4 Oct: A Whistling of Birds - Poetry/Art Workshop with Isobel Dixon and Douglas Robertson
Come and join poet Isobel Dixon and artist Douglas Robertson for a lively poetry-art workshop inspired by nature and nature-loving creators over the centuries. Over the course of the interactive two-hour session there will be chance to listen, reflect, engage in conversation and turn your own hand to some writing and/or drawing/making. Interested participants of all abilities are very welcome!
Isobel will read some poems from her vivid new collection A Whistling of Birds, which includes 12 beautiful nature illustrations by Douglas Robertson. Isobel will also share a new poem inspired by Edward Thomas, and she and Doug will offer insights into their own creative practice and their long-running art-poetry collaboration. There will be time in the seession to experiment with word and image and embark on some making and drawing – in a way that we hope will spark more close observation and creativity beyond the session.
Participants may want to bring a notebook and a pencil/pen, but art materials will be provided.
Lyrical, vigorous, inventive, A Whistling of Birds shares points of creative contact with D.H. Lawrence’s iconic collection of nature poetry, Birds, Beasts and Flowers, but also ranges widely through the worlds of other writers, artists and musicians – from Emily Dickinson to Ted Hughes, Albrecht Dürer to Georgia O’Keeffe, in moments closely examined and delicately drawn. Syrian roses, an abundance of apricots in Santa Fe; bats, bees, tortoises, snakes, the generous body of a whale. Also, of course, birds and birdsong, as show in several titles: ‘Rosenberg’s Larks’, ‘The Woburn Robin’ and ‘Bede’s Sparrow’ (the last with a fine accompanying drawing by Doug). Threaded throughout is the beautiful complexity and vulnerability of the planet, and the joy and difficulty of making art, also in times of war and displacement.
Supported Places:
Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery wants to encourage and support everyone to be creative and access their creative workshops. Thanks to the support and funding from Arts Council England, we are able to offer a limited number of partial and full bursaries to this workshop for those with limited or no financial income. For more details, please contact Ryan Watts, education@petersfieldmuseum.co.uk.
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Come and join poet Isobel Dixon and artist Douglas Robertson for a lively poetry-art workshop inspired by nature and nature-loving creators over the centuries. Over the course of the interactive two-hour session there will be chance to listen, reflect, engage in conversation and turn your own hand to some writing and/or drawing/making. Interested participants of all abilities are very welcome!
Isobel will read some poems from her vivid new collection A Whistling of Birds, which includes 12 beautiful nature illustrations by Douglas Robertson. Isobel will also share a new poem inspired by Edward Thomas, and she and Doug will offer insights into their own creative practice and their long-running art-poetry collaboration. There will be time in the seession to experiment with word and image and embark on some making and drawing – in a way that we hope will spark more close observation and creativity beyond the session.
Participants may want to bring a notebook and a pencil/pen, but art materials will be provided.
Lyrical, vigorous, inventive, A Whistling of Birds shares points of creative contact with D.H. Lawrence’s iconic collection of nature poetry, Birds, Beasts and Flowers, but also ranges widely through the worlds of other writers, artists and musicians – from Emily Dickinson to Ted Hughes, Albrecht Dürer to Georgia O’Keeffe, in moments closely examined and delicately drawn. Syrian roses, an abundance of apricots in Santa Fe; bats, bees, tortoises, snakes, the generous body of a whale. Also, of course, birds and birdsong, as show in several titles: ‘Rosenberg’s Larks’, ‘The Woburn Robin’ and ‘Bede’s Sparrow’ (the last with a fine accompanying drawing by Doug). Threaded throughout is the beautiful complexity and vulnerability of the planet, and the joy and difficulty of making art, also in times of war and displacement.
Supported Places:
Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery wants to encourage and support everyone to be creative and access their creative workshops. Thanks to the support and funding from Arts Council England, we are able to offer a limited number of partial and full bursaries to this workshop for those with limited or no financial income. For more details, please contact Ryan Watts, education@petersfieldmuseum.co.uk.
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