Matisse’s Cut-outs (Weekend Workshop)

In the late 1940s Henri Matisse turned almost exclusively to cut paper as his primary medium introducing a radically new direction that came to be known as a cut-out. Matisse would cut painted sheets into forms of varying shapes and sizes from which he then arranged into lively compositions showing inventiveness and elevating the decorative to a work of art.

After studying Matisse’s various ways of composition and his vibrant use of colour and creation of rhythm and movement, you will embark on your own pieces which may be figurative or abstract. You will be encouraged (or coerced!) to throw caution to the wind and see where your imagination takes you.