W O R K S H O P S
DAVID SEVERN
David held two workshop sessions during Photo-Canopy 2016. One consisted of a portfolio review day with students where he evaluated their project work and offered support on a one-to-one basis. The second session was a portrait photography workshop, focused on building students' confidence in capturing portraits. The session covered a history of photographic portraiture and a range of approaches to different portraiture styles, from close-ups to environmental portraits, with formal examples. Based in the classroom and on the street, the workshop explored capturing portraits in a natural every-day environment utilising available light and introducing the capabilities of flash.
NATURAL
A hands-on workshop including a walk around our local green spaces to forage for colourful plants and flowers. Dye expert, Sue Cuttle, took the participants through the steps to create beautifully dyed textiles, using only natural sauced materials.
WALKING
Photographer and Lecturer Marie La Starza, ran several WALKING THE RIVER TRENT photography workshops that gave the participants the chance to create images for the 2016 exhibition, get advice on shooting on location and find out more about the River Trent project Marie was working on.
LAND
Fine Artist and Lecturer Mark Davies, ran a LAND ART workshop in and around Burton Upon Trent. The participants were encouraged to create installations in public places using objects found around them.
CYANOTYPE
Participants had the opportunity the create Cyanotypes from scratch. Painting chemicals onto a range of surfaces, adding natural objects or acetate negs, exposing to ultraviolet light and going home with several hand produced cyanotypes.
WATER
This was a 4-hour workshop designed for those who had little or no experience but would love to know more and require encouragement and guidance. Artist Rowena Barrett, through a series of demonstrations and follow -me type exercises revealed some trade secrets and tips to help aspiring artists grasp the basics of watercolour painting.
FOREST
Chris Beech ran a Photo~Canopy workshop, which gave the participants the opportunity to have a professional on hand at all times to offer friendly, practical and personal advice on subjects like exposure, image sharpness and composition. This photography workshop was designed to help develop skills in landscape photography whilst exploring spaces within the National Forest.
AARON YEANDLE
Aaron Yeandle, a photographer based in Guernsey and one of our 2016 programmes artists in residence, ran a MASTERCLASS as part of his residency. Yeandle focused on DOCUMENTARY PORTRAITURE.
THE RIVER TRENT
Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here,
In quantity equals not one of yours:
See how this river comes me cranking in,
And cuts me from the best of all my land
A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
I'll have the current in this place damm'd up;
And here the smug and silver Trent shall run
In a new channel, fair and evenly;
It shall not wind with such a deep indent,
To rob me of so rich a bottom here.
— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene I
Image: Marie La Starza
