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.

Putting it up

Posted on March 4, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, eclectic art, Exhibition, Painting, retrospective, Spode, Studio, WatercoloursLeave a comment

I was at Spode studios today selecting the images I want hung at my Retrospective exhibition. They are a colourful and eclectic mix. It should be up tomorrow. I’m having a closing evening on Friday when most of the work will be for sale. However a few works that are of my hubby and myself are staying with me.

Retrospective

Posted on February 28, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, batiik, Elanora Street, Fine Art, Painting, Prints, retrospective, Spode site, Stoke-upon-Trent, Studios, WatercoloursLeave a comment

I’m holding a retrospective of my art at Spode studios next week. It’s because I am leaving the studios after 7 years this April. I have enjoyed my time there but circumstances mean that I cannot continue there.

The retrospective will run from Monday 4th March 2024 to Friday 8th March. There will be a closing viewing of the exhibition on Friday from 6.30pm to 8.30pm.

Most of the works will be for sale. Please join me if you can at Spode Studios, Spode Site, Elanora street, Stoke upon Trent.

Metallic cat

Posted on January 10, 2024 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged black card, brush strokes, Cat, Fun, ginger cat, Metallic paint, Sketching, Watercolours4 Comments

Someone bought some metallic paints in to an art group I go to. I could have painted flowers but I did a ginger cat instead. I enjoyed using curving brush strokes. It only took a few minutes to paint but it cheered me up.

I have metallic paints somewhere in the house but I can’t find them. I intend to have a clear out so hopefully they will turn up.

Afternoon views

Posted on July 30, 2023July 30, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Ford Green Hall, Friends, Life, Orme Art group, Painting, Watercolours, Work in progress2 Comments

A few views of where I set up to paint along side a family, gran, mother and daughter who were all painting. I really enjoyed the company. It’s good to be finally involved with other artists. We were at the top of the slope looking down at the Hall. Other people arrived and some went on to paint the lovely garden. I’ll post a few more photos later.

Exhibition time

Posted on May 2, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylics, Art, Crafts, Drawings, Exhibition, Fine Art, Jewellery, Landscape, Painting, Portrait, Watercolours5 Comments

This Saturday, around eight artists will be exhibiting at the Whitfield Community Centre, Whitfield Avenue, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire. Eleven till Four.

It should be good. Crafts and jewellery as well as paintings and drawings will be for sale. It will be interesting to see how many people come out. Hope the weather is fine. I will be wearing a mask, hope no one minds!

MAA! (Messy Artist alert)

Posted on December 9, 2021December 14, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Fun, Messy, Pallette, Poem, Poetry, Silly, Splash, vibrant, Watercolours2 Comments

Spotted these photos of my watercolour paints today. I must be a messy artist!

Colour pans out

Messy splashes

I’m a real lout.

Red and blue

Green and yellow

My colour pallette

Is not very mellow.

Splish and splash

Water and pigment

A real stramasch

Let art ferment!

Lamp

Posted on May 8, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black cartridge paper, Dark, Lamp, Light, metallic water colours, Night, Watercolour sketch, WatercoloursLeave a comment

Metallic watercolours on black cartridge paper. I painted this back in February. I’m going over my college work and trying to select the ten best images, or the most experimental ones. I’ve got far to many to choose from but I like this, it’s got its problems, a bit rough round the edges, but I was just looking at someone else’s post and the way she used light and shade on figures, and it reminded me of this.

Goldfish?

Posted on April 19, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink, black paint, Goldfish, Imagined, Life, Pond, Splodges, Water, Watercolours1 Comment

I used monoprint black splodges for this. They were collaged onto a page I’d printed dots from bubble wrap covered in black paint. I realised I could make out two goldfish in the patterns. So I used watercolours and black ink to complete the picture. Slightly reminds me of Japanese woodblock images.

Portraits with splodges

Posted on April 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink, black paint, Bubble wrap, Drawing, Faces, Fun, Painting, Portrait, Splodges, Watercolours6 Comments

Ten minute portrait studies with black paint splodges from bubble wrap. I used watercolour and black ink pens for the portraits. We did some minoprint a few weeks back but I found gluing down bits of paper then drawing over the top difficult so tried this instead. It also makes you consider where to paint the face!
We were using found items to add interest. My favourite is the pot of brushes obscuring the face of one of the sitters.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Watercolours