Artist Valerie Kirk will guide you to create a storyboard collage using personal memories and materials as a useful step in the design process. It can be made up of sketches, colour swatches, texture notations and words to guide creative production in any medium.

The practical and interactive workshop will also draw on inspiration from Mugga Mugga Cottage. Join the group to immerse yourself in nature and history, creatively processing your experience through:

• Wax rubbings on paper with watercolour
• Painted paper and cut out shapes-
• Words that evoke your sense of place
• Stick and ink drawing
• Colour notations
• Sketch idea
• Make do and mend craft

Participants will respond in their own way through the guided craft and design processes – research, gathering information, responding visually and thinking through making.As a group we will create a large storyboard which you can keep through a photograph. But also create your own storyboard as a starting point for craft and design in your choice of medium. Your storyboard can convey your source of inspiration, ideas and plans for making a new work. 

Image credit: Valerie Kirk