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BOBBY BRITNELL
TEXTILE and ART courses offering unique learning opportunities for all
In beautiful South Shropshire an area of outstanding natural beauty
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NEWS FROM MOOR HALL STUDIO
You may have heard me speak about Black Moutain Chapel in a previous newsletter. It is a very 'special place' which has been renovated and is now used by the community for all kinds of events, including sankey hymns, art projects, musical events, christmas carols and very recently for a poetry workshop. This newsletter will feature the poetry workshop which had poet and tutor, Chris Kinsey at the helm.
But first if you are looking for that special Christmas present look no further as next years courses are now up on my website www.bobbybritnell.co.uk
You could very cunningly guide your husband/partner to the website or simply treat yourself. Here are the new courses. More will be added over the months to come.
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COURSES FOR 2025
at Moor Hall Studio
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POLLY POLLOCK
16/17/18 May 2025
A group of Small Similar Things
Coiling, a unique basketry technique that’s stitched, not woven, can be used for making anything from beautifully simple basketry forms through to free-form experimental structures - there are very few rules, just some basic techniques.
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JENNY O'LEARY
19/20 June 2025
Inspired by artist John Piper – contemporary batik on paper & fabric
The artist John Piper created beautiful & dramatic images of the English landscape and architecture. These will be the inspiration to create batiks on tissue, paper and fabric using Jenny’s contemporary interpretation of a traditional technique.
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ALEX McINYRE
27/28/29 June 2025
This Great Painting Adventure: Colour + Gesture +Texture + Love
Do you love paint but find the voices in your head get in the way of painting? This practical painting course uses experimental painting techniques to help you learn about the ‘doing’ and ‘thinking’ elements of painting.
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BOBBY BRITNELL / RUTH ISSETT
4/5/6 July 2005
WORKING TOGETHER ~ Floral Fantasies using contrast, surface and colour’
This course will focus on tone, contrast, colour and surface using different papers, charcoal, graphite, paint and inks. We will start with a ‘still life’ arrangement and explore the possibilities of contrasts in simple and direct ways.
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AMANDA CLAYTON
25/26/27 July 2005
Fragile Forms
Exploring the qualities of cloth and hand stitch in a neutral palette with particular emphasis on flat to form. SPACE TENSION WEIGHT MOVEMENT SUSPENSION TRANSLUCENCY FRAGILITY TOUCH STRENGTH STRETCH
The above are just a few of the elements that we will challenge by being creative with bias, shaping, construction, right side/wrong side.
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MATTHEW HARRIS
29/30/31 August 2005
To Cut on Fold.....to...to...to...to...to...?
This workshop will explore adventurous and playful ways in which to gather and manipulate visual imagery, both two and three dimensionally, in order to develop ideas for textiles.
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HANNY NEWTON
3/4/5 October 2025
Metal threads: A creative approach to Line, flow and drawing
Goldwork threads hold so much potential to explore movement, flow and line in embroidery, and on this creative course we will delve into the many possibilities of stitch and drawing to entwine and influence each other.
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BOBBY BRITNELL
15/29 Jan, 12/26 Feb, 12/26 Mar
Moor Art 1 ~ Drawing and Painting
We will begin the new term in 2025 by going back to the basics of drawing and we will embrace a number of techniques and processes. From the studies undertaken we will develop ideas further into larger scale drawings and then colour studies.
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BOBBY BRITNELL
18/19 Jan, 15/16 Feb, 15/16 Mar
Moor Art 2 ~ Drawing and Painting We will begin the new term in 2025 by going back to the basics of drawing and we will embrace a number of techniques and processes. From the studies undertaken we will develop ideas further into larger scale drawings and then colour studies.
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POETRY WORKSHOP
Moor Hall Studio and Black Mountain Chapel
with
Chris Kinsey
I am the pace and pause of wayfarers,
wanderers, drovers and dreamers, dawdlers,
soldiers, artists, of ramblers and radicals,
poets and pilgrims
(from PATH by Luisa Thomsen Brits)
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The Autumn sun gods were kind on a recent Saturday when a band of pilgrims and poets gathered at Moor Hall Studio for greetings and sustenance, liquid and literary, including that inspiring quote from PATH which, for me, encapsulated the special gift that is Black Mountain Chapel high on the hills above Bettws-y-crwyn. Fortified, we trekked up there through fallen leaves and flashes of sunlight for a day of writing and camaraderie.
As the mist receded, a glimpse of near-heaven was revealed to us: buzzards and blue tits playing with ever-changing clouds, wild clematis crackling over the lintel, clip-cloppers and dippers, haws on twigs in the long shadows, fading herb Robert and tenacious white yarrow decorating the grasses.
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Guided sensitively by Chris Kinsey to capture our responses to this spectacular setting, we spent our day in the spiritual company of the Baptist congregation that had gone before us and were inspired to jot, draft, read and listen. An unexpected blessing was the warmth of the late October sunshine. Contented writers basked outside on pews, faces turned skywards, soaking up the last rays, chatting about coat hooks, harmoniums, curlews and choirs. | |
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The good people and their funders who have rescued this Chapel from collapse should be showered with our gratitude and support. They have created a space where the vibrations of the past mingle with the intentions of the present producing a powerful creative energy that has given rise to music, photography, singing, art and, as for us, poetry and prose. May it long continue.
By Bernadette Lynch
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Bye for now and will be back with more news from Moor Hall very soon. | |
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BOBBY BRITNELL
01547 510664
bobby@bobbybritnell.co.uk
www.bobbybritnell.co.uk
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