Well, Artweeks is over for another year. I am winding down after a total of 7 days invigilating and doing demos on 3 consecutive days. Here is my corner of the exhibition at one of the venues: Ardington School of Crafts. I was asked to show the work using gold, and you can also see some of my daily paintings. I set up to do a demo painting. I usually give the gessoed board a rub with yellow ochre oil paints and then draw the main lines in using a coarse round hogs hair brush. I have … [Read more...]
Artweeks at Ardington
Annual Artweeks Exhibition of Tutors' Work Sat 14 – Sun 22 May 2016 Visit us in Artweeks! This year we're hosting an exhibition of beautiful work by four Ardington tutors. There will be live demonstrations throughout the show. Laura Boswell is a printmaker specialising in rural landscape, working in linocut and classical Japanese water-based woodblock. She has work in national collections. Demonstrating: Sat 14, Sun 15, Wed 18 May (Full artist's profile) Nicola Kantorowicz makes stained … [Read more...]
An all-in-one A4 pop-up book
While I was visiting North Yorkshire Calligraphers, Ruth Rowland showed me a dear little book she had made. (There are two Ruth Rowlands in the calligraphy world. Northern Ruth R. was on my course one weekend and Southern Ruth R. was at Cinque Ports Scribes the following weekend) Ruth had been on a course with Paul Johnson. He showed them the technique, but this is Ruth's own design. Ruth recreated the centre of the village, (her village?) around the market place. The book is made from just … [Read more...]