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Barbara Tate's bok West End Girls is published on 22nd July If any Members would like a copy, it’s currently on a half-price offer at Amazon this week:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/West-
'Tate's account of her time as 'a maid' to
a 1940s Soho tart is warm and affecting' (READERS DIGEST )
West End Girls Barbara Tate Published by Orion on 22 July 2010 £12.99 hardback Barbara Tate was 17 when she heard the whispered word that would change her life : Soho. It would take four years for Barbara to escape her loveless home but when she finally made it to the forbidden streets of Soho - just as London was recovering from the trauma of the Second World War - things would never be the same again. There the naive Barbara meets the beautiful and capricious Mae. When she takes a job as Mae's maid, Barbara imagines she'll be housekeeping. But down a shabby backstreet, Barbara discovers the secret lives of Soho's working girls. An astonishing world full of fierce friendships and bitter rivalries, dangerous men and desparate measures, Barbara soon learns that taking the money from a staggering supply of punters and making copious amounts of tea are only the bare essentials. She will need to be nursemaid, protector and confidante to impossible, adorable, self-destructive Mae.
The tumultuous and
heartrending friendship at the heart of this spellbinding tale gives us
a window on a people and a place almost lost to us. It's a true story of
adventure, survival and growing up, told with experience, honesty and
real heart. Barbara Tate left
her Soho life and went on to marry, raise a family and become a successful
painter. As well as serving as president of the Society of Women Artists,
Barbara also received an honorary professorship from Thames Valley University.
Barbara died in 2009. For further information, please contact Gaby Young at Orion: 020 7520 4317 or gaby.young@orionbooks.co.uk For more information about Barbara Tate and West End Girls, please visit www.barbaratate.co.uk ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Mo Lancaster & Irene Lees at the RA Congratulations to Mo Lancaster and Irene Lees who have their pictures hanging in the Royal Academy 2010 Summer Exhibition.
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The
Artist The new book entitled Colour and Light in Watercolour' by Jean Haines was launched on 7th July at the SWA Exhibition. Jean says she is having a fantastic year as she has been selected to show her work at the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year Exhibition which was held at the Mall Galleries between 24th and 20th May. Jean also has 'Watercolour with Life' workshops available in September details of which can be found on her website.
www.jeanhaines.com ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
100 pictures in 100 days for £100.00 or less. Cathy has taken up the challenge to produce a new drawing or painting to her blog every day for 100 consecutive days, all for sale at less than £100, to enable people to purchase an original piece of art at an affordable price. This concides with the end of Somerset Art weeks from 26th of June to 3rd October Visit the home site of equestrian artist Cathy Spearing at www.equinart.co.uk . Browse the site, enjoy the pictures and feel free to contact me regarding any queries. Also now available to view and follow: My blogspot. www.equinart.blogspot.com ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The late Dorothy Dean was a proud member of the SWA and would have been 90 this year. The family are holding a commemorative exhibition of her work in the Allen Gallery, Alton, between Friday 2nd and Saturday 31st July 2010. For further information please contact: colinphoward@btinternet.com ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Soraya's new studio is at: Unit 11 Project workshops, Lains Farm, Quarly Nr Andover, SP11 8PX.
Congratulations to Soraya who has been invited by GOLDEN Acrylics Ltd, the USA based company, to a 5 day seminar with principal artist, Patti Brady at their New York headquarters. She has been their main UK demonstrator since 2008. Soraya's second book, 'Dynamic Acrylics' was launched in 2009. Published by Harper Collins, it is available directly from Soraya, Mall Galleries, Amazon and many other book shops.
For a full list of workshops with Soraya click this link. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Tessa
will also have around 10 paintings in ‘Lavender’s Blue Dilly Dilly’
Exhibition at the Corner Gallery, Carshalton Beeches. Nov 2010. For
details visit: http://corner-gallery.com/
Tessa
will be tutoring a one day workshop on Silk Painting for Art events, Reigate
Surrey on Sat Oct 16th 2010 for details
visit http://www.art-events.co.uk/
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Ann
is holding a Summer Exhibition of flowers, animals and
landscapes in watercolour and mixed media at her studio gallery in the
Cotswolds. The exhibition will run from 3rd- 10th
July 2010,10.00am – 5.00pm For
further information about exhibitions and workshops please contact Ann on
01608 812477 email.
