Afternoon linocut workshop led by artist Zara Wilkins to create handmade Christmas cards inspired by Eric Ravilious's festive prints.
Towner Eastbourne is running a linocut Christmas card workshop on Friday 6 November, from 12.00pm to 4.00pm. It's a four-hour session with a break built in, and it's led by artist Zara Wilkins. The whole thing is built around the prints of Eric Ravilious, one of Eastbourne's most celebrated artists, whose work the Towner has long held the largest collection of.
During the session, you'll look at Ravilious's festive imagery and winter scenes, specifically the way he used dots, dashes and lines — a style he developed through wood engraving. While Ravilious worked in woodblock, this workshop uses linocut, which is easier to master in a single afternoon and open to complete beginners. You'll carve one or two designs, print them in different colours and turn them into handmade Christmas cards. There's larger paper on hand if you want to make wrapping paper too, and you take the blocks home with you. All materials are provided, so you just need to turn up.
Zara Wilkins runs the session; she's a multidisciplinary artist who graduated in illustration in 2019 and has been teaching adult beginners for over three years. The workshop was timed to align with the Towner's Christmas Fair, which opens to the public that same evening from 4.00pm to 7.00pm, so you can head straight from the studio to the fair.
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It's £65 for the afternoon, and the Towner is on College Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 4JJ.
