These cookies are absolutely essential for our website to function properly.
We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on user needs.
These cookies may be set by third party websites and do things like measure how you view YouTube videos.
🔍 Discover and Explore
Gwen John is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Her work is held in collections worldwide with the largest and most important collection of her work is in Amgueddfa Cymru: National Museum Cardiff.
Gwen John developed a unique coding system for her art to help her record the tones and colours of her sketches and paintings. Her system has never been deciphered... Can you crack the code?
✏️ Take Part
In this hands-on workshop we will be discovering Gwen John’s use of colour in Amgueddfa Cymru’s blockbuster exhibition, Gwen John: Strange Beauties. This exhibition brings together rarely seen sketches and drawings that reveal her unique creative processes.
Learners will then explore colour theory and how Gwen John used this in her own unique coding system in our art activity space, before engaging in a practical activity to design and develop their own personal colour palette.
ℹ️ About This Session
Please let us know when you are booking if you have any pupils that would be sensitive to these experiences, and we will do our best to make everyone feel comfortable!
Expressive Arts
Exploring the expressive arts is essential to developing artistic skills and knowledge and it enables learners to become curious and creative individuals.
Responding and reflecting, both as artist and audience, is a fundamental part of learning in the expressive arts.
Creating combines skills and knowledge, drawing on the senses, inspiration and imagination.
Health and Wellbeing
How we process and respond to our experiences affects our mental health and emotional well-being.
Humanities
Enquiry, exploration and investigation inspire curiosity about the world, its past, present and future.
Informed, self-aware citizens engage with the challenges and opportunities that face humanity, and are able to take considered and ethical action.
Languages, Literacy and Communication
Languages connect us.
Mathmatics and Numeracy
The number system is used to represent and compare relationships between numbers and quantities.
Algebra uses symbol systems to express the structure of mathematical relationships.
Science and Technology
Being curious and searching for answers is essential to understanding and predicting phenomena.
Design thinking and engineering offer technical and creative ways to meet society’s needs and wants.
To make a booking and talk to someone about this session phone (029) 2057 3240 or email educationmail@museumwales.ac.uk
