Event

*We will meet at Holywell Tea Chalet, King Edward's Parade, Eastbourne BN20 7XB before heading back to Towner's Studio 2

Join artist Emma Stibbon RA and learn to draw sea landscapes at scale. You’ll be introduced to different techniques, washes and ways to translate natural environments to paper.

In the morning, Emma will guide you on a coastal walk near the Holy Well spring in Eastbourne. Here, Emma will discuss her processes and there will be opportunities to sketch outside.

After lunch we will return to Towner Eastbourne’s large studio spaces where you will translate your drawings to larger paper.

There will be an hour for lunch and a short break in the afternoon.

This event has been programmed alongside the exhibition Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice | Rising Tides by Towner Eastbourne / University of Brighton and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

The course includes a walk to Holy Well in Eastbourne. It is about 35 minutes and will have a flat gradient. The majority of the walk can be done on the promenade by the sea, however please note that the last 10 minutes will be along the shingle. Appropriate footwear is therefore advised.

We have a budget available to make this event as accessible as possible – this can include interpretation services or other access needs we can meet to enable you to participate.

If you require access arrangements, please email programme@townereastbourne.org.uk two weeks before the event date so that we can book a service if needed.

Emma Stibbon RA works primarily in drawing and print on paper depicting environments that are undergoing transformation including the polar regions, volcanoes, deserts, coastal and urban locations. Her approach to landscape is driven by a desire to understand how human activity and the forces of nature shape our surroundings.  She does this through location-based research often working alongside geologists and scientists, and in the studio where information is transformed into large scale drawn and printed artworks.