Many Ways to Tell a Story
This 6 week course, suitable for new and ongoing participants, will help you with developing visual storytelling tools to interpret personal stories, poems & haikus, myths or folktales. Inspired by picture and artists’ books, illustrated diaries and Eastern European animations, you will learn how to:
- generate ideas through mood and story boards
- create a sequence of images
- design characters using a choice of collage, pen& ink, mixed media or textiles
- consider relationship between words and pictures
- combine images and text into handmade books or 2D and 3D outcomes
The sessions will provide a creative, supportive environment with an informal structure and peer feedback that will help you to refine ideas, build skills, create or advance your personal project. By the end of this course will have completed a mock up or a finished artist’s book or 3D & textiles outcomes.
Perfect for all skill levels, including beginners, this course is ideal for anyone curious about illustration or storytelling through Fine Art. Returning students can also use studio time to develop personal projects.
*N.B There will be no class on Monday 26 May.
Basic art materials will be provided. As the course and ideas unfold, students may want to use their own materials. Dagmara will advise on this during the course.
Dagmara Rudkin is a Phoenix-based Polish-British fine artist who creates paintings, drawings, collages and 3D mixed media work using predominantly discarded materials and objects to re-tell stories of real and imagined people, places and their relationships. Over the past 20 years, she has produced personal and collaborative projects with poets, theatre professionals, and film-makers, worked as an artist-in-residence, and held exhibitions in the South East. Currently, she specializes in shroud making for green and traditional burials, utilizing the emotive power of storytelling through textiles to honour rites of passage and commemorate the sacred.
Dagmara holds a Joint Honours degree in Painting and Glass, an MA in Sequential Design and Illustration, and a PGCE in Art and Design. She works as an artist educator at Hastings Contemporary and as an Associate Lecturer at Greater Brighton Metropolitan College. Alongside photographer and film-maker Wendy Pye, she offers community and well-being arts projects and workshops through their art organization, Luna Arts. Luna Arts – Luna Arts
This 6 week course, suitable for new and ongoing participants, will help you with developing visual storytelling tools to interpret personal stories, poems & haikus, myths or folktales. Inspired by picture and artists’ books, illustrated diaries and Eastern European animations, you will learn how to:
- generate ideas through mood and story boards
- create a sequence of images
- design characters using a choice of collage, pen& ink, mixed media or textiles
- consider relationship between words and pictures
- combine images and text into handmade books or 2D and 3D outcomes
The sessions will provide a creative, supportive environment with an informal structure and peer feedback that will help you to refine ideas, build skills, create or advance your personal project. By the end of this course will have completed a mock up or a finished artist’s book or 3D & textiles outcomes.
Perfect for all skill levels, including beginners, this course is ideal for anyone curious about illustration or storytelling through Fine Art. Returning students can also use studio time to develop personal projects.
*N.B There will be no class on Monday 26 May.
Basic art materials will be provided. As the course and ideas unfold, students may want to use their own materials. Dagmara will advise on this during the course.
Dagmara Rudkin is a Phoenix-based Polish-British fine artist who creates paintings, drawings, collages and 3D mixed media work using predominantly discarded materials and objects to re-tell stories of real and imagined people, places and their relationships. Over the past 20 years, she has produced personal and collaborative projects with poets, theatre professionals, and film-makers, worked as an artist-in-residence, and held exhibitions in the South East. Currently, she specializes in shroud making for green and traditional burials, utilizing the emotive power of storytelling through textiles to honour rites of passage and commemorate the sacred.
Dagmara holds a Joint Honours degree in Painting and Glass, an MA in Sequential Design and Illustration, and a PGCE in Art and Design. She works as an artist educator at Hastings Contemporary and as an Associate Lecturer at Greater Brighton Metropolitan College. Alongside photographer and film-maker Wendy Pye, she offers community and well-being arts projects and workshops through their art organization, Luna Arts. Luna Arts – Luna Arts
Course Details
- 12 May to 23 June 2025
- 6 Monday mornings, 10.00 - 13.00
- Red Room, Phoenix Art Space
- 6 Sessions
- 12 Maximum Attendees
Members Area