International artist Pat Southern-Pearce to lead workshop March 7-8

Mispillion Art League in Milford will host Manchester, England artist Pat Southern-Pearce for A Sense of Place and a Story Told from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, March 7 and 8.

Born and raised in the North of England and trained as a painter, Southern-Pearce is known for her calligraphic works on toned paper, her skies, her sense of place, and for sketching in carparks.

Alongside her work with sketchers and schools in the United Kingdom, she travels the world teaching workshops and has tutored at Manchester, Chicago and Amsterdam symposiums. She displayed sketches at exhibitions in Venice in 2017 and 2018, and before that in Moscow. Area artists will not want to miss her visit to Delaware.

Working freely and treating sketches like paintings, she begins with shapes against the sky and the sky itself when it changes and inspires. A sense of place is crucial to all her sketches, capturing the feel of somewhere, the atmosphere, the time of day, the weather. Her United States workshops in 2020 are all about this: on toned paper, using watercolor pencils and crayons (without water), and delight of other drawing materials.

This workshop is a gradual build-up of skills, storytelling, recording color, atmosphere and text. Participants will develop skills gradually, collect details in flexible thumbnails, and work on quality of line, expressive skies, adding glow (and a sense of distance), negative space, less is more, and sketching like a painter.

For more information about Pat Southern-Pearce and to get a feel for her art and teaching style, go her Facebook page and do an online search of her work.

To register, go to www.mispillionarts.org/event/urban-sketch-workshop-a-sense-of-place-and-a-story-told/.

Mispillion Art League is at 5 N. Walnut St., Milford.