TARA AXFORD | WORKSHOPS
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2 Day | Saturday 16 – Sunday 17 March 2024
FOUND. REARRANGING THE DISCARDED INTO NEW FORMS – SOLD OUT please click the email link below if you would like to go on the waiting list Working with found objects: nature & cardboard. Using the gel plate as your working surface, work with found objects in a textural way to create prints with intent. Collaging both on and off the plate the emphasis is on texture and pattern and seeing it through a new lens. Look at how 2d can become 3d and how 3d can inform 2d, with new forms + layered prints emerging as a result. All levels |
4 Day | Monday 18 – Thursday 21 March 2024
PROMPTS FROM THE PAST – SOLD OUT please click the email link below if you would like to go on the waiting list Intentional gel plate printing taking cues from other places. Utilize the gel plate as your tool, you will be shown techniques inspired by selected artists from the well-known to not so well known as Tara Axford shows how inspiration can be translated into new forms. The workshop will look at how design and intention can inform art. You will be directed towards curating your prints into an object, vessel, wall hanging or book form that showcases the composed prints. All levels |
TARA AXFORD
Website taraaxford.com
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Tara Axford, mixed media artist working with print, collage, fibre and photography, Tara draws inspiration from her surroundings and is deeply inspired by the natural world and the mystery it holds. She seeks patterns, textures, imperfections. The forgotten, the weathered, the discarded appeal to her. Exploring her surroundings she likes to ‘zoom in’ on an environment, observe it, and abstract the essence to create something new, asking the viewer to experience something they may have previously overlooked, with fresh eyes.
Her current practice looks at combining 2d with 3d and creating something that mixes the evidence of human life with that of nature, looking at opposites: the juxtaposition of busy and calm, messy with order, disruption and serenity.
Her appreciation of nature and the environment drives her passion for creating work. Believe that by showcasing the beauty and importance of nature, it can inspire others to consider it too.
Insta tara.axford
Tara Axford, mixed media artist working with print, collage, fibre and photography, Tara draws inspiration from her surroundings and is deeply inspired by the natural world and the mystery it holds. She seeks patterns, textures, imperfections. The forgotten, the weathered, the discarded appeal to her. Exploring her surroundings she likes to ‘zoom in’ on an environment, observe it, and abstract the essence to create something new, asking the viewer to experience something they may have previously overlooked, with fresh eyes.
Her current practice looks at combining 2d with 3d and creating something that mixes the evidence of human life with that of nature, looking at opposites: the juxtaposition of busy and calm, messy with order, disruption and serenity.
Her appreciation of nature and the environment drives her passion for creating work. Believe that by showcasing the beauty and importance of nature, it can inspire others to consider it too.
