Visual Artists

I am an experienced arts practitioner and have extensive experience working in schools with all age groups.  I have been a professional artist and workshop leader for over twenty years.  I have exhibited widely in the UK and have work in collections in the UK, Europe and Australia.  I have been involved in a variety of community and educational art projects including Global Gardens Project, Arts Response and The Art of Money Skills and have worked with organisations such as The Eden Project, RIO and Arts for Health Cornwall.

E -  melanie@watergatefarm.com

http://melanieyoungart.wordpress.com

‘Chris is a freelance community artist with a wide experience of organising and running creative workshops and events and for the last fifteen years has worked and performed in festivals, community arts, theatre, education, and outdoor celebration throughout Cornwall and elsewhere’

Primarily a visual artist he originally trained as a painter but now works predominantly in 3-D but vacillates as to whether he is a painter or a sculptor!

He is interested in working with children (all Key Stages 1-5) from initial design stages through to realisation.

Chris works in most materials but specialises in working with recycled materials and enjoys turning the mundane and discarded into something intriguing, ideally quirky and hopefully comical.

He also has an interest and is currently researching the mathematical/geometrical principles that underlie pattern in Nature.

cjo.nixon@gmail.com

Katie is an artistic metalworker and can design and make large or small scale metalwork included areas of expertise/workshops: recycled art, design, furniture, sculpture, interpretative panels, wirework.

I can offer anything from 2hr long one-off workshops in funky fish and other crazy creatures made from pipe cleaners right through to designing and installing gates and railings.

Project management/co-ordination for larger programmes.

Working closely with other design professionals, i.e. architects, landscape designers, housing associations, corporate commissioners etc

Contact

E -  lakie@talk21.com

www.mistressmetal.com

Tony is an artist who works with textiles exploring traditional and new technology.

He has extensive experience of running collaborative school art projects that combine active participation with impressive outcomes often in the form of large fabric banners, colourful outdoor wall panels and flags for public display.  Workshops introduce new creative techniques and processes, develop skills and share ideas that can be developed and sustained beyond the life of the project.  He is particularly skilled at working creatively with people and computers without getting bogged down with the technology.

E -  t.minnion@btinternet.com

www.tonyminnion.co.uk

www.clothofgold.org.uk

Nick Brennan has been a professional cartoonist (for the Dandy & Beano) for over 20 years and runs cartoon drawing workshops.  These can last from an hour to a full day, and the children are encouraged to participate throughout, creating their own characters and, in longer workshops, writing stories for them which they then turn into comic strips.  All the techniques needed for the creation of a comic strip are covered – character creation, storyboarding, picture composition, speech bubbles, and sound effects – as well as looking at perspective, anthropomorphism and onomatopoeia!  The  workshops can also be tailored around topics that the children may be studying (eg Greek myths), but the emphasis is always on the children having fun!

Nick is CRB checked and has public liability insurance.

Contact:

nick@cartoonfun.co.uk
www.cartoonfun.co.uk

I specialise in textile based projects, but can offer an exciting variety of artforms and creative ideas, fitting into any theme, event, or curriculum topic. Recent projects include flags, bunting, feltmaking, giant collages using recycled items, printmaking, book-making, mixed-media textures and surfaces, and environmental projects using natural materials.

I love to work on a large scale, creating group or individual projects, exploring colour, texture and pattern, and encouraging everyone I work with to have fun with creativity. I am Camborne based and have been a Community Artist for 13 years. I have a large store of equipment and materials that I can use for projects, and where possible I promote the use of natural, found or recycled items.

E -  communitycraftroom@pharic.co.uk

Kate Hale works as an artist/teacher in a wide range of materials with schools and community.  Drawing, painting, collage, textiles, printing, three-dimensional, digital-animation/photography, mosaic, willow, recycled materials.  Skills workshops in all of the above.  Cross-curricular application of art skills.

Art Tent projects – large mutli-school project – facilitating – training staff, running skills workshops, developing interschool/community links, pupils making creative work and exhibiting at community events.

Kate can adapt projects to your needs – special events or cross-curricular such as English, Maths, sustainability or other curriculum subjects.  She can lead projects for a cluster of schools as well as individual classes.

E  katehaleart@phonecoop.coop

www.katehaleart.co.uk