Out Of Line – Art Exhibition at One Church Street Gallery

October 14th, 2011, posted in Galleries

Using traditional and non-traditional drawing methods, Jayne Wilton’s work explores making visible the human breath. By capturing breath’s condensation, she records it as beautifully etched copper plates, as embossed paper reliefs, as graphite drawings, or via a light source on to sensitised paper. Finally, a series of suspended, blown glass forms describe the volume and echo the fragility and resilience of breath.

 Friends’ and Artists’ Evening Saturday 15 October 6-8

Exhibition continues till November 5

Open 11-4 Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday

Joe Graham’s work derives from a process involving repetitive copying, a drawn Chinese whispers, in which each new image in the sequence is an imperfect copy of the previous. Normally beginning with a source image, on this occasion, Graham has chosen Lewis Carroll’s written description of the Jubjub Bird, from his nonsense poems  Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark,  as the  starting point for this series.    Preliminary drawings are in pencil but subsequent processes include digital mark-making, overlaying and printing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

One Church Street Gallery
Great Missenden
Bucks HP16 0AX
Tel – 01494 863 344
www.onechurchstreet.com
lyndsey@onechurchstreet.com

Wooburn Festival of Music & Arts

October 8th, 2011, posted in Galleries

Visual Arts Exhibition

Saturday 8 October to Saturday 15 October

This fabulous annual exhibition of paintings, sculpture, ceramics and jewelery has gained a reputation for being a showcase of the very finest arts and crafts in the area.

(above painting by Rosina Flower with a hand finish tri-colour frame by Bespoke Framing)

Invited artists, whose work is known by many respected UK Galleries, show a variety of styles, sizes and prices of artwork. There is sure to be something of interest for the discerning visitor.

Official Opening: Saturday 8 October 11.00am – 1.00pm
Public Viewing:   Saturday 8 October 1.00pm – 6.00pm
Sunday 9 to Friday 14 October 10.00am – 6.00pm
Saturday 15 October 10.00am – 4.00pm

For more information, go to http://www.wooburn.com/Web/visual.htm

Wedding Dress Framing

October 2nd, 2011, posted in Galleries

What do you do with your wedding dress after the big day?  Dry clean it and leave it in a box in the loft or in a wardrobe?  Or do you frame it?

We have used the bottom half of the dress to rouche a background and cover the side fillets.  The only item in the frame is the dress.  We have used images from the bride’s invitations to cover the frame making it completely unique.

The dimensions of this finished piece are 540mm x 790mm by 130mm deep.

For more information, please call 01494 433 191 or email us on  info@bespokeframing.com

Tim Baynes

October 1st, 2011, posted in Featured Artist

Artist and Printmaker

Tim Baynes has studied at Colchester School of Art, the Slade School of Fine Art and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

He works in oils, acrylics as well as watercolours capturing the sea and shoreline, landscapes and cities: private collectors in Britain, America, Australia, Italy and France have acquired his work.

 

Always drawing, Tim fills Moleskine sketchbooks whenever he travels.  He has amassed a collection of over 1300 drawings of 25 cities across the world. These drawings are featured in a weekly in a weekly travel blog ‘ Passport’ on the BBC.com website where 50 million people have access to his work.

As a result of his collaboration with the BBC Tim’s work is featured in Wanderlust magazine and major newspapers in America and the Far East.

 

At the beginning of 2010 Tim renewed his fascination with printmaking influenced by print maker Christine Lock working at her riverside press beside the Thames at Marlow.  Last year the experience resulted in Journeys an exhibition of mono prints of exciting cities at The Circus Gallery in Marylebone, London.

This year Tim returns to The Circus Gallery with his show Shoreline running from October 20 through to November 20. The exhibition is a celebration of Britain’s coastline, again through a bold and graphic colour palette enabled by mono print.

WRITER ALAN JACKSON COMMENTED ON TIM’S 2009 SHOW

For Tim, that may mean losing himself in such familiar territory as Frinton-on-Sea (he was born in what he calls the nearby ‘badlands’ of Essex), Suffolk’s Aldeburgh, the Gower Peninsula of south Wales and Scotland’s mighty Skye. Or it may mean his discovery of Seattle’s Alki, Sydney’s Bondi and other beaches in, say, Dubai or Thailand while travelling on business (he is a senior executive in the advertising industry) or as a keen-eyed tourist. All his work shows an artist in love both with his craft and with his subject.

For more information on Tim, check out www.timbaynesart.co.uk

Diversity Textile Exhibition

September 4th, 2011, posted in Galleries

‘UP CLOSE’ – Textile & Mixed Media Exhibition by Diversity at the KD Fine Art Gallery (adjacent to the James Watts Gallery) The Old Pottery Building, Down Lane, Compton GU13 1DQ.

5th September – 2nd October 2011.

Opening times 10.30 am – 5.30pm.

Come and meet the artists on the Saturdays.

For more gallery information Tel: 01483 811344 or www.kdfineart-italia.com

 

 

Diversity is a group of nine textile and mixed media artists with a common interest in stitched textiles. As individuals each artist has exhibited over the years at various venues and now come together to continue to develop their own individual ideas through group discussion, offering mutual support to each other and exhibiting together.

As a group and individually we aim to produce work which provides a fusion of contemporary and traditional textile art for exhibiting while continuing to develop and experiment with our own ideas and techniques.
The current members of the group all studied textiles and graduated from East Berkshire College in Windsor; although not all at the same time. Many of the members are also affiliated to other groups and societies which brings diversity into their work.
‘UP CLOSE’ is an exciting new exhibition by Diversity in textile and mixed media art. Each artist has chosen a subject and interpreted it in terms of closeness; whether this is a magnified view of the subject or an emotional one. We would like to extend this invitation to you and your friends and family and look forward to maybe meeting with you on our ‘Meet the Artists’ days.

