Open to all levels
Date: Sat, September 25 - Sun, September 26, 2021
Times: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Cost: $200 with all materials included
Workshop description
Do you want your art to be more intuitive and emotive? In this two-day workshop artist Jill Saxton Smith will guide you in her approach to partnering with materials to create work that embodies emotions and inner experiences.
You’ll learn traditional and unconventional printmaking techniques; printing with rust and linocut relief printing. Jill will show you how both printing methods can be combined and layered with other traditional and unconventional mediums such as wax, milk, charcoal and ink.
Not only will we explore elements of translucency, texture, and basic composition, we will also consider how material choices and intuitive processes can deepen the concept and content of the work.
About the Instructor
Jill Saxton Smith is a U.S. artist that has been living and working as an artist internationally for the past 15 years. Jill earned a BFA from Utah State University in painting and printmaking and received her MFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her experience gained while living in the U.S., Egypt, Zimbabwe and Guatemala have given her unique opportunities and insights that have greatly impacted and enriched her artwork and career as a studio artist.
Her interdisciplinary work calls attention to the felt experiences, both physiological and psychological, that comprise and shape our being-in-the-world. She explores themes such as comfort, dislocation and the sense of home. Her investigation concerns whether these emotions and inner experiences can be transferred and embodied in the intuitive processes and simple materials she draws on to create her work.
She exhibits her work internationally on three continents, including at The National Gallery of Zimbabwe. She has given lectures, taught workshops and demonstrated her art as a visiting artist to a variety of schools and organizations with a special interest in underprivileged and disabled artists.
Instagram is a great way to follow Jill’s work!
instagram.com/jillsaxtonsmithstudio
www.JillSaxtonSmith.com