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DASH @ HOME - a series of Visual Arts Workshops - FREE and open to all

The image shows artists, Ann Whitehurst, painting life drawing model and artist Caroline Cardus. Ann is working on an easel and is using orange paint on paper. Photograph by Paula Dower copyright DASH 2010.

This summer DASH hosted HOME - a series of Visual Arts workshops, led by leading Disabled Artist, Tanya Raabe-Webber.

Tuesday 18th May 2010 will see the start of the visual arts workshops at DASH. The first session will be celebrating the difference of the human figure, drawn, painted and sculpted throughout the history of art.

A great day was had by everyone who attended the workshops and they want more!  DASH is planning on bi-monthly art workshops - watch this space.  Below are some images from the workshop.

All workshops are at the DASH premises and run from 10.30 - 3.30 and best of all they are FREE.  The workshops are funded by Lloyds TSB.

Tuesday 8th June 2010. This session will be looking at the Abstract. Bring along your favourite image and make it unrecognisable using textures, colours and lines.

Tuesday 15th June 2010. Paint to the max and revel in the wonderful accidents that can happen, using different paint mediums; oil, acrylic and watercolour.

Tuesday 22nd June 2010. Every picture tells a story…
This session looks at symbolic and iconic imagery that use narrative to inform the viewer. Try it out for yourself and create your own picture story.

Tuesday 6th July 2010. Influences…
Research classic art practices of the past and develop your own practice by using their artforms and create your own.

Paul Darke, Visual Arts Manager at DASH said today “HOME will feel very special to DASH as we have always wanted to have our own base to run arts workshops from. We are looking forward to seeing artists old and new, disabled and non-disabled taking part.”

The image shows artists, Ann Whitehurst, painting life drawing model and artist Caroline Cardus. Ann is working on an easel and is using orange paint on paper. Photograph by Paula Dower copyright DASH 2010.

Ann Whitehurst painting Caroline Cardus

The image shows a table full of art materials, paints, paintbrushes, pencils, charcoal, palettes, canvases. Artist Fran O'Boyle is getting some paint. Photograph by Paula Dower copyright DASH 2010.

Arts materials

The image shows a group of artists, disabled and non-disabled, drawing and painting a life model. Photograph by Paula Dower copyright DASH 2010.

Life Drawing workshop at DASH

The image shows artist Neil Webber and his painting of the life model. Neil is sitting on a chair and is using black ink on a pad of paper. Photograph by Paula Dower copyright DASH 2010.

Neil Webber painting

The image is a close up of Tanya Raabe's painting of the life model. Tanya is using black ink on white paper. Photograph by Paula Dower copyright DASH 2010.

Tanya Raabe painting

The image shows the artist working with black ink on a large sheet of white paper. He is painting a series of black lines of varying widths, which are wider on the outside, the lines form a kind of spider's web. Photograph by Paula Dower, copyright DASH 2010.

Artist Stuart Thomas working on an abstract painting

Red, orange, black and yellow are used on this oil painting, by Belinda Louch. Her idea for the abstract came from her love of Van Gogh's work, particularly his sunflowers. Heather is to the right side of the painting holding a brush and palette. Photograph by Paula Dower, copyright DASH 2010.

Artist Heather Louch working on an abstract painting

The image shows Cheryl, who is a wheelchair user, and Rachel experimenting with paint making random shapes using red, green, orange, blue, pink, and yellow Behind them on a table are containers of paint. Photograph by Paula Dower, copyright DASH 2010

Cheryl Lewis and Rachel Lewis working on paintings

In this image Claire has repeatedly used a photocopied photograph of her grandfather. The image has been cut into pieces, and placed on the paper to create an abstract form. Surrounding the cutouts pieces pink, purple and blue paint has been applied using everyday objects as stamps. Image copyright Claire Darke.

Claire Darke's abstract painting