Art Doll Making with The Pale Rook

£320

16 - 18 May

In stock

1st installment : £160 (non refundable)

Description

Fri 16 – Sun 18 May
10am – 4pm (11am start on Sun)

Join us for an enlightening and intensive three day Art Doll Making workshop with The Pale Rook, where we will be exploring free-form art doll making. The focus will be on recognising the sparks and seeds of ideas, how to nurture them and then develop them into characters that reflect our thoughts, emotions and personal narratives. We’ll be working with collage, found objects, and a variety of free form doll making methods to create a doll that is entirely personal and meaningful to you.  Many of these methods have been developed by Johanna in her own doll making practice. Using intuitive design methods, you will create dolls that are not only beautiful, but unique and meaningful to you, reflecting your character, your experiences, and the stories that resonate with you. Feel free to bring along your own collections of fabrics, embellishments, found objects etc and we will incorporate them in a meaningful way to make your doll truly personal.

Previous experience working with textiles is useful, but the course is open to all levels, including complete beginners.

The Central Scotland School of Craft is the only venue in Scotland where this three day workshop will be available. Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to be part of this unique crafting experience!

About Your Tutor

“I studied textiles at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and fashion the Royal College of Art in London.  I have been making dolls, puppets and creatures since childhood but only stopped hiding them from other people in the last few years.

Themes of transformation and transmutation are always present in my work.  I create figures that are frozen in the moment between one state and the next.  Rather than aiming to recreate a flawless, idealised view of the human figure in a doll,  I find beauty in the incomplete, the broken, the decayed, lost, unexpected and vulnerable.

All of my pieces are individually hand dyed using herbal and plant infusions gathered in Scotland and prepared by hand in my studio.  Each piece is a response not only to my own creative inclination at the time of making, but to the season,  weather, vegetation and environment around me at a particular time and place.”

Testimonials

“Johanna really helps free you of pre conceived ideas of how to create. I found it extremely liberating.”

“This is what happens when you go on a Pale Rook doll making course. You shake loose and create from your soul.”

“I had in my head what I wanted to create and Johanna gently coaxed it out of me and enabled the process of bringing him into being. He’s a very personal creation, he’s mine”

  • All tools are provided for use at the workshop and materials are included in the course cost
  • Tea and coffee are provided but participants should bring their own lunch and utensils
  • All of our classes are suitable for over 16s, Art Doll Making with The Pale Rook is not suitable for younger learners
  • If the workshop you were looking at is fully booked drop us an email and we’ll add you to the waiting list. We will add extra dates to our most popular workshops too, join the mailing list to be the first to know
  • All of our workshops are held at Craft Central, High Street, Dunblane, FK15 0EE
  • If you need to cancel or reschedule your workshop we need at least three weeks notice and an administration fee will be applied. Please read our cancellation policy before booking

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