Tim Johnson (Newcastle, 1967) is an English artist and basket maker based in Spain, in Vilanova i la Geltrú since 2012. His artistic research explores the relationship of different techniques with the environment from which the materials are extracted, their imprint on the traditions of each place and the relationships between distant places in Europe. All of this, combined with his drive for experimentation and innovation, results in a highly personal body of work that moves into sculptural territory. Johnson combines his artistic work with training through workshops and is an experimented tutor. He has been awarded the prestigious Marsh Award for Excellence in Gallery Education and several awards for his baskets in Spain and Poland.

In the 1970’s Polish fibre artist Tadek Beutlich moved from England to Spain. In the process he left behind his traditional techniques and an established tapestry studio and innovated a new way to think about tapestry as an off-loom, free form sculptural technique.Since 2020 Tim Johnson has been researching Tadek’s Beutlich’s unpublished manuscript Free Warp Tapestry left behind in his studio when he died in 2011. 

In this workshop you will work with rush, beaten esparto grass and a variety of coloured threads and yarns to create three dimensional fibre sculpture. We will explore and combine Tadek’s innovations with wrapping and binding, cordage making, twining, and soumak.

The workshop will be taught in English. The workshop will last 3 days / 8 hours per day including lunch and will be taught in English.

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