Willow pattern banner

Posted on January 25, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, banner, Design, Life, Memory, Painting, penkhull mystery plays, Potteries, Spode, Time, Willow pattern6 Comments

A banner for one of our Penkhull Mystery Plays. We hold them most summers and the one this was painted for was about the pottery industry and its history. This banner was based on the willow pattern famous in the potteries. Spode was one of the factories that made plates and pots with this design, but if you Google ‘willow pattern’ you can find lots of images from many manufacturers.

Blue acrylic paint on a canvas cloth. It took me a while to paint. I also painted the local church and methodist Hall as they would have appeared in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Willow pattern

Posted on January 4, 2022January 4, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artists, City, Clay, Close up, Creative, Painting, Poetry, potters poem, Pottery, Stoke-on trent, Willow patternLeave a comment

A bad, fuzzy close up

Of a painting I did

A willow pattern plate

That Spode pottery made

Based on patterns

That came from the east

So many variations

That you find all around.

Blue and white pottery

Glazed and painted

By skilled, creative artists

Paid by piecework,

(the number they did) .

Stoke on Trent city

A fading of clay,

But once so many people

Gave their art to the day.

Soon I’ll be scenery painting…

Posted on September 10, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, banner, Design, Fun, Mystery Play, Painting, Pantomime, Scenery, Willow patternLeave a comment

Panto rehearsal started tonight. I’ve offered to help paint the scenery again and I might get a few lines to speak. It’s been a couple of years since we did it because of covid.

This is a picture of me painting a banner for a mystery play that we did a few years ago (based on the willow pattern). I love getting involved in these projects.

Another favourite painting

Posted on January 28, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Landscape, Memories, Painting, Pottery, Three years ago, Willow patternLeave a comment

Painted three years ago. Another favourite painting I did a few years ago… Its based on the Willow Pattern which was a design produced by a lot of British potteries. There are lots of variations but most of them contain love birds and mountains, fishermen and priests on a bridge. Pine trees and the iconic Willow tree. I’ve painted it on a canvas and also as part of the scenery for a play.

Willow pattern

Posted on January 28, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blue and white, Colour, Design, Life, Painting, Spode, Still life, Willow patternLeave a comment

Images of a painting I did of the Willow pattern ceramic design a couple of years ago. The pattern is based on a few images that I saw online and copied, so it’s sort of a generic design. Many pottery companies had their own specific design. There are variations in the positioning of figures, placement of temples and types of vegetation. This was the British attempt to copy Chinese designs.

Some favourites from 2018?

Posted on January 3, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 2018, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Gold, Gold leaf, Life studies, Nine photos, Owls, Paintings, Papier mache, Spode studio, Studio, Teacup, Willow patternLeave a comment

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Well I think it was 2018. Time gets mixed up in my brain. I enjoyed going to a life drawing group for a while then other things got in the way, the drawing of a dancer and a guitarist are from there. I had a go at using gold leaf on pictures, which is the picture of the crow or rook. The teacup with a willow pattern was a hat for our local panto. The owls was one of my first tiny paintings. The tree is one I drew while we were up in Yorkshire on the Keithley and Worth Valley railway. The houses ainting is based on a picture I had done in 1980. The photo of me in the mirror is in my studio.

So that was the selection from 2018. I might do one for 2019.

Mug

Posted on July 23, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Colour, Design, Flowers, Fun, Painting ideas, Pretty, Willow patternLeave a comment

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Random influences.

This burleigh ware blue mug. I’m thinking of painting a blue flowery pattern on a small canvas. Not sure yet and it’s not going to be a copy of this but just something pretty.

Then I want to do a few small paintings based on sections of the willow pattern design. I’ve done a few of these before.

Panto hat

Posted on July 7, 2019July 7, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Costume, Design, Fun, Life, Painted hat, Panto, Papier mache, Willow patternLeave a comment

FB_IMG_1562500702303 this was a papier mache hat that I painted with a willow pattern design for our Pantomime ‘Aladdin’ . It was used as part of widow twanky’s costume a few years ago. I have forgotten a lot of things I did. I guess there is more somewhere. This picture is from Facebook memories.

Busy painting

Posted on July 6, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on calico, Art, Design, Part finished, Penkhull, Penkhull mystery play, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Willow pattern, Work in progress4 Comments

My friend took these on Friday. I was busy painting a willow pattern background for the penkhull mystery play.

I’m hopefully finishing it next week. I’m about half way through so it should be done on time. It’s a painting on calico that had been primed with white emulsion so the paint does not go on easily and it’s a bit wrinkled where the emulsion has dried. Anyway I will persevere. Then I’m hopefully getting some new paintings done for a craft fair and an exhibition in September. It’s all go!

Finished Friday

Posted on July 5, 2019July 6, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on calico, Backgrounds, Life, Methodist Chapel, Penkhull, Penkhull mystery play, Willow patternLeave a comment

I finished this painting of the old Methodist Chapel in Penkhull. I added some details including cobblestones reflecting the sky colours. The Chapel was built in 1836 about six years before the church was built on the top of the hill. Then of course I started something new.

This is a large image of a willow pattern platter. I’m a bit further on with it than this. I think I won’t be able to finish it till next week.

After this I went to sing at the church for the One night only show.

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Tag: Willow pattern

Willow pattern banner

Willow pattern

Soon I’ll be scenery painting…

Another favourite painting

Willow pattern

Some favourites from 2018?

Mug

Panto hat

Busy painting

Finished Friday