Books and Faces

Once again, I had a stall at Bookface on Sunday at the Rising Sun Arts Centre. It was a great day, there were prints, artists books and workshops (and much more) and I had lots of lovely feedback.

Thanks for N.W. for the photo!

Just a thing

This is a close up of a recent drawing. Glistening feet. Lovely.

A bit more Jelly

This is a group shot of the competition entrants, with our artwork, from the weekend: (clockwise from left) Mark Andrew Webber, Alistair Hood, Martin aka Nightmonkey, Sam Knight, Peter Lang and Julie Simmonds.

Thanks to R.K. for the photo!

A link to Jelly's Twitter post: https://twitter.com/thejellyReading/status/485785542156894208/photo/1

Open for Art 2014

Today I took part of an open air art competition, organised by Jelly Reading.

I am thrilled to say that I won, based on the public vote. Well done to all who entered, it was a good atmosphere and nice to draw outside with other artists. Here are some photos of the shenanigans, thanks to R.K. for the photos.

A link to the Jelly website: http://jelly.org.uk/

Ready to go WST

My stall is set up and ready to go! You can find me at Redlands school (Venue 18 on the map) between 11am and 6pm today and tomorrow. I have lino and screen prints, drawings, drawings, cards and handbound books for sale. Also, you can see my sketchbooks and original transparencies for the prints. 

I will be happy to answer any questions (art related of course), see you there!

Preparing for WST

I have been doing more printing for the trail, this time it is my business cards.

Reduction, a work in progress

At the moment, I have been working on some lino prints, more specifically reduction lino. It is still dreadfully confusing, even when I know what I'm doing. The first image (the magpie) is a small run of 3 colour prints which I have just finished, the second is the first 2 colours of another 3 colour image, in this case Fulvous Whistling Ducks.

These, and more, will be available at the Whiteknights Trail 2014.

WST

This Summer I will be taking part in the Whiteknights Studio Trail. Here is a five colour screenprint that I have been working on, depicting a Royal Aircraft Factory RE.8 as observed at IMW Duxford.

Spring Greens

Having recently upgraded to an 'Exhibiting Member' of Reading Guild of Artists, I shall be submitting work to the RGA's 84th Annual Exhibition "Spring Greens". It will be on from Sat 22nd March to Tue 1st April 2014 at the Old Fire Station Gallery, 66 Market Place, Henley RG9 2AG.

Alumni

It is 2014. How better to start off the year than with an Exhibition... From January 11th to 29th, I am part of Maiden Erlegh's Alumni Exhibition which features an eclectic mix of work from former Art students. For more details and opening times, check out the Community Arts page. On show is one of my screenprints: Red Kite I, edition of 30. For this and more, make sure to take a look!