Art Workshops at Sir John Soane's Museum
April - July 2008
The April - July 2008 art workshop programme at Sir John Soane's
Museum offers a wide variety of inspiring and creative courses, from
learning drawing and watercolour techniques to experimenting with
collage and sculpture.
For this new programme, the Soane is pleased to introduce adult art
workshops on some Saturdays. Most workshops will take place in the
Soane Museum's new Education Centre at Number 14 Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Classes are small, friendly and relaxed and you are guided throughout
the day by your experienced tutor. A tour of the museum is included
in your visit, together with opportunities to see parts of the collection
not normally seen by the public.
Come and enjoy this unique museum and collection with the eyes of
an artist.
The Museum is pleased to be able to offer a number of sponsored places
on the art workshop programme. These places are allocated on a needs
basis. Please contact Beth Kingston, Soane Museum Education Manager,
for more details.
Mixed-Media Drawing
Thursday 8 May
James Willis
Inspired by a drawing by Piranesi in the In Pursuit of Antiquity exhibition,
develop mixed-media drawings on a theme from the Soane Museum
£25 8 places
Painting the Picturesque
Friday 9 May
James Willis
Investigate how the Picturesque style can be used in watercolour painting
£25 8 places
Through the Looking Glass at the Museum
Saturday 10 May
Lucy Brennan
Create your own charcoal composition which includes a mirror
£25 10 places
Curious Collections
Wednesday 14, Thursday 15 and Friday 16 May
Jane Bush
Investigate the ideas and meaning behind collections and museums and
the art techniques of assemblage and collage
£80 8 places
Creative Collage
Friday 23 May
Rosemary Bianchi
Using a variety of papers and drawn pieces, collage an impression
of the museum focusing on line, texture and shape
£25 8 places
Hogarth: Oil Painting for Beginners
Saturday 24 May
Lucy Brennan
Make a studio study in oils, inspired by the amazing paintings by
Hogarth at the Museum
£30 8 places
Sketching to Drawing
Thursday 29 May
James Willis
Learn how to translate the quickest of sketches into a fully developed
drawing
£25 8 places
Times of Day
Friday 30 May
James Willis
Drawing in colour using the same view of the Museum and recording
it at different times during the day
£25 8 places
Clay Figures
Saturday 31 May
James Willis
Make a clay figure based on a subject from the Museum's collection
of reliefs and statues
£30 8 places
Life Drawing
Thursday 5 June
Jane Bush
A one-day course drawing with a life model at the Soane Museum taking
a classical pose from the collection
£35 8 places
Drawing from Life and Art
Thursday 12 and Friday 13 June
James Willis
A two-day Life-Drawing Workshop.
Day 1: Work with the tutor in the Soane Museum, developing an awareness
of the figure from casts and reliefs in the collection
Day 2: At the Hunterian Museum, working from a life model
£65 8 places
Life Drawing at Pitzhanger Manor
Saturday 14 June
Lucy Brennan
A one-day course drawing with a life model at Pitzhanger Manor, focusing
on the classical pose
£35 10 places
Hogarth and Hospitals
Thursday 19 and Friday 20 June
James Willis and Rosemary Bianchi
This year the theme for the Hogarth workshop is Hogarth and Hospitals.
The course includes a visit to St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum to
see Hogarth's Murals.
£50 12 places
Watercolours at St John's
Friday 27 June
James Willis
Come along and paint watercolours at the Soane-designed St John's
Church on Bethnal Green
£25 8 places
Drawing with Scissors
Saturday 28 June
Lucy Brennan
Create paper cut-outs for making collage images, based on the Museum's
wonderful collection of objects and patterns
£25 10 places
Drawing Soane's London
Thursday 3 July
James Willis
Explore parts of London where Soane's architecture still remains
£25 8 places
Drawing in and around Lincoln's Inn Fields
Friday 4 July
James Willis
Come and explore the architecture in and around Lincoln's Inn Fields
£25 8 places
Watercolours and the Art of Colour Mixing
Thursday 10 July
James Willis
A day exploring mixing colours at Sir John Soane's Museum
£25 8 places
Watercolours at Pitzhanger Manor
Friday 11 July
James Willis
Paint watercolours outside Sir John Soane's country house, Pitzhanger
Manor. Painting will take place in the classroom at Pitzhanger if
the weather is bad.
£25 8 places
Marbling for Adults
Saturday 12 July
Rosemary Bianchi
Marble your own paper using traditional techniques
£30 (£20 if booked with the Sketchbooks course) 8 places
Booking the Collection
Wednesday 16, Thursday 17 and Friday 18 July
Jane Bush
This three-day workshop offers participants the chance to make their
own sketchbook, based on sketchbooks in the library of Sir John Soane,
and fill it with work inspired by the museum and its collection. The
workshop includes the opportunity to draw in parts of the museum not
normally open to the public.
£80 (£70 if booked with the Soane Summer School) 8 places
Soane Summer School: 'Reflections'
Monday 21 - Friday 25 July
James Willis and Jacqueline Watt
This year's theme of Sir John Soane's Museum Summer School is 'reflections'.
Working with two tutors and in the new art room at the Soane, come
and extend your creativity with this intensive week-long course. Includes
a visit to Pitzhanger Manor
£140 8 places
Watercolours in Lincoln's Inn Fields
Thursday 31 July
James Willis
Watercolour outdoors amongst the people and trees of Lincoln's Inn
Fields
£25 10 places