BOBBY BRITNELL

TEXTILE and ART 
courses offering unique learning opportunities for all, delivered by highly renowned 
ARTISTS and TUTORS

Moor Hall Farmhouse,  Bettws-y-crwyn,
Newcastle on Clun, 
Shropshire, SY7 8PH
 
01547 510664
HELLO EVERYONE

In this newsletter I will be featuring two nationally renowned mixed media textile artists, both offering different but exceptionally good two-day courses. I am tempted with them both!!!  

Have a little read and see for yourself.

JENNIFER COLLIER
'Story Book Garments'
27th and 28th March 2017

This will be Jennifers' first visit to Moor Hall and I am delighted that she is coming. Her course will be quite magical and I know will suit a great many of you.

Jennifer has led the way in the upcycling revolution in art and craft and is a veteran maker of vintage material, investigating the re-used and recycled, since 1999.
"Giving new life to things that would otherwise go unloved or be thrown away," is central to her practice.

Welcome to her fantastical world, where every exquisite detail is made, folded and manipulated from paper. Once books, maps, envelopes, wallpaper or scrap, the paper is transformed into textural forms. Like cloth it is stitched to construct two or three dimensional objects, decorative and functional: lampshades, cameras, tools and furniture. The origin of the paper often provides a starting point for the artwork: the narrative of the books and papers suggesting idea and form.

Jennifer's work uses the idea of the domestic space, to set a stage for the work: upholstered chairs, kitchen utensils, and garden tools hanging in their shed invite you in. References to fairy tales, films, literature, music and nursery rhymes- the layers of paper and meaning together build the narrative.

You will work with Jennifer to create surfaces, by waxing, trapping and layering papers, and then go on to embellish these using a wide range of traditional hand and machine techniques. We will use these to create small garments such as dresses, bibs and gloves.






This is what you will be doing on the course.
 
Day One AM:
Portfolio talk followed by demonstration of 'experimental techniques' including waxing tea bags, trapping with plastics, fusing plastics, transferring magazine images using sellotape and waxing papers. You will be able to experiment with each of these techniques.

Day One PM:
In the afternoon you will be creating your own paper 'fabrics'. Jennifer will then show a range of traditional embroidery techniques including:
Paper Patchwork Pleating, Paper Pockets, Button Loops, Covered Buttons and Covered Bindings. 
and again you will be experimenting with each of these techniques.

Day Two:
You will go on to create garments using a combination of techniques from the previous day in conjunction with Jennifer's garment templates, which include gloves, dicky bows, ties, bibs and dresses. 



Now if that does not tempt you!!!!
Click  here for her website

NEXT UP WE HAVE AMANDA CLAYTON 
Click  here for her website

AMANDA CLAYTON
'Quietly Composed' Amanda Clayton
1st and 2nd April 2017
 
I am thrilled that Amanda is coming to teach at Moor Hall. I have known her for some time now and have worked beside her on Textile Study Group Courses. I have even had the privilege of having been taught be her on a couple of occasions. So I am speaking first hand when I say she is a fabulous thought provoking teacher.

She will be teaching a two day course called ' Quietly Composed' which is aimed at those artists; embroiderers in particular, who wish to explore observational starting points and develop ideas through cloth and stitch.

To quote Amanda 
"I believe that stripping work down to bare formal elements can help us to understand ourselves, especially our likes and dislikes, and develop our individual visual language. Some embroiderers feel they have to draw but do not necessarily know why. This course will show you how to 'draw for a reason'. It will also open a dialogue of 'what is drawing?'

You will discover on this course her strong philosophies about linking paper and cloth qualities, also mark and stitch. 

" From the feedback I have had after delivering a course I know that students have said how links and connections are made with their work and themselves"

This course is not about producing one piece of work but reinforcing a work process that you will revisit constantly afterwards.  





Bookings for either or both of these courses can be done via my website by clicking HERE

Alternatively you can email me by clicking  HERE

MAYBE YOU COULD COME ALONG WITH A GROUP OF YOU

Moor Hall Farmhouse, Bettws-y-crwyn, Newcastle on Clun, 
Shropshire, SY7 8PH