1:1 Mentoring with Carys Wilson

55 min individual mentoring sessions to enable you to develop your own creative practice - with tailored support from an established artist.

Individual mentoring sessions to enable you to develop your own creative practice with tailored support from established artist and teacher Carys Wilson. These one to one sessions will offer you guidance and help you identify goals within your practice and surrounding wider professional life. Carys can offer you guidance with your portfolio if you choose to bring physical work with you and/or enable you to find greater direction in developing your practice as a whole. These sessions will offer you a space to be open and honest about your work, your ideas and your aims. Feedback and discussion will always be positive, encouraging and target based to help you to find the direction you want to pursue, encouraging you to be pro-active and move forward with focus.

Carys Wilson is a draughtswoman and painter, based in Penwith, West Cornwall, UK. She received her BA (Hons) Fine Art from Kent Institute of Art and Design and achieved her MA Fine Art with Distinction from Aberystwyth University in 2022. Carys has exhibited her work internationally and attended residencies in England, Wales, Cyprus and Spain. She was a recent recipient of the Cultivator Cornwall Programme, alongside participating in FLAMM in 2023 and initiating the recent 'Walking Women' project at Falmouth Art Gallery.

Carys’ practice stems from a background of disciplined academic drawing and working directly from observation has always remained central to her practice. Running and walking in the wilds of Cornwall/Devon are at the core of Carys’ practice. Carys is exploring her own specifically female experience, by pushing her body physically and emotionally, as her paintings become direct responses to, and memories of, her relationship with her body and the land. Embodiment of landscape (bodyscape) is central to understanding herself and her sense of place, connection and belonging.

An experienced teacher, Carys has a background in Secondary, Higher and Further Education, working in both state and private sectors. She has facilitated projects in community environments for both children and adults, and her workshops have a strong emphasis on developing confidence, embracing process and getting to know one's materials through drawing, painting and printmaking.

Held at Studio Kind, 55 minute slots available on the 7th of April, 12th of May, and 2nd of June.