The Lansdowne House Virtual Open Studio
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About this event
Join me for a fun virtual Open Day in my cosy studio in Glasgow.
If you are intending to take part in the Ink making workshop and would like some supplies (for UK) I am offering a kit of Oak gall/ferrous. You can order it at the same time as your ticket... Remember to email me your postal address so I can send it to you. Use bettysbeautifullife@gmail.com
There is nothing more fun in the Pre-Christmas period than to visit an Artist studio for an open day... discover the Cabinet of Curiosity, the set up where one creates, and Covid is not going to prevent me from welcoming me in mine.
With this multiple access ticket you will be able to join me for different at different times during the day by just clicking a unique weblink.
At 10 am I will welcome you for morning coffee and a tour of my lovely working space, I will share with you some of my treasures gathered during my travels and my artist life.
I will introduce you to the day and talk to you about my new Spring workshops. Any booking placed and paid for on my website during that week end will qualify for a 20% discount. The Program will be unveiled a few days before with an option for you to book at the reduced rate.
During the day we will meet Dru Cole and talk about Lino cut printing with natural dyes, and our up coming collaboration. We will meet Suzanne Ledesma Sikkerbol a lovely Eco artist and a stitcher who will collaborate with me on Indigo dye and slow stitch meditative workshop. Barbara Disney will be talking to us about Indigo resist printing in Africa. Deborah Gray a wool artist and natural dyer will be introducing us to growing a dye community garden in Scotland...
I will share my experience in growing Japanese Indigo in Scotland and extracting Indigo pigment.
The True Colour of the Cotinus project is in its second year now and I will present our results... Beautiful prints have been achieved and I hope many participants take part in this session.
I will share an Ink making technique and demonstrate how to create a Thiox vat using Natural Indigo pigment.
at 5pm I will say Good bye to those who visited...
This is my second online Open studio and I hope you can join me.
Organiser Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw @ The Lansdowne House
Organiser of The Lansdowne House Virtual Open Studio
I have a long history with working with paint and paper and recreating historic schemes in listed buildings. My love for contact prints has come from my travels in Asia. I work with Eco Printing, Eco Dyeing, Indigo Dyeing, Stencilling.
I love initiating creativity in my course participants. I am passionate about creating art by recycling and upcycling, I work in a circular Economy and recycles my local ressources in Art with participants coming from the whole world.
I currently run a Dye project in the Woodlands Community Garden in Glasgow https://thelansdownehouseofstencils.com/2019/05/21/printing-in-woodlands-a-botanical-journey/
I have recently been involved in projects with, The House for an Art Lover, Glasgow Museums, Granton Hub, National Trust for Scotland, The Willow Tea rooms Trust, a number of primary and secondary schools in Scotland. I run collaborations with local artists.
I will run private workshops in my studio or your premises for private groups (corporate excertises or hens parties ...)
In my workshops you will learn a creative technique and complete a creative project, you will go home wih a unique object.. you made ! Today you make your own future happy memories !
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