This drawing workshop will utilize various materials to realize work from quick studies to fully developed pieces. The class emphasis is on experimentation, expressing personal vision, and taking chances while creating. Exploration of
northern Mayo will work as jumping off point with ideas of how mythology, poetry, and language can come to inform visual work.
Students will work with various methods and materials such as encaustic medium, tape, charcoal, graphite, pastel, acrylic paint, peat, tea, monotype printing, plaster, cardboard and whatever else can be imagined to develop work that echoes each participant’s aesthetic interest and vision. The class will incorporate powerpoint presentations that explore how drawing is used by contemporary artists as well as exercises that promote creative thinking. Students will explore areas around Ballinglen for found materials that can be incorporated into drawings. There will be a small materials fee and more information on materials list soon. The 4-day workshop is being taught by artists Amy Metier and Jeffrey Hirst, each of whom are teaching classes at Ballinglen before and after this workshop.
This Workshop takes place from the 7th - 12th of October 2021. The cost is $1,200 which includes tuition, shared cottage with private bedroom for 5 nights, lunch/dinner/dessert/tea/coffee, collection/delivery to the bus/train stations in Ballina, full use of the Ballinglen Library & facilities 24/7. Participants arrive on the 8th and depart on the 13th (The workshop is for four days with arrival and departure day making it six days). Please contact Una Forde on unaforde.baf@gmail.com for availability and booking form.
Amy Metier resides in the United States. She has an M.F.A. in Fine Arts and is a former professor of painting for Metro State University in Denver, Colorado. Metier has led painting workshops in Giverny and Mandelieu La Napoule in France. She has been an artist in residency at the American Academy in Rome, the Klotts International Foundation in Brittany, France, The Vermont Studio Centre and the La Napoule Foundation. Her work is in private and public collections in Europe and United States, to include the Denver and Kirkland Art Museums. She exhibits at the William Havu Gallery in Denver.
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