Creating Collage Papers
5 March | 09:30-16:00
Participants will explore a wide range of creative techniques, including marbling, monoprint and collagraph printing, botanical printing, resist and stencilling. This experimental and enjoyable workshop with Colleen offers the opportunity to try different methods and create a collection of unique collage papers. These can later be used in a variety of ways, including bookbinding, greetings cards, decoupage and mixed-media artwork.
Participants will take home at least 10 A4 sheets of handmade collage paper created during the workshop.
What is included:
All materials and equipment will be provided, including glue, card, papers, scissors, coloured drawing inks, oil-based marbling inks, stencils, printing equipment, block printing ink, collagraph materials and botanicals.
What participants need to bring:
Participants are welcome to bring any additional materials they would like to experiment with, such as scraps of textured wallpaper or lace, acrylic paints or inks, wax crayons or oil pastels, and dried pressed flowers.
For those who would like to explore their creations further, an optional follow-up workshop, Collage and Mixed-Media, will take place on Monday 19 April.
£80 per person | 10% off for Leonardslee members
Garden entry included | Coffee & lunch will be provided throughout the workshop | Free parking for members | Over 16s only | Parking Information
About Colleen Conti
Colleen has taught Art for 39 years and led an Art Department for 24 of them. She retired in 2020 to focus on her own work and has since exhibited regularly, being selected for several prestigious National Exhibitions. Colleen teaches Seasons Art Classes in Billingshurst and Reigate and has run workshops at Blue House Art Space, Escher, Parham House, and the Montague Gallery Worthing. She is a member of Horsham Artists and a committee member of the Association of Sussex Artists with whom she shows her work. Colleen has extensive knowledge within the field of Art History and is widely experienced in a range of practical Art disciplines including ceramics, printmaking and life drawing but is principally a Landscape Artist and has undertaken several commissions in recent years. Colleen’s work is a record of the changing light, forms, and colours of the landscape through the seasons. She paints while her experience of a place is still fresh, by making sketches and taking photographs which are then developed further through studies exploring composition, light, and colour. The resulting paintings are produced in series and executed quickly to retain the immediacy of the subject with expressive, gestural brush strokes. Colleen is currently represented by Artologie Gallery, Cuckfield, West Sussex.