Archive for June, 2013

Midsummer Art Fair

Saturday, June 22nd, 2013

June 20th 2013

This weekend 21st – 23rd June, the Landmark Arts Centre is running a Midsummer Art Fair. Based in Teddington, the Landmark Arts Centre is housed in a 19th century former church complete with beautiful stained glass windows. My stand is 38, I am on a raised area at the front of the building.

I am selling 4 new etchings never seen before, so new that I haven’t yet photographed them, as well as the 3 sugar lift and aquatint etchings, part of the series with SUB, and also other etchings some framed, some in my browser, drawings and and smaller paintings.

Breathing Space

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breathing Space

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The Call of the Tide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Call of The Tide

 

 

 

I am also showing (and hopefully selling) Marilyn, the wire sculpture I created to go on stage with Yolande York-Edgell while she performed the dance about Marilyn Monroe last year. Marilyn would be equally happy in a house, office entrance hall or  garden she is made of galvanised wire and sprayed with lacquer.

Marilyn was created in 2012 when I was Artist in Residence with Yorke Dance Project, to be on stage with dancer Yolande Yorke Edgell in a moving dance about Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn

Marilyn

Yolande Yorke Edgell on stage with the shadow of Marilyn behind

Yolande Yorke Edgell on stage with the shadow of Marilyn behind

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Open Doors, Open Dancing

Saturday, June 22nd, 2013

8th June 2013

Today Greenwich Dance (GDA) opened the doors to the local community for a day of free dance classes Open Doors, Open Dancing, as Greenwich Dance Resident Artist I organized easy going art workshops throughout the day. All ages participated, youngsters drawing the dancers on long sheets on the floor while the class was in progress, older children and adults preferring to use individual sheets of paper.

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Drawing the dance class while the dancers danced

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some preferred to sit apart and try collage or drawing from memory

 

 

 

 

 

Ballet Class

 

 

 

 

 

African Dance Class

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We made a Greenwich Dance Gallery

 

 

 

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Buyers Day at The Royal Academy

Thursday, June 6th, 2013

6th June 2013

The edition is sold out within a few hours

The edition is sold out within a few hours

 Another Private View at the Royal Academy, this one is ‘Buyers Day’, I take my daughter hoping for a couple of red dots under my etching so she can feel proud and I can feel pleased, but what a treat –  a whole row of red dots waiting for us. I have sold the whole edition!

This week I’ve been etching in the print studio, printing new work based on recent drawings of dance.

As well as printing I have been drawing Arthur Pita‘s 100 Hours Dance Marathon at Greenwich Dance in my role as Resident Artist at Greenwich Dance. Now day 4, the 8

dancers look surprisingly bright and lively on so little sleep. Now 22.49 p.m., my kids have turned in and I am about to go back to draw till 1.00am. I’ve filled several sketch books, this evening I will draw on bigger sheets.

The RA web site, SUB 3rd from left, 3rd down

The RA web site, SUB 3rd from left, 3rd down

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Clod Ensemble. Zero

Wednesday, June 5th, 2013

4th June 2013

Sadler’s Wells, Clod Ensemble. I’d been printing in the morning, drawing the Dance Marathon in the afternoon and helping middle child with Biology GCSE revision … bit weary but didn’t want to miss Clod Ensemble perform. Son promised to keep working so left the house. I knew Allessandra Ruggeri would be dancing and didn’t want to miss her, in 2009 we made a film together, Chasing Shadows, Allesandra’s response through movement to my painting. I am a great fan of her dancing.clod6 clod5 clod 4

Live band on stage with Hazel Holder singing Blues which was fabulous. Loved the spacing and dynamics of the choreography and the dancers. I was sitting too far back though, I wanted to be up close, in a much smaller more intimate space.

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Varnishing Day at the Royal Academy

Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
Below SUB at the private View

Standing below SUB at the private view

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today was the first day of the celebrations for the opening week of the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. Called Varnishing Day, it’s the day the Artists are invited to the Academy for a Private View of the selected work.

Welcomed to the exhibition with a glass of champagne and a meringue, there was a very happy party atmosphere, particularly in the 2 rooms showing the prints, where many London printmakers know each other from printing at the same studios.

SUB (Rambert Dance Company), the Sugar Lift etching that was selected is catalogue no 347.

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