About... Susans Art Club

	Susan’s Art Club is guaranteed to be FUN, CREATIVE & FRIENDLY, a place to meet new people and try new things! Susan’s Art Club is held in the spacious and functional hall of St.Catherine’s Argyle Church, situated on Grange Road, Edinburgh. The club is primarily for pupils in P4, P5, P6 or P7, ages 8-12, who are keen to have “hands-on” experience of creating “Art”. Members are encouraged to express their own ideas using a wide variety of different media: Drawing: Pencils, oil and chalk pastels, charcoal, aquarelle pencils, Indian ink, making sketchbooks. Painting: Watercolours, acrylic and tempera paints, on paper, canvas and board - portraits, abstract and still life paintings, collage. Applied Arts: Ceramics - pottery & sculptural projects, clay work is always bisque fired and painted, occasionally glazed in a further firing, ceramic tile mosaics, jewellery-making, glass-fusing, copper engraving. Sculpture: Models created using papier-mache, clay and wire. Graphic design projects: illustration, lettering, greetings cards. The club is run by Susan Dalgleish, who studied at Edinburgh College of Art, and has an Honours Degree and a Postgraduate Diploma in Art & Design. Susan is a practising Artist, having her own studio and business, Edinburgh Ceramics, in Morningside. After teaching an after school art club for 6 years at Sciennes Primary School and successfully running Susan's Art Club for the past 9 years Susan has gained much valuable experience in communicating with children in this age group. She has observed that their artistic skill improves with encouragement and practise and that their self-confidence grows as they develop new skills. A mother comments: “He is confident, inspired, calm, after Art Club ...he is proud of what he has made ...it’s good ...his self-esteem is noticeably improved.”