On Friday 22nd July 11, a group attended this club launch workshop. Sarah Wetherall was our tutor - a local artist, who is going to run the Arts Club on a regular basis offering a variety of taster 2 hour workshops to introduce different creative processes.
This time it was - Cyanotype - a contact photographic print made with paper impregnated with a light sensitive chemical and using UV as the developing agent. Simply, you place an object - we used foliage picked from the Bell House garden - onto the light sensitive paper, expose it to UV light and this makes a beautiful white and blue print.
As it turned out, there was a group of 11 ladies - and as the class title stated - all over 60!. Although understanding why the limit had been made - the ladies did find the description difficult to accept. But this is not the place for that discussion!
Everyone was able to follow Sarah’s lead - there was only one moment of ‘stress’ during the whole workshop - the need to “QUICKLY place your design onto the impregnated paper and then cover with Perspex.” Once successfully completed - and everyone did - we all returned to a very zen state of creativity.
Look out for the next Creative Art Club workshop in September.
Sarah’s work can we seen at www.clockworkstudios.co.uk