Join artist Felicity Aylieff for a one-day drawing workshop that explores line and mark-making through movement, tools, and creative process.

This full day workshop invites you to approach drawing as a physical and intuitive act, an open-ended exploration of where lines, gestures, and spontaneous marks might lead. By engaging with rhythm, motion, and the natural expression of your hand and tools, you’ll begin to uncover patterns, structures, and meanings within your materials.

Throughout the day, you’ll be encouraged to reflect on the relationship between action and thought - how we think through doing - and how movement itself can become a powerful form of understanding. Expression through line and mark making is not just about drawing, it’s an opportunity to explore the deeper connections between body, mind, and material, and to discover new ways of seeing and responding through line.

About the Workshop

We will meet together in The Weston Restaurant for a morning coffee and a welcome from Felicity and the YSP team. Then we will spend some time in The Weston Gallery, exploring Felicity’s exhibition, Expressions in Blue.

We will make our way across site for the rest of the day, to the Bothy Gallery where the workshop will take place. The Bothy will be your studio for the day, a space to explore drawing at scale with a range of tools and inks.

Your ticket for this workshop includes all materials, a morning coffee, lunch in the YSP Kitchen Cafe and admission to YSP for the day.

In preparation for the day, we ask that you bring with you a tool you have made, found, or adapted that will make marks – this could be from a bunch of twigs, a long stick or something you have found at home. Anything that you feel will make interesting marks. The object/tool that you bring may be constructed like a piece of sculpture – have fun making or finding something.

Places on this workshop are limited to ensure every participant has space to work at scale. If you have any questions about the workshop, or your visit to YSP please contact galleryteam@ysp.org.uk.