This course will open up again in Autumn 2025
Unforced Rhythms of Place
An online course that will help you explore the many layers of a chosen place. You will consider what your relationship is to that place and how you are connected by using all of your senses. Once you have collected a body of marks and ‘stuff’, you will be gently guided through a process of selection and piecing together one or more keepsakes that encompass that relationship.
By the end of the course:
You will be able to make a wide range of marks in response to your senses.
You will be able to make paper and ink simply at home.
You will also have a good knowledge of a range of book structures and be able to fold them yourself to create your own unique keepsakes.
You will also receive a collection of five pdf booklets with detailed instructions for all the processes we will explore along with a selection of worksheets detailing markmaking exercises. These will build up, along with the lesson and prompt for each week, into a complete work book that can guide you through many projects in the future way beyond the six weeks of this course.
No experience is necessary but a willingness to explore and experiment is essential!
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Six Weeks:
Week 1 CHOOSE – Listen to your heart, which place? Make marks in response to sound.
Week 2 COLLECT – Touch your collection. Learn to make paper. Make marks in response to touch.
Week 3 COLLAGE – See connections. Make marks in response to really seeing.
Week 4 CONSIDER – Smell the possibilities. Learn to make colour from plants.
Week 5 COMBINE – Taste the joy of your outcome. Learn all about making folded books.
Week 6 CURATE – Listen, touch, see, smell, taste. Enjoy your final collection!
What students have said…
Your course was excellent and reverberating still. I was at the cottage and seeing things in a different way and patterns in unexpected places. The sounds are different too.
Gaynor Kitchener
Thank you Sarah for such a wonderful and full course. You have been very generous with content and sharing your process. All very inspiring!
Trish Rice
Thank you Sarah the course has been brilliant. Seeing all your amazing work was wonderful!
Janine Ibbini
Firstly, I wanted to say what a FABULOUS and INSPIRING 2 hours, I have totally loved it and knew a workshop with yourself was going to be brilliant so I wanted to make you aware of how much I have enjoyed it!
Isobel Denton
Thank you for today I feel very inspired already!
Jude Kingshott
There are three different price points for the course.
First Tier: Correspondence Course Only
For level one you will receive everything via emails. This includes five PDF booklets and a range of mark making worksheets, that become a complete work book through my process.
Generally, I will email you on Friday with details for the following week. This way you have time to mull over the worksheets and tasks before the week begins.
I am available to contact by email throughout the duration of the course. You can email me with any queries about the content of the emails or to get clarification if necessary.
There will be a limit of twenty-one places at this level.
Second Tier: Correspondence Course – Plus Live Zooms – Plus WhatsApp Group
For level two you receive the same as above with level one.
Plus you will be invited to five live zooms with me. These will be on:
Sunday 16th March 10.30am (Central European) 9.30am (UK time)
Sunday 23rd March 10.30am (Central European) 9.30am (UK time)
Sunday 6th April 10.30am (Central European) 9.30am (UK time)
Sunday 13th April 10.30am (Central European) 9.30am (UK time)
Sunday 27th April 10.30am (Central European) 9.30am (UK time)
Each session will be recorded and you will receive a link to view the session afterwards. These will be available for you to view at any time for six months after the session.
We will also have a WhatsApp group for this level enabling you to share your work, ask questions and get to know each other a little bit, but this is optional you don’t have to join the group if you would rather not!
There will be a limit of fourteen places for this level because I want people to be able to chat and ask questions easily during the zoom sessions.
Third Tier: Correspondence Course – Plus Live Zooms – Plus WhatsApp Group – Plus Two Hours One To One With Me
For level three you receive the same as above with level one and level two.
Plus two one hour sessions via zoom with me. This can be arranged at a time that suits you, anytime during the course. We can discuss your work, I can go over anything I have already shown you or we can talk about your general art practice, life or swap recipes! It is completely up to you how you would like to use the time, I am at your disposal.
There will only be seven places available at this level.
Cost
First Tier: Correspondence Course Only 235 € or £195
Second Tier: Correspondence Course – Plus Live Zooms – Plus WhatsApp Group 415€ or £345
Third Tier: Correspondence Course – Plus Live Zooms – Plus WhatsApp Group – Plus Two Hours One To One With Me 535€ or £445
If you would like to sign up send me an email at info@sarahgracedye.com and let me know which tier you would like to join. I will then send you payment details.
I look forward to working with you very soon!