MORE DELIVERIES

This is the collection of work that has just been dropped off at the New Brewery Arts in Cirecester.

These pieces have been made especially

for the galleries Crafted for Christmas exhibition

which starts 24th November and goes on to the 2nd January.

Thanks again to the lovely job Sky Blue Framing has done for me.

TAKING FLIGHT

I spent the weekend teaching a master class in sketch book techniques for the New Brewery Arts in Cirencester which has left me itching to work in my own sketch book.

Therefore I have spent the day working on an idea that I want to make into a collagraph.

These pages are 14 x 12cms and use a mixture of acrylic paint, acrylic ink, Quink and bleach, finished off with a light rubbing of sand paper.

My next Mixed Media Sketch book workshop is the 8-9 December at Hampen Factory, near Cheltenham. Contact me for details.

DELIVERING

I have just delivered this set of enamel pictures to Nature in Art, Twigworth, Gloucestershire. www.nature-in-art.org.uk

They will be displayed as part of their Contemporary Craft Exhibition.

14th November to 16th December.

I have taken the step to have these enamel pieces framed, I am very pleased with the finish.

Thanks to Sky Blue Framing for doing such a beautiful and fast job. www.skybluegallery.co.uk

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

I have been invited to create a public art piece in enamel for the Bath Road in Cheltenham. This is the calm before the storm, my studio is set up to do the full scale drawing for the commission.

After the initial flattery I now have that, oh my goodness, how big?! feeling. Yes, seven and a half feet by three and a half fills the wall of my studio.

It will be a lovely thing to do as I live around the corner from the Bath Road and am part of this community. Cheltenham Connect www.cheltenhamconnect.co.uk and the Bath Road Traders Association www.bathroadonline.co.uk want a piece of work commemorating the economic history of the road.  

There are businesses trading here that have been in the road for 200 years. I want to celebrate that constancy, rare in our fast moving age.

The Bath Road is full of independent traders and still looks like the original high street from my childhood.

 

A daunting project, but I am looking forward to working with a UWE college Rachel Davis and will be given a great deal of technical support from John at Hy-Tech Enamellers www.hytechenamellers.co.uk 

 

So into the breech of public art commissions...am I hearing the intake of breath from those of you who have embarked on this sort of project?

 

A BIT OF AN EXHIBITIONIST

I have been invited to show my enamel books as part of a Printmaking exhibition in Cheltenham.

The gallery is the Parabola Arts Centre, www.parabolaartscentre.co.uk/gallery/

A lovely spacious venue allowing plenty of room to view the work from both sides.

The exhibition is on until 27th October.

JUST THE ONE

In between making my own work I enjoy showing others how to get the best out of printmaking. I have just come back from a lovely weekend facilitating a Monoprint workshop for the Twenty Twenty Gallery in Much Wenlock. www.twenty-twenty.co.uk

Mono printing is accessible and produces exciting and unexpected results using simple easily obtained materials. Wall paper,cereal box card and found bits and pieces.

These are all quick demonstration examples.

But with more time spent layering and over printing rich juicy compositions can be made.

The weekend was spent playing with viscosity inked mono printing, this image was printed in one pull through the press.

Then images can be strengthened by over printing with card shapes.

There can even be interesting things left on the rollers.

 

The Twenty Twenty Gallery has planned a series of  workshops for 2013 if you are in the Shropshire area and is a lovely place to have a weekend break. I also have workshops planned at Hampen Factory, Gloucestershire for the end October, November and December and a new course schedule for 2013. The Cotswolds are beautiful too.

FINISHING ORDERS

I have been working feverishly getting work ready for exhibitions in December

and January.

This is work bound for the exhibition, 'Get Fresh'

in January at Bovey Tracey for the

Devon Guild of Craftsmen.