Future Programs:

RESTORATION / 6-week program

With each drawing there is marking, making, mending, unmaking, remaking, and rest. Drawings are full of lines of connection that weave together across a surface.

Our lines of connection can be many things from thick tarry slugs of line to threads of silk woven together like whispery cobwebs. They can be like temporary trails in the sky marked by an aeroplane, or permanent scars creased deep with time. Our lines can be performative, acted out in space and time to audience, or as quiet and domestic as criss-crosses in a chopping board. With our lines we build shapes, tones, colours, images, words, and most importantly meaning. Our lines of connection can become confused and broken.

Restoration aims to support how to reconnect and restore new connections through a program of shared drawing experiences
and dialogue. 

Join us to explore how each drawing is a net we have made and mended to catch something of value to us. We cover and uncover a drawing with tones and erasures. We flood and dry out a drawing with washes. We can cut, score, unravel, stich together or repair an image. We invite you to consider how with each mark we make, we are mending, returning, and restoring something to ourselves. 

RESTORATION will begin at the start of the year, a time for repair and restoration. In the northern hemisphere our winter hibernations are at their deepest before the light begins to return, the soil begins to warm where we sense the Imbolc stirrings of early spring energy. When we look around us there is so much damage in our troubled world, things broken or not taken care of.
We will look at drawing practice as an encouragement for us to take more care, mend something.

RESTORATION will ask if drawing can support some mending of our damaged environment. The healing process begins with noticing. Drawing is a tool of noticing, a tool of restoration. A drawing practice helps us create an empathetic feedback loop between us and nature and the ecologies we are part of.

RESTORATION will invite you to carefully unpick the rules that you apply to your drawing, and the rules that others use to make theirs, gently taking them apart to re-imagine them and start something new. What does time spent drawing return and restore to you?

Deadline: 24th November 2024
Selected Participants Informed: 2nd December 2024

Introductory Session: 16th December 2024

Start date: 6th January 2025
End date: 21st February 2025

see How to Apply

Drawing Correspondence 1-2-1 Mentoring Sessions
These Individual Mentoring sessions are bookable hour-long session that support the critical development of your Drawing practice. The conversation will take place online, followed up with a written summary of the conversation.

Current Mentors:
Chloe Briggs
Tania Kovats

Bookable on request :

Cost : £120 per hour

How to Apply :
Participants send their chosen mentor : 5 X images of their recent work as a PDF, CV, and artist statement that shares their current focus.

Email : Drawing Correspondence with subject line ‘1-2-1 Mentoring Request’


Drawing Correspondence Membership :
We are developing a Drawing Correspondence Membership Scheme.
This will connect our members to our network and wider drawing community, with special membership events, newsletters, and promotional exchanges. The membership scheme will also help fund our bursaries for programs.