Karen Stamper

22nd - 23rd July

£275.00

BIG IN THE BARN

Karen is going big in the barn this year! It is time to break out of the concertina sketchbook and work life size! We will work with sheets of collage papers - wallpaper, newspaper, packaging, cardboard, wrapping paper, billboard papers. Sketchbook ideas but on a big scale! will be fun, physical, painty and sticky, a time to explore. Collage is the subject, the results could be abstract or linked to a theme of your own.

As with my sketchbook courses you will be responding to the papers - looking at textures, folds, worn surfaces, edges to create big bold collage compositions. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on a big scale, in a big studio. We will work on the walls and floor/tables and use water based glue, varnish, tape and house paint. You will be able to roll, or fold, your big collage at the end of the two days.

This course will be in The Drawing Barn - fully weather-proof but not heated - bring warm clothes/overalls!
Lunches and refreshments included.
Days run from 10am to 4pm (ish)

About Karen

Growing up on the east coast of Yorkshire as a happy beachcomber, I was attracted to the faded painted wood, scraps of gaudy plastic, brightly coloured fishing floats and nets: all sun dried, sand blasted, salted and weathered. After art college I worked and wandered the world for ten years, all the time constantly sketching and collecting a rich resource of tickets, labels, packaging, stamps, paper bags and scraps of lettering; each one telling its own story; scraps of city life ready to become the first layers of a collage or sketchbook page.

Working in collage, combining found papers and mark making I can create a wonderful rich surface of papers all bonded together; some dull and fading, some peeling, some permanent. It is the scratches and pin holes, creased lines, wrinkles and torn edges of paper that fires my imagination. Gradually my own work has moved from collaged Mediterranean street scenes to the urban boat yard, but the theme of worn and weathered stays. My recent work moves into abstraction with a breakout from formal boundaries, quirky groupings of irregular pieces converse with one another and paint dipped pieces recreate the feel of the urban boatyard.

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