St Edward's Chronicle Spring 2018

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Art on the Wild Side By Anna Millar

Julie Brook, a land artist who has worked in the Hebrides and the Libyan desert, came to School in February and ran a day’s workshop with Lower Sixth Art pupils to develop and improve our drawing techniques. She wanted us to appreciate the outdoors and engage with our environment so we spent the

crayon and pencil to try to create the views through the trees. She then encouraged us to start working with the environment itself and move branches, leaves and dirt into forms that contrasted with the natural landscape, and the extreme weather conditions enhanced the ephemerality of these pieces. In all sessions,

Anna Millar

morning drawing down by the canal sitting on the ground and drawing from life. Then, after lunch, we used our sketches and worked in the studio with large A1 paper on the floor. In her second visit, we all went out to Wytham Woods where we worked on paper with a variety of media such as ink, charcoal, salt,

Julie encouraged us to focus on the forms as areas of light and dark as opposed to outlines. She was inspiring and helped us all learn a huge range of new techniques and approaches that will definitely help us in many different ways along our course. I hope she enjoyed her visits as much as we all did!​

Head of Art Adam Hahn with Kevin Yang

Julie Brook with Lila Pollen and Mia Nicholas