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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.
A parent or guardian is welcome to join in the workshop with their child, at the child’s rate of £40 and make their own artwork.
What to Bring
All materials are provided.
Timings and Breaks
The workshop starts at 10am and finishes at 12.30pm, please aim to arrive ten to fifteen minutes before the start time.
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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