Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 June, 2026
Are you aged 18-30 and interested in exploring your environment and making zines? Then please join a free two-day creative workshop exploring connections to green and blue spaces on the Isle of Wight led by designer and illustrator Tommy Brentnall, with researchers Daneen Cowling and Fiona Middleton!
Over two days, we will be exploring and mapping our connections with green and blue space on the Island, and experimenting with methods and media for zine-making.
Tommy will lead the group through different activities, including collective map-making, field recording, drawing and photography, towards creating a print publication together on the second day. Don’t worry if you’ve never done any of these before, it’s a great opportunity to play, try out some new methods and share your thoughts, stories and ideas around what nature on the Island means to you. You’re also very welcome to join if you work with these methods all the time!
We will be taking a short walk and doing some drawing/researching outside, with Daneen Cowling from The Common Space joining us to talk about the area’s unique ecology, as well as learning about riso printing during workshop sessions in Boojum & Snark.
- Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 June, 2026
- From 11am to 4pm, Boojum & Snark, 105 High Street, Sandown
- For anyone aged 18-30 years; free to attend, lunch and snacks provided.
- Please register to attend at: https://forms.office.com/e/BF6tNwi7Lm
If you would like more information or have any questions, contact Fiona Middleton at f.k.middleton@soton.ac.uk
Tommy Brentnall is an artist, designer and community arts facilitator based in London. Some of his current interests are technology (or the lack of it), science fiction, fantasy, radio, table top role playing games, silly characters, narrative illustration, drawing, publishing and print. He runs the DIY publishing collective Physical Interface, collaborating with other artists, illustrators and designers on various publishing projects. More of Tommy’s work can be seen here: Tommybrentnall.neocities.org Instagram / piggybankshoe
This workshop is part of a research project at the University of Southampton, ‘Green-blue Connections: Understanding the health, wellbeing and community resilience benefits of green and blue space across the Isle of Wight’. The project is using creative methods to explore personal connections and access to green and blue spaces within the Isle of Wight Biosphere Reserve. This activity is part of the Isle of Wight Biosphere Festival