Creativity Through Nature

Foraged, Recycled and Natural Mixed-Media Art

Ann Blockley

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English

Batsford Ltd
05 July 2021

Art & design styles: Arts & Crafts style; Art techniques & principles; Handicrafts, decorative arts & crafts

A passionate and purposeful book on finding real creativity through nature.

An essential book for our times and all artists at whatever level. In her most passionate and personal book to date, acclaimed watercolour artist Ann Blockley takes both budding and more experienced artists through a series of ideas for working with nature - in its widest sense - to nurture our creativity, inspire us, make us more sustainable artists, and replenish energy and flow when our artistic streams run dry.

In 'Go Outside and Play', the author exhorts artists to recapture a fun, nopressure way of being outside and use that feeling when creating. In 'Connecting Materials to Place' she creates her own paint from the local pond. In 'The Slow Movement', the artist reveals her year of working on a specific local hedgerow and painting a series of different interpretation in its every-changing detail. She created regular creative rituals, using her weekly playing card as a starting point for a new painting to reflect the season each week. She reuses old paintings, and tissue and paper - wabi-sabi style - to create new textures and even new paintings.

Including work from other artists as well as her own, she shows the ideas and work from textile and mixed-media artists. From allotment inspiration to reusing old painting and from nature prints to the alchemy of found materials, this is a journey to find new creativity through our connection with our natural world.

By: Ann Blockley
Imprint: Batsford Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 276mm, Width: 216mm,
ISBN: 9781849946490
ISBN 10: 1849946493
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 05 July 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ann Blockley is a well-known watercolourist with an international reputation. She is author of seven bestselling practical art books, including Experimental Flowers in Watercolour and Experimental Landscapes in Watercolour, both published by Batsford. Ann runs her own very popular watercolour courses, teaches at international workshops, has made three DVDs of her painting techniques and regularly writes for The Artist magazine. She lives in Gloucestershire.

Reviews for Creativity Through Nature: Foraged, Recycled and Natural Mixed-Media Art

‘[An] impassioned paean to recycled papers, foraged materials and mindful methods’ -- Artists & Illustrators ‘A plea to all to stimulate creativity by rejuvenating out awareness of nature … illustrated throughout with Ann’s wonderfully evocative paintings’ -- Leisure Painter 'Genuinely fascinating and enlightening’ – Henry Malt' -- The Artist