Many Ways to Tell a Story with Dagmara Rudkin

Unfolding stories with drawings, illustrations, mixed media and 3D.

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.

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.

Feedback from previous course attendees: ‘I thought the course was brilliant! It completely fulfilled my expectations and hopes whilst also being way more relaxing and enjoyable than I thought it might be. I loved the format of learning new skills for half the time and then doing a project using them. I thought the group size was perfect and felt really inspired by the different skills and experience the group brought.’

‘I have often found creative classes quite stressful and got frustrated at not being able to do things 'well enough' but I think you created such a friendly, warm atmosphere and were so positive and calm, it really helped me feel capable. I was really impressed that the course could cater for both people with an artistic background and people like me without one.’

Costs: £165

Days: 6 Monday mornings

Dates: 12 May to 23 June (no class 26 May)

Times: 10:00 - 13:00

Location: Red Room

Maximum: 12

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