Spode

Posted on March 6, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acava Studios, Acrylic on canvas, Batik, Exhibition, Fine Art, Life, oil on wood, retrospective, Spode site, WatercoloursLeave a comment

Have I mentioned that I have an exhibition at Spode, it can be viewed this Friday between 6.30 and 8.30. It’s at Acava Studios, up the yellow stairs, at Spode Works, Elanora street, Stoke upon Trent, ST4 1QD (I think).

If you are in the area and would like to come along you are very welcome.

It’s eclectic and interesting, with one work from 1982 that is an oil painting on an old cupboard door because I couldn’t afford a canvas. There are several portraits of my hubby from over our life together.

I’ve also included landscapes and portraits, abstract paintings, views of Spode works, and views of a nebula and Jupiter and Mars. There are also watercolours and batik prints. I’m interested in a lot of things and I hope this exhibition will show my explorative fine art practice.

Yin yang cats

Posted on September 26, 2023 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Batik, Cats, Colourful, Design, Fine Art, Layers, Printing, wax resist, Workshop, Yin yang2 Comments

My attempt at wax resist printing that I did with the brilliant Belinda Latimer a few years ago. I enjoyed trying to do Batik in her workshop, creating layers of colour. I also did a print of a couple of fish that I called Pisces had framed in a deep wooden frame. Another example of my experimental art practice.

Batik workshop

Posted on May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Batik, Design, fabric inks, Fish, Fun, pisces, Sketching, sketching with wax, Workshop3 Comments

Fish from a batik workshop I was part of a couple of years ago. It was with an artist called Belinda Latimer. She moved away or I would have liked to do another one. The pictures round the side are by other people in the workshop. It’s great to let yourself do something new if you can.

Repurposing

Posted on April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #MendNotTrend, Art, Batik, Fish, Fun, jar, Repurposing, Reusing, sticky tape, WaxLeave a comment

I am doing another challenge. Its all about recycling or using old things and repurposing them. I tried wrapping an old gerkin jar in cardboard. My sticky tape wasn’t very good and wouldn’t hold it in place well. I used the labels on the cardboard as decoration. Then I looked for something else to add pattern (was thinking of collage) and I found a wax soaked drawing that was from a batik workshop with an artist called Belinda Latimer. I wrapped that over the top of the cardboard. Stuck on with the not very sticky tape. My hubby would only let me have a few tiny daffs from the garden. I put water in the jar but as the covering is not waterproof and the tape is not good I don’t think it will last very long!

Batik yin yang cats

Posted on October 16, 2020October 17, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Batik, Cat, Colours, Design, Dye, Framed, Fun, Workshop, Yin yang4 Comments

I went to a Batik workshop about three years ago when I first got my studio at Spode. I’d never done it before, but basically we used hot liquid wax as a resist to dyes. When you paint coloured dyes over the pattern you make, the colours are not absorbed into the cloth or canvas where the wax had been painted. Then you have to het a hot iron and paper and iron the wax out with the paper between the cloth and the iron so the wax gets absorbed into the paper. There is probably a clearer way of explaining, but as I say I only went to one workshop. My friend made this heavy frame for the yin yang cats. There is glass in it to protect the fabric. I was rather pleased with the result.

Exhibited three years ago.

Posted on September 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Batik, Colours, Design, Etruria Artists, Etruria Industrial museum, Exhibited three years ago, Life, Warehouse12 Comments

I mmust have been feeling cheerful when I did these paintings plus a batik picture of some fish. The first bottle oven painting is an attempt to do a clarice cliff design. If I did it now I would make the building more curved. The batik is sort of a Pices idea. The dragonfly was an interesting compositon and the half bottle oven is meant to be mirrored by blue sky or water in a canal. It is slightly remenicent of a yin yang symbol. The exhibition was held at the warehouse at Etruria industrial museum at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent three years ago. At the moment we cannot use the building because of covid19.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Batik