Craft Fair 23rd and 24th November 2013 Hinckley

 

A Big Thank you to everyone that came to visit me while I was at the Craft Fair, It was a great success and I am working hard to produce more textile / fine art work for the next one. Hope to see you there!

Creative Fine Art Course at Dadlington Church hall.

My Creative Fine Art students have just finished their first 6 week course and will be beginning their next course on Mon 4th November.
We  have been studying the visual elements and exploring a range of experimental and expressive techniques.


Here are some of the comments made by the students about the course:


"As a complete beginner I did not expect much, but I have enjoyed the classes and want to do more"

"Really liked the opportunity to try all the different techniques. Has made me look at things more closely and carefully"

"Nice atmosphere, conducive to learning in a relaxed manner"

"Most enjoyable"

"Just loved trying out different texture techniques, collage and use of negative space"

"Good working atmosphere and encouragement"

 

 

Tone

 

Momo Printing

Texture

 



Mixed Media

 



 

 

Hope you have enjoyed seeing some of the work as much as we enjoyed producing it.

Craft Fair 23rd and 24th November 2013.

I am starting work this week on developing my first fabric range, based on the design work I produced, inspired by the imagery of archive botanical illustration. I hope to be launching this range at the Glitter Arty Craft Fair, held at the Atkins Building in Hinckley on the 23rd and 24th November 2013. I will be there on both days, so please come and have a look and say hello. There will be a range of hand designed, printed and stitched interior items for sale and I will be taking commissions if you want something a little more personal. Or maybe you want to sign up to attend one of my Textile Workshops or Creative Art Classes.

Here are some examples of the work I have been doing, but this is just the beginning! You will need to come along to see how it develops.

Botanical Illustration designs by Jan Baker

Being Human Community Art Workshops - Exhibition

The work produced cumulates in an exhibition at the Atkins Building in Hinckley. From Monday 23rd September to Saturday 5th October.


Those that visit the exhibition are asked to carry on the journey by making their own mark and by coming to experience the sculpture in sound, vision and touch and then to contribute to it themselves, so the sculpture keeps growing and represents the voice and experience of our culture


The grand opening is on Monday 23rd September at
12.30pm. and is open during Atkins opening hours 8.30-5.30pm.
Monday to Friday.

 

Creative Art and Textile Courses Available in November 2013

 

 This Course is now FULL.

I am running a second short course (6 Weeks) starting on the 4th November 2013

and also offering a short course in Creative Textile Techniques. (Date to be confirmed)

For more information or to book your place please call Jan Baker 07725895550 or email bakerjams@yahoo.co.uk

 

Creative Fine Art Course.

Lily - by Jan Baker. 2013



Whether you want to learn to draw, rekindle your creative output or broaden your drawing and painting skills, this course will help you free your inner artist.

These Workshops have been developed to give you the opportunity to try your hand at a range of painting and drawing techniques. Also allowing you to try out and experiment with a range of new media and processes, in a friendly and supportive atmosphere, while gaining professional and practical guidance from your tutor.

These classes are aimed at both the complete beginner, but also those with more experience, who wish to extend their own creative practice.

 

 

Starts: Mon Sept 9^th 2013    
Location: Dadlington Church Hall

Time: 7.00-9.00pm Duration 6 Weeks (short course)

 

First two weeks £16 paid in advance, thereafter simply pay £8 per week, no charge when not attending. Or a one off payment of £40 (six weeks for the price of five)

All basic materials will be provided, other art supplies if needed, will be available at a small cost.

Cancellations received up to 2 weeks before the commencement of the course will receive a full refund. Cancellations after that time may be charged.

 

 

Being Human Community Art Workshops

Discovering the inner child

 

This exercise allowed us to explore the natural sense of composition we all have and begin to respond to the creative skill in us all.

 

 

 



Being Human Community Art Workshops - Water

WATER: a clear colourless, tasteless odourless liquid that is essential for all life.

These small white sculptures form an essential purpose, they help lead us visually around the main piece, they have been made collectively as a group and when placed together represent unity and yet each one is significantly different and individually crafted by hand, carrying a personal and purposeful meaning just below the surface.

Making of the Plaster moulds.

 

Each week the participants worked to produce the Plaster of Paris moulds that you can see at the base of the sculpture. (150 in total )

These small white sculptures take their form and were all moulded from empty water bottles, on their own they stand alone, small and insignificant, but put together on mass and they form a relationship with each other taking on a whole new form and structure.

 

 

 

The moulds themselves are all very similar in shape and size with little indication of individuality. In many ways this can represent are human-selves, however scratch the surface and we reveal are infinite personalities and diverse cultures.

 

In order to highlight this the participants have scratched into the surface at the bottom of each moulded sculpture.

Being Human Community Art Workshops - Collaborative Sculpture.

Each week the Participants responded to the meditations and the materials available, to produce a large scale collaborative instillation/sculpture. Here are some of the processes they went through.

Being Human Art Workshops- Mark Making

Without thinking or planning, make a line, a squigle, a doodle - capture your first impulse. It does not matter what you do, but rather how you do it. Generate this initial element from your body. Feel it, enjoy it!

 

This exercise highlights the ability of marks to express things that are internal. What gives a mark its meaning is that it is made by an individual hand. 

Being Human Community Workshops at the Saint Francis Center.

This has not only been a journey for the participants but also for those who had the privilege of taking a leading role. My thanks goes to those who worked with me, Michele Crookes, Rob Marvin and Rosemary Spiers, (what a team!) its been an honour to work with you.

Jan x

Being Human Community Art Workshops - Exhibition

I have recently been working on a Community Art Project, which explores the theme of what it is to be Human.

The 12 week course gave the participants an art/sculpture experience designed to explore what it means to be human within 3 points of contact, humanity in contact with our environment, humanity in contact with each other and our inner world and humanity in contact with the spiritual/unknown. Using the four elements of fire; water; earth and air as starting points for inspiration and discussion.



Group discussion and word mind map developed from one of the meditations.

The work produced cumulates in an exhibition at the Atkins Building in Hinckley. From Monday 23rd September to Saturday 5th October. Those that visit the exhibition are asked to carry on the journey by making their own mark and by coming to experience the sculpture in sound, vision and touch and then to contribute to it themselves, so the sculpture keeps growing and represents the voice and experience of our culture

The grand opening is on Monday 23rd September at

 

12.30pm. and is open during Atkins opening hours 8.30-

 

5.30pm Monday to Friday.