Rug hooking masterclass with Jill Denton, fantastic flowers, fish and food

The Goodwin Gallery Petroc Masterclass

Saturday 18th February 2017 10am to 4pm £45 per learner

A rug hooking  masterclass with textile artist Jill Denton. £45 per learner to include all materials, just bring your lunch, some sharp dressmaking scissors and a 12-14″ quilting hoop.  This is a wonderful opportunity to work with Jill and create your own fabulous piece of textile art.  Jill is a very experienced, skillful tutor, and is looking forward to sharing her creative ideas and expertise with learners in this one off masterclass at the Goodwin Gallery.

to book online: click here with Petroc Recreation

This masterclass coincides with her collaborative exhibition with Sue Dove – Our Artful Selves – at the Goodwin Gallery Petroc Saturday 11 February to Saturday 4th March 2017

Suitable for any level of ability, come and spend a day exploring the wonderful possibilities of rug hooking, by creating your own unique piece.  The simple  technique is the same as our mothers and grandmothers used to make their rugs from rags, now we are creating wonderful, joyful and colourful textiles using recycled fabrics on a hessian base, working on a theme of food, fish or flowers, (or all 3!). Whether you want to make a small hooked piece or a larger mat, rug or wall hanging you will be guided through the processes and will leave the class with the confidence to finish your project at home.  You will be given lots of advice/ tips on techniques and equipment, and anyone just wanting to start rug hooking on a less adventurous project is welcome too. There will be plenty of ideas to help you along with your rug hook and no drawing experience is required.

Materials

Most materials will be supplied at the workshop

You will need to bring sharp dressmaking scissors and a 12” – 14” wooden quilting/hooking frame

complimentary tea. coffee and biscuits are served all day, just bring your own lunch, free car parking right next to the Gallery where the workshop will be held.

Rug hooks

Jill will bring some hooks for you to borrow or buy on the day at £10.00

If you want to buy your own before the workshop Jill recommends buying from

http://www.rugmaker.co.uk/rug-hooks.htm

 For fine work you will need an Exotic Wood Fine Steel End Hook, for general hooking you will need a Medium Steel  or brass End Hook.  These hooks will last you forever and you will never need anything else! They are around £15 plus p+p and can be ordered directly from the rugmaker website.

Useful links:

The following links are useful for examples of rug hooking and further info ..

https://www.facebook.com/doveanddenton/ ,  https://www.facebook.com/Ruby-rugs-358610117496774/

http://hookingrugs.com,  http://www.rugmaker.co.uk

Jill Denton

Being an obsessive maker. I am compelled to create art every day.  I have been making since I was little, but didn’t have the opportunity to study Art and Design until I was in my 40’s when I took an access course at North Devon College followed by a degree in Fashion and Textile Design.  I have recently been looking at paintings of women by women artists and many of the works in this exhibition at the Goodwin Gallery are my response to the paintings that touched me most.  Domesticity, family and everyday life are my other influences and inspiration.  An abundance of colour and texture are always present in y works which currently encompasses felt, stitch, collage and rug-hooking.  Jill is very experienced textile tutor running workshops both here and abroad and will be sharing her tips to help you create a really special and unique hooked rug artwork.

Developing a sketchbook using images, collage and textiles with textile artist Sue Dove.

The Goodwin Gallery Petroc Masterclass

Saturday 4th March 2017 10am to 4pm

Creative Textiles Sketchbook with textile artist Sue Dove £45 per person (just bring your own lunch – complimentary tea/coffee and biscuits served all day)

to book a place on this very special workshop with Sue click here for more information

This masterclass coincides with Sue’s collaborative exhibition with Jill Denton – Our Artful Selves – at the Goodwin Gallery Petroc Saturday 11 February to Saturday 4th March 2017

Working with textile artist Sue, this workshop begins with collage, and then goes on to explore ways to develop ideas in sketchbooks….making a sketchbook an art piece in its own right, but also using it as a source to take ideas into textile pieces.

The workshop is suitable for beginners to advanced and gives you the opportunity to play and explore images as you create your own sketchbooks, a really fun and relaxed workshop full of inspiration and creativity, come and enjoy a wonderful day with Sue.

