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Gallery West Buckland Festival 2011

Today is the delivery day for the works of art to be delivered to the West Buckland Festival and then the work begins, hanging and displaying the exhibits ready for the preview on Thursday night. The Festival is upon us and the ticket sales have been rather good! There are a few left for the Friday night event and a few for the Saturday night. Read more…

Friday 9th September 2011, 7:30 – 10:00pm in St Peter’s Church, West Buckland

Friday Night is Music Night with international and local musicians and singers.

Enjoy the music of Paganini, Ravel, Grieg, Elgar and many more.

Lot 1 . The choice of one of three paintings or drawings by Gerald Moore.

Lot 2 . A week, for two, of rock climbing and walking in the mountains of North Wales with an experienced instructor.

Lot 3 . A Week for FOUR in a Cottage in Laugharne in South Wales – the village of Dylan Thomas.

Lot 4 . A picnic on Exmoor for three or four with travel in a vintage Rolls Royce.

Lot 5 . A black bag…

Lot 6 . Have you ever wanted to write a novel? A day with best selling novelist Veronica Henry, to learn a few tricks of the trade.

Extract from Veronica Henry’s blog:

We drove to Park Farm (the River Cottage HQ outside Axminster) on Sunday morning, the sunshine watery, the Dorset countryside still lush (that would be all the rain we had this summer). On the top drive, a row of twenty MX5s was lined up, gleaming with shimmery sparkly paintwork. I could drive whichever one I liked, apparently, so I picked a hard-top six-speed coupe in metallic red. But there was a price to pay – I had to have lunch first. Read more…

Who buys Art online?

Do people make impulse ART purchases on the Internet? If you have your paintings hanging in a gallery, shop etc then you can encourage people to look, touch even smell your works of art. High Street shopping and gallery purchases … Continue reading ?

Original Framed Painting £40.36

Due to a ‘time waster’ this painting has now become available again. Original painting by Peter Bright. Media: Painting and Screen Print on canvas, signed and dated 2003 – 2011 Size: 303 mm x 403mmIncludes original studio frame. Buy here… … Continue reading ?

Art Auction

Portrait of a Girl by Gerald Moore Should you wish to make a bid on one or more of the Silent Auction Lots, there are three ways in which you can achieve this:- a) You can email your bid to … Continue reading ?
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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.

Woodcut = drawing

Drawing for print:

Is it acceptable to splatter words on a page and call it ART?

The Changing Language of Prediction and Explanation

There are artworks, which as art could be mistaken as science/technology. Such works rely on networking, robotics and systems. (You could include Internet works in this category.)  When viewing/understanding Artworks that are based on networking, systems, and communities how do you subconsciously and verbally criticize the aesthetic or concept? The true aesthetics of a system is not the peripheral. The aesthetics of the system is in the understanding of its detail. The true aesthetics of the system incorporates the aesthetics of failure, a system that is reliant on external forces or structure will always have an element of built in probable failure. (This is a prediction.) The only way to achieve total reliability is to have a closed system, this however discourages growth and system expansion and thus becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Basic Prediction

Horoscopes in newspapers are based on star signs and birth dates; these predict the day’s events. These predictions are based on the laws of probability and chance. You could read your daily horoscope and make the prediction into a self-fulfilling prophecy, you could go out and find that ‘Tall dark handsome man’ or go on ‘A long journey’. Alternatively you could read your horoscope late in the evening and interpret the day’s events and adapt them to the mystical words. “Yes I did meet someone important today”. The interesting thing about prediction is that you could meet a tall dark handsome man, go on a long journey and meet someone important and never read your horoscope. Does this mean the day’s events were not predicted? Similarly these rules can apply to system-based art and painting.

Explanation =

An explanation is a set of statements constructed to describe a set of facts which clarifies the causes, context, and consequences of those facts. This description may establish rules or laws, and may clarify the existing ones in relation to any objects, or phenomena examined. The components of an explanation can be implicit, and be interwoven with one another. An explanation is often underpinned by an understanding that is represented by different media such as music, text, and graphics. Thus, an explanation is subjected to interpretation, and discussion.
In scientific research, explanation is one of the purposes of research, e.g., exploration and description. Explanation is a way to uncover new knowledge, and to report relationships among different aspects of studied phenomena.

Curating the West Buckland Festival exhibition

It is with great pleasure I am pleased to announce that I am curating the exhibition at the West Buckland Exhibition for 2010. This event is supported by Lady Margaret Fortescue and The Countess of Arran

‘The Gallery‘ 2010

Drawing  above by Peter Bright


During the festival The Gallery exhibition will enable visitors to view and in some cases buy works of art by local Devon artists. The Gallery will be in St Peter’s Church, West Buckland and will be open during the festival period.

The aim of the The Gallery exhibition is to enable and promote selected, amateur and professional artist living within the dispersed communities of North Devon and beyond. Past exhibitions have received critical acclaim and have been remarkably successful for artists and visitors. Diversity has been the success of these exhibitions, with entries ranging from textiles, painting, carving, printmaking and ceramics etc.


The objects in this exhibition have been selected by Peter Bright. A full list of exhibiting artists will be published as soon as possible.

West Buckland Festival is a festival of music, entertainment and leisure, held in a small village on the edge of Exmoor. This year’s festival featured more than a dozen events between 9th and 12th September 2010.

Exhibition dates – Daily Mail

The harsh reality of trying to live the dream is sometimes far from ideal. Below is an extract of an article published in the Daily Mail today about or journey to that harsh reality.

Things have however got a lot better and we are actually enjoying the way things are turning out.

According to figures released by property consultants Drivas Jonas, the grand country-house property market has defied the credit crunch, with a 13 per cent increase in country house sales in 2008/9.

We had to make some compromises and come to terms with the fact that life was going to be very different. We got on top of the house, finishing all the jobs we’d become too despondent to tackle, and made it a home.

Peter had an art exhibition and sold all his paintings. The best thing was that the children were happy at their new schools.

Read more: Daily Mail

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News on exhibition North Devon Festival Website

Topiary for Beginners
Category:  Visual Arts & Literature

Starts: Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Ends: Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Peter Bright presents ‘Topiary for Beginners’. Creating images is balancing on the knife edge that teeters between success and failure. A brushstroke out of place is like cutting the beak off a privet peacock, it takes time for it to grow back and reshape. Peter revisits his compositional ideas, formed in the late 70’s, to discover how his skills have ‘matured’.

Time: 11am to 4pm (Last admission 4pm)
Price Details: Free (entry fees apply for sculpture gardens)

Address: Broomhill Art Hotel , Barnstaple , Devon , EX31 4EX

Access: Good

Website: www.broomhillart.co.uk
Email: info@broomhillart.co.uk
Telephone: 01271 850262