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Gillian Ayres workshop with the Youth Forum and Catrin Llwyd

Sian Lile-Pastore, 23 May 2017

Artist Catrin Llwyd worked with National Museum Cardiff's Youth Forum to discuss the amazing Gillian Ayres exhibition. The group experimented with using paint in different ways - thinking about texture and colour and trying to paint without using a brush!

First of all though we wanted the group to look at Gillian Ayres' paintings in detail, so we spent quite a bit of time discussing her work and coming up with words that described the paintings or words that described our thoughts and feelings when looking at the paintings.

I loved some of the words and thoughts they came up with - put together some of them are like cut-up poems.

Movement, nature, feeling, loud, childish?, texture, grafitti, complex.

Hills by the sea, Stream by rocks, colours of fields, washing in the stream, trees at night, enter the party, spice the reaped veggies.

Bodily Void, tacit, bold, rhythmic, encompassing.

Broad in strokes - almost dramatically, serene in a simple context, could it be based on some musical tune?

Painting, emulates, colour, palette

The shapes and colours have caught my interest.

Biology, nature, microbes, petri dishes, flowers,  oil spill, slick, leech, leak

Swish, stroke, splash, squiggle, swoosh, colour, video games, fireworks, graffiti, rivers, tripipy, unconstrained, free, flowing, flowers, fields, libearl, splodge, neon, bold, trees, sheep, bright, colourful, kaleidoscopic, happy, uplifting, free.

 

Sian Lile-Pastore

Senior Learning, Participation and Interpretation Officer
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