Education

I am both a working artist and a qualified teacher (PGCE Art and Design) with experience in working with children and young adults of all ages and abilities in many areas of creative art. I am CRB vetted and can supply full references.

I am experienced in working alongside Primary and Secondary teachers and pupils, mostly in the Stockport area, and through Stockport Continuing Education Services I have also held family learning workshops. I firmly believe that using working artists within schools can help to develop pupils' creative work.

I enjoy working in a wide range of media and have a variety of themes and topics to make the necessary links with national curriculum requirements.

Workshops held have included the following projects;

• ‘Hand-made’ Sketchbook construction and development
• Paper batik (no hot wax involved)
• Monoprinting
• Painting and colour mixing
• Mixed media, including experimental drawing and collage
• African Art, Sri Lanka,
• Christmas Story (pop up book)
• LS Lowry /Aztec art / cakes (handmade sketchbooks, mixed media painting)
• Illustration/collage workshop based on Alice in Wonderland
• Scary mythical Greek beasts /Self-portraits! (Experimental drawing with handmade drawing tools and inks)
• Insects (experimental drawing and wire construction)
• Gustav Klimt, Paul Klee, Gaudi

My real passion is collograph printing; I have a small-ish (but still quite heavy!) portable intaglio printing press. Do please view my website for images and a description of the collograph printing process, it is not as complicated as it looks! In addition I hold regular weekend adult printmaking workshops from my studio in Hallam Mill in Heavily/ Davenport area.

I am happy to discuss your initial ideas and make suggestions regarding themes, artists, dates and day plans. I have some more information including some images about my workshops on my website http://www.joannaallen.co.uk For more information please contact me by phone on 0161 476 2153

Alternatively email me via joannaallen7@hotmail.co.uk I can send additional images by email if you like, or visit your school with a portfolio of work.

Approximate cost of a day’s workshop is £200 not including extra costs e.g. printing paper, materials, inks, etc.