Day Course
Materiality & Moore: Sculpting & Printmaking with Ines Fernandez de Cordova
11:00–16:30
Studios & Gardens, Hertfordshire
Enjoy a day of sculptural activities: carve plaster, create sculptural scenes, draw onto etching plates and work through the drypoint printmaking process.
Learn new knowledge and skills with artist Ines Fernandez de Cordova, and create your own artworks to take away with you. Be inspired by Henry Moore’s multidisciplinary approach to making as we explore different creative processes, objects and ideas throughout the day.
As well as being a devoted sculptor, Moore also had an extensive drawing and printmaking practice, which you can see in his studios across our site.
This day course will consist of two parts, sculpting and printmaking.
During the morning session we’ll intuitively modify pre-made plaster forms, turning them into your own small sculptures. We’ll then arrange them all in a playful still life, to use as inspiration later on.
In the afternoon we’ll use our sculptural objects as a starting point to create designs for printmaking, experimenting with abstracting lines and composition.
We’ll provide you with an aluminium plate to draw directly on to with etching needles. Following this, we’ll guide you through the inking process and finally the printing stage, so that everyone can take their print home with them.
This event celebrates our seasonal theme of Encounters and is part of a week of Material Encounters activities taking place this August.
Schedule
Plaster carving & sculpture arrangements
11:00–13:00
Break for lunch and time to explore Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
13:00–14:00
Drawing with etching needles & printmaking
14:00–16:30
Practical information
These sessions may get messy
We’ll be working with materials like plaster and printing inks, so please come in old clothes or outfits you don’t mind getting dirty.
Ages 16+
This activity has been designed for adults aged 16+.
Group activity
We’ll be working indoors in a small group of about 20 people.
Tickets
Tickets for this day course are £20. You need to have an annual ticket in order to attend.
- If you already have an annual ticket, just come along on the day and bring your annual ticket with you.
- If you don’t have an annual ticket, you can buy one online at the same time as your event ticket or from the ticket desk when you arrive.
An annual ticket lets you return to Studios & Gardens as often as you like, during open season, for 12 calendar months.
Subsidised tickets
We are able to offer five free tickets for this event, to anyone who wouldn’t otherwise be able to attend.
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About the artist
Ines Fernandez de Cordova
Ines Fernandez de Cordova’s work has many stages, resting on a foundation of sculptures made in plaster or jesmonite. Ines uses these as tools to create windows to uncanny scenes.
Playing with the precarious nature of the sculptures, she suggests movement through drawing, repetition and collage, using printmaking to hold the composition forever fixed in place. Sequence is a recurrent theme throughout her practice.
By mirroring and creating parallels in the compositions, Ines tries to emphasise the sense that there is a before and an after, a suggestion of some longer story. The sculptures are not necessarily literal representations of anything in particular, with the intention that hopefully they evoke a feeling and perhaps nudge a memory for the viewer.
Born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, Ines has been living and working in London, UK, since 2011.
To support her practise, Fernandez works as a print technician at Camberwell College of Arts and with artist Anita Klein, helping to produce her etching plates and print editions.
Encounters
16 April – 2 November 2025
This season at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, we’re celebrating the inspiring and transformative encounters between Henry Moore and the people, objects and ideas in his orbit.
We’ll be holding a series of talks, open archives and film screenings, as well as a daily programme of free creative activities for families.
Find out more about this season’s events
Getting here
We’re located just 27 miles north of London in the beautiful Hertfordshire countryside.
Our 2025 visitor season runs from 16 April to 2 November. We’re open Wednesday to Sunday, 11:00–17:00.
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Perry Green
Hertfordshire
SG10 6EE
United Kingdom
T: 01279 843 333
E: visitorservices@henry-moore.org
