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Join artist Mags Orson to make unique botanical plaster cast artworks in this special season celebrating spring flora, foliage and plant life. Visit the House at Limnerslease to be inspired by Mary’s gesso ceiling panels before returning to the Studio to create your own compositions. Work with a selection of gathered foliage and learn relief techniques in clay before casting. No previous experience is necessary, you will be guided through the enjoyable process step-by-step, learning helpful methods and tips to refine your design.
Mags Orson is a creative artist teacher, spending most of her working life at Charterhouse, Surrey.
Observation is always the beginning. A sunrise during the Spring Equinox, a neolithic burial chamber, or profound experiences such as birth or grief. Her work is primarily autobiographical and emotional. She works thematically using whatever medium is appropriate, painting, mixed media, printmaking, film, installation, or sculpture.
Although techniques vary, there are recurring preoccupations: transience, liminal spaces and the tension that can exist between space and matter.
Since 2020 her focus has been creating fabric designs based on the garden. After taking Rebecca Street’s Pattern Cutting course, she has started developing a new body of work which she intends to show, called “Wearing the Garden”. It is this work that inspires the workshops at The Watts Gallery in May, coinciding with the Chelsea Flower Show. The workshop uses the architecture, flowers and foliage from the local environment to make botanical-inspired art.