Newbury the international centre of urban sketching retreat for coming week
The excitement of sketching together is the shared experience of a place, the discovery through looking and recording what you feel.
Story Telling in 3 Acts is a week long international urban sketching retreat being held in Newbury from tomorrow (Saturday, July 13) to 20 July, with sketching leaders Inma Serrano, Victor Swasky and Santi Salles.
The team at Pushing Your Sketching Boundaries is very happy to return to Newbury after eight years to teach another of their multi-day sketching courses. In 2016 their Pushing How to Look course allowed 30 participants from as far as Norway, Ireland or US, as well as various UK cities.
This week Inma Serrano, Victor Swasky and Santi Salles, will be leading their groups in a sketching retreat about story telling, allowing participants from UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, Canada and US to discover Newbury and beyond through exercises in sketching. The retreat will be based at City Arts Newbury.
For those that want to learn more about urban sketching and storytelling, the exhibition Story Telling is running concurrently at City Arts, in Hampton Road, showcasing a variety of Inma Serrano, Victor Swasky, Santi Salles and Newbury artist Isabel Carmona’s drawings telling stories of places each in their own inimitable styles.
The Story Telling exhibition is free to visit and is open to the public Thursday to Sundays 10am to 4pm to Sunday, July 21.
“We can’t wait to see the filled sketchbooks at the end of the course and to welcome the international visitors to enjoy their sketching retreat in Newbury. You may see them as you walk around Newbury next week, hopefully in the sun, drawing what they see and experience to take home great memories of Newbury,” said Isabel.
PYSB link to course details - https://pushingyoursketchingboundaries.com/2023/12/05/pysb-storytelling-3-acts-newbury-2024/
City Arts Newbury – information about the Exhibition is available here: https://cityartsnewbury.org/2024/05/12/storytelling-exhibition/
More about Pushing Your Sketching Boundaries:
Isabel Carmona (Newbury) and Victor Swasky (Barcelona) founded Pushing Your Sketching Boundaries in 2014 and they are celebrating 10 years of teaching more than 500 people throughout the world about urban sketching in locations from Rotterdam to Bonn, Valencia to Berlin, Sevilla to Barcelona, London and Newbury.
Their first workshop in 2014 took place in Oxford, where they joined Miguel Herranz for their first intensive three-day workshop entitled Pushing Your Sketching Boundaries.
Since then their workshops themes include Space Oddities (Coventry 2015, Barcelona 2017 and Valencia 2019), Watermarks (Segovia 2015, Barcelona 2018), Drawing People (Brighton 2016, Berlin 2017, London 2019, Brussels 2023), Pushing How to Look (Newbury 2016, Sevilla 2018, Bonn 2019, Online 2021), Light and Colour (Malaga 2016, Cadiz 2018, Mallorca 2023) and now Story Telling – Newbury 2024.
Isabel and Swasky have collaborated with other renowned international sketchers including Miguel Herranz (Spain), Simone Ridyard (Manchester), Mercedes Carmona (Madrid), Inma Serrano (Sevilla), Rolf Schroeter (Berlin), Luis Ruiz (Malaga), Lapin (Barcelona), Celia Burgos (Cadiz), Marion Rivolier (Paris), Nina Johansson (Stockholm), Hugo Costa(Valencia), Maru Godas (Barcelona), Marina Grechanik (Tel Aviv) and Santi Salles (Barcelona).
In 2023 PYSB joined forces with the Foundation Dionis Bennassar in Mallorca to offer their first week long retreat, which pushed them to offer the same in Newbury.
Pushing Your Sketching Boundaries website: https://pushingyoursketchingboundaries.com/
City Arts events coming up:
August 5 Chalkfest at the Market Place
August 6-8 - Summer Camp Art Days at City Arts - link to the Children's Summer at City Arts here: https://cityartsnewbury.org/childrens-summer-at-city-arts/
