Melissa Wishart demonstration and illustrated talk: light, layers and semi-abstraction
Melissa was born in Bermuda and lived there until she was seven years old. Whilst working in London as an 18 year old, Melissa attended St Martins School of Art part-time and attended part-time at Edinburgh College of Art whilst studying for her honours degree at Edinburgh University.
Her early career was as a documentary film-maker for television. She was then commissioned to create large scale video projections in theatre and site specific settings for artists, dancers and actors. The life drawing continued throughout these years. As success grew for her paintings through group exhibitions, her time became more focussed around oil painting, further strengthened recently through explorations of the life form in clay.
This will be an illustrated talk showing the development of semi-abstraction alongside watching a demonstration using acrylics of how Melissa might go about constructing a painting using different tools, mark-making, reducing composition to a number of lines and series of shapes. Mixing a palette and discussion about colour. How we create lively juxtapositions of light and dark, hot and cold colours, soft and hard lines to enliven our art.
The workshop the following day on Friday 19th June will build on this playful investigative spirit and be a chance for us to add to our toolkit so whatever style we then choose to paint in we have an increased vocabulary of mark-making, stronger grasp of composition and an adventurous spirit when mixing colours and using different tools. It will be a fun day of investigation and discovery with guided process in the morning and plenty of time for one to one tuition and feedback.
Oils or acrylics. Beginners welcome as well as more experienced.