, how to distil its essence and represent this in a new form. With a focus on composition and creating a visual language, you will focus on structure using monoprints, mark marking and gelli plate as the creative tools. Reworking prints into accordion artist books with covers, postcards, works on paper or fabric vessels.
TARA AXFORD
www.taraaxford.com
As a mixed media artist working with prints, collage, mixed media, fibre arts, and photography, I am interested in the push-pull of constantly searching for something... Are we developing something new or are we constantly referencing and influenced by the past? I draw inspiration from my surrounds, I find patterns, textures, imperfections. The forgotten, the weathered, the discarded appeal to me.
My current practice is to explore my surroundings, the sense of place. I like to ‘zoom in’ on an environment and work with that. That could mean photographing found objects, ‘foraged’ natural elements and arranging it to be seen in a different way. I enjoy abstracting the essence of a place to create something new. So the viewer can also experience something they may have previously overlooked, with fresh eyes. Currently I am exploring found objects, patterns and textures and how it reflects the sense of place and creates a connection to it.
As a mixed media artist working with prints, collage, mixed media, fibre arts, and photography, I am interested in the push-pull of constantly searching for something... Are we developing something new or are we constantly referencing and influenced by the past? I draw inspiration from my surrounds, I find patterns, textures, imperfections. The forgotten, the weathered, the discarded appeal to me.
My current practice is to explore my surroundings, the sense of place. I like to ‘zoom in’ on an environment and work with that. That could mean photographing found objects, ‘foraged’ natural elements and arranging it to be seen in a different way. I enjoy abstracting the essence of a place to create something new. So the viewer can also experience something they may have previously overlooked, with fresh eyes. Currently I am exploring found objects, patterns and textures and how it reflects the sense of place and creates a connection to it.
