This is an opportunity to draw a dancer in action. Instead of drawing from a still, posed figure, or from photographs, depicting someone who is not sitting still is a reason to draw loosely, to work with energy and rhythm. It is also an experience and an interaction, which makes it completely different from watching a video or using still images.
What to bring: Bring any drawing materials you would like to use- charcoal, pencils, pastel, watercolours, ink. We will provide plenty, too. If you want the option of painting, then I suggest using watercolour paper- no smaller than A4, but ingres and other pastel papers are good, if you don't plan to add water; canvases are lovely to both draw and paint on, old pieces of mountboard are great to scrawl on in biro at high speed. You may like to work on a large scale, you may want to use many pieces of paper, or make many smaller drawings on each page- or do both.
When: Saturday 15 November 2025 11am-1pm
Tickets: £22
Due to illness, this workshop will now be led by Keith Rogers. You can learn more about his work here: Fine Artist | Keith Rogers Artist
About the dancer: Natalie Johns is contemporary dance artist based in Hampshire. Natalie graduated from Chichester University with BA and MA in Dance. Since then, she has gone on to perform and work with a number of different national companies and choreographers such as, Genevieve Say, Fluid Motion Theatre Company, Grace Willow and Made By Katie Green. Alongside dancing professionally, Natalie teaches and choreographers for a range of educational and community settings. She specialises in dance theatre, storytelling through movement and placing dance in both traditional and unconventional performance spaces.
Banner image by Tom Marshall