ann@annblockley.com Please
contact Ann or look on her website for information about:
Carol Hill SWA RBSA SFP For full details on workshops & courses please click this link
20th –21st MAY 2010 TWO DAY LANDSCAPE OIL PAINTING 5TH – 7TH JULY 2010 THREE DAY LANDSCAPE WATERCOLOUR PAINTING 4TH – 6TH OCTOBER 2010 THREE DAY LANDSCAPE WATERCOLOUR PAINTING For booking and further information on her forthcoming courses, workshops, demonstrations and exhibitions, please contact Carol Hill on 01629 582232, E-Mail: Carolhill@mailauth.co.uk or visit Carol’s website : www.carolhillartist.com The Beauty of Winter - Cromford Canal ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Christine will be running a Painting Holiday in Rhonda, Southern Spain on 7th-14th September 2010 For further details please click here or visit Christine's website: www.art-christinerussell.co.uk
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Painting Water in Watercolour. Residential painting holiday, Cheddar Gorge June14th -18th 2010 Learn to paint water and marine landscapes as well as rocky landscapes with Becky Samuelson who has many years experience painting specialising in water, marine, landscape and architectural painting in watercolour. All abilities welcome. Much of our time will be spent on location in the Gorge or elsewhere in the Mendips. Becky will give a demonstration on Sunday evening and each morning she will give a "tips and techniques" session in the studio and then students will go out on location mid-morning and paint, applying what you have learnt in the studio. Becky is a very enthusiastic and energetic teacher and spends much of her time with students on a one-to-one basis giving hands on guidance. You will be sure to learn a lot from the wealth of her experience and her enthusiasm for painting and landscapes. Non painting partners are very welcome. For more information and booking please contact Matt Clark www.cheddargallery.co.uk or Becky on 01983 873351 www.beckysamuelsonfinearts.co.uk ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Jane Gibson See www.kentpotters.co.uk for more details.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Pastel Tuition and Studio Workshops 2010 For further details please click this link
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Hazel Reeves is exhibiting her award-winning sculpture 'Mercy' as part of the Surrey Sculpture Society garden trail at RHS Garden Wisley. There is no additional charge for the trail once inside the garden. Visitors can take advantage of seeing both the sculpture trail and the Wisley Flower Show on Friday 11 to Sunday 13 September. For more information contact Wired & Fired at wiredandfired@hotmail.co.uk RHS Garden Wisley Surrey Sculpture Society http://www. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Tiny Nijman will take part in an artfair called Untitled Artists Fair which is held at the Chelsea Old Town Hall on the Kings road in London. She will occupy stand nr A38. There will be as many as 170 artists selling direct to the public. The Fair will be spread over 3 days. Starting on the evening of Friday 5th June with a private view and will be open to the public on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th of June. For more information and downloading free tickets see this website: www.untitledartistsfair.co.uk Congratulations to Tiny Nijman who has recently had all her exhibited etchings purchased by KPMG. Tiny recently had an exhibition of her etchings and collographs in the corridors of the brand new building of the KPMG office in Lausanne, Switzerland. These works were on display on 18th and 19th June to celebrate the opening at receptions organized for clients. The work was so successful that KPMG decided to purchase all 18 prints and they will now be on permanent display at: KPMG office, Av. du Theatre 1, CH - 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Confusion often stems from the word Prints. Tiny Nijman and Pam Henderson have put together an interesting article explaining the distinct differences. PRINTS There is a clear distinction between images which are conceived from the outset culminating in artist’ original prints, and those which simply reproduce images first conceived in another medium. Giclee (or other generic named process) prints are commercially produced reproductions of an original painting. They are digitally printed onto high quality archival papers or canvas using specially pigmented lightfast inks. The artist created the original work but is not directly involved in the printing process. The number of reproductions is known as an edition, which may be large or small. Sometimes, these reproductions are numbered and signed individually by the artist. In creating a true reproduction, the prints will all be identical to the original work. Their value lies in the initial creativity of the artist, combined with the sophisticated technology used to reproduce the original work. But the same technology can change the size and even the colours of the original work. These prints could be described as high quality copies. An original print is an image transferred (usually) to paper from a printing surface. The artist conceives the artwork with the intention of producing prints and it is these, rather than the blocks or plate from which they are printed, that are the original works of art. Because they are processed by hand, there may be small variations in the prints. There are many different processes an