Abstract, Expand and Excavate - Encaustic Painting Workshop
This Workshop is focused on developing ideas, content and meaning through the medium of encaustic paint. There will be an emphasis on expanding your conversation with the paint and developing your personal vocabulary and vision. Studio time will combine plenty of painting time, demonstrations, discussion, presentations and a strong focus on individual support for wherever you are at. Field trips soak up the extraordinary North Mayo landscape - it's light, history, archeology and folklore - to feedback into the work.
The course content will include a review of techniques and tools (for adding/subtracting/manipulating layers) and media compatible with encaustic paint (R&F pigment sticks and various drawing media). We will revise fundamentals to inform the focus of your work - elements and principles of art, colour and composition. We will explore the generation and development of ideas through the field trips, drawing exercises and notebook work. There will also be a review of encaustic studio-set up and studio visits to Ballinglen Fellows in Residence. All this in the welcoming, professional Ballinglen Arts Foundation environment. Joanna's teaching style, based on professional experience, nurtures the creative mind and each student's relationship to personal vision. She encourages an experimental and intuitive approach to materiality and the use of drawing for recording and transforming experience and also as a way into subtracting paint.
The cost is $2,200 which includes tuition, shared cottage with private bedroom for 8 nights, lunch/dinner/dessert/tea/coffee, collection/dropoff to the bus/train stations in Ballina, full use of the Dolan/Maxwell Library and facilities 24/7. The Workshop is for seven days, arrival on the 20th and departure on the 28th April. A fee of €150 is payable at the start of the course to cover all materials (panels, paint, tools and a wide range of mixed media). This workshop is supported by R&F Handmade Paints. Please contact Una Forde on unaforde.baf@gmail.com for availability and booking form.
Joanna Kidney is an Irish visual artist. Her practice considers the sensory, temporal, interconnected and holistic aspects of being human. It is concerned with the non-material, that which is not visible and concrete. Using a language of abstraction, her work is an enquiry of the mark and the line through drawing, painting and physical space.She teaches in Ireland and Internationally at Colleges in the USA and The Netherlands. She is an annual presenter and tutor at the International Encaustic Conference, USA. Her Encaustic Painting Workshops are supported by R&F Handmade Paints, USA.
She has exhibited in Solo and Group Exhibtions in France, Germany, USA and Ireland. Selected Solo Exhibitions include: List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Philadelphia (upcoming); The LAB, Dublin (upcoming); Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre; Galway Arts Centre and Mermaid Arts Centre, Co. Wicklow. She is the recipient of Arts Council of Ireland and Wicklow County Council funding; a Royal Hibernian Academy Studio Award; a Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship and a Dublin Institute of Technology Award of Excellence. International residencies include Swarthmore College, Philadelphia (upcoming), Kiðjaberg, Iceland and Brigham Young University, Utah. Her work can be seen in the collections of Allied Irish Banks; The Permanent Collection, The Ballinglen Museum of Art; The Central Bank, Dublin; Office of Public Works, Ireland; University College Dublin and the Department of the Environment, Northern Ireland.
www.joannakidney.com
To check availability for this workshop please complete and submit the form below.
This Workshop is focused on developing ideas, content and meaning through the medium of encaustic paint. There will be an emphasis on expanding your conversation with the paint and developing your personal vocabulary and vision. Studio time will combine plenty of painting time, demonstrations, discussion, presentations and a strong focus on individual support for wherever you are at. Field trips soak up the extraordinary North Mayo landscape - it's light, history, archeology and folklore - to feedback into the work.
The course content will include a review of techniques and tools (for adding/subtracting/manipulating layers) and media compatible with encaustic paint (R&F pigment sticks and various drawing media). We will revise fundamentals to inform the focus of your work - elements and principles of art, colour and composition. We will explore the generation and development of ideas through the field trips, drawing exercises and notebook work. There will also be a review of encaustic studio-set up and studio visits to Ballinglen Fellows in Residence. All this in the welcoming, professional Ballinglen Arts Foundation environment. Joanna's teaching style, based on professional experience, nurtures the creative mind and each student's relationship to personal vision. She encourages an experimental and intuitive approach to materiality and the use of drawing for recording and transforming experience and also as a way into subtracting paint.
The cost is $2,200 which includes tuition, shared cottage with private bedroom for 8 nights, lunch/dinner/dessert/tea/coffee, collection/dropoff to the bus/train stations in Ballina, full use of the Dolan/Maxwell Library and facilities 24/7. The Workshop is for seven days, arrival on the 20th and departure on the 28th April. A fee of €150 is payable at the start of the course to cover all materials (panels, paint, tools and a wide range of mixed media). This workshop is supported by R&F Handmade Paints. Please contact Una Forde on unaforde.baf@gmail.com for availability and booking form.
Joanna Kidney is an Irish visual artist. Her practice considers the sensory, temporal, interconnected and holistic aspects of being human. It is concerned with the non-material, that which is not visible and concrete. Using a language of abstraction, her work is an enquiry of the mark and the line through drawing, painting and physical space.She teaches in Ireland and Internationally at Colleges in the USA and The Netherlands. She is an annual presenter and tutor at the International Encaustic Conference, USA. Her Encaustic Painting Workshops are supported by R&F Handmade Paints, USA.
She has exhibited in Solo and Group Exhibtions in France, Germany, USA and Ireland. Selected Solo Exhibitions include: List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Philadelphia (upcoming); The LAB, Dublin (upcoming); Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre; Galway Arts Centre and Mermaid Arts Centre, Co. Wicklow. She is the recipient of Arts Council of Ireland and Wicklow County Council funding; a Royal Hibernian Academy Studio Award; a Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship and a Dublin Institute of Technology Award of Excellence. International residencies include Swarthmore College, Philadelphia (upcoming), Kiðjaberg, Iceland and Brigham Young University, Utah. Her work can be seen in the collections of Allied Irish Banks; The Permanent Collection, The Ballinglen Museum of Art; The Central Bank, Dublin; Office of Public Works, Ireland; University College Dublin and the Department of the Environment, Northern Ireland.
www.joannakidney.com
To check availability for this workshop please complete and submit the form below.
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Ballinglen: USA/Ireland Workshop @ The Ballinglen Arts Foundation
Abstract, Expand and Excavate - Encaustic Painting Workshop with Joanna Kidney 20th - 28th April 2023 Class from 21st - 27th April 2023 A fee of €150 is payable at the start of the course to cover all materials (panels, paint, tools and a wide range of mixed media). This workshop is supported by R&F Handmade Paints. TOTAL $2,200 Registration is open now, booking forms must be received by Wednesday, 28th February 2023. First come, first serve basis.
A $500 booking fee applies & is non refundable payable by cheque or credit card. Final payment must be made before the 21st March 2023, please email for details re payment, booking forms will be accepted online. Materials fee for wax and other supplies will be approximately €150. We will email you a receipt once we receive a payment or booking. Payments are non-refundable 2 months prior to the class. Class participation constitutes an agreement to our Health and Safety Policy. Accommodation available from 20th with departure on the 28th April. Collection at train/bus in Ballina is also included. Please contact Joanna Kidney with any questions on the class directly on email joanna@joannakidney.com. All other queries : Úna Forde, Managing Director, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Main Street, Ballycastle, Co Mayo, Ireland. T : +353 (0) 96 43184, E : ballinglenarts@gmail.com unaforde.baf@gmail.com, http://www.ballinglenartsfoundation.org/ http://www.facebook.com/ BallinglenArtsFoundation |