Mother Archetype: Image in Storytelling

About this course

The course explores how stories and visual observation can inform image-making. Participants draw from direct observation alongside fairytales including Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and stories by the Brothers Grimm, using memory and imagination as further sources. The work is studio-based and considers different ways of developing drawings from literary and observed material.

What you'll learn

• Develop drawings from direct observation
• Interpret fairytale material through drawing
• Use memory and imagination as sources for image-making

Is this course right for you?

The course is intended for artists, creatives and image-makers at all levels, including beginners. Its approach combines observational drawing with responses to stories, memory and imagined material.

Before you go

• Easels, drawing boards, charcoal, newsprint and masking tape are provided in the studio.
• Cartridge and watercolour paper are provided.
• Participants may bring additional personal materials, such as drawing pencils, Conté crayons, pastels, ink pens, coloured pencils, erasers, a pencil sharpener or a sketchbook.
• A full suggested materials list is provided before the course begins.