artist may use: intaglio (carving into the plate or block with a sharp implement or acid to create a texture so that the ink-filled furrows print on the paper) for processes such as: engraving, etching, drypoint, aquatint or mezzotint); relief (carving out the background with knives, gougers, even electric routers), the opposite of intaglio, so that the design is formed from the relief, for processes such as woodcut, wood engraving, linocut, or collograph. A reduction linocut means that once the first colour has been printed, the block is progressively cut away to make subsequent blocks for different colours, so mistakes are fatal! lithography depends on the antipathy of grease and water, originally used with stone; monotype, a single impression which must be created every single time it is printed; silk or screenprints, based on the stencil principle (which originally used silk) where an image is created on the mesh and ink is forced through it with a rubber blade onto the printed surface. Every stage of the process is carried out by the artist who creates the artwork on the plate or block, putting it through a press with paper (usually handmade), then lifting off the resulting print. The plate is then cleaned and the process repeated for each print until the edition is finished. Several colours may be used. Editions are usually smaller than those of commercial reproductions and prints may vary slightly because they are carried out by hand rather than technology. Techniques used by artist-printmakers are sometimes not easy to classify because different unorthodox materials and techniques may be used in combination and suitable surfaces may include the traditional surfaces of metal, stone, wood, lino as well as glass or Perspex, using printing aids such as rollers, brushes, rags, even fingers, as individual artists enthusiastically devise their own ways of satisfying their creative ends. Original prints are consequently more expensive and more collectable than reproduction prints. The artist controls the whole process from conception of the artwork to the signing of the edition, so each print should show the individual number of the print and the number in the edition (for instance, 1/50, 2/50, etc.) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ London Art Co UK Ltd Would you like to sell your work online? www.londonart.co.uk is now the Internet's leading contemporary art site. It offers a sales area for artists, listings, recent reviews and much more. Director, Paul Wynter is very generously sponsoring a new SWA Award and is also offering free membership to his site to all Members of the SWA. For the opportunity to put your work up for sale and free membership, contact Barbara at bsimpson1@btinternet.com for more information, alternatively full information will be included with Members 2010 schedules in our February mail out. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Artists Directory
The Showcase Directory of UK Visual Artists
Free Artist Registration currently available
Artists Directory is a new Showcase Directory of UK Visual Arts on the Internet that is free to join.
It looks to be quite an interesting site offering an unfussy visual directory of UK Artists, who can be accessed either by name or category, and they do not charge any commission.
The directory has also been designed to become a future archive for UK Visual Artists. If you are interested, view the above site for more information. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Art Products Sue Jelley admits to being quite “heavy” with her brushes and has been searching for some really good quality brushes that don’t lose hairs easily. Sue has found Rosemary & Co who have agreed to donate £250 worth of quality handmade brushes as an award at out next exhibition at the Mall Galleries. The mail order brush company is: Rosemary & Co, Quality Artist's Brushes, PO Box 372, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD20 6WZ. Tel 01535 600090. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Society web pages for members Available to all Members - we now offer a link from our artists' page to your own web sites. Participate on our web site, to support the Society, at just £20 for your own page with 6 images and text and we will automatically link to your own web site.
Each image should be saved to disc (ideally at 300dpi) making sure each works title is easily identifiable or if you have no means to save your images digitally, normal photographs can be used. In addition please include the picture dimensions and medium used, your CV of approx 150 words and your website address if you have one. Your page will be uploaded onto the Society's web site within 7 working days. Any problems please email Claire at cmhucker@googlemail.com ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The Society of Women Artists is keen to support and promote the activities of its Members, whether it be exhibitions or workshops and also to acknowledge any recent qualifications or awards granted to them. We look forward to hearing from you. Contact: Barbara Penketh Simpson, President - email: bsimpson1@btconnect.com |
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Jeans
book has received a wonderful review in the August edition of Artist Magazine: 
Cathy
Spearing
The
Leisure Painter Magazine Article out July 12th with step by step
demonstration on painting a lavender field.
The
Studio Gallery, 
Would
you like to learn how to use Pastel on holiday?
