Workshops have run throughout the Quarry Project and Q:2 in South East England that draw from the projects as well as feed back into them.


Workshops in Finsbury Park, 29th June 2007 painting event, 5th July 2007 meet the artist(s).


Workshop with KIDS through IOTA, Lee Simmons and Emily Tull, May / June 2006:

Red paint and yellow paint were applied to opposite ends of one section of canvas.
Blue paint and yellow paint were applied to opposite ends of one section of canvas.
One section of canvas was left blank and possitioned between these 2 sections.

As the colourers moved across the canvas they left traces of colour, meaning that areas without a designated colour, took on the traces, that mixed and blended to make new colours.

The result was a fairly messy but also balanced remnant of the moment of combustion when the group started spreading paint very quickly... the 3 sections displayed gradients of red to yellow, blue to yellow, purples, oranges, greens and browns.

Quarry workshop with (Un)Limited through Lockwood, Lee Simmons and Mary Branson June, July 2005

Colours were spread using waterpistols, brushes (painting, flicking, drizzling paint) onto large wall mounted sheets and papers.

The group also made outfits and considered themselves as part of the wall mounted pieces.

Quarry workshop with (Un)Limited through Lockwood, Lee Simmons and Jo Cowdery, August 2005

(Un)Limited hand made felt quarries that they then dripped colour onto, replicating the largescale colour work at Oxted Quarry but on a small scale. They also taught Lee felt making skills.

Q:2 Workshops with (Un)Limited through Lockwood Artists Group, Lee Simmons May, June, July 2006

Throughout an exhibition in the studio space Lee and some available members of (Un)Limited discussed Quarry project and the development of Quarry 2, the group liked the photographs from Oxted Quarry, and thought the whole quarry should be coloured. Black was a suggested colour. Though Fuchia pink was used for the associations with this colour and the aesthetic it would create in the landscape, as well as colour balance as with Goethes theories of colour: which has influenced some of these workshops (Rudolf Steiner was a student of Goethes).

The group visited the Q:2 project, photographing each other, the coloured sheep and the Quarry exhibition. They also applied pink powder paint to a 5x5m section of chalk.
It is this kind of experience: going out of ones usual environment and existance for a given time period that can make this kind of work valuable to varied groups. The benefit of new experience, thinking outside of oneself, and making a tangible memory.
 
September 2006

Workshops have been designed for schools and offered to primary and secondary schools in and around Mole Valley. These workshops would be colour and drawing based in primary schools, and discussion and drawing based in secondary schools.
The focus is possible future cities and sustainable environments through imaginative urban design.