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Gill is a practicing artist who works from her home studio in Nether Edge. She exhibits and sells her contemporary still-lifes and landscapes in several galleries throughout the UK. Gill graduated in Fine Art (painting) from Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham in the 1980s and worked previously as a graphic designer as well as running her own mural business.
Website: www.gillgathercole.co.uk
Instagram: @gillgathercole
Facebook: www.facebook.com/gillgathercoleartist
Drawing & Painting classes
Monday 1pm - 3pm / 7.15pm - 9.15pm
Cost: £168 x 12 weeks (also possible to pay in six weekly blocks)
These classes are unstructured allowing participants to explore their own interests and choice of media. Gill provides guidance, feedback and support and encourages the creative development of each student. From time to time there may be a structured block for those who wish to join in.
Drawing classes
Friday 10am - 12pm / 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Cost: £168 x 12 weeks (also possible to pay in six weekly blocks)
Friendly, supportive structured classes for anyone wanting to develop their drawing skills. These classes cover a wide range of media, subjects and styles. They are aimed at improvers but beginners are also welcome. Occasionally painting will be involved often included when working in mixed media.
Su is a freelance portrait and mural artist and works under the name Studio Mayer. She has painted residential and commercial murals up and down the country and has been drawing, painting and selling portraits since she was 14 years old. She has a degree in the History of Art, Design and Film, and over 18 years' tutoring experience.
After university, Su trained and worked for a while in the film industry for directors including Michael Winterbottom and Tim Burton. This background gave her an in-depth knowledge of composition, colour and light, which still influences her current practice and tutoring.
Su has also recently trained in the sight-size method at the Sarum Studio Atelier of Fine Art. As a result, Su will be introducing cast drawing as an option in her classes.
Website: www.studiomayer.co.uk
Instagram: @studio.mayer
Tel: 07766 325 141
Email: susan@studiomayer.co.uk
Paint and Draw classes
Tuesday 6.45pm - 8.45pm
Wednesday 10am - 12noon, 1pm - 3pm
Thursday 6.45pm - 8.45pm
Cost: £102 per 6 week block. Block booking only. Gift Vouchers available.
Self-led guided sessions with individual support and tailored tutoring where needed. In one session per block a tutorial is provided in response to students' requests. These tutorials cover a varied range of subjects such as colour mixing, materials knowledge, specific techniques... or anything else that people ask for.
Unobtrusive ambient music plays in the background and tea and biscuits are provided halfway through the sessions. The groups are friendly, supportive and welcoming, and are open to anyone, regardless of ability.
Portrait classes
Wednesday 6.45pm - 8.45pm
Cost: £105 per 6 week block. Block booking only. Gift Vouchers available.
Just like the regular Paint and Draw classes but with a focus on people as subject matter. If portraiture, or representing people in any 2-D media is your thing, these classes would be more suitable. We have a stock of good quality portrait reference photos to work from as well as plaster casts and desk mirrors for self-portraits. Each block includes one live model drawing session.
My creative background is in textiles, woodcarving, glassblowing and furniture design. My later creative career continued at Sheffield Hallam University following undergraduate and masters’ study. As a design researcher, my work involved developing and making artefacts for national and international exhibitions, also teaching for several years at undergraduate and postgraduate level across art and design disciplines.
More recently, I have worked extensively with community groups, including developing a sensory drawing activity with audio-description for Walkley Festival, and working alongside people with brain injuries at Meersbrook Walled Garden. My purpose is always to enable people to explore and develop their own creativity.
Email: julie.turnbull@hotmail.co.uk
Tel: 07896 838337
Art Classes
Monday 10am - 12pm
Thursday 10am - 12pm
Cost: £95 per 6 week block (payable at start of block). Please note, some blocks run for fewer weeks, priced accordingly.
Drop-in rate £17 per session (pre-booking recommended).
Classes are designed to allow participants to bring along their own ideas and curiosity; my role is to support the creative process, advising on aspects such as composition, use of colour, and learning to look from other perspectives.
In bringing a broad range of media and techniques into people’s work, I hope to invite a sense of adventure and play into the mix. My aim is to heighten the experience for others making art by questioning how we see and respond to a subject, rather than by simply looking and representing it.
Born and educated in Athens, Greece, I studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1988 with a BA in Painting. I was then awarded funding from the National Grant Foundation to continue with postgraduate studies in printmaking for three years based in my studio in Athens. My first solo exhibition was in Ora Gallery in Athens in 1990 and since then I have had several solo and group exhibitions in Athens, Crete, London, Cambridge and Sheffield.
On moving to Sheffield, I continued painting, and broadened my creative output, studying both cabinet making and interior design at Sheffield College. I have taken part in the annual Open Up studio event in Sheffield since 1999. In 2004 I started the 'Say it with Colour' and 'Teen Art' classes at Hangingwater Studio, which ran successfully for 18 years, and also tutored group painting holidays in Greece. In 2010 I took over the management of Hangingwater Studio and since then have been committed to its role as a friendly, lively and safe creative environment.
Email: Ienathinea@yahoo.co.uk
Ariana Martin is a pattern designer and maker, whose studio is based at Hangingwater Studio.
She creates joyful patterns, inspired by 20th Century design, and prints these patterns onto stationery and homewares, for sale in shops around the UK and from her website. Since graduating from BA Interdisciplinary Textile Design, she went on to complete an MA History of Design and to research interwar textiles. This is where she fell in love with 20th Century pattern and textiles - her own aesthetic sensibility is galvanised by the work of these bygone designers.
Ariana is currently developing her screen-printing practice and has been supported by the Sheffield Freelance Arts + Culture Workers Fund in doing so.
Website: www.arianamartin.com
Instagram: @arianamartindesign
Email: studio@arianamartin.com
This friendly group meets during school term time on Tuesday mornings, 10am - 12.30pm. We paint mostly in watercolour, but also branch out into mixed media when the mood takes us.
Local artists come as tutors for a few sessions to teach us new ideas, skills and approaches to the whole process of creating interesting pictures from a range of different subjects, either from photos or from life. Currently, we are alternating tutored sessions with practice sessions in order to try out a new approach and have something to discuss with the tutor the following week.
If you are interested in the group, do drop in and see us. We currently have no vacancies but we can add your details to the waiting list.
Contact Dariel Merrills by phone: 0114 230 5952
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