Are a growing creative community of dedicated artists that attend weekly workshops based at Hilary Baker’s studio at Bewdley Museum, Worcestershire. Workshops cover a wide range of techniques from painting to ceramic sculpture, drawing, printmaking and much more.
Foundry Artists hold exhibitions, outdoor painting expeditions and Life drawing and painting sessions inside and outside of the studio.
Why not join us!?
Everyone welcome even beginners!
Studio Workshops run throughout the year, eight places are available for each workshop so be sure to book your place in good time!
All materials and refreshments supplied
Join us for our popular daytime art workshops, where we have more time to explore subjects and techniques.
An opportunity to enjoy a concentrated ‘day’ class in the evening that are suitable for students and adults.
Therapeutic Art allows those on a weight loss journey to gain insight about themselves, their body, eating habits and their mindset around food.
Through seemingly simple mediums like paint or pencils, people can enhance emotional intelligence by using colours, shapes, and textures to give life to their inner narratives about their bodies and minds.
Now is the time to put all that you have practice and learnt together to create your own artwork using your own topic and choice of medium. You will plan and design your work during this session and share your learning with other Foundry Artists.
Artists use scale to create different effects on the viewer, such as emphasizing importance, highlighting detail, and forcing perspectives. The scale of a work and its specific location can be part of the experience too. Artists can also use scale to create the illusion of distance, multiples and repetitions provide pattern and rhythm, and small items can build into bigger artworks and even a diorama.
During the next 4 workshops we shall be exploring the history of miniature painting and will create our own, study and make our own scroll painting in Japanese ink, creating a diorama as did Joseph Cornell C, and the final option of designing and making a mosaic. Phew!
Remember that you will need to collect small objects for the diorama and bits of pottery if you would like to create a mosaic!
Artists repeat visual elements to create patterns, rhythm or emphasise a concept.
Islamic art and Op Art often use mathematical multiplications and repeated geometric shapes to create complex visual designs.
Techniques such as printmaking allow artists to create multiple identical or slightly varied copies of an artwork.
We shall focus on multiples over the next four workshops, beginning with the power of repeating patterns and learning about artists who used them. Then, we shall use printmaking to make multiple prints using lino and collagraph. Finally, we shall use a single repeating image, a la Warhol. It’s all very exciting!
Express Yourself Continues!
After we exploded into action with Expressive Art earlier this term with landscapes, figures, and portraits, we are now continuing with abstract compositions, narratives and still life – learning new techniques, different materials and focusing on a wide variety of artists who make art full of expression, emotion, and atmosphere. At the end of this term you will plan and develop your own expressive artwork in the medium of your choice.
All workshops are suitable for any new and emerging artists who wish to push their techniques and imagery further and also for those who have more creative experience.
It’s never too late to become an artist!
Whether you’re eight years old or eighty, it’s never too late to start making art. Why not start now?
Give in to your passion, find inspiration and dive in. In Foundry Artists workshops, I will lead you through a wide range of methods and mediums to find your own creative voice.
If you are a beginner or feeling a bit rusty then the Thursday workshops are for you!
You can come into the studio or join us in the studio online. Places are limited in the studio so please contact us to check if there is an available space.
Wednesday and Friday workshops are open to all levels of artists who would like to develop their skills further – places are limited in the studio so please contact us to check if there is an available space, or join us online.
Foundry Artists are a growing creative community of dedicated artists that attend weekly workshops based at Hilary Baker’s studio at Bewdley Museum, Worcestershire. Covering a wide range of techniques from painting to ceramic sculpture, drawing, printmaking and much more, workshops are hosted in the studio and live on Zoom.
We are always keen to welcome new artists of all abilities. Please contact us if you are interested, have any questions, or you are ready to join. Information about all our workshops along with booking details can be found on our Workshop page and Event Calendar.
Give you the courage and creative tools to emphasise what is important to you.
Provide creative exercises and processes that take away fear and creative paralysis.
Guide you through the different stages of making a body of work.
Support you to find your own visual language.
