Finding Your Colour Voice - LONDON - Jan 2025

This weekend workshop is one of a series taking place at venues around the UK. All events have the same aim: to explore and strengthen personal experience of colour, both as an art medium and as a way of living in the moment.

Structured using the same principles, methods and mindsets, each date and location will offer something different to participants. Tangible and transient sources of inspiration will vary as the workshop moves from place to place. Local stories, artefacts, and vernacular environments will change, as will class dynamics, seasonal light and weather, stimulating unique responses to Tansy’s input, which will be tailored to each venue. Suitable for all levels of experience and ability.

Day 1
DATE: Sat 25th January 2025.
TIME: 10am - 4pm.
VENUE: Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd, London, SW7 2RL, UK.
An exact meeting point within the V&A will be communicated to you via email a fortnight before the workshop.

Day 2
DATE: Sun 26th January 2025.
TIME: 10am - 4pm.
VENUE: Art4Space, 31 Jeffreys Road, Stockwell, London, SW4 6QU, UK.

INSPIRATIONAL VISIT: Galleries and collections within the V&A will provide inspiration for this workshop. On Day 1 we will work entirely on location at the museum. On Day 2, we will occupy the Art4Space studio all day, responding to notes and sketches made on Day 1.

LONDON WORKSHOP FOCUS: The overarching aim of the weekend is to explore your personal response to different colour palettes. At the V&A, you will explore galleries (freely or with suggestions from Tansy) hunting for and recording combinations of colour that evoke a response in you. Your interest may lie purely in colour, or you may find that cultural, historic and material differences in exhibits are impossible to detach from their colour. By the end of Day 1 you will have observed, analysed and made notes on a variety of colour palettes. These will be used as starting points for mindful watercolour painting during Day 2.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Mixed media sketching and annotation (dry materials only on Day 1 in galleries) and watercolour (in the studio on Day 2).

Art supplies and light refreshments will be provided. Please bring your own lunch (a café or supermarket is walking distance from all venues).

Supper at a restaurant near the V&A on the Saturday evening will be an optional extra (not included in the workshop price). Tansy will communicate with you via email about this sociable extra nearer the time.

Any questions? Please email [email protected].