Join local artist and tutor Kate Lynch for this half-day workshop exploring the techniques used in creating expressive charcoal drawings.

Using locally grown willow charcoal you will experiment with mark making and try some fun exercises to explore the rich potential and versatility of your medium. You will go on to develop your own landscape drawing. 

This workshop is suitable for beginners and more experienced artists. All materials and tea/coffee provided. The willow charcoal is kindly provided by Coates Willow.

About Kate Lynch

Kate Lynch is known as a rural documentary artist. Her charcoal drawings, pastels and paintings celebrate traditional rural work and traditions in Somerset – willow growing and basketmaking, farming, cheesemaking, beekeeping, cidermaking and wassails and other crafts. She also collects the personal stories of her subjects and includes these in her exhibitions and books. 

Kate has previously exhibited at Somerset Rural Life Museum, most recently collaborating with the South West Heritage Trust on ‘CRAFT Somerset Portraits and Voices.‘

IMAGE: Diana Robertson coiling a straw bee skep (willow charcoal) by Kate Lynch