Join Focal Point Gallery for the next Creative Open Day with artists, Lucia Pizzani and José García Oliva leading you in two activities throughout the day.

Two workshops will run side by side throughout the afternoon, welcoming people of all ages to drop in, spend time making, and leave whenever they wish. These are open, informal spaces for playful exploration, reflection, and shared creativity across generations.

For Pizzani’s workshop we will be using plants and dry seeds. By drawing and shaping raw wet clay, the artists and participants will create monotypes on paper. Be prepared to get messy and get involved with new textures, materials and create from the moment, rather than from a plan.

The event will be accompanied by sound and images to open conversations about migration, hybridity and ecology.

You can join for 20 minutes or you can stay for the full day – you are very welcome either way!

Free, open to all, come and go as you wish

With Jose: How Words Fly and What Happens When They Land

This workshop explores language as something physical and unstable; something that can be held, suspended, dropped, or broken apart. Using sculptural paper, poetry, and free multilingual writing, participants will experiment with words as material forms rather than fixed meanings.

Each person will create two responses: one to keep and one to add to a collective work that will evolve over the course of the day.

With Lucía: Clay, Plants, and Traces of Place

This workshop uses clay to open conversations around identity, migration, landscape, and memory. Working with clay and collected plants, participants will shape materials by hand, create marks and textures, and transfer these impressions onto paper to make clay “drawings,” similar to monotypes.

Drawing on over 12 years of ceramic practice, Lucía uses the tactile, malleable nature of clay to create a reflective, shared making experience.