jane cockayne

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I organise and run many workshops for all abilities, mostly in Cheshire and the North West.
Please check the website regularly for updates and future workshops.
If you would like me to forward information on new events please send me your name and email address.

SATURDAY WORKSHOPS - SUMMER 2025

These will be held at:
THE READING ROOM, UPPER HIBBERT LANE, HAWK GREEN, SK6 7HX
(PLEASE NOTE A DIFFERENT VENUE AND DAY FOR THE JULY 25th WORKSHOP)

SATURDAY JUNE 7th
10 am - 4 pm

FIGURE DRAWING , CLOTHED

This workshop will vary from previous figure drawing sessions in that it will include a more theatrical and intriguing approach.
Matilda Crome will be our model and she will be wearing carefully curated garments, makeup & accessories in order to offer the potential to respond to a sense of theatre & story telling.
We will begin with short investigative sessions, varying the pace and scale of the drawings . Later there will be the opportunity for longer poses in order to extend ideas and imaging techniques.
We will include the use of a range of drawing media, paint and collage.
Colour mixing being an essential part of the day.
This session will be experimental and relaxed finding its own pace. It will clearly offer a wonderful potential for producing and exciting body of colourful and dynamic work.
Artist ref ; Bonnard, Vuillard, Seurat, Matisse, Klimt etc

Cost £65, includes materials, tuition, refreshments.

SATURDAY JULY 5th
10 am - 4 pm

DRAWING INTO ABSTRACTION

This workshop will explore a creative pathway that will enable you to collect visual information from a series of artistic processes. Investigation will demonstrate the importance of ideas generation and in the broadest sense, the journey towards a visual conclusion that is original and unique.
The day will initially be exploratory, outcomes 2D / 3D.
Observational drawing and mark making will provide a starting point.
Processes of selection, editing, re scaling, layering etc using a range of wet & dry media collage & construction etc will follow, giving you the opportunity to be as playful as you wish within a format.
This workshop is suitable for people of all abilities but particularly useful for someone interested in Abstraction.
Artist Ref ; Ines Hildur, Sandra Blow, Oscar Murillo, John Hoyland, Helen Frankenthaler, Patrick Heron.

Cost £65, includes materials, tuition, refreshments

FRIDAY JULY 25th
12 - 5 pm

BRABYNS PARK RECREATION CENTRE
MARPLE BRIDGE
( I will provide detailed directions to any one booking onto this workshop )

Following on from a very successful workshop at this venue last year…..
The Recreation Centre in Brabyns Park is surrounded by woodland & meadows. Close by is the picturesque canal, an impressive lock flight and also the River Goyt.
So plenty to keep us occupied!
This is a perfect venue for sketch book work, thinking, writing and also working at a larger scale on paper or canvas if you wish.
There will also be the opportunity to make a zig zag sketchbook, creating surfaces, extending drawing techniques and composition.
Whatever your preferred format, you will have the perfect place to work in the environment, gathering visual skills, colour information, observing detail and so on.
There is an excellent car park, kitchen facilities and toilets on site.
This workshop it suitable for all abilities.

Cost £ 65 includes materials, refreshments, tuition