ILLUSTRATION WONDERLAND

An exhibition by South West Illustrators

Venue: Gallery 44AD, Abbey Street, Bath BA1 1NN

Dates: Tuesday 22^nd – Sunday 27^th September 2015 10am-6pm

Private view by invitation only Tuesday 22^nd September 6-7.30pm

An exhibition of wonderful new and unseen work by South West Illustrators.

‘Illustration Wonderland’ presents the work of fifteen illustrators, artists and printmakers which includes a special invitation to visitors to explore ‘down the rabbit hole’!

Curiouser and curiouser, the hallway will be transformed to show a selection of ‘Alice’ or Lewis Carroll themed work to celebrate the 150^th anniversary of the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Original artwork, signed Giclee prints, picture books and greetings cards will be on sale.

Artists participating are: Anna Popescu, Estelle Corke,        
 Ivana Svabic Cannon, Jan Nesbitt, Jane Veveris Callan, Julia King, Kate Davies, Laila Hills, Lisa Kelly, Nick Shewring, Mary Hall, Penny Ives, Richard Deverell, Sally Barnett, Scott Joyce.

English Garden in high Summer

Return sketching trip to Iford Manor

Members and friends of South West Illustrators made a return trip to the Peto Garden at Iford Manor. They were most grateful for the opportunity to sketch the stunning gardens before the Sunday afternoon visitors arrived.

Water Feature by Kate Davies

Iford Manor has a wonderful programme of music events throughout the year. More information can be found at their Arts website here

Illustration of Momo

Swillustrator Kate Davies recently completed a beautiful illustration of Momo for the community project 'Living Room' in South Wales. Kate based her Momo on a young friend of hers.

'Momo' was written by the German children's author and fantasy writer Michael Ende.
At the edge of the city, in the ruins of an old amphitheatre, there lives a homeless girl called Momo.
Momo has a special talent which she uses to help all her friends who come to visit her. Then one day the sinister men in grey arrive and silently take over the city. Only Momo has the power to resist them, and with the help from Professor Hora and his strange tortoise, Cassiopeia, she travels beyond the boundaries of time to undercover their dark secrets.

Sketching trip to Iford Manor Peto Gardens

Last weekend SWIllustrators held a sketching trip to the beautiful Peto Gardens at Iford Manor.

  

                    Summerhouse at Iford Manor by Kate Davies    

                                                    

The Grade 1 Italianate Garden at the Manor is famous for it's tranquil beauty and was designed by the architect and landscape gardener Harold Ainsworth Peto, who lived there from 1899 to 1933. It is a unique and romantic hillside garden, characterised by steps, terraces sculpture and magnificent rural views.

Gate at Iford Manor by Kate Davies

We were spoilt for choice with so many wonderful scenes, from architectural pillars to sweeping lawns and formal topiary to the Japanese garden. The magnificent wisteria that is such a feature of the whole site was in full bloom and we were also lucky enough to be there for the Sunday afternoon '3-to-Tea' concert in the cloisters and then greatly enjoyed the tea and delicious cakes after an afternoon of studied concentration!

Iford Cloister by Scott Joyce

Thank you for having us Iford Manor we look forward to more sketching trips in future.

Elephant Parade Artbox contest shortlist

SWillustrator  Jane Veveris Callan has had her design 'Matriarch' short listed in the Elephant Parade artbox contest.

Judges from Elephant Parade Bangkok short listed 10 designs from over 500 entries. The public will vote for their favourite via Facebook and the winner's design will be created on one of the 99 life size elephant sculptures that will form the parade in Bangkok from 1st December 2015. The winner will also be flown to Bangkok to see the launch of the parade.

You can vote for Jane's design  at Elephant Parade fan page 

until 27th May.

 'Matriarch' ( the name of the oldest female member of an elephant family group) is inspired by the city of Bangkok, and shows it's modern skyscrapers and ancient temples, with trees rising out of the city. The trees are gold to signify raised awareness and funds raised by the parade to support elephant conservation and the green leaves  represent the hope of saving the elephants natural habitat.