Drawing is.....
....."a means of communication and navigation…a building block of creativity, key to the visualisation and translation of ideas and practices, fundamental in making, doing, testing, designing, thinking, playing and living. It allows us to analyse, map, mark, and form….It can be either a representation, or an expression, creating shadows and memories, marks and imprints, traces in space."
(quote from Drawn Open Exhibition at RWA, Bristol June 2017)
“Drawing…can get you through things. It’s like in an old Portuguese joke, in which a man is up a ladder painting a wall with a large brush. Another man comes along and wants the ladder, so he says to the first ‘Hold on tight to the brush, I’m just taking the ladder away…’ This is what drawing is like – it grounds you, it connects you so intensely to the paper, through the pencil or the nib or whatever you use, that it’s a lifeline when everything else is taken away. Things can go wrong, but if you just hang on tight to the paper and pen everything will be OK.”
Paula Rego, reported in Paula Rego by Fiona Bradley (Tate Publishing) p.42
(thanks to Michael Richards Blog: A Certain Line for this one)
Drawing is essential to my practice, being so direct, so engaging, immediate, involving the body, touch, movement. This year my drawing "Waiting for the Performance to Begin (Normansfield Theatre)" was selected for the Drawn exhibition at RWA Bristol (see above). At the end of this month, I will be showing new drawings from my month long residency in Tuscany, August 2017 at my next solo exhibition: Eternal Sunshine (The Stables Gallery, Twickenham). If like me, you are passionate about drawing, or want to have a go, refresh your drawing practice, then check out new drawing courses and exhibition news below, including an exciting new Drawing Lab course Including animation) at Seawhite Studio.
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Drawing with Light
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Drawing Lab NEW COURSE
Seawhite Studio
Alternate Fridays 9.30-4.30
Drawing with Light
The focus of this years course will be light. There will be four tutors to guide and inspire you: Katie Sollohub, Emily Ball and Betsy Dadd, Lydia CS. Each term will include a series of materials based workshops including simple animation. As the course progresses you may start to apply given exercises to your own themes and ideas, with more time given for peer group discussion and one to one tutorials. Each student will have the opportunity to present their ongoing work to the group in the later half of the course. The lasting effect of this course is to encourage you to think a little differently about your practice, acknowledge the physical relationship of the body to your work, and engage in your creative practice in an intuitive and experimental way. It might be the perfect time for you to step out of your known practices and see what happens!
See website for booking details
£410/term
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Drawing for Beginners 2018
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New Course at Pallant House Chichester
Following the ongoing popularity of my new classes running at Pallant House Gallery, we have now scheduled a 4-session Drawing course for beginners Wednesdays 21 February,28 February, 14 March, and 28 March 2018
The currently monthly Creative Space sessions continue, with Introduction to Paint: Black and White coming next on Weds 11 Oct. Contact the gallery to book
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Drawing Days in Arundel
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MONTHLY Drawing workshops at
The Victoria Institute, Arundel, BN18 9DG
Mon 30 October - Still life, Charcoal/Ink - FULL
Fri 17 Nov - Large, Expressive, Gestural Drawing - Going as large as you like, using the space of walls and floors where possible.
Fri 8 Dec - Large, Expressive, Gestural Drawing - finding a narrative - starting with mark making (and/or revisiting work from the previous session), experimenting with materials, we will see what emerges from the marks, and use editing processes, to layer, change, veil and reveal, whatever subject matter might want to emerge. Allow for a bit of fantasy, story telling, fairy tales, imagination…you may find yourself inspired by the space of the building, or bring your own source material if you have something specific in mind. Suitable for all.
10.00am - 4.30pm
Cost £70/day
£130 for 2 sessions
£180 for 3 (dates must be specified)*
Email me to book: k.sollohub@ntlworld.com
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The Joy of Charcoal
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Short Course at West Dean College
24-16 November 2017
Learn to love the versatility and expressive quality of charcoal. Packed with exercises to explore charcoal in all its glory, you will work with both abstract marks and simple still life. In the beautiful setting of West Dean residential college and grounds.
Visit West Dean website for booking info
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ROCK PAPER SCISSORS
Works on Paper at RK Burt Gallery
57-61 Union Street London SE1 1SG
17th - 26th October 2017
Exhibiting artists: Max Burrows, Fran Elliott, Bridget Gladwin, Geoff Parham, Tina Ryan, Jill Slyfield, Margaret Massie Taylor, Jill Wilkinson (Curated by Emily Ball and Katie Sollohub)
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Jerwood Drawing Prize
Until 22 October 2017
At the Jerwood Space,
(just down the road from RK Burt Gallery)
171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN
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Come and see new work, from my time spent at Pope's Grotto, Normansfield Theatre, Strawberry Hill House, and, more recently, the Eternal Sunshine of my month's residency in Tuscany this summer
PRIVATE VIEW Thursday 26th October 6-8pm
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Showreel from the first animation workshop held at the Seawhite Studio, Partridge Green, by Lydia CS, Betsy Dadd and Aurelia Lange - the first of many we hope - it was fab!
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Katie Sollohub is a Sussex based artist interested in documenting and recording the places she lives and works in through drawings, paintings, performance, photography and poetry.
Katie is also an inspirational teacher, using her own experiences and processes to help motivate others. She aims to live life as a Creative Journey, and generously takes others along for the ride.
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