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 - WINTER / SPRING 2025

These will be held at:
THE READING ROOM, UPPER HIBBERT LANE, HAWK GREEN, SK6 7HX

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1st
10 am - 4 pm

DIALOGUES & SMALL TALK
Beginning our 2025 programme with the potential for ideas generation, this workshops offers the opportunity to push creative boundaries by observing, listening and responding to verbal & non verbal communication, symbols, signs, writing, scribbling and letter forms etc.
Clearly, this workshops begins with experimentation and random ideas, thus emphasising that creative potential may come from anywhere and creates the possibility of extending a concept into new and exciting areas. Scale, pace and application being central to the visual dialogue.
The day will also provide an awareness of drawing and compositional processes whilst using a diverse range of mixed media and surfaces.
Each participant will create an individual pathway through investigative and visual exploration
Outcomes may be 2D / 3D, book form, painting, collage , layering, photography, stitch and so on.
Boundaries do not exist!
Artist Reference; Jerry Iverson, Sarah Sze, Antoni Tapies, Cy Twombly, Fiona Robinson, Eve, Joan Aschheim, Joan Mitchell, Cecil Touchon, etc
Suitable for all abilities.

Cost £65 includes most materials, tea, coffee, biscuits etc

SATURDAY MARCH 1st
10 am - 4pm

TAKE 5 / DRAWING GEOMETRY COLLAGE & PAINT
This workshops begins with the collection of 5 smallish, portable objects ( that would fit into a box ). Each object will have its own dynamic but the collective relationship of the five objects will draw attention to the relevance of composition.
Initially, using dry & wet media, we will investigate a diverse range of drawing processes/ layering / collage / the relevance of negative space and the application of linear & tonal marks / mono print and gelli plate techniques.
Consequently during the workshop you will have the opportunity to develop observational skills alongside the use of colour and a range of surfaces. You will be encouraged to work at your on pace in order to identify a unique and creative conclusion.
Your starting point will be the five objects, outcomes may be drawing, painting, print, collage etc.
Artist reference, Morandi, Winifred Nicholson, Patrick Heron, Squeak Carnwath, William Scott etc.
Suitable for all abilities.

Cost £65, includes materials, tea, coffee etc.

SATURDAY APRIL 5th
10 am - 4 pm

DRAWING / of life/ off line
Model : Jenny Black

Challenging the traditional format of life drawing, during this workshops we will consider a more fundamental, nuanced approach.
Initially, fast paced expressive poses will give you the opportunity to capture the correlation between yourself and the model and the presence of the model in the space. Some poses may have a visual dialogue or be mime like. Other poses may be wrapped or unwrapped.
To some extent the day will be unplanned so that ideas can be generated and positively explored. Some parts of the day may be led by the models instincts ( and energy levels )
However, there will be lots of opportunity to vary scale, explore media and produce some very exciting progressive drawing
Suitable for all abilities

Cost £65 includes materials, tea, coffee etc.