Apples and Dark Leaves

 

Padiham Painting at Leisure exhibit at The ACE Centre every year and at various libraries in the area from Trawden to Whalley. The ACE Centre prides itself on being a truly accessible community art gallery and therefore reserves two spaces a year for local artists groups; Pendle Artists and Padiham Painting at Leisure.

 

We spoke to a couple of artists who are exhibiting:

 

 

Artist; Marilyn Kenyon

 

Title of work?

Dark Leaves (pictured above)

 

What is the inspiration behind the work?

Working with leaves in different ways

 

Where was it created?

In the Studio

 

Marilyn is pleased with the work saying “The mix of colours works well”

 

 

 

 

Artist; Diane Flynn

 

Title of work?

Apples (pictured above)

 

What is the inspiration behind the work?

Nature and my work with natural fibres. I create handmade felt pieces for sale at various venues.

 

Where was it created?

Home and on location

 

How were they feeling during creating this work?

Relaxed and Inspired by the natural soft feel of the fibres.

 

Diane is happiest with “The blending and the final composition”

 

 

Thanks Diane and Marilyn, and thanks to our guest interviewer, Annaliese.

 

Ta Ra

 

 

Kirsty

 

New Exhibitiors; Padiham Painting at Leisure

Here are the pictures of our latest exhibition, it went up on Tuesday last week, but I have been away, so sorry it took me a while to get these up....

 

The lovely Annaliese, from reception, did carry out a couple of mini interviews for me, so I will post these tomorrow, for now, enjoy the pictures and as always, this is just a selection so I hope you can come and see them in person.

 

Ta Ra

 

Kirsty

Live Well Eat Well

Live Well, Eat Well Project

The Live Well, Eat Well Project is an innovative project delivered by Pendle Leisure Trust and funded by the Big Lottery Local Food and Pendle Borough Council.

Live Well, Eat Well is part of the Healthy Lifestyles Team at Pendle Leisure Trust and incorporates various aspects of healthy living, growing fruit and vegetables, healthy eating and physical activity to residents of Pendle.

The project is set on Hodge House allotments in Nelson and has three large allotments where we grow a large variety of fruit and vegetables both outside and in polytunnels.  Our aim has been to be accessible to as many residents of Pendle as possible by providing growing courses, regular volunteer times and running many different kinds of workshops related to gardening, healthy eating and the great outdoors.

The photography exhibition will be open from Wednesday May 22nd until Saturday June 1st.  The exhibition will be celebrating the Live Well, Eat Well Project (formerly Grow and Sow), over a period of 10 years but concentrates on the last 3 years where the project has received funding from the Big Lottery’s Local Food and Pendle Borough Council.

Joanne Dootson, project manager, says "We have thoroughly enjoyed putting the exhibition together, printing all the pictures has reminded us of the groups and visitors that have attended the project throughout the years." 

They also brought a few plants along.

It's an award winning project.

Which really made a difference to people's lives.

Below are a tiny handful of the photo's on display...

Why not come along and see what they have been up to on the allotments, and see if you recognise anyone too!

Ta Ra

Kirsty

My Bad!

I did a bad thing, in my latest exhibition post I missed out one of the exhibitors! So sorry Dorothy.

Here is a lovely picture of her work to make amends.

 

 

 

I did explain that it wasn't intentional, it just so happened that I hadn't managed to take a decent photo of her artworks.

But, you can all breathe a sigh of relief, this won't happen again. Why, I hear you say? Because I spent some of this weekend on a photo course in the Lakes and have learnt lots. Just you wait until you see my next post!

Ta Ra


Kirsty

Diversity by Phoenix Textile Artists

The Phoenix Textiles Artists are a group who meet regularly to create work and take part in workshops or have guest demonstrations which have included; tassels, machine embroidery using elastic and from time to time they also have inspirational speakers.

Their home is currently the Wheatley Lane community centre in Fence, they meet on the third Monday in the month, and they do welcome new members, those with experience in creating textile work would particularly enjoy this group. Anyone wanting to join should first call Dorothy on 01282 700 092.

This group originally got together in 2000 after doing a 4 year long creative embroidery course at Nelson and Colne College. Some members have joined since. There are around 9 or 10 members of the group. The group is a democratic group and every member takes a turn of being secretary for a year.

The group exhibit fairly regularly and have done so at; The Platform Gallery, Towneley Hall, Littleborough Coach House and Gawthorpe Hall.

Sometimes they work on a particular theme, but this exhibition is entitled Diversity as it is a collection of different pieces of work. Past themes have included Queen Elizabeth I, the centenary of Gawthorpe, Mythical Wings, Tolkien and the Pendle Witches.

 

One of the best things about the exhibitions is laying out, it's the first glimpse of all the new work and is a bit like unwrapping presents!

 

The intricacy and level of detail in the work is well worth coming to see in person. It's very inspiring.

 

Celia, whose work is featured above uses Tyvek, burns fabric to reveal more, hand stitches and loves machine embroidery. She is currently really enjoying felting at the moment, and recently took part in an advanced felting workshop - Don't worry dear readers, I did ask how felt could become advanced - and the answer is you can start to work in 3d felt.  

