Serge Volken Design and Carving Workshop: Saturday 9th March 2019

We are delighted to welcome Serge Volken to take this very special workshop. Many of you will be familiar with Serge's work and his very unique approach to carving. This class will be themed around (k)not work designs, very similar to Celtic design. Familiarity and use of basic craftool stamps and swivel knives recommended.

Here is a taster from Serge as to what to expect:

"My approach of classes aims to give out some ideas and tools to the students so they get access to a concept rather than a sigle project that gets “cloned”, meaning everybody has done the same project to bring back home. That would be like giving a banana to the monkey and I prefer just to hand out the key to the banana plantation.

Celtic design and (k)not work

            -           short discussion of scholarly approach of designing

            -           presenting a more wild freehand technique of making up ones own designs

            -           how to carve such designs efficiently and cut down on time to do so

Tutor: Serge Volken

Venue: The Imperial Rooms, Matlock, DE4 3NL  10am-4pm