Rachel Kan & Angela Liang join us for their week of work experience

Rachel Kan & Angela Liang of Kingswood School joined the studios education team this week, find out what they got up to.....

''On the first day, we were given a tour around the studios. We then stayed with Paula in the morning and learnt about her art inspired by the Japanese culture. We really liked the little booklets she created by herself. We were with Amy Milford in the afternoon, learning about how she organises her art classes and helping her out in her administrative work. We learnt what it’s like being a self-employed artist.

On the second day, we spent our morning with Mary-Jane and she was talking about how she became a ceramics artist. Surprisingly, she was the resident of Kingswood three years ago.  We were impressed by her porcelain art; especially the turquoise colour she created by heating on glazed porcelain. Mary-Jane also gave each of us a lovely porcelain necklace she made.

In the afternoon, we helped out in Felicity’s life drawing session. We helped in setting up and did some life drawings ourselves. We observed different people’s approaches in starting their drawings, and learnt some basic life drawing skills. After that, we went to the Art club in Kingswood Prep School with Lorna Bode to help out in the art class after school. We got along well with the Year 1 and 2 students and helped them in preparing for the exhibition at the studios next week.

We were with the development group on Wednesday. We did a piece that is inspired by the paper cutting artist, Henri Matisse as the topic was to do a piece that’s in the style of this work. So we were just playing around with the colour paper and the thread, which we thought its quite interesting exploring different types of paper.In the Wednesday afternoon, we helped Gillian to glaze the pots, which were done by the children. We were also cutting out the circles for the display of the exhibition.













On the Thursday morning, we were helping out with Mary CC to sort out the postcards into different categories. Then we did the bunting for the children’s exhibition as we went to the prep school in Kingswood on Tuesday afternoon with Mary and Lorna.''