Join Karen Howse drawing with stones

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Join Artist-wanderer Karen Howse for a gentle morning of drawing in dialogue with stones.

Key details

Date : Saturday 11th April

Time: 10.30 am - 1 pm

Venue: Bodmin Gallery Creative Studio, 61 Fore Street, Bodmin, PL31 2JB

Fee: £35 if booked direct with gallery or £38.72 if booked through Eventbrite

Suitable for beginners or more advanced

All materials provided including Drawing with Stones guide leaflet

Hot drinks and nibbles provided

Age: 18 plus (16 -18 welcome with accompanying adult)

Note - Must be able to navigate stairs

Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drawing-stones-with-karen-howse-tickets-1982753984542?aff=oddtdtcreator

Contact the Gallery to book direct or with any queries- gallery@bodmincreativestudio.co.uk or call 07921 279930

Do you have stones you have picked up on your travels?

The miniature worlds of stones and rocks are wonderful to explore and spend time with! In this workshop Karen invites you to bring a pebble or rock small enough to rest in your palm. With simple drawing prompts, we will follow its lines, surfaces and textures, letting pencil and paper trace what words cannot. This is about enjoying the experience of drawing and making marks on the paper, it’s not about perfection but about connection.

• Bring along a pebble or rock that fits in your palm

• We will be exploring our relationship to these stones through gentle drawing prompts

• A drawing experience

• A way of knowing

• An exploration of stone, and drawing together

Suitable for beginners and more advanced. All materials provided including a Drawing Stones guide to take away.

Meet Karen Howse

Based in North Cornwall, Karen Howse is an artist-wanderer practicing walking, drawing and printmaking. She likes to reconnect people with the nonhuman through place-based projects. Karen Howse has a BA in Textiles from Winchester School of Art and an MA in Fine Art, from Falmouth University. She has been an artist in residence at the poet Charles Causley’s home and Dunsland an intriguing North Devon, National Trust Parkland. In Karen’s 2025, solo exhibition Stones, rocks and other beings, at Lanstefan Arts, she corresponded with mining rocks and Fernacre, an elliptical stone circle on Bodmin Moor.

This workshop was made possible thanks to Experience Bodmin which is part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.”