Cloth Road Arts Week : 1st - 9th May 2010

Two of our members are taking part in the 2010 Cloth Road Arts Week, promoting visual arts across west Wiltshire.

   

"Cloth Road Arts Week 2010 promises to be the best yet, with a record number of members and a greater variety of venues."     

(Quote from the Cloth Road website)

The Cloth Road Art Trail

Saturday 1st May - Sunday 9th May
Art Trail brochures available from libraries and tourism centres

Click here for a PDF download of the Cloth Road Art Trail brochure

Jo Loring-Fisher is exhibiting with Liney Kean and Juliet Abbott at:

The Barn Studio

Green Farm

The Green

Urchfont

Devizes

Wiltshire

SN10 4RB

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(There is also the Scarecrow Festival happening in Urchfont 1st - 3rd May)

Jan Nesbitt is also holding an Open Studio event during

Cloth Road Arts Week.

Vibrant paintings, Drawings, Prints

Opening fresh windows into the natural world.

 Exuberant, Celebratory.

Creatures and Characters dancing into dimensions of

Poetry and Imagination.

Jan Nesbitt's Open Studio

Sat 1st May - Sun 9th May

Every day 11am - 6pm

7 Langham Place

Rode

Frome

BA11 6PL

E: jan@jannesbittartwork.com
T: 01373 830941
http://www.jannesbittartwork.com/
Directions. Down Rode Hill from Trowbridge direction, turn R into Langham Place
from the hill just below the church with 2 spires.
No 7 is in the bottom corner of Langham Place.

Bath Artists' Studios Exhibition

You are invited to

Bath Artists' Studios Exhibition

Weds 7th April - Tues 20th April
at

Milsom Place

Bath
Unit 17, Shire's Yard, Milsom Place, opposite Jamie's Italian Restaurant.

Become a fan on Facebook and invite all your friends.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106785629352423&ref=ts

I will be showing work in this exhibition and will be in attendance on Friday 9th April until 8pm - do join me then for a glass of wine!

Felicity Roma Bowers

Orchard Books Showcase

Sarah Warburton recently joined other Orchard Books' illustrators at a special evening event in London.

It was a chance to celebrate the work of some of Orchard's talented illustrators.
Booksellers, publishing magazines and other publishing clients were among those invited and they received signed copies of books and had the chance of winning limited edition prints of artwork.

From left to right: Sarah Warburton, Sarah Gibb, Catherine and Lawrence Anholt, Alison Murray,

Simon Rickerty, Guy Parker-Rees, James Mayhew.

The showcased illustrators are a mix of very new and more established illustrators.

It's lovely to have a publisher celebrate illustration in this way.

Richard Deverell is currently working on...

Here are some images from a new children’s novelty book that
Richard Deverell is currently working on.

This is in between producing an illustrated brochure for a social housing maintenance company and lots of small illustrations for three educational publishers for crafts, literacy and language books.

Printmaking By Hand with Felicity Roma Bowers

Felicity Roma Bowers is running a one day printmaking workshop at the Bath Artists' Studios situated in the city of Bath UK.

Printmaking By Hand is about exploring printmaking without using a press - a low tech approach that you could do at home or in your studio.

Printmaking by Hand

Saturday 27th March 2010
10.30am-4.30pm

£37 inc some materials

More information about this course and the booking form can be found here: Printmaking By Hand

 

Felicity also runs regular life drawing classes. More information can be found here: Life Drawing classes.

One Hundred days to a better person - times two!

Two of our members have been participating in the  'One Hundred Days To Make Me A Better Person' challenge.

'Elvis Coffee Pot' by Angela Fernihough            'Cake' by Lauren Tobia        

Angela Fernihough and Lauren Tobia have each been adding a new illustration to their blogs every day whilst continuing their other illustration work.

Angela, is on her final week having posted a Coffee Pot themed image every day since the start of the project in December.
"The aim of this challenge is to develop my artistic style and try out as many ways as possible of illustrating the same thing. My subject is my coffee pot because I wanted to use something very familiar that I see every day. My coffee pot is a VERY IMPORTANT object. I love my coffee pot and this is my homage to it!" 
    Angela Fernihough

We have watched as she has shown us different styles from patchwork to pop art, and many combinations in between.

She has also been featured with her coffee pot images several times on the One Hundred Days website, and interviewed for a piece in The Independent's Sunday Magazine.


Lauren still has a way to go to her 100 images as she started the challenge in January, pledging a daily illustration from her day to day experiences.
"As part of the 100 days project I will endeavour to post a drawing every day.
I don't think I can pin it down any more than that.
I think it would be good if I could just produce a little drawing that was connected to my day in some way or another."   
    Lauren Tobia
We have followed her life through images of events that include snowy days, a lost (and found) dog and knitting!

Lauren has also been featured on the One Hundred Days website and her sketchbook will be exhibited as part of the One Hundred Days exhibition on 10th March, which is part of the London Word Festival.



Angela's website: http://www.studioanjou.com/
Lauren's website: http://www.laurentobia.com/

Read more, including a piece about Angela's work, on the Independent Minds Blog:
http://ryanmillar.livejournal.com/265.html

For more about the One Hundred Days To Make Me A Better Person project:
http://www.hundreddays.net/
ONE thing
done ONCE each day

From 1 December 2009, Josie Long cordially invites you to pledge to do one thing every day for 100 days in a bid to generally make things better.
The plan is simple:
1. Register here with your name, email and pledge
2. From 1 December, this pledge must be fulfilled every day for 100 days (or longer if the spirit of goodwill takes hold!)
3. Document your activity where possible - snap it, film it, write about it - and keep us updated on how you're getting along for ONE hundred days

South West illustrators website update!

SWillustrators.co.uk website has just been updated, so go check out the new images and meet our new site members.