Timing:
10.00-13.00: walk – meet at Little Art Hub, 17 Channel Street (you can leave your bags) Walk organised by Hike & Bike Hub.
13.00-14.00: lunch and introduction to the workshop with slide talk
14.00-16.30: glass map making workshop
Walk:
Please join us in the morning as part of the Galashiels Walking festival to go on a guided walk from Galashiels Town Centre to the river Tweed via Poets corner, along to Galafoot then back to town and the Little Art Hub via the Black Path alongside Gala Water (approx 3hrs, walk level: easy-moderate). We will use this experience, collecting things along the walk, to inform the glass map making workshop that follows.
Walk Inspired creative afternoon:
Make your own glass map, using historical map facsimiles of the Scottish Borders, which will be used as a starting point to dissect the layers of geography, time and knowledge embedded in the historical map collection from the National from the Library of Scotland. You will learn basic glass making techniques such as etching and engraving to build up a multi layered glass map. No previous experience required. All materials supplied. Frame can be taken home afterwards.
Please bring your own lunch, although soup and hot drinks will be provided.
This class is taught by Borders based artist Inge Panneels, who is an artist and Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University. You can check out her work here: https://www.ingepanneels.com
This class will take 15 participants max. so early booking is advised.
