
We have some fabulous free Creative Community Workshops coming up…
23 May – 6 July
Sequential Illustration Workshop: A Moment at Chew Valley Lake
Join Keri Green for an exciting workshop, exploring the basic principles behind charming, sequential illustrations. With a degree in sequential illustration and over 10 year’s experience in the industry, Keri will guide you through this half day workshop.
Based on the theme ‘A moment at Chew Valley Lake’, you will have the opportunity to create your very own sequence of images, beautifully capturing a moment or passing of time at the lake. Delve into how imagery, scale and colour can convey emotion, movement and tell a story.
This is a workshop for all abilities, if you have the opportunity to do so, take photographs of the lake, surrounding area, its wildlife or anything that takes your interest prior to this workshop, as these can be used as great starting points. Otherwise, references will be provided.
Keri Green, Illustrator @kerigreenillustrator
Hi! I’m Keri Green, an illustrator and designer based on the foot of the Mendip Hills. After graduating with a first-class Honours Degree in Illustration, I returned to Bristol where I worked as a lead designer and illustrator for over 10 years.
Now a full-time picture book and educational illustrator, I have had the pleasure to work with a range of publishers including Macmillan and Oxford books, as well as work on projects for Disney and Dreamworks.
I create the majority of my work using Procreate and the Adobe suites, whilst still dabbling in traditional media of colour pencil and watercolour crayon.
Image credit Meg Lovell @meglovellphoto

Fish Scales Workshop
Time to get arty and help us to create the colourful, large-scale puppet fish of the Rising Waters community play! Make your fish scale as part of this workshop and it’ll be added onto our puppet who will perform to audiences at Yeo Valley Organic Garden in Blagdon on the 13th and 14th July 2024.
All ages and experience levels welcome! The perfect inclusive and engaging workshop for families, little ones and adults alike. Led by Chew Valley professional artist, Giuliana Terran @giulianaterranartist.

Creative Clay Workshop: Rivers & Lakes
For this workshop, Giuliana will be using locally sourced clay from nearby rivers to make clay motifs, inspired by our rivers. These could be fish, plants, birds, people swimming, a boat or something personal to you. Even a plastic bottle to represent water pollution or something thought provoking. After they have dried they will be hung from trees as part of the rising waters performance in July.
Giuliana Terran
Giuliana studied art history in Italy, specialising in Florentine art from the 1500s.
She is focused on figurative art, exploring different body types such as age, size, sexuality and gender. She seeks to represent these bodies with an intimate and honest approach. She is particularly drawn to exploring societies impressions of people, specifically those considered ‘other’.
Having studied various techniques of the old masters, she has taken influence from these for her work in oil paint, pastel and charcoal, exploiting such materials to convey skin tone and the visceral nature of flesh.
Recently she is exploring natural art materials from the landscape around us, and how they can be used in pastel making particularly.
She runs life drawing classes at the RWA, Bristol Museum, Watershed and locally in the Chew Valley. She also runs Bristol Portrait Club at the Arnolfini.
