The Time Lab: Driftmap

Join artist-designer and songwriter Stacey Joy Rossouw for a series of creative workshops inspired by The Time Lab: A Living Prelude, our new exhibition at Wordsworth Grasmere.

Learn new artistic skills and try something different – from found poetry and abstract mapping to creative writing and zine making. These hands-on workshops are inspired by the themes of time and memory found in Wordsworth’s epic poem The Prelude. Using Wordsworth’s writing as a starting point, by the end of each session you will have created your own meaningful and tangible piece of art.

Come along to one workshop or all four: each workshop is a rewarding standalone session whilst also offering a layered and cumulative experience for those who attend more than one. Workshops take place in the Learning Space and adjoining Sensory Garden, and tea and coffee are included.

Saturday 30 August, 2-4.30pm: Driftmap – Mapping the poem’s feeling

How does a poem feel? What does memory look like? In this hands-on workshop, you’ll create a Driftmap: a beautiful, abstract map of a poem’s emotional landscape. Using charcoal, pencil, and ink, we’ll explore how to represent the journey of a poem—its rhythms, moods, and textures—without drawing anything literally. The session will mix focused creative time indoors with playful prompts outside, using the shapes and feelings of nature to inspire your marks. If you joined our Driftwork session, please bring the poem that you created. New participants are warmly welcomed and will be provided with a selection of inspiring short poems to use as their map’s starting point – or you can bring some of your own work with you!

You may also like the following events from Wordsworth Grasmere:

• Next Tuesday, 29th July, 10:00 am, The Time Lab: Be Part of the Art in Coniston
• Next month, 4th August, 10:30 am, Summer Family Fun at Whitehaven Library in Whitehaven
• Next month, 16th August, 02:00 pm, The Time Lab: Driftwork in Coniston

Also check out other Arts events in Coniston, Workshops in Coniston, Exhibitions in Coniston.