Collaged Relief Workshop with Lisa Berkshire

This hands-on session is tailored for enthusiasts eager to delve into the world of collaged relief artworks using hand-printing techniques and found textures. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist, join us for a journey of creativity and self-expression.

No prior experience is needed—just bring your enthusiasm and a desire to explore the world of creative collaged relief art.

The workshop is on a theme of UK wildlife- including birds, native animals, flora and fauna. Being in such a beautiful location full of natural inspiration, it is going to be easy to be inspired! Lisa will be bringing plenty of reference materials to inspire image making but there is also plenty of opportunity to work on your own favourite creatures, trees and plants.

During this four hour course you will spend 1.5-2 hours making textures and then after a break,  you will get to design the collage artwork, looking at the colours and potential in your created textures before the cutting and putting together of the layers. For a half day workshop it would probably be a simple figure or creature on a simple background. I think it might be good to have a rough theme, such as animals in a woodland setting, so that we can go through making textures and colours at the same time (but everyone would do different textures I’m sure!)

Lisa graduated with a B.A. Hons Degree in Graphic Design and Illustration from Norwich School of Art in 1989 and since then has worked for a wide range of clients including Fortnum and Mason, The Londonist, Badger Brewery, The Lady Magazine, Dorset County Council, Barefoot Books, Nelson Thornes Publishing, Oxford University Press, Sainsbury’s PLC, BBC publishing and many more

.She has created illustrations for magazine articles, stories, horoscopes and cartoons, children’s fairytale anthologies, educational books and non-fiction titles as well as designs for packaging, maps and all sorts of visuals for use in design.

She also creates illustrations and designs for her own growing collection of greetings cards, prints and homewares , and licenses her work to third parties, please enquire if you are interested in talking about any of her designs in this area.

https://www.theillustratedworldoflisaberkshire.co.uk/shop/p/collageworkshop-p67dc

Lisa sells her work directly at selected pop-up shops in her local area of Dorset, in her website and online shops, as well as at fairs and festivals, details of which can be found in her Events page here.Lisa is currently working on her children’s folio with new illustrations and is working on her own stories and ideas. Her work combines drawing, printmaking and digital effects, often including her own words and hand-drawn lettering. Her work incorporates narrative and figurative elements, a love of myths and folktales, the sea, landscape, children’s literature and nature amongst many other influences.