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As the woodland in the Watts Gallery grounds fills with spring flowers, and to coincide with the Chelsea Flower Show, join us for this wonderful celebration of flora, foliage and plant life in a special sketching workshop with artist Mags Orson. Create your own beautiful concertina floral drawings inspired by the woodland surroundings and Mary Watts’ artistic natural motifs. Hear about Mags Orson’s practice in drawing, painting and fabric design and explore ideas of friezes as you sketch and work with paper cut techniques.
This is an afternoon workshop but why not consider making a full day of your trip and join our Gardener’s Tour in the morning. Hear all about the Watts Woodland Estate, planting and history with our Verey Head Gardener, Chris Sharples.
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 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.