Create your own Ink and bleach City at Night from Space with Laura Williams

£700.00

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Description

Join artist and paraglider Laura Melissa Williams in her London home art studio for this fun and interactive day, designed to get your creativity flowing. During this experience you’ll learn the basics of painting with ink and bleach and then use it to create your own version of London from space at night. Through the experience I’ll walk you through this beautiful medium and demonstrate how to create luminosity, contrast and texture through masking and bleaching the inks. You’ll leave with your own unique masterpiece which will look beautiful on your wall at home. Laura will also capture your adventures on camera, so you have pictures to remember the day by or share on social media.

 

Laura’s love for aerial views – mainly taking photos from the inside of planes before she plucked up the courage to take a literal and physical leap and train and qualify as a paragliding club pilot in 2017. Since qualifying she’s flown in the UK, France and Turkey. Strapped into a portable flying machine and soaring through the air she’s learning the ‘language’ of the skies and experiencing our world from above. Her experiences kiting and paragliding have both informed her art practice – especially her Cities from Space at Night from Space range of maps, painted in inks and bleach.

 

Laura is a professional international artist and published poet, who in her first year successfully sold over 30 works of art across 10 countries and 4 continents, delivered 4 art commissions and designed and delivered a large-scale mural in the reception of a blue-chip music publishing business. She is represented by two London galleries. She has advised and worked with the Affordable Art Fair and is represented by Artiq (a boutique art consultancy and art rental agency providing art in the corporate and leisure industries) – which has seen her artwork installed in corporate headquarters across London. Laura’s journey into the arts began almost 20 years ago with a Foundation Course in Art and Design and an academic background in 3D and Industrial Design. This led to a colourful career spanning 15 years working in the creative industries across systems and service design, futures, innovation and business strategy.

 

Her experience as both an art practitioner and a business consultant means Laura understands the wider contextual factors influencing artists, designers and business people, and the trends and forces impacting the changing world around us.

 

AVAILABILITY

This experience is available by appointment on selected dates throughout the year.

REQUIREMENTS

Ages 16+

Light lunch and refreshments are provided.

Materials – including a template map, inks and bleach and safety equipment

DURATION

Experience Duration: 6hrs (including a break for lunch)

Time at Venue: 10 am – 4 pm

GROUP SIZE & SPECTATORS

Participants: 1-3

Max Group Size: 3

Spectators Allowed on Site: on request

This activity can also be tailored to corporates – please enquire for more information.

LOCATION

Hackney, London (N1).

WHAT TO WEAR & SAFETY

Old, comfortable clothes that you don’t mind getting messy with inks and bleach. Please note that you will be working with various strengths of bleach. The amounts we use when painting are very small – but there is still always a risk, which the artist cannot be responsible for. To minimise risks the artist will provide safety equipment such as aprons and protective glasses and gloves, but it your responsibility to wear these and take any other necessary precautions. Please do not book this activity if you have skin irritations (such as eczema), chest or respiratory conditions (such as Asthma) or are allergic to any form of bleach.

WEATHER

This experience isn’t affected by the weather.