Workshops

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]