CREATING MOSAIC ART
21st - 28th May 2024
DATE
21st - 28th May 2024
WHAT IS INCLUDED?
• Full-board accommodation in private ensuite twin bedroom
• 5 days’ tuition (average 4 hours per day)
• A tapas tour in Granada city (all food and drink included)
• An opportunity to display your work at local exhibition
• Excursions relevant to the Course Content (transfers and a delicious tapas lunch and drinks included)
Transfers to and from Granada Airport
WHAT’S NOT INCLUDED?
Flights
Transfers from Malaga Airport (we can arrange a taxi direct from Malaga or take a bus and collect you from Granada)
Alcoholic drinks (there is a fully stocked Honesty Bar with the finest wines and beers from Granada at the venue!)
TUTOR
KATY GALBRAITH
COURSE DETAILS
Spain has a long and rich mosaic heritage dating back to Roman times and running up to the organic architectural legacy of Antoni Gaudí. Indeed, many Roman architectural sites have been discovered in Andalucia, including some beautifully preserved mosaic floors. The museum in our course venue contains an almost complete, and beautifully detailed Roman mosaic floor recovered from a villa nearby. The tradition of mosaics has been embedded in Spanish art since then, and this course looks at more contemporary and organic design and style suitable for beginners and improvers.
This course is designed to be an introduction to Trencadís, or Pique Assiette, techniques of cutting and shaping discarded ceramics to make the pieces with which to create mosaic works of art. Students will work on a minimum of two pieces: a small, personal piece that will not be too heavy to take away at the end of the course and a bespoke element for a mosaic mural, enhancing a wall in the host village of Moclín.
The emphasis on this course is to use mosaic and the techniques of mosaic to create lasting and beautiful works of art and giving you the confidence to make your own mosaics when home.
ABOUT THE TUTOR
Starting out as a hobbyist in 2001, then part-time whilst running a B&B, Katy Galbraith switched to full-time mosaic making in 2018 on moving to the countryside near Comrie, Perthshire. Her mosaics can be purely decorative, such as a picture for a garden wall or a sculptural piece, or with a more practical purpose such as a tabletop or bathroom splashback. Her work can be seen in the National Museum of Scotland, in various community spaces and in galleries in Perthshire.
She has taught mosaic locally to various groups and been a guest tutor with Grampus Heritage in Cyprus. She has also participated in various mosaic projects and symposiums in Germany, Italy, and Tunisia.
In producing her mosaics, she aims to be true to herself and her interest in recycling and sustainability by incorporating many recycled materials, including those representing her local area or pieces donated for use by friends and family, like a traditional patchwork concept. This reuse of materials also gives her work a textural quality to it, as light bounces off the different tile facets.
The receipt of recycled materials stimulates her creative processes, often acting as a catalyst for new work. She sees working with mosaics as an evolving process, as she explores working with new materials, themes, and people.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/recycle.me.mosaics
Instagram: @recyclememosaics
COST
Price per person 1,850€ for the 7 nights to include 5 days’ tuition, full-board accommodation and materials. Participants can, of course, bring their own materials if they wish.
Flights and Alhambra tickets are not included.
A maximum of 5 participating places available on this course.
Partners, friends and family who wish to take part in the course are welcome, on the basis that they will share a twin room. Price is 1,450€ per additional person.
Non-participating partners, friends and family are more than welcome, and the price is 1,150€ per additional person sharing a double or twin ensuite room.
THE VENUE & ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation is on a full-board basis in a charming rural hotel located in the very historic village of Moclín, about 35 minutes’ drive from Granada city and airport. Guests will have private twin ensuite bedrooms (you will never be asked to share a room), all of which are spacious and very traditionally Andalucian in style. All classes will be held in the large studios in the hotel, and there will be plenty of opportunity to get out and explore the glorious surrounding countryside. The property, which is exclusively ours for the week, is arranged around a central open courtyard, has a roof terrace and is right on the edge of the village with panoramic views over the surrounding landscape.
FLIGHTS
The nearest airport is Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX). Vueling (part of IAG) flies direct routes from London Gatwick Airport to Granada.
British Airways, Jet2, EasyJet and Ryanair are just a few of the airlines that offer regular direct flights from the UK to Málaga.
A list of airlines operating at Málaga Airport (AGP) can be seen on the airport website.
For more information please contact us