St George’s Arts Centre, St George’s Shopping Centre, Gravesend
Join artist Mud for an exciting series of 6 workshops where you will practice self-expression, play and experiment, and have fun in a creative, non-judgmental, and empowering environment.
These workshops are not about artistic skills or innate talent: but about playing with art in fun and interesting ways. In these workshops you will make masks, create postcards to your future selves, paint to a selection of music, and more. We will begin each session with a ‘Freeing the Mind’ warm-up exercise that will influence and inspire our final piece in some way. These often unusual activities are designed to encourage you to loosen up by unleashing your inner creativity.
The sessions themselves will be light-hearted; in a laid back environment where everyone is welcome to engage and experiment with art, express their ideas, and connect with others. We will be supportive and mindful of ourselves and others. In these workshops there is no right or wrong way of creating.
Everything is open to interpretation and we value imperfection for what it is:
“Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.” ― Jhumpa Lahiri
Dates and Projects: Six Weeks - Six Projects.
Please book each session separately. Suitable for 18yrs +
Session 4: 7th November
Colours of Memory (Exquisite Corpse)
For this session we will be playing with colour to recreate the feel of a treasured memory.
After our welcome and introduction to the workshop we will start with a ‘Freeing the Mind’ activity; ‘Exquisite Corpse’, which is a collaborative game that requires no special skills.
Next we will have a short break and then move on to the main activity, Colours of Memory, where we will create small concertina booklets filled with swirling swatches of colours that represent a favourite memory.