The schedule for ‘Meet the Artists’ is as follows:
Saturday 10th September: Lois Bellew, Chris Griffith, Julie Winter and Joan McQuillan
Saturday 17th September: Karen McCarthy, Marian Spencer and Lois Bellew
Saturday 24th September: Marian Spencer and Chris Griffith
Saturday 1st October: Lois Bellew, Julie Winter, Elaine Izod and Joan McQuillan
This schedule is accurate at time of posting. If you want to ensure you see a specific artist please contact them by email; artists email details can be found on our website
www.diversity-textileart.com

 

Emma Cowlam

August 17th, 2011, posted in Featured Artist
Chelsea Art School textile design graduate Emma Cowlam produces hand stitched and hand drawn original illustrations from a personally developed and highly unique technique.  Taking inspiration from daily life, intricately descriptive images are recorded and translated into stylish, classic designs. Her work is both prize winning and internationally exhibited.
Emma’s beautiful illustrations have progressed into a variety of timeless pieces from framed or mounted one-off art works to larger scale interior designs.

The captivating and distinctive pieces have appeared on numerous influential style sites as well as within well known media publications, such as ELLE magazine. Bespoke commissions are also available – a recent engagement was to design the official tote bag and logo for Homemade London, a stylishly contemporary craft studio located in Seymour Place, Marylebone (London).  This auntumn Emma is having a new collection at the V&A Museum in London and will be selling in Liberty from the spring of 2012.

 

Emma’s strength lies in her clever combination of traditional drawing and sewing skills that can then be manipulated to suit the digital age. It is a refreshing welcome to the design world.

 

www.illustratedlife.co.uk
emmacowlam@hotmail.com
079 888 191 44

West Wycombe Art Group – Summer Exhibition 2011

August 15th, 2011, posted in Galleries

West Wycombe Art Group

Summer Exhibition 2011

West Wycombe Village Hall, HP14 3AB
August Bank Holiday Weekend
Friday 26th August to Tuesday 30th August inclusive
Opening times:
 Friday 10 am to 5 pm
 Saturday to Monday  10 am to 6 pm
Tuesday 10 am to 5 pm
Local artists work for sale. 
Credit cards accepted.

www.westwycombeartgroup.com

Phil Madley

July 10th, 2011, posted in Featured Artist

 

Encaustic Wax – An ancient art with a modern twist…

Phil paints in wax…a technique that dates back to the ancient Egyptians. He uses special equipment to melt the wax ie an iron, paint stripper and hot stylus. The coloured and metallic waxes are painted onto card or MDF board. The waxes are very stable and do not melt again once sealed.

Visit www.philmadley.com where more of his paintings can be viewed and there is more information about encaustic wax. Phil is a member of Bucks Visual Images Group, Herts Visual Arts and Berkhamsted Art Society. He demonstrates, lectures and does encaustic wax workshops to art clubs and societies throughout Southern England.  Phil has regularly  taught at Missenden Abbey and recently demonstrated at Earnley Concourse.

Some of the paintings change with the light especially ones with metallic silver and gold waxes – a visit to his studio is highly recommended to fully appreciate the man and his art – an experience not to be missed.


Visit Phil during Herts Open Studios 11 Sept – 2 Oct. (Open 10am – 6pm).
Closed Mondays & Thursdays.


Phil Madley   Tel 01442 822398
50 Tring Road, Wilstone, Hertfordshire  HP23 4PD


Robert Stuart

June 2nd, 2011, posted in Featured Artist

Robert was born in London before emigrating to Nigeria – at the ripe old age of six weeks – returning to the UK in time to start school, and a paid career playing with computers.

He is a self taught artist, a term that is hardly a tribute to the many teachers that he did have.  Learning initially from his mother (who studied at Camberwell with – among others – Victor Passmore), Robert subsequently spent many years attending evening classes.

He works primarily in pastel, the soft sort rather than oil based, which he applies to pastel card.  The card has a surface rather like fine grade sandpaper that enables the surface to take more pigment, which is crucial to Robert’s methods of layering colour. Often starting with a dark blue, grey or black ground, he lays down a layer using near complements to the finished piece, before moving toward the desired effect.

For more information go to Robert’s website:  www.rstst.co.uk

Easter Egg Hunt

April 19th, 2011, posted in Galleries



Easter Egg Hunt
Saturday 23rd April
The Big Easter Egg hunt in Wendover!

Meet on the Manor Waste ( outside Budgen’s ) at 3.30pm.
Games Master Reverend Mark Dearnley talks the rules,
as he’s in charge!
One ticket allows you to claim one Rumsey Egg.
No limit to the number of tickets purchased. No ticket – no play.
All children must be accompanied by an adult as eggs are hidden in and around the shops.
Tickets are £2.00 and are on sale at the gallery, so hope you can make it !

New work in the gallery
Samatha Barnes

is an artist and mad mother of two. Her work is full of character and has a style of its own developed over the past 15 years, Trained at Edinburgh College of Art, Samantha woks from her studio in Hampshire where she produces designs for products, greetings cards, fabric designs and prints. Samantha also works on privately commissioned paintings. Blessed with a large sense of humour, Samantha’s paintings sell all over the world. Her quick drawing hand and observation skills are evident in all her works making one overall style which is uniquely her own. Samantha’s artworks are suitable for childrens, adults and kidults too !

As promised.. New Print By

Stephen Hanson.

How to find us A Little Bird Told Me Gallery & Courtyard Gallery are next to Antiques at Wendover just off the high street.

For more information contact us at
info@alittlebirdtoldmegallery.com

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