Creative Experience of the Natural Environment: From Drawing to Animation

Discover how drawing can become a way of experiencing and connecting with the natural world around you. This workshop invites you to explore drawing as both trace and memory of your encounter with nature, a living mark that not only records experience but also explains and communicates it.

We will look beyond the hand that draws, considering the whole body and its relationship with the environment it inhabits and explores.

During the first two blocks, you will develop your own personal style while experimenting with different ways of linking drawing and nature. Through techniques such as frottage and mark-making, you will create unique visual impressions in dialogue with the landscape.

In the final block, we will move into the realm of motion, exploring how movement and rhythm connect nature and the human experience, even the unseen. You will experiment with sequence and transformation using techniques like experimental stop-motion animation, flip-books, and serial or polyptych compositions.

Join us to draw, move, and animate your way through the living rhythms of the natural world.

ABOUT YOUR TUTOR

Dr Rebeca Font is an artist, scenographer, and architect from Barcelona, now based in Forres, Scotland. She holds a PhD in Art from Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (UK), and a degree in Architecture from the ETSAB- Barcelona School of Architecture (Spain).

She lectures on undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Design, teaching in the areas of Art (Tools, Materials and Techniques), Spatial Design, and Graphic Design.

Her research explores the relationship between body and environment, focusing on drawing, movement, and light as forms of communication, interpretation, and development. She has led workshops, collective experiences, and talks on spatial perception and understanding through drawing in Barcelona, England, India, China and Argentina.

Her artistic practice includes works, projections, and performances that interweave drawing, calligraphy, and language -including a collaborative performance with Zhang Qiang at Tate Modern, Tate Exchange, London.