Skies and Seascapes: a Papermaking Day Course with artist Jane Ponsford

£80 General

£40 Concessions (Full time Students; 18 to 25 year olds; Disability PIP/Universal Credit; Pension Credit)

Please note: This event is sold out. Please email towner@townereastbourne.org.uk to be added to the waiting list or if you require a wheelchair accessible seat.

Join artist-papermaker Jane Ponsford to learn traditional papermaking techniques and create your own handmade linen and cotton rag paper. Experiment with delicate tints and dramatic sweeps of colour, using a colour pallette inspired by Impressions in Watercolour: J. M. W. Turner and his Contemporaries.

Participants can keep these sample sheets as they are or bind them together using a simple bookbinding technique to make their own book of skies.

During the course of the day, we will discuss the types of paper that Turner and his contemporaries used and the watercolour pigments that were available at the time. This will be used as a background for our own creative responses.

The course will be restricted to 15 people and taught by demonstration and individual tuition.

Useful to Know
This is a hands-on workshop using paper pulp, water and paint so please wear practical clothing and bring an apron. We will be using A4 and also smaller or improvised moulds and deckles and vats of pulp to form our sheets of paper.

At the end of the day, you will be able to take your work home. This may still be damp so please bring plastic bags. Any leftover linen and cotton rag pulp can be taken home if you would like, so a 500ml jar or ziplock bag might be useful.

There will be an hour lunch break where you could book into our restaurant Light, visit one of the cafes near to Towner or bring a packed lunch to eat by the sea.

We have a budget available to make this event as accessible as possible – this can include further interpretation services or other access arrangements 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.

Jane is one of only a few artist-papermakers in the UK and is a member of IAPMA, the International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists. She exhibits nationally (Make, Hauser & Wirth, Sarah Myserscough Gallery, The New Craftmaker, Ruthin and Gallery 57) and has taught papermaking in a variety of settings ranging from The British Museum to galleries like Ditchling Museum of Art + Crafts and out in the landscape with organisations such as Surrey Hills Arts, West Dean College and Stroud International Textiles / Select Festival and Hole & Corner Magazine. She has recently been selected for the Homo Faber Guide.