utilising pages for experimental still life & origami

This week's sessions were the last before a two week break.  

All were invited to work on their own project but I had a back-up plan...

Both groups worked with pages taken from withdrawn library books.  Lytham Art Circle explored origami and St Annes Art Circle incorporated text into experimental still-life - the fab results follow.

Have a lovely break everyone and I look forward to Wed, 10th June & Thurs, 11th June when we restart.  Hopefully we'll be able to be out and about more. 

Angie

Betty (bowling superstar too)

  

Jonti & Jane - flapping bird 

more boats were added to the fleet

Angie's approach

Betty's approach

Jo's approach

Eil - prep for textile

Jo

sakura, solvite, sticky...

tissue paper enabled experimentation with layering, colour, shape, composition & form

  

We found similarities with textiles; looked at making multiples and generally got sticky.

All good fun with a range of figurative, mysterious and evocative results.  Fab... well done!

Reminder:  Next week is our last session before a two week break.  When we return we'll be thinking about our contribution to Lytham Arts Festival (4th - 11th July) and St Annes Music & Arts Festival (18th - 26th July).

Both festivals will include a full day, Art Circle drop-in activity for anyone who wants to have a go!

[more details nearer the time]

Mabs & Jane

Eil

Jonti

Jonti

Christine

Betty

Carmel

Jeanette

Monic

Monica

Wyn

Wyn

portraits using Derwent Inktense

One & a half hours isn't that long to try out new materials and produce a portrait...

Well done everyone!

Monica by Monica:  "What!"

Wyn by Angie

Derwent Inktense - water-soluble ink pencils

by Eil

by Ray

Angie by Wyn

pages as medium...

with St Annes Library Art Circle.

 

We experimented with folding to make multiples then rearranged to enable the whole to become more than the sum of it's parts.

One of our number decided to make use of the protective table covering to get messy too.

Excellent start to enable us to re-think books as material.

made from origami doves (from above)

from the side

a web, a spider & people paper chains 

spider (detail)

art as facilitator...

What a lively morning in Lytham Library with Art Circle discussing a selection of objects from c.art.ed.
  
Our discussions included:  resemblance; sensibilities; materials; processes; context; art or craft?; artist; viewer; curator; funder; art as facilitator; "new" art (Impressionism, Cubism & now) and art as messenger (Victorian & now).
  
I think everyone went home for a rest...

Excellent stuff - well done everyone & a continued thank you to the artists who allow me to show their work.

Abigail Amelia Hunt  “folding”  (folded book pages, thread, pencil)  1 x 3cm 

Obsessive work.  One of nine thousand handmade parcels - each identical
 - each unique - each existing within the larger group

John Dawson   “Bear”  (polyurethane foam)  20 x 17 x 24cms:

“You’re weak, you’re useless, you wont last 5 minutes out there in the big wide world.  

So be careful and don’t talk to strangers.”(message to  sculpture JD)

Marguerite Knight  “Fibre Painting #7” (fibre & acrylic on board) 23 x 28cm  

…evocative rather than prescriptive.  The paintings are not “abstracted from” 

nature, but are rather a product of it in the form of imagination.

Anna Roebuck  “fruit, veg & bags” recycled plastic bags & fruit nets

Liz Sparks  “Knottie”  (woolen blanket and satin) 9.5 x 9.5cm 

“…a souvenir of the complexity of family life” 

Tim Machin  “Ship”   (ink cartridge, plasticine) 4 x 0.5cm 
…souvenir becoming memoir

Sid Foster  turned sycamore bowl

Julie Lang  “untitled”  (ten pound note & acrylic) 7.4 x 14cm  

…manipulation and re presentation