Saturday Art Workshop: A Secret in a Still Life

The GHMP Education Centre at the Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace will offer a series of more technically challenging workshops. The sessions will take the form of studio-based workshops with a more traditional focus. They will cover classical painting (oil and acrylic painting techniques, portraiture, figure painting, composition, drapery and details within paintings) as well as experimental work (contemporary approaches to painting, shifts in the rendering of details towards abstraction, distortions of colour and form, shifts towards comic-strip style, etc.). Across four Saturday art workshops for families and the wider public, we will explore the artist’s work and his treatment of traditional themes and subjects, including still lifes, figures, portraits and animals. The workshops will offer opportunities to explore a range of techniques, including experimental approaches to comic-strip art. Drawing inspiration from selected works in the exhibition, we will focus on how artistic choices shape a painting’s story, atmosphere and meaning – how expression and gesture can convey a character’s personality, how relationships between characters create tension, or how objects and their arrangement refer to a specific time and setting. The workshops are open to children and adults alike, regardless of previous artistic experience. They offer a space for collective observation and interpretation of Čermák’s paintings, as well as for participants’ own creative experimentation.