Get Grounded

Course Dates: 18^th- 19^th May  2026 ( Monday - Tuesday)

Come and walk in the woods when the bluebells are out and the ground is burgeoning with colour and new life. Feel more alive, engage with your natural surroundings, wake up your senses and create! Spend 2 days exploring the nearby woods in this fully immersive, practical and tactile workshop. Drawing with mud, puddle water, leaves and twigs, this will be a very hands on experience!

You will be making drawings in the landscape, about the landscape, with the landscape (sometimes using the landscape as your canvas), using found materials, and making your own tools. You will be responding to the sights, sounds, smells and feel of the woods; returning to the studio each day equipped with natural materials, handfuls of inspiration, and hand made tools to continue working on a larger scale (think Richard Long and his mud drawings!). In the studio you may work on a larger scale, and explore new ways of drawing, experimenting with mediums and binders and different surfaces (paper, card, canvas).

Since cave people made the first marks on cave walls and drew lines in the sand, humans have been drawn to leave a visual trace of themselves. In this workshop, you will be reminded how drawing is a truly tactile, instinctive, primal experience, using the body and natural materials to make marks.