Materials

All materials are  supplied at the workshop

You can bring along scissors, any art materials that you like, images that you like plus a sketchbook, as as well any interesting papers or bits of your own works to incorporate into a sketchbook.  You can bring your own sketchbook with you or buy a sketchbook from Sue for £5 on the day.(Sue sells them to raise money to repair the church in St Ives that is also home to the St Ives Society of Artists)

Complimentary tea, coffee and biscuits are available throughout the workshop, just bring your own lunch, free car parking right next to the Gallery where the workshop will be held.

Useful link:

https://www.facebook.com/doveanddenton/ ,

Sue Dove

I have created art for as far back as my memory goes, throughout my childhood and then on to Art School at 18.  I have always been driven by an insatiable need to work and create everyday. Painting, collaging, embroidery, sewing, rag rugging, felt making, mosaicing, gardening and filling sketchbooks, moving between whichever process motivates me that day.

I am drawn to painters, especially Outsider Artists, Naive and Primitive Art and I am excited and inspired by life, people (especially women), animals and the narratives they create.  Using my memory and imagination. I filter these narratives into images using collage, paint, colour and pattern before these materialise into textile pieces.

The Craft of Linocut with artist printmaker Luna North

At the Goodwin Gallery Petroc on

Saturday 25th February ’17 10am to 4pm

£45 per learner to include all materials, just bring your lunch…book online with Petroc Recreation:

for booking details please click here

Join Luna North a professional artist and printmaker to learn the skill of design, carving and printing your own linocut artwork.

The theme for this workshop will be ‘Homes and Gardens’.

William Mary copyright C. Brown used with permission

You can bring in photographs/images of your own home and garden, a dream house or even the outside of your favourite shop to inspire your print, or use one of the images supplied – there will be  lots to choose from. You don’t have to be great at drawing to produce a wonderful image There will be lots of ideas to help you create your individual  linocut.

The tutor, Luna runs the workshop in a warm and friendly style, encouraging you to pick up skills and tips to help you learn how to create a personal and hand-crafted print to take home at the end of the session.

Open to all abilities from beginner to advanced  to learn the craft of single colour linocut and printing. Exploring the unique style of lino cut mark making, you will be able to take all your work home including your linocut with instructions on how to continue printing at home without the use of specialist equipment.

All materials are supplied for you to design, create and print off 3 prints from your linocut.

Complimentary tea and coffee served throughout the day, free adjacent car parking next to the Gallery where the workshop will take place, just bring your own lunch.

Workshops at the Goodwin Gallery are very enjoyable  with lots of opportunities to try out new techniques and ideas in a relaxed setting.

take a look at Luna North’s webpage

and for more ideas there is a pinterest board here

We look forward to welcoming you to the Goodwin Gallery.

If you have any further questions please contact the recreation team at RecreationalTeam@Petroc.ac.uk or 01271 852356

The Goodwin Gallery, Petroc Brannams University Campus

Oakwood Close, Roundswell, Barnstaple, Devon EX31 3 NJ

email: goodwin.gallery@petroc.ac.uk

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Walk; an exhibition of original artworks by Sue Giblett and Kim Bailey

Opening the 2017 exhibition programme at the Goodwin Gallery is a series of original artworks by Sue Giblett and Kim Bailey.  Their exhibition is entitled Walk. The artists make connections between ourselves and the environment both physically and mentally.  Taking time to notice the everyday and record the changes inspires both their creative processes.  Collecting memories and thoughts from the landscape that surround us as we walk with friends and noticing how nature affects man-made objects is recorded in a variety of media by the artists.  Perhaps the visitor to the exhibition will then be inspired to notice something unique in their own favourite walks, to look at something in a different light and to make the everyday extraordinary. The artists will be in the Gallery from 11am on Saturday 28th January to chat about their artworks, all are welcome.

“To look at the same thing differently, to look at something you have seen many times but with a fresh perspective, to look at something through another person’s eyes, this will give you insights into their inspiration which in turn encourages your own creativity”.

Artist Sue Giblett

“Providing inspiration for visitors to the exhibition through the making of personal connections and inspiring them to take their own walks and observe their own environment as they do so. Evoking personal memories as the individual takes their own walks”

Artist Kim Bailey

The exhibition opens on Saturday 7th January 2017 until Thursday 2nd February 2017 inclusive.  

Admission is free and open to all, on site car park adjacent to the Gallery is £1:10 all day.

Open Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm

Tuesdays till 7pm

Saturdays 10am to 3pm

Mermaid pool Copyright Kim Bailey 2016

Artist’s Statement: Kim Bailey 2016

My work for this exhibition explores the walks around my home area of Westward Ho!

