Kindred Spirits - Drawing and weaving summer course 26.06. – 02.07.2026 in Erlau (Odenwald)
Next June I will be joining visual artist Johanna Schmal in leading a week long workshop in drawing and weaving in Erlau, Germany. We are planning something very special, working with tracing our intuitive sense of connection in dialogue with the place and the group as well as with materiality, craftsmanship and art.
We will begin by attuning to the natural environment through drawing and listening based approaches, then, playing with scale, perspective, shape, symbolism and abstraction will be a search for imagery that visualises our observations and creates a conceptual language of its own. Translating these ideas into woven designs and dyeing yarns with plants for our own colour palette will be part of a holistic, hands-on process.
By exploring the landscape with all our senses and sharing within the group, we will connect to the place and the moment while delving into our inner worlds of memory and experience. Across the week, we will embrace the gifts of stillness, slow flow, and connectivity and interweave our discoveries into a talismanic tapestry.
It has been such a joy to design this course, I cannot wait to meet all the participants and work together through this process - if you would like to join us, all the details are here.
