LAYERS IN THE LANDSCAPE, SKYE, SCOTLAND
18-22 May, 2018
This art course will take you to the wild terrain of the northern part of the Isle of Skye. Situated off the west coast of Scotland, the isle is known for its beautiful scenery and unique land formations. The Isle of Skye or Eilean a’Cheo (misty isle in Scottish Gaelic) is the largest island of the Inner Hebrides, and a vibrant place of legend and myth.
On Skye, we will open ourselves to the richness of the stories, and experience the dramatic landscape through making art right in the middle of it. Teachers are local artist Caroline Dear and art teacher Jan van Boeckel.
Caroline will introduce you to this particular part of Skye through a series of three stories, looking at the myths and the human stories that are contained within the landscape. She will invite you to think about our place, as humans, in the landscape and to create your own personal story in the form of a linear folded book. This will act as a story line recording your own personal responses to the places we visit and you will be able to use this book as reference when making additional art works. Your recordings can be text notes, sketches using pen, watercolour, graphite etc. or indeed using the natural materials around you. As part of this we will learn to make rope from local plants and gain an insight into the past uses of the common plants in this part of Skye.
Jan will guide you in exploring the vivid landscape through painting - working with colour, tonality and composition. Some sessions will be inside, where we explore ways in rendering the experience of being a natural place in two-dimensional form. When weather permits, we will work outside, among the rocks and fields, or at the coastline. Jan will invite you to paint in ways that you have probably never tried out before, to encourage you to work beyond your habitual ways of making art - and thus to see 'the misty isle' with fresh eyes!
→ www.wildpainting.org/layers-in-the-landscape-making-art-on-the-isle-of-skye-scotland.html