Arts Mentoring
Participatory arts mentoring with learning disabled artists. Working in traditional and sensory ways to share techniques using paint, print, clay and sculptural materials, giving artists the opportunity to experiment and find their own creative voice.
Andrea Leigh Ceramics and Print
Matlock, England
Olivia is a talented artist that I mentored who experimented with different materials creating novel work from cast plaster to coloured and moulded paper pulp sculptures.
This is a section of wall covered in some of Lauren's acrylic paintings. They had amazing impact when the paintings were shown as a group.
Paintings produced by learning disabled artists using watercolour inks as part of an 'Automatic Drawing' project, inspired by the Surrealists attempts to free up their creativity. A fun project with fantastic results.
A group painting following our experience of a nature walk through the woods beside the river. A group of six learning disabled artists worked collaboratively to create a fantastic finished painting capturing the feeling of a wild walk.
Andrew working on an 'imagined landscape' acrylic painting on canvas. He has exhibited and sold his beautiful work.
Lauren working on one of her underwater landscapes using layers of acrylic on 300gm paper.
Olivia mixing plaster to cast into clay moulds. She uses some of the cast plaster as sculptures of miniature 'inside out worlds' and others became moulds for paper pulp artworks.