Join artist Lucia Vinti for an evening of sipping and sketching at The Courtauld’s Art Café. Taking inspiration from Louise Bourgeois: Drawings from the 1960s, the event will allow attendees to delve into their own creative practice.
In this exhibition abstract shapes, predominantly round and colourful, occupy small and large sheets of paper. ‘Drawings are thought feathers’ Bourgeois said, ‘ideas that I seize in mid-flight and put down on paper’. Drawn in rhythmic movements, these drawings reflect the spontaneity of Bourgeois’s mark-making and reveal an artist who was less concerned with a finished product, but rather with the immediacy of the experience. For Bourgeois, the abstract drawings ‘come from a deep need to achieve peace, rest, and sleep. They… relate to unconscious memories’.
All materials will be provided and refreshments will be available to purchase at the bar.
Lucia Vinti is a London-based illustrator who makes work about people, places, food and culture. Working primarily by hand using pencil, paint and collage, she creates playful and expressive illustrations based on her observations. Selected clients include TATE and the National Trust. When she isn’t scribbling away in her studio, Lucia runs fun and accessible art workshops for people of all ages and abilities and teaches illustration at City Lit and the University of Falmouth.
Image: Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010), Untitled, 1968, Watercolor on paper, 48.3 x 62.9 cm, Photo: Christopher Burke, © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by DACS, UK and VAGA at ARS, NY
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