Spirit Exhibition Announcement

It's that time again, time for another exhibition. It’s called ‘Spirit’ and features new and familiar paintings, prints, animation and glass by myself, Linda Anne Watson and Bob Kerr.





"Misty Angels" - Digital Print, 2004




The preview takes place on Tuesday June 6th at 8pm at St Nicholas’ Church, Church Road, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne.and there will be live music provided by Jairus and drinks and nibbles. The exhibition then continues from Wednesday 7th to Tuesday 20th June, Mondays to Saturdays from 1pm to 5pm. If you are local, I hope to see you there.

Here is a pdf with more information.

ArtRage

I stumbled upon ArtRage, a free painting program, via the CG Talk forum which I quite like. It has a nice natural media feel of paint mixing with the paint below it when applied to the canvas, this is good up until the colours start getting muddy. They have just released a higher spec version for $20 which I might try as it has layers and may stop the muddiness. Here is a rough painting using ArtRage of my boyfriend seen repeating through my laptop monitor.



Paul painted in ArtRage

Advent

In the run up to Christmas I ran a one day session making paper mache Nativity figures with the children of the parish of St Nicholas’s Church in Gosforth. The theme was loosely based on the Mexican Christmas tradition of the Posada and it was great day! I am always surprised by paper mache as it is a lo-tech technique that produces striking results. Here are some pictures of the figures.

Mary
Joseph

The Donkey

Mary in profile looking unacannily like my Grandma

An Angelic Introduction

What better way to introduce my blog than to plug my latest exhibition.

It's called Messenger RSVP and can be seen between 1pm and 4pm at St Bernadette's Church, Station Road, Wallsend, NE28 9UL until the 21st of October. The work shown is based on the theme of messages and messengers, which I have chosen to interpret as angels, which are defined in the Oxford dictionary as "messengers of God". The angel that is my muse is a life-size headstone found in San Michele, the cemetery island in Venice. Here are some images:

"Heavenly Angel" Oil on Canvas, 2005












"Wingspan" Oil on Canvas, 2005












The work in situ














My only image of the preview evening














The exhibition also features the work of Peter O'Brien, my brother who is a glass blower, pen and ink artist Steve Lancaster and painter Linda Anne Watson. You can see more of my art on the sporadically updated COB's Web