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What is painting?

Broomhill Collection

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface. The application of the medium is commonly applied with a brush. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. These same criteria can be used to describe printing.

Painting owned by Broomhill

I went for lunch and was really pleased to find a painting purchased by Broomhill Art Hotel off me a few years ago is still on their wall – wish I still owned it (maybe?) Below is the original Artist … Continue reading ?

Review: NORTH Devon is fast becoming a hotbed of creativity and a magnet for talented artists. Indeed one of the area’s highest profile art groups is having to replace its usual winter exhibition at Broomhill with three consecutive shows due to rapidly increasing membership. North Devon Arts’ second show consists of a lively and creative display of works ranging from the striking abstract paintings of Peter Bright and Liz Willis to the more representational landscapes and prints of Tim Saunders and Emily Garnham Wright. It includes powerful and dramatic photography by Dave Green who bases much of his work upon the theme of caves………

La Belle et la Bête

Screenprint - 2011 by This Window
Screenprint – 2011, a photo by This Window on Flickr.

I have begun a series of paintings (screenprints) ready for my exhibition in the ‘Long Gallery’ (West Buckland School, Barnstaple, North Devon). The loose idea for these images are based around the title ‘Beauty and the Beast’ – the ‘beauty‘ will be a large ape. This will coincide with a workshop I am giving on how to create woodcuts. Read more…

Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740. The best-known written version was an abridgement of her work published in 1756 by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, in Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves; an English translation appeared in 1757.

Variants of the tale are known across Europe. In France, for example, Zémire et Azor is an operatic version of the story of Beauty and the Beast written by Marmontel and composed by Grétry in 1771. It had enormous success well into the 19th century. It is based on the second version of the tale. The tale has perhaps been made most recently famous by the retelling in the 1991 Disney film.

Amour pour amour, by Nivelle de la Chaussée, is a 1742 play based on Villeneuve’s version.

Beauty and the Beast. (2011, April 4). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12:47, April 7, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beauty_and_the_Beast&oldid=422255721

Monday 16th May 1977

“Just off the quay somebody has drawn a maze in the sand, it looks rather good. It is a nice idea to draw something that will only last for a few hours, to be reclaimed again by the sea; maybe I’ll have a go. The time factor is interesting.”

Printmaking Workshop:

Saturday 11th June 2011 – 10-1.30pm
Room: Print Room in the 150 Building
Tutor: Peter Bright

West Buckland School, Barnstaple, Devon EX32 0SX
Course Aims:
A hands on introduction to woodcuts and how to create a series of prints. Within the time frame it is hoped that each participating member will be able to create a finished image. The techniques shown will be simple ‘kitchen table’ processes that will be easy to replicate at home.
Read more about my work .. .
Equipment needed: All materials are provided.
Additional costs: No additional costs.
Refreshments: Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.
Contact me for more details.
Location:West Buckland School, Barnstaple. As you turn onto the school site, take the left turning to the car park. The 150 building is located adjacent to the main car park, and the front door is at the far end of the building as you walk towards it.

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Cost: £28.75. There is a 15% discount to current WBS parents and staff, and would ask that all course places are pre-booked.

Printmaking Workshop

I will be giving a hands on  introduction  to  woodcuts and how to create  prints at West Buckland School in North Devon (UK). Within the time frame it is hoped that each participating member will be able to create a finished image. The techniques I will be introducing will be simple ‘kitchen table’ processes that will be easy to replicate at home. Read more about my work...

Printmaking Workshop:

Saturday 11th June 10-1.30pm £28.75

(venue: West Buckland School, NorthDevon, UK)

For further details of the available courses, or to request a booking form please contact Karen Wicks kaw@westbuckland.devon.sch.uk or telephone 01598 760281.

Course Programme:

Pottery Evening Class: Wednesday 7-9pm £69 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th May

Learn hand-building techniques with clay using slabs, coils and modelling, plus a basic introduction to glazing.

Raku Glazing Workshop: Sunday June 12th 10-4pm £46

Create experimental glaze effects using this traditional Japanese form of glazing (pots supplied).

Life Drawing Evening Class: Wednesday 7-9pm £46 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd June

Learn to draw from the figure using a range of materials and approaches (aged over 16 only).

Glass Fusing Workshops:

Introduction to Glass Fusing: Saturday 11th June 10-1.30pm £28.75

Learn the basics of fusing glass and using inclusions to create coasters, light-catchers and pendants.

Intermediate Glass Fusing: Saturday 25th June 10-1.30pm £28.75

A course for those who have completed the introduction workshop, and a chance to develop more personal work, including using slumped glass.

Dichroic Glass Jewellery: Saturday 2nd July 10-1.30pm £34.50

Use metallic and coloured glass to create small fused jewellery pieces.

Feltmaking Workshop: Sunday 12th June 10-1.30pm £28.75

Learn how to create flat and sculpted pieces using felt fibres.

Printmaking Workshop: Saturday 11th June 10-1.30pm £28.75

An introduction to using woodcuts to create a series of prints.

June exhibition

Rediscovering the printing process after nearly 40 years has been an interesting process – disappointingly modern inks are not as rich in colour (earthy colours are very plastic like) and modern waterbased inks don’t become part of the surface, they sit on it, which is incredibly frustrating – the reason I took up printing in the first place was because of the absorbed flatness of the pigments.

The image below is a lithograph I did in 1978.

I have begun to frame some of the prints for the June exhibition. The main theme will be ‘woodcuts over printed paper’. Traditionally black and white prints were hand tinted with either ink or watercolour – I have begun playing around with this idea and am using different processes to create full colour prints.

The most inspirational woodcuts (for me) are by Émile Bernard. Émile Henri Bernard (April 28, 1868 – April 16, 1941) is known as a Post-Impressionist painter who had artistic friendships with Van Gogh, Gauguin,  Eugene Boch and Cézanne. Most of his notable work was accomplished at a young age, in the years 1886 through 1897. He is also associated with Cloisonnism and Synthetism, two late 19th century art movements. Less known is Bernard’s literary work, comprising plays, poetry, and art criticism as well as art historical statements that contain first hand information on the crucial period of modern art to which Bernard had contributed. Bernard was in many ways, the young, educated and intellectual mentor, who was crucial in intellectualising and inspiring Paul Gauguin  during the Pont Aven period of his career. Read more…

‘Bernard’s ideas fired Gauguin’s enthusiasm, and Bernard’s important painting Breton Women in the Meadow (1888; France, priv. col.), a starkly drawn and crudely painted composition depicting a Breton Pardon, enabled Gauguin to go on to produce his own revolutionary painting Vision after the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1888; Edinburgh, N.G.) in a similar style and composition. Bernard exhibited Cloisonnist paintings and prints of Breton inspiration alongside Gauguin and other artists at the Exposition Universelle of 1889, at the Café Volpini. This exhibition acted as a catalyst on the Nabi group and drew a number of new adherents to the Pont-Aven school.’

Text from MoMA.org (original source Oxford University Press)

L I N K S

The beginnings of Synthetism through Bernard to Gauguin

Émile Bernard (wikipedia)

MoMA (images)

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And the Gold of their Bodies

First proof of ‘And the Gold of their Bodies‘ – this is a woodcut over printed paper. The title is a reference to Paul Gauguin and reference to his woodcuts.

Français : Et l’or de leur corps
Català: I l’or dels seus cossos
Deutsch: Und das Gold ihrer Körper
English: And the gold of their bodies

Inscription: Et l’or de leur corps

Signed and dated bottom right: P. Gauguin 1901

Thought for the day?

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Product and product philosophy?

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