Fruit

Posted on March 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Chain saw, Colour, Exhibition, Fruit, Garden, Gardening, Life, Painting, Photo, Subjects, Tree2 Comments

Just found out I have been offered an exhibition at the Waiting room gallery in April. The theme will be gardening, green men and women and spring, but I also want to do colourful work. I’ve been going around looking for subjects in the house as the garden isn’t growing yet, just a few buds.

The light was streaming in through the kitchen window and illuminating all the fruit my hubby bought yesterday. So I took a photo of it.

I will try and get some more interesting shots later. At the moment a neighbour is cutting down a tree, so I’m staying out the way. The sound of chainsawing doesn’t fill me with confidence!

B(u)y me for Christmas! Exhibition.

Posted on November 14, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art for sale, Artist, Brampton museum and art gallery, Exhibition, Fun, Gallery, Life, Local artists, Newcastle-under-Lyme, News, PaintingLeave a comment

I’m really pleased to have some of my paintings up at the Brampton museum and art gallery from 16.11.19 to early January 2020. This is an opportunity for local artists to sell their work in the weeks coming up to Christmas. If you feel like having a look I’d recommend it, there’s lots to see and to buy.

It’s going to be a busy few weeks. Not helped by my having a fall at the weekend. I haven’t painted as much as I wanted and I’ve hardly been out of the house. But I mustn’t let it stop me trying to get things done over the next week or so.

I’m going to do some more green, or snowy men, try and get some cards printed and get some glass jewellery finished off..

Watch this space x

Long weekend

Posted on September 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Ceramics, Classic cars, Etruria, Etruria Artists, Etruria Industrial museum, Exhibition, Jewellery, Long weekend, Paintings, Staffordshire, Static steam engines, Steam engines, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

What a long weekend! Two days manning the pop up exhibition at Etruria. I didn’t have much time to look at the static steam engines on display yesterday or the classic cars today. The place wasn’t buzzing but there was a constant stream of people coming in. Most of them were interested in what we were doing, what the building used to be used for, or decided to let their children make things with clay. A few people walked in took one look and walked out again. Sometimes they even asked where the tea room was.

Etruria Artists had paintings, photos, ceramics, jewellery and even painted stones on display. It was good to share the space with other artists there. I even bought a pottery frog, a mug and a whale.

So many people to talk to, to help, to explain to. I also helped a bit children with modelling clay. My friends usually do this and I just helped when they were not around. We made frogs and ladybirds, and an owl. Sadly I didn’t take any photos of the pieces as I forgot my phone.

Been out most of today

Posted on September 13, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Busy, Canvas, Cats, Exhibition, Out, Painting, Running around, Sleepy, Tired, vets, Waiting room gallery2 Comments

A couple of friends visiting my exhibition at the Waiting room gallery today. I’ve spent most of the time sleep deprived because of my hubby waking me up in the middle of the night worrying about something, then the cats decided to break my favourite glass bowl. When I finally got a bit of sleep it was time to do things like running round trying to organise things including visiting the vets about our stray cat in the garden problem (has he got somewhere to live), getting organised about a performance next weekend in Newcastle-under-Lyme, visiting the shop to get snacks and drinks for my solo exhibition. (who knew no one seems to sell little bottles of beer anymore, they used to be all the rage? Then the main dual carriageway, to where the exhibition is, was coned off and closed to traffic! Got there a few minutes late feeling like a wet weekend in Whitby (which is actually beautiful before anyone asks). A few hours chatting to people about painting. Now to rest. Tomorrow is busy too!

Artists statement

Posted on September 7, 2019 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artists statement, Exhibition, Landscape, Painting, Spode, Stoke-on trent3 Comments

Usually I don’t include artists statements because I think my art should be self explanatory. However as I was exhibiting a painting about what Spode means to me, I said that it was about how Spode is now, that I have only been there for a few years. I also said that I wanted to include the history of the buildings and what was going on outside the building and how exciting I had found the experience of painting it.

I think it made sense, it’s difficult to know how long to make it and how much information it required.

Persius and Medusa

Posted on August 28, 2019August 28, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Exhibition, Garden, Lake, medusa, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Orme Art, Persius, Plants, Staffordshire, Statue, The Brampton, Trentham, Trentham GardensLeave a comment

On a lighter note this statue of Persius and Medusa is at Trentham Gardens, Trentham, Staffordshire. The statue is inside the gardens next to the lake which means you have to pay to go in. I’m sure there is information about it but this is a photo from last year. I haven’t been in the gardens for months and probably with the heavy rain we’ve been having the plants there might be a bit battered but they are usually very beautiful.

I’m going to try and finish my painting of mars that I shared a couple of days ago to get in our Orme art exhibition at the Brampton in Newcastle-under-Lyme and try and go back to Trentham again on Friday.

What spode means to me?

Posted on August 6, 2019August 6, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Artists at spode, Deciding what to paint, Decisions, Eleanora street, Exhibition, Landscape photos, New art project, Project, Spode, Spode photos, Spode siteLeave a comment

There is an art project /exhibition coming up at Spode. It’s based on the question ‘what does spode mean to me?’

As I only recently got my studio there and it has been a pottery site for many years it’s hard not to feel the industrial archaeology means the most to me. I did not take a factory tour when it was open so what I see is flaking paint, rusting iron and damaged brickwork and furniture.

I painted a tiny picture several months ago of peeling paint round window frames and the glass next to it. I think I may do something abstract along those lines.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Exhibition