Finding Your Creative Voice Course, with Carys Wilson
A 10-week course you to start, revisit or build your practice
with a greater sense of confidence and identity
£315 per person
Tuesday mornings, 9:45-12:15 starting 4th November 2025
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This course has a mixture of practical tasks to help kickstart your own practice, alongside group critiques and regular individual tutorials in a supportive and nurturing environment. Each session is designed to help give you direction within your own work, discuss the positives and challenges of revisiting and developing ones practice, and practical guidance to help find solutions. Working with a professional artist and experienced teacher, you will develop your own work, talk about your work, become your own problem solver, and explore stepping outside your creative comfort zone. A balance between practical workshops using a range of materials alongside a personalised approach to enabling you to develop your own work.
The first block of 5 sessions will run from 4th November - 2nd December. The second block of 5 sessions will run from 13th January 2026 - 10th February 2026.
To register your interest and book a space on the course, please email laura@studiokind.org.uk before the 12th October. Spaces will be limited to 12 so that all students get plenty of one-on-one time with Carys.
Session 1:
Introduction to course and outline of what to expect each session and the general pattern of the sessions. Brief introduction to Carys' practice / background. Participants to identify where they are at the moment with their own practice, where they would like to be in their practice, and future aims. Fun, experimental drawing tasks to introduce the group to each other, interspersed with group discussions about keeping a sketchbook, opportunities for visual research in everyday life, self made pressures and judgments, ways of changing our thought patterns, picking up threads or starting from scratch?, shelving your thoughts and just making. Materials provided.
Session 2: Group session with a focus on loosening up, welcoming 'happy accidents', letting go of outcomes, controlling and relinquishing control in our work. Practical session: ink drawings on wet paper, drawing back into images with wet and dry media. Materials provided.
Session 3: Participants to bring their own work with them to work on during the session. Supportive group critique. Individual tutorials: How do you respond to your own work? In which direction do you want to push your work? How can you achieve this? Practical individual advice. Participants to bring in own materials. Basic materials also provided.
Session 4: Getting to know your materials: Discussion on how / what you make / environmental impact and if this of importance to you. Leading into a gesso / egg tempera workshop. End with discussion on use of materials in own practice, why these materials are important to you.
Session 5: Where do you sit? Who are your role models? The importance of looking at art, and becoming saturated by looking at art. How can we learn from the artists / writers / people we admire? Leading into a practical session about being a 'creative magpie' and making drawings from, and learning from the work of others. Materials provided.
Session 6: Group critique: participants to present a small selection of the work they have made recently. Continuation of own work, alongside individual tutorials. Reflect upon aims set at previous tutorial and revisit these aims or set new aims. Participants to bring in their own materials. Basic materials also provided.
Session 7: Life drawing session: highlighting the importance of looking, regardless of whether one's own practice is working from observation or not. Short poses initially, using a range of media and experimental techniques, leading into some more sustained drawings. Materials provided.
Session 8: Drawing from nonvisual observation: practical drawing workshop focussing on sound, touch, memory, feeling, intuition, breathing. Discussion surrounding self imposed restrictions, breaking habits, stepping outside our comfort zones. Session to focus on continuing of own work, alongside individual tutorials. Reflect upon aims set at previous tutorial and revisit these aims or set new aims, depending on how participants feel. Basic materials provided.
Session 9: All participants to bring in a selection of drawings / photos they have made independently away from these sessions. Practical workshop based on how we use our initial sketches, note taking, photos etc and moving away from the initial imagery and starting to have a conversation with or work rather than the original starting point. Participants to bring in their own materials.
Session 10: Working on own work, individual tutorials, targets set for independent work. Discussions to surround where / what next, how to nourish and sustain one's practice, hitting brick walls and practical solutions to moving forward, discussing problems that ALL artists face, regardless of how successful they are, suggestions for further reading. Participants to bring in their own materials. Basic materials also provided.
Showcase of work. Group discussion on moving forward and creating positive habits, carving out regular time to make, discipline, revisit themes discussed during the course i.e. getting stuck and moving your work on, identity and making yourself visible as an artist, how do you want to present yourself?
About Carys:
Carys Wilson is a draughtswoman and painter, based in Penwith, West Cornwall, UK. She received her BA (Hons) Fine Art from Kent Institute of Art and Design and achieved her MA Fine Art with Distinction from Aberystwyth University in 2022. Carys has exhibited her work internationally and attended residencies in England, Wales, Cyprus and Spain. She was a recent recipient of the Cultivator Cornwall Programme, alongside participating in FLAMM in 2023 and initiating the recent 'Walking Women' project at Falmouth Art Gallery.
Carys’ practice stems from a background of disciplined academic drawing and working directly from observation has always remained central to her practice. Running and walking in the wilds of Cornwall/Devon are at the core of Carys’ practice. Carys is exploring her own specifically female experience, by pushing her body physically and emotionally, as her paintings become direct responses to, and memories of, her relationship with her body and the land. Embodiment of landscape (bodyscape) is central to understanding herself and her sense of place, connection and belonging.
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An experienced teacher, Carys has a background in Secondary, Higher and Further Education, working in both state and private sectors. She has facilitated projects in community environments for both children and adults, and her workshops have a strong emphasis on developing confidence, embracing process and getting to know one's materials through drawing, painting and printmaking.