An Orange Beak Evening with Thereza Rowe
The Charitable Trust recently sponsored tickets to a lecture: An Orange Beak Evening with Thereza Rowe.
Thereza Rowe is an author, illustrator, print-maker and cat-whisperer.
The organiser, Orange Beak Studio, is an award winning team of children’s book creatives which offers one-to-one tutorials, mentoring, portfolio surgeries, workshops and talks.
Here’s some very appreciative feedback from students who attended Thereza’s talk:
Thank you for the ticket to last week’s Orange Beak talk. It was an interesting and insightful session. It was great to hear about Thereza's journey into making books and her art processes. Very inspiring!
Best wishes,
Annie McGee
Many thanks to Wynkyn de Worde for sponsoring my ticket to the Orange Beak talk last night by Thereza Rowe. I found it so interesting and inspiring and I’m really glad I could be there. Teresa generously shared her background and influences, as well as her current projects and artistic practice. I’ve come away with some wonderful ideas to feed into my own work as an illustrator, especially that of keeping a visual library of shape, colour and pattern. I enjoyed learning about her use of screen printing and feel inspired to give that a go also. I’m so glad I could be ther – I wouldn’t have been able to without your generous support, so thank you.
Kind regards,
Rachael Bayliss
My name is Suna, I’m a student illustrator working on my first children’s picture book. Thank you very much for the opportunity to attend the talk. I found the evening very informative and fun. Mostly what I loved about it was that Thereza was very open about her process, and relaxed. It made me feel that I could develop my own work by just not being too precious with it, and experimenting more. Her work was vibrant, fun and very experimental, which helped her develop as an artist – I'm certainly going to try this in my own work. The best part that I took away was when she said that her mental health comes first, and that she does not work for social media. This made me feel that it’s okay to put boundaries down when promoting yourself as an artist/illustrator, and to engage at a level that feels okay for health and wellbeing. Thank you so much again! It was wonderful.
Best wishes,
Suna Sezer