Working with artist Laura Taylor in the Curve Gallery
Machine Embroidery with Sue Cumner working with adults
The GCSE kids do some cracking work for their exam with Andrea Dryland
No mini-beasts here! Painting big bugs with Hannah Gardner
The Saturday Morning Art School was very well attended by pupils from the school and from its feeder primary schools, Longlevens, Innsworth and Churchdown Parton Manor.
The children really enjoyed working with the artists: painting insects by blowing through diffusers with Hannah Gardner, twisting tissue paper and using bleach to produce collages with Karen Bunting, making 3D African masks from cardboard with Grahame Tucker and getting very messy with experimental art in the Curve Gallery with the school’s current artist-in-residence Laura Taylor. Children learnt that ‘art doesn’t have to be neat, I can be a messy artist’, ‘I have an amazing imagination’ and that it was a ‘brilliant lesson with a brilliant teacher’.
There were two adult workshops running at the same time. Whilst one group were improving their machine embroidery skills in a textiles session with Sue Cumner where ‘the atmosphere was very conducive to wanting to learn and enjoy the workshop and the tutor was excellent’, another group were encouraged by Sue Belinfante to develop a personalised approach making clay jugs. All agreed that the workshops provide an enjoyable and productive experience.
Meanwhile Andrea Dryland worked with some of the GCSE students who benefitted from the extra time to spend on their exam work.
