No more white walls!

Due to some unforeseen circumstances, and no-ones fault, we had a gap in programme and were left with white walls.

I did a call out on email to ask if anyone had a body of work ready to hang and were able to come and put the work up at short notice.

I was inundated with offers within a few hours, gosh everyone on my pendle arts e-network is just so kind! However, I knew I wanted something a bit different, we have had a lot of groups and traditional work over the last few months and I thought we needed something bright and colourful.

Fortunately Gwen Shackleton was one of the artists who responded and she gave me some fantastic colourful images.

Here is a quick sneak-peak of the exhibition going up and I shall do the full blog including artist interview later this week. I think you'll enjoy...

 

The exhibition is up in full now, so if you can't wait for me to blog to see it, then do come along in person, we are always open Monday to Saturday, 10-4.

 

Ta Ra

 

 

 

Kirsty

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