The offer...
The one constant I have in my teaching diary is my 'Monday Group'. This in-person art class meets up for short courses 3 times a year. There are around 10 of us that come and go as our diaries allow and we work together exploring set themes and ideas. I love to share my current preoccupations while enabling others to help me flesh out my own ideas. Its a win win situation!
But, I often get emails from other artists saying that they wish they lived nearer so that they could join in with us, so here's my idea....
" A Virtual Monday Group but on a Tuesday "
If you would like to join me online via a series of weekly zoom live calls for 5 weeks beginning on Tuesday March 4th from 11 - 12.30 then please sign up now.
My aim is that this will become an evolving course here within Podia with all of the handouts, live recordings and demo films available to you for the duration of the course and beyond.
It would be great to host a weekly co-create afternoon from 2- 4pm (probably on Tuesdays too) so you can develop your ideas alongside others and there will be the option for a quick chat and check in from 3.30pm onwards.
I love to be open to the possibilites so lets just begin and see where this takes us - are you in?
We will be working from studies, photo, poems and memory
I love to structure the weeks with handouts full of inspiration and prompts and calls to action.
*You will be using a journal to document the course and encouraged to experiment and play to the theme of Wabi-Sabi - an Evolving Landscape.
*We will be looking at the work of other artists, writers and poets as we tease out our own interpretation of this Japanese term, Wabi-Sabi.
*As well as having the time to attend the live sessions you will need to be able to spend at least a day a week developing your own work and seeking out your own inspirations and source material in your home environment.
*As you pull together seemingly diverse elements into your journals I hope that you begin to see patterns emerging that shine a light on a way forward in your own creative practise.
*I love to work with drawing, print, paint, collage, photography and even a touch of 3D and accessible digital manipulation.
So if this sounds good to you and you want to explore this idea of wabi-sabi landscape alongside me then please do sign up now and lets see what unfolds :)
Thank you
Janette
I do hope you are going to love observing the world around you in a new way as we learn to love the perfectly imperfect!
What do we understand by the Japanese term wabi-sabi?
Are you ready to become inspired?
Monday Group artist example
I do suggest that you go out exploring for the wabi-sabi all around you over the coming weeks.
I always like to suggest homework for my students and this time I thought I would set a series of 'HomeWalks'.
In the next section I will offer up some ideas for your explorations.
by a Monday Group artist
Developing 'future' paintings...
An overview of what has been happening in my studio over the past few weeks...
