More images from Arts on Prescription

Hiya Folks,


Here is part 2 of the current information... from a number of students from different courses so I will add which course they attended.

Quirky Colne by Sue Rose, Sue attended My Art Journey and was kind enough to take part in a little interview with me, so I will be posting it later on this week or early next.

Copper Beech by Wall by Paul Malpass, Paul attended Creative Crafts and has since gone on to do a painting course at Nelson and Colne College. Again this looks better when you are here (stamps foot and wishes I could get the hang of photographing artwork behind glass!)

Caterpillars from Space by Laurence Catterall, Lor attended My Art Journey and has a real knack for titling work! Again he gave me a quick interview... coming soon.

The above is a close up of Sue Roses other work - Bluebell Wood, which is a wonderful textile piece that my photograph does not do justice to at all.

Print by Aubrey Roadway, who attending Exploring Paper and Print. Aubrey has since set up an art group called TenOVus, open to anyone, who meet at Christ Church, Carr Road, Nelson every Thursday from 6.30-9pm. Hope the group goes well Aubrey!

Cornfield by Paul Malpass

An untitled work by Germen Best who attended the short course on Confident Drawing

Pot Cat by Ursula Delaney, who attended the short course on Confident Drawing also.

Don't know if it's intentional but love the play of words and how it reminds me of Top Cat!

Untitled Print by Cath Whittaker, who was on the Exploring Paper and Print course. This is much more wonderful up close!

Untitled print by Rosie V who also attended the Paper and Print course, who has since gone on to start A Level Art at Nelson and Colne College.

Coming Home by Jacqueline Smith who attended the short course on Confident Drawing

Untitled Print by Anne Huntsman who attended the Paper and Print Course

Untitled by Naida Jabar, who attended My Art Journey

Untitled by Germen Best

Fleetwood Beach by Louise Riley who attended the short course, Confident Drawing.

I love the pattern of the water throughout the piece.

Students from Creative Writing wrote pieces of work specially for the exhibition and here they are on display. I love the way they look!

I hope you do get chance to come and see the exhibition in person. It's free entry as always and there are forms to fill out if anyone thinks they could benefit from Arts on Prescription courses or would like to refer a friend or relative. If you do want more details, you can contact me on 01282 661784 or on kirsty.rose@pendleleisuretrust.co.uk

And there was a very special performance on the open evening about Arts on Prescription. I will be adding that soon. 

Ta Ra

Kirsty

Some of the Arts on Prescription Exhibition

Hiya Folks,

Wow, there is so much amazing work. I know that I hung the whole exhibition and should have already realised but coming to upload all these images it has really hit me! So I'm going to split it into two posts and tell you a bit more about Arts on Prescription itself.

Between September 2010 and September 2011 104 students attended an arts on prescription course. These are art courses in a range of disciplines run in community venues.

The courses are designed for adults with mild to moderate mental health issues such as depression, anxiety and low self esteem.

The courses in detail are:

      Fix It Sew It Mend It – a textiles and needlecraft course which was held at The Family Tree Centre, Nelson

      Developing Drama at The ACE Centre

      Creative Crafts at The ACE Centre

      Creative Writing at Williams Hall (This course included a free crèche provided by the children’s centre)

      Creative Crafts again at The ACE Centre

      My Art Journey at The Beacon Children’s Centre

      BabySafe at Williams Hall

      BabySafe at The Family Tree Centre in Brierfield

      Confident Drawing at Colne Library

      Exploring Paper and Print at Colne Library

The exhibition is of work this year’s students have made either in class or at home since the course.

The courses are designed to give people a chance to socialise with others experiencing mild and moderate mental health issues, a chance to make new friends, a relaxing and absorbing activity to take their mind off their issues and to hopefully make people feel more confident, proud of the work they have achieved and maybe gain a new hobby.

The most recent course was the one exploring paper and print and I wanted to show you some images on display just from this course as I think it gives a flavour of the huge amount of diversity in our project.

Prints side by side by Cath Whittaker

Print by Pat Moore

The majority of the exhibition was hung using bulldog clips and I really like the feel it gives so have kept them in the images.

Print by Pat Moore

Print by Pat Moore

I love the organic feel to Pat's work and think she already has a quite distinctive style of her own.

Tango Dancers by Aubrey Roadway

I love the shoes here - Beryl Cook influence?

This is the same image, the Tango Dancers on homemade paper, by Aubrey. It really changes the whole piece.

This is a print by Pat Moore on homemade paper.

This course builds on previous lessons, so the students made the paper in the first two weeks and towards the end of the course they were printing onto it.

Print by Rosie V

The orange is really striking close up, I hope you get chance to see it.

Print by Cath Whittaker

Again, just like Pat, Cath is developing her own approach and style, particularly with regard to colour in my opinion.

Print by Cath Whittaker

Red Sails at Sunset by Eileen Haywood.

Eileens work is much more precise than some of the others, isn't the composition wonderful?  I particularly like the birds...

I got to join in on this session and can I just say, I LOVE Marbling! It was so much fun. And I believe there are lots of inspirational marbling artists around who I will dig out and post some links to shortly.

Print by Aubrey Roadway

This one just makes me want to look at that house every day, with those colours. It says Summer to me!

I hope that you enjoyed a first look at the exhibition. Arts on Prescription is a wonderful project to run and I will witter on about it a lot more tomorrow but right now I have to dash. Toodle-Pip. (I have an Agatha Christie audiobook in my car at the moment and it always makes me want to speak like that, oh, and to have a friend called Bunch!)

Ta Ra

Kirsty

 

Arts on Prescription

Hiya Folks,

I have just finished putting up the new exhibition - Arts on Prescription student work. It looks really good and we are having a preview tonight. I am about to head out with my camera and take lots of pictures for you. So keep checking, I should be able to put them all up on the blog tomorrow.

Ta Ra


Kirsty

The latest exhibition

The new exhibition pictures are here... have a look, show them to a friend and discuss...

This exhibition is called Let's Get Reminiscing. It's designed to get you saying "I remember..." Did it work?


Ta Ra



Kirsty

My holiday decorating, if you fancy a nosy?

Dear readers,

Thanks for bearing with me during my holiday. It was wonderful, I got nearly everything I wanted done - couple of days more sunshine would have been nice, but I do live in Lancashire! I must remember that, and why textiles did well here.

So here, are a few images of what I have been doing, in true before and after style.

My new living room, before we moved in ( that sofa is nothing to do with me!)

And here on the day we got the keys...

And here is the first after shot...

Now for the hall, shown here on moving day accompanied by a wardrobe and half a bed!

Here with John, for scale!

And the other part of the hall, and yes I am only really putting this in so I can show off about owning stained glass...

Here are the results after I've been at work...

I think it looks great!

Pictures of the current exhibition are on their way now!

Ta Ra

Kirsty