I have long been fascinated by the relationship between us and the marine and coastal environment and in recent times I have been  walking the route of the coastal steam railway which closed in 1917 .

My artwork combines my own finds, concepts and evidence collected along my walks on this route as well as various detours.It also relates to the shared thoughts, humour, research, memories and collections of companions who have kindly and tolerantly accompanied me on my journeys.

Links

find Kim Bailey on facebook: Kim Bailey Artworks

The Tarka Trail

info about the coastal steam railway

North Devon Coast

Artist’s Statement Sue Giblett 2016

“When we walk , we walk through two landscapes, an exterior land of trees, seas, cities, mountains and fields, but we also follow the paths that lead  into our own inner world.”   Peter Owen Jones   “Pathlands”.

“Instead of depicting spectacular things he looks for the extraordinary in the ordinary ………….Finding beauty in the everyday, rather than picturesque or dramatic landscapes, Hearld focuses on the places where humans and nature come together.”

 Mark Herald’s Work Book.

A walk is usually seen as an outside physical process, however it hides a much deeper and personal internal process. It can take us from an outside and physical space into an internal and secret space where each of us can experience the same walk in unique and different ways. It is in this space where the external and internal landscapes meet, where the joyous process of allowing the mind to unwind and drift at will, impressioned  by the visual stimulus of scenery and surroundings, by the cacophony of bird song, waves, traffic, wind and all other sounds that assault the ears and stimulate the brain.

The place where life slows to a walking pace and solitude abounds, a slow rhythmic process that allows us to focus on things unnoticed before; the changing colours of grass when clouds obstruct the sunlight and then moves on, the difference in vibrancy of colour between wet and dry stones, and to notice things that are “hidden in plain sight”.

Things that we know are there but because we pass them so often we no longer notice them.  The rusty old “fishermen’s sheds” at Velator, the concrete and iron debris left at Crow  Point by the army after the D-Day training in the second World War, the old boat at Crow Point that has all but disappeared now, broken up and washed away by the tide.

Taking inspiration from Peter Owen Jones and Mark Hearld, walking is for me a way to engage with my inner self and  take notice of the extraordinary in the ordinary. In this series of artworks I have spent time considering how the weather affects man made objects abandoned in the landscape, and I have looked for beauty of colour and interest of texture in the rust, flaking paint and lichen that creep inevitably over the neglected objects.

I didn’t want so much want to recreate exactly what I saw on my walks but to present the viewer insights into the beauty and depth of colour, interest and tactility of texture that abound in the weathered objects that I observed.

copyright Sue Giblett 2016

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Petri-art; free science and art workshop Tuesday 20th December 10am to 12noon

The Goodwin Gallery, Sciencedipity and Barnstaple library are working in partnership to bring a science/art workshop to Barnstaple this December.

SCIENCE meets ART!
Local artist Lizzie, and Scientist Ruth are joining forces to bring an innovative Science-Art project to you…and its all free!!!
Create your own petri dish 3D masterpiece using the tools that will be provided. To help you create something unique, we’ll have microscopes & magnifiers for you to view creatures and objects at high magnification. Of course you are free to create anything you fancy!
Your masterpieces may be taken home or you can leave them with us and we’ll publicly displayed them at the Goodwin Gallery.
All free!
Drop in and join us in the library between 10am and 12pm on Tuesday 20th December, open to everyone.

for ideas and inspiration why not take a look at the website of Klari Reis:  click here

Christmas Printing Workshop at the Goodwin Gallery Saturday 10th Dec 2016

Christmas Printing Workshop

On Saturday 10th December 2016 from 10am to 1pm a fabulous and fun workshop designing and printing your own Christmas designs onto cards, tags and paper.

£17:50 per person to include all the materials: to book a place you can ring Petroc Recreation on 01271 852356, email them on recreationteam@petroc.ac.uk or book online with this link:for Petroc Recreation

This is a special one – off workshop with artist print maker Luna North. You will design and create stylish Christmas stamps which can then be used to print on cards, tags and wrapping paper in festive colours. This hand printing technique means that you can take your lino cut home with you and continue printing more of your own Christmas stationary

Take a look at some of the designs on the Goodwin Gallery pinterest board here:

Suitable for ages 16+ for 15 people at the special price of £17.50 per learnerThe price includes  workshop tuition with Luna North, all materials for the session and free mince pies, tea and coffee.

