Workshop Details and Biography

Beach Bound - Jo Berry and Isabell Buenz
Monday June 1st to Saturday June 5th 2004

Found and recycled materials, automata, book binding – very and totally mixed media!

“Texture for the senses”

You never know!

We want to teach some basic book binding/making to produce a working sketchbook then go into some making skills and combine mine and Isabell's different skills to create one off books that are made of alternative materials and perhaps illustrate a phrase, story, feeling or
poem.

I envisage having books that are big with multi faceted pages with opening and possibly moving parts.

We can use wire or found rope and net to bind.

Driftwood can be used as a cover.

We may look at typography and simple calligraphy techniques to combine and illustrate a poem or verse with the making of the book.

We will make them based on the landscape or any thing anyone wants.

We will use found materials and combine them with the tin, using joining methods etc.

Produce something amazing!

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Residential fee, £295, non residential fee £195. Inclusive of 4 nights accommodation and meals, all tuition, reasonable materials, (all and any found materials!) and travel during the workshop.

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Jo Berry

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Presently I am working as a teacher of Art & Design in Surrey. I am greatly enjoying my job as I teach mainly Post 16 students who are really enthusiastic, eager to learn and try new techniques.

I grew up in Felixstowe on the East Anglian coast. Spending my summer holidays as a child at our beach hut, I would collect interesting objects and take them home. I found great value and beauty in natural materials, especially ones which had been shaped and formed by the action of the sea.

I completed a Diploma in Graphic Design and an Illustration Degree at University College Suffolk. This was near my home enabling me to use the natural resources of the environment to build upon my ideas, and to adapt and develop my skills. Being surrounded by boat makers and local craftsmen and women also gave me great inspiration. Automata makers such as Keith Newstead and Ron Fuller were influences throughout my further education and on into my own making techniques, and attitudes towards craftwork.

Continuing to make while teaching allows me to use and develop techniques in the classroom. My experience of working with both adults and children has encouraged me in my use of workshops as a great vehicle for sharing ideas and inspirations. They facilitate collective learning and development of skills and knowledge.
I like to think that my own work brings a little enjoyment and humour to the eye of the beholder. I like to create little pieces of imagination.

Miss Joanna Berry BA Hons

Isabell Buenz

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PAPERMAGIC

Isabell designs and produces one-off and limited edition artist books and paper structures
Her work is distinctive, often using unusual and surprising materials. The combination of these materials with techniques such as printing, photography, computer graphics and contemporary embroidery gives Isabell's work a unique and fresh appearance.

As a facilitator, Isabell has an infectious enthusiasm for both the development of creative ideas and the interpretation of those ideas into reality. Her experience of working with groups spans over 20 years and has resulted in an approach that is informative, professional but above all fun!

While qualifying as an accountant in Germany in the late 70s, Isabell realised that there should be more to working life than bookkeeping and figures! As a result she re-trained as a counsellor and, in 1985 started to use expressive art as a means of counselling in a more personable and innovative way.

After moving to Scotland in 1989, Isabell further developed her unusual approach to counselling by starting 'Creative Dance' in Edinburgh, offering sessions and workshops to individuals and groups focusing on having fun in the process of self-discovery.

Since then Isabell has added other skills to her experience of expressive art including painting, drawing, poetry creative writing, sculptural work and printing.
Isabell produces and makes her books under the name of ‘Papermagic’.
Throughout her career as an artist she has always maintained a sense of humour and strong personal connection to the work produced.

Contact Isabell
by e-mail on isabuenz@hotmail.com
or by mobile phone on 0775-164-9161.

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