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The Gentle Painting Project

August 23 @ 10:00 am

The Gentle Painting Project

We want your Earths, Clays and rocks! SPAN invites you
to join Rhiannon Rees’s gentle painting
project to map out your Pembrokeshire.

We are delighted to invite you to participate in Rhiannon Rees’s
Gentle Painting Project as part of SPAN Arts’ 2024 Love Stories to Nature
program. For our latest commission for Love Stories to Nature, artist Rhiannon
Rees is running a gentle painting project and for this we are collecting dry
soil, rocks and pebbles from around Pembrokeshire.

Rhiannon Rees’s site-responsive practice merges her interest in
sustainable painting practices with her Welsh heritage. Foraging for pigments
and creating Welsh paints is key, it allows her to connect with her ancestorial
land. Once, one side of her family mined the Welsh land, and the other farmed
the land
. Rhiannon spends time in locations
across Wales collecting industrial waste and natural materials to form her
gentle paints.
Gentle Painting is Rhiannon uses gentle painting as a way of engaging
with the land, and as a way to bring this connection into her studio.

The Gentle Painting Project invites
Pembrokeshire communities to map the beautiful colours of their home county. We
invite you all to send a small sample of earth, rock or clay from your garden
to add to a pallet of sustainable paints which will be made and used in
workshops to map out Pembrokeshire using its own colours.

Please send your dried earth samples in a
sealed bag, within in a letter that can fit through a letterbox to: The Gentle
Painting Project,
SPAN Arts, Towns
Moor, Moorfield Rd, Narberth.SA67 7AG by the 10th of August. In your letter detail
your sample location so we can add it to the map. You can also drop off your
sample at the SPAN building on Wednesdays between 10am and 5pm or bring your
sample directly to a workshop.

Rhiannon
will be holding two workshops in St Davids and Span Arts, where communities are
invited to learn how to make gentle paints using the earths collected from
their samples. The project will end with a tea and painting party where
everyone will be able to use the gentle paints to share their own love stories
to Pembrokeshire.


Event
Details

Deadline for
postal earth samples: August 10th 2024


Workshops:

10am-12pm,
Friday 23rd August, St Davids Memorial Hall, High Street, St Davids. SA62 6SD

10am-12pm,18th
August, SPAN Arts Building,
Town Moor, Narberth. SA67 7AG


Final tea party
and sharing of project:

12:30pm –
3:30pm, 28th September, Templeton Community Hall,
Templeton, Narberth
SA67 8SB


Pricing: FREE


Book: Advanced booking required.

Details

Date:
August 23
Time:
10:00 am
Website:
https://span-arts.ticketsolve.com/shows/873662908/events/129559050

Venue

Templeton Village Hall
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