“THINGS TAKE THE TIME THEY TAKE DON’T WORRY”
Exhibition "Ordinary Beauty "
Ordinary Beauty
April 25 - 1st June 2025
The Point Contemporary
4 Marine View
Cromer
NR27 9HE
Rip, Snip and Create a collage
One Day Workshop
Jackhouse Gallery
Saturday 7th June 10-4pm £75.00
Rip, Snip and Create a Collage
A fun and engaging one day workshop, with paper, scissors and art, unleash your creativity exploring collage techniques with Jacqui Mair in a gallery environment.
Work from an image or an object you feel inspired to collage, (there will be a still life set up in the gallery to inspire you). You will have an opportunity to see Jacqui’s art work in the gallery along with her sketchbooks where the pieces start their journey. A fast-paced day with vintage and handmade papers for you to use. At the end of the day you will have created a unique collage to take home. All materials are supplied. Suitable for beginners and those who want to refresh their skills.
Maximum 10 persons
Please contact Rebecca at www.jackhousegallery for further information
The Collage Effect : Exploring Visual Narratives
Two Day Workshop
Jackhouse Gallery, Old Portsmouth
Saturday/Sunday 14/15th June 10-4pm £185.00
The Collage Effect : Exploring Visual Narratives
Release your creativity over two days ,explore creating your own personal papers through mono printing and gelli plate techniques. Design and construct with your hand made papers mixed with torn magazines and vintage ephemera an artist’s book. It might be simply stitched in pamphlet form or a classic concertina fold. Tell a story personal to you, be it a garden of delights, a cherished object, a cabinet of curiosities, or an abstract memory of marks, whatever you feel inspired to create! Jacqui will have a variety of artist books to show you. Go home after two days with an artist’s book or two and papers to make more at home.
All materials are supplied to make the books and papers. Suitable for beginners and those who want to refresh their skills.
Maximum 8 persons
Please contact Rebecca at www.jackhousegallery for further information
One Day Masterclass in Collage and Mark Making
One Day Masterclass in Collage and Mark making
Omega Arts School Portsmouth
Saturday 5th July 10- 4pm £80.00 to Non-Members £65.00 Members
Jacqui Mair will be available throughout the day to guide and encourage you with your personal ideas and development in collage and mixed media. Bring a sketchbook, personal objects to work from, make your own papers or take advantage of Jacqui’s collection of handmade papers and vintage ephemera. Along with gelliplates to print from, inks to monotype with, embrace the day experimenting with your own ideas and inspiration. If you want to work from a still life there will be one set up to work from along with objects to draw. This is a day of exploration and motivation at your own pace.
Suitable for anyone who has some experience with collage
Maximum 8 persons
Further information please contact Jacqui direct: jhmair@aol.com
Title Masterclass - Collage
Floral Features and Beyond
Collage Retreat at Courthouse Farm Portishead Bristol
Thursday 4th September – Sunday 7th September
Floral features and beyond
If you fancy a three-day workshop in a beautiful farmhouse with sumptuous food and surroundings , with time to work please visit the website to get full details
'In my Garden' Collage workshop
“In my Garden “Collage Workshop Saturday 20 September
Winters Moon Chichester
A day to explore what a garden might represent to us through collage. Be inspired what you find exciting ; flowers, birds, animals , buildings , somewhere in the city , or by the seaside , whatever takes your fancy and allow your creativity to run riot. Jacqui will guide you through the collage process to play with your scissors and immerse yourself in hand made papers and vintage ephemera. No previous experience necessary.
Workshop runs from 10am - 4pm £80.00 including all materials
Class size: up to 6
Materials & refreshments provided (excludes lunch)
Workshop takes place at the studio: 2a Crane St in Chichester, just round the corner from the shop.
Contact : https://wintersmoon.co.uk/ for further details
LETTING GO OF CERTAINTIES RETREAT WITH JACQUI MAIR
A perfect opportunity for anyone who wants time to think and create in paper with Jacqui Mair . Court House Farm is the perfect getaway as a private retreat, for those needing time in a nurturing place with space to be around nature in extensive private gardens, or as a creative environment for those seeking time and space to paint, read, sew and really relax. Nestled in the conservation area of Portishead, it is just 20 mins from the bustling and cultural city of Bristol. Portishead is a quiet coastal town in North Somerset with a wonderful Marina and the most stunning westerly views over the Severn Estuary, with spectacular sunsets…..where you can marvel at the flow of shipping.
WHAT THE RETREAT WILL OFFER
The Event
“Letting go of certainties” is a starting point to compose our own set of still life objects imagined or otherwise and to consider what might also be seen beyond the window. This event is an opportunity to let things happen, having the time to pursue mark-making whether by brush or pen or printing techniques will give us a surfeit of surfaces to collage with. Often we forget our personal lines and painterly gestures, our scribbles, that are all our personal artistic fingerprints. These can be added to your collages to add uniqueness. Mixing medias, breaking down boundaries, losing the fear of what is right and wrong can produce exciting possibilities to set you on your personal journey. Create work that speaks to the personal and leave with the permission that everything is possible! Discover a new world of artistic possibility when you combine collage and paint with printing techniques. Our very own collage papers will become the starting point to produce either a series of large collage pieces and /or a concertina book that take us beyond the expected.
