Creative Paper-making for adults – this session is full but if you’d like to be placed on a waitlist, or notified of a future class, please email us at admin@warwickcfa.org

Instructor: Patricia Cheyne

Date: Saturday, January 28th

Time: 1:00 – 4:00

Workshop Fee: $40 Members / $60 Non-members

In this three-hour workshop, we will be making personalized handmade paper that can be used in decorations, collages, prints, cards, writing paper, Mixed Media art, and even sculpture. We will start off by making paper sheets from the pulp of cotton, recycled paper, and plant materials. Next, we will move on to explore the expressive qualities of paper-making by using embedding, embossing, and laminating methods. You will leave the workshop with the knowledge of how to make paper and the ability to make more paper at home.

About the Instructor: Patricia Cheyne

Patricia has an extensive art career in printmaking, artist books, paper making, and mixed media. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. She is originally from New England where she developed a love of nature that is reflected in her art. Patricia has taught art to all populations from preschool to adults. She is a Professor Emeritus who taught drawing, design, design, printmaking, printmaking, paper making, artist books, letterpress, and art history at Pacific University for 20 years.

Patricia Cheyne

 cheynepatricia@gmail.com

  My artwork is a mix of landscapes, soulscapes, and mythscapes.

 I am influenced by immediate visual experiences–such as forests and valleys, and shores. This kind of nature has been an inspiration to me from an early age growing up in New England. From my youngest memories I have been fascinated by the texture and ruggedness of the stone fields and rock walls that are everywhere in this landscape.

I consider much of my work as landscape, but I am drawn less to the panoramic and more to the immediate and close range experience. I like that particular view where the forest changes into trees, mountains into rocks, realism into abstraction. To me landscapes have subjective states that can symbolize the internal life of the human experience.

My artwork is mixed media. These pieces are a combination of printmaking, natural dyeing, handmade paper, slow stitching and other collage materials. In all these materials I’m interested in the textures of the artwork, in its physicality. I want my work to appeal to the viewer viscerally as well as spiritually.

Patricia Cheyne: Patricia has an extensive art career in printmaking, artist books, paper making and mixed media. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. She is originally from New England where she developed a love of nature that is reflected in her art. Patricia has taught art to all populations from preschool to adults. She is a Professor Emeritus who taught drawing, design, design, printmaking, printmaking, paper making, artist books, letterpress, and art history at Pacific University for 20 years. She now teaches a variety of workshops at Multnomah Art Center. She will also be teaching at Whiteaker Printmakers in the spring. The workshops will be one Saturday of paper making on March 16 10 -4 and the next Saturday will be about collagraph printmaking on March 23 10-4 .

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

1997- present     Print Arts Northwest

1993 – present  Los Angeles Printmakers Society. 

EDUCATION:

1992 M.F.A. Terminal degree in Interdisciplinary studies (drawing, printmaking and    women studies) University of Colorado. Boulder, CO.

1988 M.A.L.S.   Graduate Degree in art history. Wesleyan University. Middletown, CT 

1978 B.F.A.Undergraduate degree in art education. University of Hartford. Hartford, CT.

 ART TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 

2015-present  Multinomah Art Center. Portland OR. Workshop Instructor, Paper Making, Artist Books, Drawing, and Painting.

1994-2015     Pacific University. Forest Grove, OR. Professor Emeritus of Printmaking, Drawing, Book Arts, Letterpress, Design, Art History Foundation, Women Art, and Art Education, Fiber Arts.  

1991- 2016  University of Colorado, Continuing Education Department.Instructor evaluating studio arts lessons and papers in the “Art in the Elementary Classroom” and “Basic Drawing” courses