Works On Paper
Visiting Artists 2024-2025
Along with our local and regional workshop instructors, we invite artists from outside our area to join us at Rice Lake Arts.
In late July 2024, David Armstrong, accomplished printmaker and bookmaker, shared his expertise and love of nature through a paper and bookmaking workshop. David joined us from his home in Dartmouth, NS.
Sarah Davidson, Canadian born and trained artist, will join us from her studio in Brooklyn, NY to share her passion for nature and artistic vision through a mixed media workshop next summer.
Handmade Paper and Books
With David Armstrong
In this workshop you will have the opportunity to make beautifully textured, subtly coloured handmade paper using natural and recycled materials.You will begin by exploring the grounds at Rice Lake Arts to collect materials for use in your paper. David will guide you through the papermaking process step-by-step and you will use that paper to create a unique handmade book using ancient binding techniques such as Coptic stitching. No experience is required.
Paper and Book Examples
Your Instructor
BIO
David Armstrong
Metamorphosis! Mixed Media Drawing & Collage Inspired by Nature
With Sarah Davidson
Dates and details will be posted in early 2025
This workshop welcomes anyone curious about mixing mediums and experimenting (advanced drawing skills not required!). Taking inspiration from the natural environment at Rice Lake Arts, participants will learn to use a variety of materials to create layered multimedia compositions that express their perspective on the landscape and the natural world. Materials will include watercolour, coloured pencil, ink, soft pastel and collage.
ARTWORK
Your Instructor
BIO
Sarah Davidson
Connecting with Nature through Observational Drawing
Carefully observing the world through drawing has many positive impacts for the individual and our relationship to the natural world. If you enjoy drawing, doodling and mark-making and want to hone your skills and develop new approaches to representational image-making, this 2 day workshop is for you. In this workshop Miriam will share an an approach to drawing that is organic and personal, but still makes use of classical drawing techniques such as contour, value and tone. You will work with materials such as graphite, fine line pens, conte chalk, ink and watercolour.
STUDENT ARTWORK
Your Instructor
BIO
Miriam Davidson
You are registering for Rice Lake Art’s
Handmade Paper and Books Workshop
3 Day Workshop: SAT – MON July 27 – 29
5 Day Workshop: SAT – WED July 27 – 31 (includes 2 day add on)
10 am – 5 pm
Please fill out the form below – if you have any questions, let us know in the message section. Your registration will be finalized once you e-transfer the workshop fee of $380.00 for the 3 Day Workshop or $575.00 for the 5 Day Workshop to info@ricelakearts.ca. We are set up for auto deposit, no password required.
Once payment is received, we will email you confirmation of your enrollment.
You are registering for Rice Lake Art’s
Metamorphosis! Mixed Media Drawing & Collage Inspired by Nature Workshop
3 Day Workshop: SAT – MON Aug 3 – 5 (August long weekend)
5 Day Workshop: SAT – WED Aug 3 – 7 (includes 2 day add on)
10 am – 4 pm
Please fill out the form below – if you have any questions, let us know in the message section. Your registration will be finalized once you e-transfer the workshop fee of $380.00 for the 3 Day Workshop or $575.00 for the 5 Day Workshop to info@ricelakearts.ca. We are set up for auto deposit, no password required.
Once payment is received, we will email you confirmation of your enrollment.
You are registering for Rice Lake Art’s
Connecting with Nature through Observational Drawing with Miriam Davidson Workshop
WED & THURS July 3 & 4
WED & THURS Aug 21 & 22
10 am – 4 pm
Please fill out the form below – if you have any questions, let us know in the message section. Your registration will be finalized once you e-transfer the workshop fee of $320.00 to info@ricelakearts.ca. We are set up for auto deposit, no password required.
Once payment is received, we will email you confirmation of your enrollment.
David Armstrong, accomplished printmaker and bookmaker, joins us from his home in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Recently retired from his teaching role at Nova Scotia School of Art & Design, David has extensive background in a range of visual media, specializing in print, book and papermaking. As well, he is an expert in bushcraft and sustainable building practices; he currently runs his own creative endeavour Ember Arts (www.emberarts.ca) on his spectacular 70 acre property in Cape Breton, NS. Check out his website and join us for his workshop this summer at Rice Lake Arts.
Paper and Book Examples
Sarah Davidson works primarily between drawing and painting to create compositions in which shadowy, biomorphic figures and delicate, foliated fragments mingle. Both the eye and the mind work towards the known–animals, plants, brush marks, lines–but are caught in a space of undoing. A question floats among the forms: who’s seeing who, and how?
Sarah Davidson (they/them, b.1989, Canada) lives and works in New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include NARS Foundation, New York, NY (2023), Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, BC (2022), Feuilleton, Los Angeles, CA (2021), and Erin Stump Projects, Toronto, ON (2019).
For a full bio, exhibition record and to see more of Sarah’s work visit www.sarahdavidson.ca
Miriam Davidson is an art educator, with many years of experience teaching drawing practice in schools, university and community-based settings. Her approach encourages slow, careful observation working to connect your eye, your hand, and your sense of touch to sensitively and accurately depict what you see. She creates a supportive, low stress learning environment, that respects your individual approach to drawing.
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Student Artwork
