FREE Summer Art Workshops: Details

Contemporary Calligraphy with Lee Fitzgerald aka Mr Dee
1 – 3pm, Saturday 13^th July in Kirkham Memorial Park
with Friends of Kirkham Parks 

Drop-in, design and make a door or wall hanging using spray paint.  The design could include your family name or a positive word or phrase. 

For families, older children and adults

No need to book, just turn up.
 
11 – 4pm, Tuesday 13^th August at Lytham Hall
A day to design and create a temporary, giant sized, contemporary calligraphy piece in the grounds of Lytham Hall.  Something to tell your grandchildren about!

Includes 30 minutes lunch break.  Try the on-site Tea Rooms or bring a packed lunch.

For over 50’s only please.

Places limited to 10

To book:  email circlesoflight-fylde@hotmail.co.uk or ring 01253 713553

10.30 – 3.30pm, Saturday 14^th September at St Annes Music and Arts Festival (venue tbc)

Drop-in “have a go” sessions at St Annes Music and Arts Festival (venue tbc)

 

Silk Painting with Tina Lane

1 – 4pm, Monday 19^th August at Lytham Hall
11 – 4pm, Wednesday 21^st August at Lytham Hall
11 – 4pm, Friday 23^rd August at Lytham Hall
 

Have a go with silk paints.  Learn all you need to know to start making beautiful art works with a fascinating media.  Come along to one or more sessions

For adults

Places limited to 8

To book:  email circlesoflight-fylde@hotmail.co.uk or ring 01253 713553

Full days Include 30 min lunch break.  Try the on-site Tea Rooms or bring a packed lunch.

 

1.30 – 4pm, Sunday 8^th September at St Annes Music and Arts Festival (venue tbc)
Drop-in and “have a go” at silk painting.

For teenagers and adults

No need to book, just turn up

2D to 3D – Drawing with Sculpture with Helen Pemberton

11am – 4pm, Tuesday 6^th August at Lytham Hall
Morning Session, “A Dialogue with Kafka”:  Participants will work with scale and perspective to create large, loose, abstract charcoal drawings of interior and exterior spaces which refer to the passage of time and potentially periods of significance in their lives.
Afternoon Session, “Linear Sculpture”:  Making linear sculptures using the drawings as a reference.

Includes 30 minutes lunch break.  Try the on-site Tea Rooms or bring a packed lunch.

For adults

Places limited to 10

To book:  email circlesoflight-fylde@hotmail.co.uk or ring 01253 713553

2D to 3D – Working with Volumes with Helen Pemberton

11am – 4pm, Tuesday 27^th August at Lytham Hall
Morning Session, “Reinventing DNA”:  Using circles, triangles, squares, cylinders and invented shapes as starting points, participants will make as many forms as they can from thin strips of aluminium.  The most elegant and economic forms will be used to create a sculpture.
Afternoon Session, “A New Universe”:  Using repetition of form, pattern and placement everyone will create a 3D structure reflective of DNA or Cell composition.

Includes 30 minutes lunch break.  Try the on-site Tea Rooms or bring a packed lunch.

For adults

Places limited to 10

To book:  email circlesoflight-fylde@hotmail.co.uk or ring 01253 713553

2D to 3D with Helen Pemberton

10.30 – 3.30pm, Tuesday 10^th September at St Annes Music and Arts Festival (venue tbc)
Using examples of work made in “Drawing with Sculpture” and “Working with Volumes” Helen will be on hand to explain more and encourage you to “have a go” at making a paper sculpture.

For families and older children and adults

No need to book, just turn up.

Printing + with Julia Swarbrick

Set 1
1 – 4pm, Thursday 8^th August at Lytham Hall
1 – 4pm, Thursday 15^th August at Lytham Hall
10.30 – 1pm, Friday 16^th August at Lytham Hall

Set 2

11 – 4pm, Thursday 29^th August at Lytham Hall (2 sessions in one day; includes a 30 minutes lunch break.  Try the on-site Tea Rooms or bring a packed lunch.)
10.30 – 1pm, Friday 30^th August at Lytham Hall

A set of three sessions will introduce a variety of low tech, printmaking techniques onto a range of supports including; paper, card and fabric.  The sessions will cumulate in an opportunity to take images made to another stage using digital technology.  Prints will be incorporated into a handmade book, bag, wall hanging or something else.   Participants will also be able to take something they have made, home after each session.

 

Intergenerational, for adults: bring your older relative or your younger relative (over 12)

Places limited to 8 for each set of workshops
To book: email circlesoflight-fylde@hotmail.co.uk or ring 01253 713553

Ceramic Taster Sessions with Jeanette Lawton

Set 1
1.30 – 4pm, Saturday 6^th July in Lytham
3 – 4.30, pm, Friday 19^th July in Lytham
tbc, Monday 22^nd July in Lytham

*Sorry, fully booked

11 – 4pm, Friday  6^th September at St Annes Music and Arts Festival (venue tbc)

Drop-in “have a go” session
No need to book. 
Collect items made after firing, later in the week.

7^th September, Saturday 7^th September at St Annes Music and Arts Festival (venue tbc)

Drop-in “have a go” sessions
No need to book. 
Collect items made after firing, later in the week.

14^th September, Saturday at St Annes Music and Arts Festival (venue tbc)

Collect items made Friday & Saturday