Delighted to be exhibiting a new group of prints at this show at the Espacio Gallery in London in November and looking forward to seeing what everyone else brings along. Promises to feature lots of intriguing work.
Richard Brayshaw
Ann Simberg
Coming Up - Shifting States Nov 29 - 11 December
Delighted to have been invited to take part in an Exhibition, with a group of 14 other artists, which explores themes to do with the Liminal and states of transition. Im currently in the final stages of making a group of mixed media prints for this show and enjoying exploring and working with large scale dry point plates. Combining the mark making with larger scale dry point plates is proving to be very liberating and opening up many more ideas and possibilities.
Rosehill Cafe, Letchworth Centre for Healthy Living
Current Exhibition
Current Exhibition at the Letchworth Centre for Healthy Living
Delighted to have been invited to show a group of works at the Healthy Living Centre in Letchworth.
The Rosehill Cafe is at the back of the centre, very close to the large car park (free), and overlooks their beautiful grounds. The cafe has been refurbished over the summer and looks utterly fabulous. The owners are very pleased with how the work looks and invited me to extend my show by presenting a second group of work after the initial 6 week run.
This exhibition has been curated by the Arts Nest Gallery in Hitchin.
Work in progress
Its always exciting to start a new project and it was a real treat on Friday to undertake an excursion to the location, and starting point, for a new project which will take inspiration from the beautiful and historic setting of Wicken Fen in Cambridegshire. This project will be collaboration with the Artist Helen Terry whose work I have admired for a while and we plan to conclude our research with a joint exhibition of work next year.
I will be posting more news and images over the coming weeks.
More photos from this day
Also coming up; In July - August a show of work at the Letchworth Centre for Healthy Living
Read MoreOver 200 visitors at this years Open Studios
Great turn out at this year's 'Digswell Arts' Open Studios so thanks so much to all our visitors. Well over 2oo people came along to see our work and helped us raise a mighty large sum for Isabel Hospice by buying tea and cake. Weather behaved itself and we had lots of fun meeting new people and catching up with friends and family.
Read MorePop Up Gallery Event in Harpenden
The Very Silence
Introducing a new group of unique solar prints - i'll be showing these at a Pop Up Gallery event in Harpenden 9th - 14th May
Location - 8 Leighton Road, (opposite Waitrose)
Times - 10 - 5 every day. Ends Saturday 14th at 5pm
For this week only myself and Harpenden based artist Anna Perlin will be selling a range of recent and past work.
Recording the landscape through the camera's eye is usually something I keep as a starting point only but these new Solar prints bring that passion to the centre stage. They also reveal an obsessive undertaking that has kept me busy over the past few months - namely the desire to explore methods of using the solar plate for multilayered prints.
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Digswell Arts Open Studios 2016
I will be exhibiting a group of new works at this years Open Studios 2016
At Digswell Arts 'Forge' Studios, Off Hertford Road, in Digswell Village near Welwyn.
21st and 22nd May / 11 -4 pm
Free on site parking. Tea and cake with proceeds from sales going to Grove Hospice
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Nostos V, Mixed media, Framed
'Spring has sprung'. Current Show at Art Nest Gallery, Hitchin
Nostos v,(pictured) is among a group of my recent mixed media works currently on show at the Art Nest Gallery in Hitchin. Also on show is a collection of recent works by a range of the artists represented by the Gallery. http://www.theartnest.com/contact/4586935816
Show runs to End of April.
Work in progress
Work in progress
Going back to Painting has proved to be a massive challenge, as well as immensely rewarding. Having spent many years developing my practice through printmaking the phrase 'working out of my comfort zone' is to put it mildly. However, there's no gain without pain and despite the challenges i'm loving the possibilities that are opening up by combining painting with printmaking.
I'm currently working on a group of larger scale mixed media paintings on canvas inspired by drawings based on the 'Nostos' series of prints.
For these pieces I have been primarily exploring ways to produce larger scale multilayered mono print drawings which are then additionally painted into with oil paint after being applied to canvas.
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Fine Art Printmakers
'A Sheltered Place', Dry point and mono print. One of 7 works currently on show at Art Nest Gallery, Hitchin alongside a collection of Printmakers represented by the Gallery.
Super busy day today helping out at the Art Nest Gallery, hanging the new exhibition 'Fine Art Printmakers' which opens tomorrow. This show runs throughout February. http://www.theartnest.com/artists/4582687588
Read MoreComing up
I will be exhibiting a group of mixed media prints at the Arts Nest Gallery throughout February.
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