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!
Monday 30 December 2013
Monday 28 October 2013
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"
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.
Sunday 29 September 2013
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.
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.
Friday 20 September 2013
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.
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.
Thursday 5 September 2013
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.
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 9th 2013
Location: Dadlington Church Hall
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.
Cancellations received up to 2 weeks before the commencement of the course will receive a full refund. Cancellations after that time may be charged.
Tuesday 6 August 2013
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.
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 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.
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