Workshops | Anna Winstanley Artist

I qualified as a teacher in New Zealand in 1996 and upgrade my skills with continuing professional development. Art, Nature, creativity and wellbeing are my specialties.

I can facilitate educational workshops to a curriculum, or create bespoke or therapeutic workshops to a theme.

Usually there is a need or objective for a workshop. It begins with the participants and what we are hoping they will achieve and feel after the workshop and available resources. Below are some examples of my expertise, but I am open to new ideas.

I have the skills and experience to collect and collate related data, follow child, vulnerable adult, diversity, inclusion & accessibility, and health & safety policies. Workshops can be set up at your chosen location. I am happy to offer social media content, networking and funding support. I can assist or lead. Ideally I prefer collaborative workshops. I am not young.

I have run workshops in youth centres, city farms, schools, museums, public gardens, markets, festivals and health centres. Initially for children, but laterly intergenerational. Topics have included; Paint-making, Sun, Signs, Wearable art, Critters based on smell, Theatre arts, Up-cycled jewellery, Home-made musical instruments, Plant propagation, Bird art, Mandalas, Political posters, Collage, Drawing, Principles & elements of design, and more.

Calthorpe Community Gardens Spray Painting Directional Signs workshop

Community Workshops

This photo is from a Stencilled-Signs making workshop at a community garden in London.

I facilitate workshops with your community, themed around your own topics.

Health and Wellbeing Workshops

This photo is from a Medicine-Wheel creation workshop at a Cancer group.

I facilitate socially prescribed workshops themed around health specific issues.

Environmental Workshops

Photo of solar-printing at the Nature Keepers community festival I co-cordinated with the Cockpit theatre and art therapist David Little in London.

I facilitate Nature themed workshops including art, science, health, or broadly environmental education, within my capabilities. I have taught environmental educations at schools, botanical gardens and community centres.

Educational Arts Activities

Photo of art produced by Thames South School students at Thames School of Mines in New Zealand in collaboration with Thames Museum and artist Barry Thomas. I proudly created this successful project which has continued on for a decade since it's inception.

I am a qualified secondary arts, health and technology teacher who is comfortable working within educational settings and museums.

I have taught paint-making, print-making, felting, myths & legends, wearable art, theatre arts, elements and principles of design, fabric technology, PHSE (Personal, health, Social & Emotional) as Ministry of Education curriculum lessons, with assessment criteria and outcomes, and as exstension projects for students.

Recreational Arts Activities

Photo of Smell sense-inspired critters characters creation, intergenerational workshop at the Kentish Town City Farm I facilitated in collaboration with Leo Smith and CSKX in London. This project extended between local artists, school, medical centre, elderly care-group and city farm.

I facilitate drop-in workshops broadly themed within my capabilities, purely for the participants pleasure of making things. These will often occur at a street fair, fundraising event, festival, museum or gallery, care home, childcare facility, or after school and holiday clubs.

Tarot Workshops

I offer Intuitive Collage workshops, themed around the the creation of your own Tarot and Jungian Archetypes, as a technique to explore identity and the subconscious; There is effective power and freedom in exploring how you construct an image. Creating intuitive collage is a tool for self-discovery which taps deep into your self-expressive voice. No artistic skill is required. It is an opportunity to play and explore, just using magazines, papers, scissors and glue.

During this intuitive college tarot workshop you will:

Discover the power of collage as a window to the surreal, a tool for protest and an expression of identity
Meet like-minded folk ready to unlock their inner-creative
Tap into your own unique power archetypes through collage
Understand that healing can involve releasing energy, transforming energy, or embracing something new
You’ll be able to take your creation home at the end

My pay scale is sliding depending on the context (between voluntary and £250 a day plus preparation. There are a lot of hours that go into preparing a workshop). Ideally I’d like to be paid well and cover costs, but can work to your budget. Get in touch to discuss.

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