Join artist-designer and songwriter Stacey Joy Rossouw for a series of creative workshops inspired by The Time Lab: A Living Prelude, our new exhibition at Wordsworth Grasmere.

Learn new artistic skills and try something different – from found poetry and abstract mapping to creative writing and zine making. These hands-on workshops are inspired by the themes of time and memory found in Wordsworth’s epic poem The Prelude. Using Wordsworth’s writing as a starting point, by the end of each session you will have created your own meaningful and tangible piece of art.

Saturday 30 August, 2-4.30pm: Driftmap

How does a poem feel? What does memory look like? In this hands-on workshop, you'll create a Driftmap: a beautiful, abstract map of a poem’s emotional landscape. Using charcoal, pencil, and ink, we'll explore how to represent the journey of a poem—its rhythms, moods, and textures—without drawing anything literally.