Knights Templar School, Baldock - Festival Week workshop 2009 Yrs 8 - 11

These paper cuts were from a two hour Festival Week workshop at Knights Templar School, Baldock in 2009 - pupils were mainly Year 8 rising to Year 11's. The pupils were free to cut the paper I supplied in the way they wanted. Many fixed on making faces and densely patterned ones... but the blue boat cut at the bottom was unusual. It takes a lot of nerve and sophistication to make a cut like this especially for a child. Most children want to add more and more detail but this piece is wholly about the very simplest of paper cut away.

These little paper creatures were made at a two hour workshop at Letchworth Art Centre by students aged 7 - 10. There wasn't a set outcome - I simply showed them how to make a bowl shape and the students themselves took the construction and added their natural creativity to it and out came creatures and frogs and rainbow bowls!!

Arts Award Silver students workshop painting to music:Dvorak and Muse

These pictures show some of the work produced in a student lead mini workshop that was about painting to music. The student was heavily influenced by Kandinsky in her work and the whole idea of painting as you hear music. She selected two very different pieces of music to work from...  Dvorak was very fluid with great rising cadences and sounds, whilst Muse was fantastic in its heavy base and rock opera feel. We all got completely absorbed in what we were doing. There was a hum in the room as everyone was in their own little art bubble. It was magical.

This student was studying on the Silver Arts Award course I ran at Letchworth Art Centre from Sept 09-April 2010. All the students on the course passed and gained their Silver Award.