Monk Fryston Art Club

Monday, 9 July 2012

Barbara Place demo and workshop

This demo by Barbara Place occurred some weeks ago now. I have lifted her bio below from her own website. The demo was a watercolour flower and the club members efforts are shown below.

Barbara is based in Pudsey ,West Yorkshire, painting in watercolours mixed media, and acrylics. My main passion is painting flowers in watercolour, a subject that I tutor from time to time.

A couple of years ago it became important for me to paint the Yorkshire landscape, from a different perspective. It has been rewarding , but hasnt come easy as I changed the media that I paint in to acrylics, and pastels for the landscapes, as I wanted them to be abstract/ semi abstract,and I wanted to push myself. I know what I want to achieve, I feel I am moving towards my goal,and I am so enjoying the challenge of being right out there in North Yorkshire. My only problem is the fact I like the dark angry skies, no blue skies for me, and it is the cold wind and rain that go hand in hand with those skies, I tend to be a fair weather girl.

I spend a few months in New Zealand most years, Where I enjoy painting the flowers and landscapes of New Zealand, which has an amazing light not found anywhere else in the world. Have exhibited jointly with my sister very successfully in Wellington.

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Keep up to date with the blog automatically

Hello to everyone who reads this regularly and those that don't and have just stopped by.

If you would like to be kept up to date whenever this blog is updated there is a very simple and easy way to do so.

Down the right hand side of the page , you will see a small box titled "follow by e-mail" it's near the fish. (have you fed the fish today ? )

If you enter your e-mail into that box you will then get a link to the blog whenever it is updated , so you dont have to remember to do so or struggle trying to find it.

Last bit of news as I write this blog has now had 1159 views from all corners of the world so it is recahing a global audience. I may have to start translating !

David Newbould painting

Thanks for reading this far.

Monday, 2 July 2012

Monk Fryston Art 2nd July 2012, Free Painting

Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Monk Fryston art club 25th June 2012

The club has been a little quiet following the succesful Summer exhibition and I haven't been able to get to the club for various reasons, so it was nice to get back to it.

It was a quiet meet today but Dave Newbould dropped off a painting and livened things up for a few minutes.

I think the final total on paintings sold nows stands at 29.

I apologise for the quality of some of the photo's here. I have a new camera and am still getting to grips with all the different settings.

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Summer Exhibition at Monk Fryston Hall

What a great day at The Hall, massive turnout from the village and beyond and the weather held just long enough for everyone to have a great time.

Unfortunately my camera decided its memory card was full after just a few photos so I haven't got too many to show.
Many thanks to Ian Dearn for the photo's of the exterior.
If anyone else has some from the day please let me know. They can be added anytime
I think we sold about 27 paintings on the day and I know that there is at least one more to sell having taken a phone call from a friend who wants to purchase one of Dave Newbould's paintings.

If you are reading this and saw anything you liked please email me at karlsimpson1285@btinternet.com and I will contact the artist concerned.
If you can't remember the artist's name try and describe the painting and I will see what I can do.