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Have a look at what we have been doing at the different events and some of the work produced by members during the day!
16th Sept - Getting to Know You and Getting Started!
In this first session of our new group we spent time getting to know a bit more about each other by sharing our current thoughts on, and experience in creating abstract art. It became very evident that we already have quite a wide interpretation of this huge genre within the group and agreed that it could develop into some interesting sessions in the future!
We discussed what we each wanted from this type of group and whilst agreeing to let it have an organic life evolving as the group members experience and confidence in abstract art grows, we also discussed a tentative format to facilitate that in the coming months
In this session today we each brought an object to use as inspiration for abstraction spending just 15 mins sketching ideas, before swapping objects and repeating with a little more time to work on an unknown object. Discussion about this experience helped the group to consider how each of us wants to start exploring abstraction and how to take that difficult step in moving away from representational work.
For each session we will have a theme for some 'homework' to help inspire us in considering aspects of abstraction before the next meeting. For example we agreed on 'Circle' for this month's homework and it will be interesting to see how each member interprets that.
We also opted for the topic ' Colour and Mood' to look at in our next session, which again could be another interesting and wide ranging topic that will hopefully fuel our interest and widen our interpretations.
In the future we may have session where a group member shares some techniques that might help artists move further along to abstraction, we might have a guest artist come to share their work and approach in abstraction, we could have a gallery visit, we can look at book swaps and recommendations for courses and so on. In summary there could be lots of exciting things we can look at in future sessions! It makes me wonder if once a month will be enough! But that is for future discussion!!
We discussed what we each wanted from this type of group and whilst agreeing to let it have an organic life evolving as the group members experience and confidence in abstract art grows, we also discussed a tentative format to facilitate that in the coming months
In this session today we each brought an object to use as inspiration for abstraction spending just 15 mins sketching ideas, before swapping objects and repeating with a little more time to work on an unknown object. Discussion about this experience helped the group to consider how each of us wants to start exploring abstraction and how to take that difficult step in moving away from representational work.
For each session we will have a theme for some 'homework' to help inspire us in considering aspects of abstraction before the next meeting. For example we agreed on 'Circle' for this month's homework and it will be interesting to see how each member interprets that.
We also opted for the topic ' Colour and Mood' to look at in our next session, which again could be another interesting and wide ranging topic that will hopefully fuel our interest and widen our interpretations.
In the future we may have session where a group member shares some techniques that might help artists move further along to abstraction, we might have a guest artist come to share their work and approach in abstraction, we could have a gallery visit, we can look at book swaps and recommendations for courses and so on. In summary there could be lots of exciting things we can look at in future sessions! It makes me wonder if once a month will be enough! But that is for future discussion!!
