Create multi-layered abstract artworks inspired by the urban landscape.
Over four sessions, we will use the industrial surroundings of Leith as a catalyst for observation and experimentation. Working on location at the historic Leith Docks, we will sketch, photograph, and observe the rhythm and structure of this industrial environment.
Inspired by early modernist and abstract painters such as Wilhemina Barns-Graham, Ben Nicholson, Margaret Mellis and Victor Passmore, we will experiment with re-composing form and paring back this landscape to its essentials – reducing buildings, docks and machinery into geometric structures and experimenting with expressive, non-naturalistic colour-fields.
Back in the studio, we will explore reductive painting, collage, printmaking and found imagery— and, if desired, words or poetry— to develop richly layered visual responses alongside a personal sketchbook documenting the process.
This course is suitable for beginners curious about abstraction, as well as more experienced artists looking to draw fresh inspiration from the built environment.
All core materials and equipment included. CONCESSION RATES are available for those in receipt of income-assessed benefits.