Itinerary
Day I: Arrival
Day 2: Introduction to Jacqui and the workshop participants. Discussion and presentation of Jacqui’s collage work with discussions on how the project will unfold. Discussion of personal project featuring the idea of inside / outside and what we are intuitively drawn to as a still life and beyond. Lecture / Introduction to collage techniques and inspiration from other artists.
Small introductory exercise.
Day 3: Making printed collage papers and experimentation through simple printmaking techniques using gelli plates, mono printing, simple relief and planographic mark-making on a variety of surfaces. These methods often create unpredictable results, encouraging experimentation and unexpected new directions.
Film: Collaging from start to finish showing Jacqui’s’ process.
Day 4: Discussion of made papers and potential outcomes for collage. Demonstration of concertina book possibility and /or collage surface preparation for finished piece.
Development of ideas through sketchbook process, composition techniques.
Plan and develop ideas
Development of collage / book
Day 5: Finishing projects in the Studio with final Show and Tell of participants work
Day 6: Depart
This is a 5-night residential retreat. There are two dates to choose from, which are the 3rd to the of 8th July and from the 11th to the 16th of September. (5 nights accommodation and full board).
The price is £1950 for single occupancy, own room with ensuite, £1800 for single occupancy own room sharing a bathroom, £1650 shared room (both attending the retreat booked together. Contact us if you would like a non-participating partner to attend).
The booking deposit is £500. ( please get in touch for other currency )
The balance will be due 6 weeks prior to the retreat. Payments can be made by Paypal or Bank Transfer.
The Course Fees are non-refundable once paid, but of course, if we cancel for any reason all payments will be refunded, or mutually agreeable alternative dates offered.
Please contact
https://www.courthousefarm.com/upcoming-retreats for further details
LETTING GO OF CERTAINTIES RETREAT WITH JACQUI MAIR
A perfect opportunity for anyone who wants time to think and create in paper with Jacqui Mair . Court House Farm is the perfect getaway as a private retreat, for those needing time in a nurturing place with space to be around nature in extensive private gardens, or as a creative environment for those seeking time and space to paint, read, sew and really relax. Nestled in the conservation area of Portishead, it is just 20 mins from the bustling and cultural city of Bristol. Portishead is a quiet coastal town in North Somerset with a wonderful Marina and the most stunning westerly views over the Severn Estuary, with spectacular sunsets…..where you can marvel at the flow of shipping.
WHAT THE RETREAT WILL OFFER
The Event
“Letting go of certainties” is a starting point to compose our own set of still life objects imagined or otherwise and to consider what might also be seen beyond the window. This event is an opportunity to let things happen, having the time to pursue mark-making whether by brush or pen or printing techniques will give us a surfeit of surfaces to collage with. Often we forget our personal lines and painterly gestures, our scribbles, that are all our personal artistic fingerprints. These can be added to your collages to add uniqueness. Mixing medias, breaking down boundaries, losing the fear of what is right and wrong can produce exciting possibilities to set you on your personal journey.
Create work that speaks to the personal and leave with the permission that everything is possible! Discover a new world of artistic possibility when you combine collage and paint with printing techniques. Our very own collage papers will become the starting point to produce either a series of large collage pieces and / or a concertina book that take us beyond the expected.
Itinerary
Day I: Arrival
Day 2: Introduction to Jacqui and the workshop participants. Discussion and presentation of Jacqui’s collage work with discussions on how the project will unfold. Discussion of personal project featuring the idea of inside / outside and what we are intuitively drawn to as a still life and beyond. Lecture / Introduction to collage techniques and inspiration from other artists.
Small introductory exercise.
Day 3: Making printed collage papers and experimentation through simple printmaking techniques using gelli plates, mono printing, simple relief and planographic mark-making on a variety of surfaces. These methods often create unpredictable results, encouraging experimentation and unexpected new directions.
Film: Collaging from start to finish showing Jacqui’s’ process.
Day 4: Discussion of made papers and potential outcomes for collage. Demonstration of concertina book possibility and /or collage surface preparation for finished piece.
Development of ideas through sketchbook process, composition techniques.
Plan and develop ideas
Development of collage / book
Day 5: Finishing projects in the Studio with final Show and Tell of participants work
Day 6: Depart
This is a 5-night residential retreat. There are two dates to choose from, which are the 3rd to the of 8th July and from the 11th to the 16th of September. (5 nights accommodation and full board).
The price is £1950 for single occupancy, own room with ensuite, £1800 for single occupancy own room sharing a bathroom, £1650 shared room (both attending the retreat booked together. Contact us if you would like a non-participating partner to attend).
The booking deposit is £500. ( please get in touch for other currency )
The balance will be due 6 weeks prior to the retreat. Payments can be made by Paypal or Bank Transfer.
The Course Fees are non-refundable once paid, but of course, if we cancel for any reason all payments will be refunded, or mutually agreeable alternative dates offered.
Please contact
https://www.courthousefarm.com/upcoming-retreats for further details