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Clare Viner

Disciplines

Drawing & painting, mixed media, 3D (clay, paper mache, recycled materials etc) printing, batik etc

Workshops for Ages

Infants (over 5’s) to adults

Workshops Offered

Paper mache sculpture
Painting and drawing from observation and imagination
Painted murals/ large scale panels
Kite-making (nothing too technical!)
Batik panels, individual pieces put together to make large banners
Printing techniques- from direct printing with objects, making relief blocks, to paper stencil silk-screens
Clay- slab-building, coiling and sculpting- basic skills involved in enjoying and exploring the material

Artist Statement

I have spent the last ten years teaching in secondary schools and am currently enjoying working in primary schools while I study on a part-time M.A. to extend my own art practice. I have also taught adults in ‘evening classes’, and formally in colleges. I trained as a painter but enjoyed the opportunities to explore a wide range of techniques and materials in order to teach art to 11-18 year-old students. I firmly believe that if you are willing to try something, you can make it work! I want to encourage creativity from the earliest stages through to old age; enjoying the processes of seeing, making marks, spreading paint, feeling clay in your hands, building up shapes, watching art work change and develop- these things are exciting and enriching.

My own work is in a state of flux; I would have, until recently described confidently as a painter, but now I’m not so sure- I find myself beginning to explore other ways of expressing my ideas using installation and photography as well.