Portrait painting workshop with Tina Ramos Ekongo
Learn how to paint portraits of the women in our community for Blackpool African Caribbean Community Archive.
Artist Tina Ramos Ekongo will guide participants of any level of experience through the process of painting a portrait on cardboard or acrylic paper.
From the sketching of the facial features with the correct proportions, to painting a portrait on cardboard taking into account the different lights and skin tones, using her signature portraiture technique.
In this 2 hour workshop with lunch break, we’ll paint portraits of women from our own diaspora community as well as those who have visited or performed in Blackpool over the years such as Lena Horne, Winifred Atwell and Adelaide Hall.
You can bring along your own photos or images for inspiration too!
Book your free place now
Access & Venue
Access: If you have additional access needs (e.g. large print resources, BSL interpreter) Please let us know by emailing [email protected]
Important info: Please note that this session is upstairs. It’s a single flight of 14 steps then you go around the corner and there are two small steps. Once you’re upstairs there’s a loo. You shouldn’t need to come downstairs for anything until the end of the event.
Lunch
We’ll provide a light vegan lunch, but you are more than welcome to bring your own.
Getting here
- Tram to North Pier
- Bus: No 3,4 or 6 bus to Topping St. No 2, 2C, 3, 7, 7, 11, 14, 17, 18 or 20 to Church St (Stanley Buildings)
- Driving: The closest pay and display car parks are on East Topping St and Talbot Road multi storey. There is also parking at the nearby Sainsbury’s supermarket, please make sure that you check the terms before you use the car park. Free parking is available on most streets around the venue from 6pm, please make sure to check signage before leaving your car.
About the artist
Tina Ramos Ekongo is a Equatorial Guinean – Spanish figurative visual artist, illustrator and cultural integration workshop facilitator who lives and works in the North West of England. She was born in 1987 in Malabo Equatorial Guinea and grew up in Spain between Madrid and Zaragoza and moved to the UK in 2011. She graduated in Sheffield Hallam University in 2015. Tina Ramos Ekongo applies her extensive art knowledge on history of art and art techniques on her work.
From Tina
As an artist my work is mainly portraiture and is very influenced by the African traditional murals on health campaigns and the artwork found in African barbershops and hair salons. my style is influenced by the great artist Cheri Samba while the feminist approach behind my work is inspired by the work of the surrealist Mexican artist Frida Khalo.
I paint only black women because with my work I am trying to reflect in a powerful statement, their straight by capturing the essence of their fearless spirit. Regarding my workshops and classes, which are mainly portrait and focus on racial justice and integration. The idea is to bring a positive sense of empowerment and inspire people from minority background. I believe it is time to normalise the image and culture of black people and people of colour as creative subjects, to diversify the creative content in the UK art scene and create opportunities for black artists and artists of colour whose stories are sometimes overlooked.
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