No woodworking experience required.Wales-born artist Paul Bowen has spent decades collecting materials on Cape Cod and around his Vermont home to convert into unique and intriguing creations. Take your woodworking in a new direction alongside this acclaimed wood sculpture artist, in this new offering at HatchSpace.Learn. You'll learn to cut and join wood using hand tools and simple methods, both conventional and experimental to achieve surprising and satisfying results. Students will be encouraged to use drawings and small-scale 3D "sketches" in wood to inform their final pieces.Paul will also introduce the work of other sculptors working around the world to create expressive, usually structural forms, in wood. Make. You'll put discarded offcuts, scraps and other materials to good use by building one or more innovative sculptures informed by contemporary practice and your own imagination. Paul will be bringing wood materials and other found objects for participants to use in their small scale sculptures. Hand tools will be available to participants for assembly and alterations to materials.For an special introduction to Paul's work, please join us for a free event, Artist's Talk with Paul Bowen: Found Sculpture on Thursday, November 17th.Co-sponsored by the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.See Paul's work on Instagram and his website.Beginning Wood Sculpture Class with Paul BowenMonday evenings | 6pm - 9pm3 sessions: November 28; December 5, 12Cost: $191.25 members; $225 non-membersAddtl. Materials Fee: All materials are included.What to Bring: Participants are welcome to bring pieces of wood or other materials they may wish to use in their small scale wood sculptures. Financial aid may be available. Contact info@hatchspace.org for details.Guest Artist: Paul BowenPaul Bowen, who grew up in a seaside town in Wales, lived and worked near the waterfront in Provincetown on Cape Cod for 30 years. He has always been interested in material with a history—wood he has scavenged that was once part of ships, houses, salt works, barrels, cable drums, or crates. He has also worked with ships' flags, tar, canvas, rope and other marine detritus. His drawings and prints derive their imagery from his environment and he has created his own inks from squid, Xerox toner and walnuts. View Paul's work at www.paulbowen.org and on Instagram at @paulbowenartist.WaitlistOur classes are popular and fill up fast! If the class you're interested in is marked SOLD OUT, please email info@hatchspace.org to be added to our waitlist.Payment and Refund PolicyPayment is due at the time of registration. Unpaid registrations are subject to cancellation.Full refunds or a class credit can be provided if you cancel at least 14 days before the start of the class by contacting info@hatchspace.org or by calling 802-257-3935. There are no refunds, transfers, make-ups or deferments for missed classes.HatchSpace reserves the right to cancel any class for any reason. A class may be cancelled in the event the minimum number of students for the class is not reached. In this case, registrants will receive a full refund, and notified by valid email provided at registration.
No woodworking experience required.
Wales-born artist Paul Bowen has spent decades collecting materials on Cape Cod and around his Vermont home to convert into unique and intriguing creations. Take your woodworking in a new direction alongside this acclaimed wood sculpture artist, in this new offering at HatchSpace.
Learn. You'll learn to cut and join wood using hand tools and simple methods, both conventional and experimental to achieve surprising and satisfying results. Students will be encouraged to use drawings and small-scale 3D "sketches" in wood to inform their final pieces.
Paul will also introduce the work of other sculptors working around the world to create expressive, usually structural forms, in wood.
Make. You'll put discarded offcuts, scraps and other materials to good use by building one or more innovative sculptures informed by contemporary practice and your own imagination. Paul will be bringing wood materials and other found objects for participants to use in their small scale sculptures. Hand tools will be available to participants for assembly and alterations to materials.
For an special introduction to Paul's work, please join us for a free event, Artist's Talk with Paul Bowen: Found Sculpture on Thursday, November 17th.
Co-sponsored by the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.
See Paul's work on Instagram and his website.
Beginning Wood Sculpture Class with Paul Bowen
Monday evenings | 6pm - 9pm
3 sessions: November 28; December 5, 12
Cost: $191.25 members; $225 non-members
Addtl. Materials Fee: All materials are included.
What to Bring: Participants are welcome to bring pieces of wood or other materials they may wish to use in their small scale wood sculptures.
Financial aid may be available. Contact info@hatchspace.org for details.
 | Guest Artist: Paul Bowen Paul Bowen, who grew up in a seaside town in Wales, lived and worked near the waterfront in Provincetown on Cape Cod for 30 years. He has always been interested in material with a history—wood he has scavenged that was once part of ships, houses, salt works, barrels, cable drums, or crates. He has also worked with ships' flags, tar, canvas, rope and other marine detritus. His drawings and prints derive their imagery from his environment and he has created his own inks from squid, Xerox toner and walnuts. View Paul's work at www.paulbowen.org and on Instagram at @paulbowenartist. |
Waitlist Our classes are popular and fill up fast! If the class you're interested in is marked SOLD OUT, please email info@hatchspace.org to be added to our waitlist. Payment and Refund Policy Payment is due at the time of registration. Unpaid registrations are subject to cancellation. Full refunds or a class credit can be provided if you cancel at least 14 days before the start of the class by contacting info@hatchspace.org or by calling 802-257-3935. There are no refunds, transfers, make-ups or deferments for missed classes. HatchSpace reserves the right to cancel any class for any reason. A class may be cancelled in the event the minimum number of students for the class is not reached. In this case, registrants will receive a full refund, and notified by valid email provided at registration. |