We warmly welcome Mariia Shub for a solo exhibition throughout February. We met Mariia on her first day in Crystal Palace after she left the Ukraine and relocated here in May 2022.
Come and meet her on on Saturday 11th and 18th between 12-3pm. and see her fantastic vibrant colourful works on sale and display throughout February. Mariia will also be running a couple of Children’s pottery workshops on Sun 19th Feb.
“I am a professional Ukrainian artist and ceramicist who has also worked as a production designer and art director in film, animation and theatre. For many years I have run art courses in schools and summer camps for adults, family groups and children of all ages, experimenting with collages, murals, acrylics, water colours, mosaics and ceramics.
In my workshops, I am keen to encourage children and adults to enjoy being creative with the simplest of materials – paper, glue, tape, coloured pens, etc. I believe that everyone is capable of being creative and ‘artistic’, no matter previous experience or skill.
I have been teaching privately since 1998 and have run my own art-workshop where I teach children and adults alike. I believe that everyone is united by the pleasure of creating, and it leads to a change in state after the lesson, a positive emotional experience that binds us. I also have a deep understanding of the therapeutic possibilities of art, having organized workshops for children in remission from cancer and for parents who had experienced the loss of a child. These skills have their root in my own personal experience within a medical care setting. It is interesting for me to find where a person has a gift, pick up techniques and materials, and show how, with the help of art, we can cope.
Sometimes my skill lies more in the expertise that I have gained over the years as a production designer, and many professionals turn to me for a deepening of specific skills. Since a lot of my teaching happens between big cinema projects that I work on, my teaching is saturated with real application practice.
Art can be a fantastic tool for creating bonding within a family. It can offer anchoring during mentally challenging times and offer a moment of meditative practice. Art has played a vital role in my life and I am very passionate about sharing its therapeutic and life enhancing potential and as a tool to further develop professional skills”
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