Date: Friday 8 March, 10.30 - 13.00
Venue: The Gallery at Green & Stone
Tickets: £45
Portrait and Space
This workshop is designed to accompany the exhibition 'In the Cities Life is Smaller' .
The Artist Rachel Mercer will be guiding participants in a workshop that combines drawing of the head and hands with imaginative drawing of spaces. As well as providing skills and techniques in observation, students will gain an insight into Rachel's artistic process: creating imaginative compositions around a portrait.
In the class we will use each other as models and consider ways to engage in the action and attitude of the sitter. Sitting opposite a partner makes the drawing experience up-close and person and less formal than working from a model. There will be exercises designed to improve skill and accuracy in drawing, helping us to capture essential likeness rather than detail. In the second half of the class participants will use their portrait drawings to create an imaginative composition using the street outside the gallery for inspiration.
All art materials provided by Green & Stone.
About Rachel Mercer
Born in Cambridgeshire, Mercer studied at Cardiff School of Art and Design graduating in 2012 before being awarded the postgraduate programme at The Royal Drawing School. Since 2014 she has been a painter working in London. She has exhibited in the UK and China.
At the centre of her approach is an interest in human interaction and the importance of the observed world. There is a sense of movement, fluidity, and haptic beauty in the way the figures in her work move and dissolve across the canvas. At times the subject fades into the sensuality of the medium simultaneously creating a sense of disappearance and presence.
