Nature Encounters with artist Kay Walsh. In a series of workshops, we will be exploring the green spaces within the local area.

Using Gibbons Rent as our inspiration, we will be exploring mark making techniques using water inks and wax resist to create abstracted botanical images.

Through the use of alternative drawing materials and scale we will explore new ways of looking and imaging this hidden pocket garden within the urban landscape.

Nature Encounters workshops will enable participants to engage with the urban environment in and around the Tower Bridge area through observation and creative practices.

Being in nature has many benefits to our often fast paced lives from living in a built up urban area. By slowing down, noticing changes, using all our senses to tune into nature, breathing spaces can emerge from this often stressful environment. Health benefits of green bathing are well documented and even a few minutes around trees or focussed time in nature can benefit our well being.

Each workshop is designed to offer a shifting perspective connecting us to place and time. We will invite participants to explore their relationship to urban nature, to stop, look and immerse in the surprising landscape on their doorstep through creative workshops.

Artist Bio

Kay Walsh has exhibited both nationally and internationally and has investigated ideas of nature and our impact on places and spaces within it.

Using photography, video, sound and text her work explores narratives that exist within specific landscapes.

Slow movement and slow looking take the viewer on a journey in search of something often hidden or hard to find.

In her film 'All His Rights' ideas of sustainability, and rewilding are explored through social history, ecology and environmental concerns raised around the Red Deer.

Current work focuses on light that occupies the spaces within a domestic setting. Documenting the changing occupation of a family home through photography and text.