On Thursday 17th September 2020, Brandon Arts Society,Brandon Creative Forum and the MarketPlace team celebrated the 40th Anniversary of Brandon Arts Society with a virtual exhibition preview.
As part of our Creative Conversations in Isolation programme, we commissioned Lee to make a 3D virtual gallery for the exhibition. Using Mozilla Hubs Spoke, digital artist, Lee Mason curated the Art Society’s art work to create a wonderful exhibition experience, complete with wine, nibbles and Brandon’s infamous bunny. There’s also a beautiful roof-top garden, celebrating Brandon in Bloom.
During lockdown in May, we worked with artist, Marian Savill to make four short ‘make along’ online workshops to help you create your own Art Journal with materials you have around the house. As Marian says, ‘ANYONE can do it!’
Marian had been running Art Journaling workshops with the Meet Up Mondays group at The Barleycorn Cafe in Mildenhall. This video series offered an online alternative when the workshops were stopped due to Covid-19.
The workshops were posted in a Facebook event here, and on the Barleycorn Facebook page every Monday at 10am. Afterwards participants were encouraged to invite friends and share photos of their creations via social media, tagging the Barleycorn Cafe, Mildenhall and MarketPlace.
Make your own Art Journal along with Marian, watch the Introduction to get started.
Marian’s Introduction to Art Journaling
Monday 27th April
Marian introduces the artform she ‘loves loves loves’ to share with everyone, Art Journaling.
Marian presents the first of her Art Journal creative workshops – explaining how to get started with the making of a journal from a surprising variety of papers, envelopes, magazines and much more.
Marian presents her second workshop in her mission to get everyone art journaling! This week we take a look at backgrounds and how we can use different mediums to create colour and texture.
For her fourth and final workshop in her Art Journaling series, Marian talks about FRIPPERIES – decorating, embellishing and bringing your pages to life with artistic flair and little tricks that will make your journal a unique reflection of your thoughts.