Silk Painting Workshop with Aysha Yilmaz in Bolton

Join Aysha Yilmaz’ workshop. She will discuss motifs and designs and how silk is produced and it’s origin, from The Silk Road (Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkey etc), which will be used to produce a Silk Painting.

Aysha will demonstrate how to apply the design to the Silk fabric from a drawing, followed by techniques of filling in with Silk paints.

This workshop is beginner-friendly and suitable for children 7+ years of age (accompanied by an adult, if 7-11 years old). Suitable for adults.

Hosted by: Bolton Central Library

About Aysha

Aysha classes herself as a Multidisciplinary Artist/ Creative Practitioner as her

practice consists of Painting, Textiles and Mixed Media. She teaches Arts and Crafts to

different groups ( Age Friendly , Womens Groups, Children, Families). The workshops she

teaches are mainly textile based such as Silk painting, Felting and Mixed Media. Her work is

mainly Nature inspired. She has taught in many Primary schools as an Artist in Schools. She

currently teaches regularly at the Whitworth Art Gallery on their Handmade programme and

is a regular artist for UnityArts Manchester. She is on the Whitworth Art Gallery’s Advisory

Group.