Jessica Glass

Photographer

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This Art of Sport workshop focused on the theme ‘athlete’ and used imagery of BT’s athlete ambassadors as inspiration.

Q: What do you get when you mix a trip to the Olympic Park, One Internationally renowned artist and several amateur artists (and wanna-be artists in my case) in a room for three hours?

A: A Brilliant afternoon filled with laughs, charcoal, watercolours, paint and a renewed love of the visualarts! (Along with quite a few pieces of artwork which could even be passable as proper art!)

What an exciting time we had in the first floor classroom at the View Tube, overlooking the Olympic Park.

BT Storytellers organizers struck gold again when they put together another fantastic event to involve many of the Storytellers and give us an opportunity to not only visit the Olympic Park, but also to be involved in one of the most mentally stimulating arts workshops that I’ve had the opportunity to attend in years. Jeremy Houghton, a world-renowned artist and one of the talented selected few working on the BT Art of Sports Project (please check out his website) works in several paint mediums, but does much of his work in oil.

For the Art of Sport project he has done a lot of beautiful work in watercolour. You can see many of his paintings of Olympic athletes and Paralympians in his galleries online here.

Mr Houghton was a fantastic instructor and really inspired all of us to do the best work that we could do, most of working from scratch (artistically speaking). He was so great to work with and made the 5 hours on the train totally worth it!!

I’d like to share some of the works with you from the day (both mine and those of others in the group) and some shots of a few of the Storytellers in front of the Olympic Stadium. There may even be a photo or two of yours truly thrown in (for a change). Please click on the photos at the bottom of the page.

Once again, I’d like to thank Caroline and the rest of the BT Storytellers team for putting together such a fantastic event. It was truly an honour to take part!