Join us for a fabulous, fun and festive workshop

Creative Watercolour Workshop with artist Luna North

watercolour techniques

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creative Watercolour Workshop – £45 per learner up to 12 spaces available

book with Petroc Recreation on 01271 852356,  email recreationteam@petroc.ac.uk

or follow this link for online bookings with Petroc Recreation

Saturday November 26th at the Goodwin Gallery Petroc, Barnstaple 10am to 4pm

To include all materials, tea and coffee throughout the day, free on site car parking next to the Gallery, workshop tuition with the very dedicated and experienced tutor Luna North, just bring your own lunch and snacks

The workshop will be focused on creating beautiful abstract watercolour pictures and cover the basics of care and use of materials, handling of the paintbrush, mark making, transparency, colour mixing and composition

Suitable for all levels from beginner to more advanced, plenty of support and guidance throughout the workshop to help you develop your watercolour techniques and creativity.

take a look at Luna’s website here

Working alongside artist print maker Luna North you will explore some of the creative elements of watercolour techniques. We will be using the high quality materials supplied plus any equipment that you may want to bring from home. Exploring the transparency of paint we will create a harmonious blue abstract painting. We will also create an abstract watercolour learning about the use of warm and cool colours to build a painting inspired by organic shapes. Luna’s teaching style encourages creativity with a sense of playfulness. The workshop will be held in the Goodwin Gallery to coincide with artist Cliff Lee’s abstract seascape / landscape exhibition.

We aim for each student to have completed three paintings to take home at the end of the session.

The workshop also coincides with the exhibition – North Devon, a unique insight by artist Cliff Lee which is on at the Gallery from Saturday 19th November until Thursday 15th December 2016.

 

 

 

 

 

Vibrant Coral — Moss & Fog

Around the globe, coral is in danger. Ocean acidification, warming temperatures, and pollution have all caused huge damage to reefs, and slow growing corals. Antonio Rodríguez Canto spent a year photographing coral to capture these colorful time-lapse movements. Biodiversity on the planet is crucial, and videos like these help illustrate the beauty of planet earth, and hopefully […]

via Vibrant Coral — Moss & Fog

capturing art and science together – magical

 

 

Vacation Watercolors — Discover

Watercolor scenes from a Colorado vacation, by artist Sharon Mann.

via Vacation Watercolors — Discover

“Magic in the Nursery” touring exhibition, lino cut print workshop and children’s book jacket art display at the Goodwin Gallery Petroc

“Magic in the nursery” illustrations for children’s books by Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott

(with a guest appearance of Kate Greenaway)

The ‘founding fathers’ of the modern children’s picture book in Britain, if not the world, were the late Victorians Walter Crane (1845-1915) and Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886). Their colourful and fanciful images for children are acknowledged as the breakthrough in a modern sensibility towards children and their picture books. Together with Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) they created images for children, and adults who read to them,  have more than stood the test of time.

This touring exhibition, celebrating their importance and success, is a selection from their nursery books published in the 1870s and 1880s.

Randolph Caldecott “Hey Diddle Diddle”

 The exhibition, however, is not simply a collection of these beautiful and imaginative children’s illustrations by Victorian masters.

Rhymes and music have been central to the child’s intellectual and aesthetic development and the pictures in the exhibition, interpreting as they are well known and less well known nursery rhymes and jingles, encourage a re-engagement with this effective means of storytelling and the education of the very young.

So, why not come along and see the show! Children will be enthralled, parents inspired and grandparents invigorated by these images from childhood.

Walter Crane “Little Bo Peep”

…here on the Goodwin Gallery pinterest page there is a starter collection of different images from children’s book illustrations, if you have any to add to the board then please do:log in to pinterest to take a look at the images:

Lino cut print workshop: design your own book plate lino cut with Luna North

To coincide with this enchanting exhibition, artist printmaker Luna North will be holding a lino cut workshop on Saturday 8th October  where you will be able to design and print your own book plate to personalise your own book collection or make one as a special present for someone.

Here on our pinterest page Luna has been adding some images to give you some inspiration: log into pinterest to see the book plate images on our Goodwin Gallery pinterest page.

Luna’s workshops at the Goodwin Gallery are always very popular due to her creative and relaxed way of teaching, if you are interested in this workshop the booking details are here Lino cut: design and print your own book plate

…on display there will also be all the entries from our very popular children’s drawing competition…

 

Magic in the Nursery exhibition at the Goodwin Gallery Petroc

open Saturday 24th September until Saturday 15th October 2016