Upcycled: A Transformation. Workshop with Bernard Ferguson

Join Artsjunktion at C2 Centre for Craft on Tuesday, September 17th from 1pm to 4pm, with mixed-media artist Bernard Ferguson, for a special workshop Upcycled - A Transformation.  

Vintage materials are time capsules embedded with their own history and stories that often lure and evoke us into a dialogue to translate and express. The fragments of text and imagery from another era mingles with our consciousness and arrives on the surface in a hybrid abstract poetic form.  The workshop will be directed at creating and transforming upcycled mixed media materials into a reclaimed abstract art piece in a frame. After laying down a backdrop of collaged paper and paint, the process will delve into a raw automatic and intuitive approach to capture an authentic expression through tearing, meditative scribbling, and mark making with different mediums to express something innate or in the moment. People are encouraged to work on…