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Collage workshop
Beautiful collages created in only 3 hours in our collage workshop yesterday. The next one is a Sketchbook workshop 23rd November in Cambridge.
Off the Wall Gallery
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- Bar Mento
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- Sea View
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- Red Canary
Three collages currently on display in the beautiful Off the Wall Gallery www.offthewallgallery.com in Cardiff. They are not all joined together, but I quite like it!
All the buzz of the fair
What a fantastic, friendly event the second Cambridge City Art Fair was this weekend. Lots of buying visitors and new contacts. Now it is back to the studio – trying to see if I can work without the colour orange!
Beautiful work by fellow artists
Friday night was the opening night of the very first Cambridge Original Printmakers exhibition, what a turn out and what a fantastic exhibition! It is on all week Pitt Building on Trumpington Street. Above are some of the prints on display by Tracey Ashman, gorgeous.www.facebook.com/tracey.ashman
Clare Wood www.claremariawood.co.uk is another talented printmaker and arty friend, hopefully showing with Cambridge Original Printmakers next year! Here is a series from her sketchbook.
Still on arty friends Lesly Birch www.lesleybirchartist.com Her beautiful atmospheric paintings and lively sketchbooks are always a joy to look at.
Cambridge Art Fair
Really excited about exhibiting at the Cambridge Artfair 10-12th October. I am exhibiting with with Primavera Gallery. Stand E2 in the large hall. Here is a sneak preview. www.cambridgeartfair.com
Cambridge railway station collages
Last Autumn, I decided to dedicate much more time to drawing. All my years of travelling I have always sketched people, so I went back to my roots – people on the move, going about their daily business. I naturally gravitated towards the railway station, still on the travel theme . People are focused on their journey and give me little attention – even when they sit in my sketch!
I have an A4 moleskin sketchbook, handful of pens and pencils and a small bag of collage papers and glue. Cambridge station has some good window sills and benches to perch for a while but generally I keep moving – as do my subjects. I do love the strong lines and shapes silhoutted in the station. Here are examples of the first stage.
Back in my studio I work into theses sketches with more collage papers, charcoal, paint and pencil.
Cambridge commuters
I took the drawings to into monoprints with paper stencils and hand drawn lines and more collage.
I am really enjoying working in this way but intend to get back into some big colour work very soon!
You can see some of station monoprints and drawings at the Cambridge Art Fair (Primavera Gallery stand E2) October 10 -12th 2014