 

Sheila, whose work is featured above too, has brought some felted pieces and recycled work. She shops in charity shops and buys beads and fabrics, she also felts old jumpers into new works. (Since she mentioned this I now find myself looking at jumpers in charity shops in a new light!).

 

Sheila is also a specialist in ecclesiastical embroidery, and it's not every day you meet one of them.

 

The group do create wearable art too - knitted bags, necklaces, scarves, and brooches.

 

The work above - including the not brilliantly focussed close up - sorry! Is a reclaimed piece; it's made from reclaimed wood which is made into bbq sticks and then Marjorie has covered these with silk waste from Indian silks and copper wire. The background is a linen ground. The inspiration for this work was grid structures and the coloured silk itself.

 

The above work is entitled Aunty Dorothy's advice and it is well worth a read!

 
 

 

It's a beautiful exhibition, I hope you can come and see it - the textures and details and colours are so much better in reality.

 

 

Ta Ra

 

 

Kirsty

 

Pendle Artists 2013

Yes folks it's that time of year again! The annual Pendle Artist Exhibition is now open.

Here are the lovely Pendle Artists, from the left...

and from the right.  Look at those happy, smiley faces!

They bring a lot of work.

They do their own layouts.

And they hold a salon of work on the Friday night, so we get to see a few extra works, like the one above...

and this...

and this...

The rest of the works I have photographed are in the main exhibition, which you can see until Saturday 20th April.

I seized the opportunity to get to know a few more Pendle Artists a bit better on Friday and did some mini interviews and here they are...

David Lyons; Chairman of Pendle Artists

David has an agent in Manchester and the majorty of his work is sold in Manchester or through fine art fairs, and he has sold around 650 works altogether. However David lives and paints in Pendle and thinks it is important to support the area. He says, it feels 'natural to be a part of Pendle Artists'.

David thinks the quality of work is excellent and likes the fact that they are a traditional art group who paints 'pretty pictures' and that most of the group are representational artists, they paint what something looks like and that is a tradition round here.

David won the Ribble Open last year and had a solo exhibition at Clitheroe Castle, Stewards Gallery, last year.

Margaret Yardley

Margaret has been a member almost since the beginning of Pendle Artists. In the early days, the group attended an Art School class in Burnley which was taught by David Wild and the group were unable to exhibit their work at the college so they formed the Pendle Artists to be an exhibiting group. Their first ever exhibition was at Burnley Library.

Margaret is also a member of Colne Art Group, which is the arm of Pendle Artists that gets together and paints, they meet every Tuesday morning in Brierfield.

Margaret paints out and about, in all weathers and often with her friend Joanne Glasgow. They both like a mix of urban and rural landscapes and have spent a lot of time at the Weavers Triangle recently - as it has rained such a lot and there is a great canopy to shelter under.

She is mostly inspired while out and about, the Impressionist tendency of 'En Plein Air', as it gives more depth and colour to her work.

Margaret would also recommend people do attend life drawing classes as this 'makes you able to draw it and you have to get drawing right, to get it to work'!

Nicola Connelly

Nicola has been a member for about 10 years, although her mother is one of the founding members. Nicola teaches art at Blackburn College although she started as an illustrator, illustrating book covers, magazines and adverts, she now teaches a full range of techniques. She loves it to, 'it's nice to do something you are trained to do'.

She is a member of Pendle Artists as it encourages her to find the time to create her own work. Nicola does create a range of work, from life drawings to landscapes and is inspired by colour.'I should be living in the South of France really'.

Most of Nicola's work is from sketchbooks or photographs or both, but one of the works she is exhibiting this time is completely out of her head. Called A Midsummer Nights Dream, Nicola thinks she must have been in the throws of passion when she created this mixed media work.

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mixed
£300
Nicola Connelly

Here are some of the other works on display...

An agoraphobic naturalist enjoying the countryside
Acrylic
£180
Colin Morgan

Colin Morgan

Originally created a similar work for a Haworth Gallery competition where the theme was Inside Out, but it sold so quickly that Colin decided to paint another.

Those were the days
Collage
£70
Lynn Hill

Tides Out Staithes
Oil
£690
Moira Veevers

Neil Terry

Neil is a former chairman of Pendle Artists. He joined the group in 1974 and actually met the lady who would beome his wife through the group in 1978. They married in 1981 and had a Pendle Artists wedding!

Neil studied at the college of art in Manchester and qualified as a decorative artist, while finding time to win a couple of awards during his studies. He then went on to have a successful career as a painter and decorator and did a lot of sign writing, murals and graining and marbling.

Neil mostly paints landscapes, but has painted life drawings, sea scapes and flowers in the past. He works in oils or acrylics or watercolours or pastels but rarely more than one medium in one work.

He works from a few photographs usually, two or three and picks out the bits he wants so that most of his images are a composite and not always an exact replica of a place.

There are a number of unframed works for sale too, some prints and some originals.

And a small selection of ceramics.

I hope you do manage to come and see the work in person...

Ta Ra

Kirsty