Join us for an afternoon of creative endeavors, and bring home your very own masterpiece!

At the historic Museum of Life Sciences, drawing the beautifully preserved specimens within our arms reach is a must. But have we tried it beyond the confines of good old pencil, paper, and watercolour?

In this new workshop, conducted by our current artist-in-residence from Taiwan, Jazz Szu-Ying Chen, we will explore life drawing using a series of mixed medias and limited colour schemes - with delicate gold-foiled Japanese drawing boards (sourced from across the globe) as the star of the show.

All materials will be provided for the workshop.

Image references and carbon paper will be offered to beginner artists if needed. Otherwise, curated specimens will be available for reference.

Materials used: Ultra-fine Chinese paint brush, fine acrylic paint brushes, dip pen, acrylic ink, acrylic paint, Japanese painting board.

About the Artist

Jazz Szu-Ying Chen (b. 1990) is a Taiwanese artist residing in Taipei. After graduating London’s Central Saint Martin’s with a Masters in Art & Science in 2015, Jazz has been consistently exhibiting in both Taiwan and abroad, with her commission for London’s Chelsea & Westminster Hospital A&E Wing permanently on show since 2015. Her most recent solo show was in February 2023 with Taipei’s Chini Gallery at Hybrid Art Fair in Madrid (by invitation of Taiwanese Cultural Bureau in Spain). She also regularly collaborates with the music scene, most notably with Houndstooth, London’s Fabric Club’s in-house record label, on their 2018 critically-acclaimed compilation “In Death’s Dream Kingdom.”

Jazz’s subjects of focus span over her interest in the beauty and grotesque within the field of anatomy/medical historical imageries, to mythologies and folklore such as Nordic mythology and “Classics of Mountains and Seas.”