The objectives of this workshop are to: free creativity by expressive mark making, redesigning through collage, examine compositions and embellishing with various mediums.
To do this students will create two abstract expressionist pieces on two different papers. They will use pastels, pencil crayons and inks for this first step.
The pieces will be allowed to dry. During this time we will discuss the initial pieces.
The next step the students will cut and tear the pieces into equal strips.
These pieces will be laid out and arranged on larger paper creating a whole new design. The students will then glue the entire design on the large paper.
While this dries we will look at the designs and discuss what we see.
Next we will use acrylic medium and gesso with palette knives to create marks and areas of translucent colour to add another dimension and additional calligraphy to the work.
About the artist - Kellianne Land
Kellianne Land is a muralist and artist residing in Wedgeport, Nova Scotia. Land studied fine art and art history at NASCAD, Concordia and Guelph University. Nature, allegory and devotion are integral to her practice. During COVID Land turned to abstract expressionism for healing and started to create a series of works that are a visual language of she started calling "glyphs". In 2021 she created a workshop based on this form of expression. In 2022 Land started to create sculptural versions of this process and in 2023 started to create contemporary jewelery in the same genre. Presently she has started a series of "Beings" that are and enhancement of paradolia images found in her abstract expressions. Although abstraction is the main thrust of her work, Land is also working on large, mixed media drawings, called "Vernacular", a visual documentation of the cultural landscape of south west Nova Scotia and the north east coast of New England.
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