Just a quick reminder

This terms life drawing class begins again this coming Wednesday evening and there are day art classes on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

I have a lovely invigorating program planned for you.
I hope you can make it and please pass this email on to anyone who you think may be interested.

The year is passing by quickly

There are just four more Wednesday evenings before we have a couple of weeks off for easter.
so please come along. Still a bargain at £48 for four weeks. (£15 drop in)
Here are some dates for your diaries.
2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, March Life drawing 6.30 - 8.30 (we are drawing blues back..looking at light, subtle changes in muscle form, contrast of textures, and changes in position.)
30th March and 6th April - break
Class resumes again13th April.

Classes 2016

life drawing and painting workshop

Just a quick reminder, the life drawing workshop is this Sunday....

Due to a couple of late cancellations there is room to squeeze a few more in...

 Please email me if you want to come along.

The Blue Years exhibition

Thanks to everyone who came along, it was lovely to see you. I hope you enjoyed the show.
Here are some photos so you can get a taste of the exhibition. 

 

I gave a little talk explaining the process. How, as Blue and I worked together over the four years it allowed me to look further than the likeness. 

I made large gestural paintings to explore expression, texture,  intention, emotion. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some series were about the space and composition,

 

                          and some about the paint marks, the drips.

 

 

with some I went with the flow, what happens against black backgrounds, aginst ochre, blue... and some were purely decorative, to give pleasure and please the eye.

 

  

I am so pleased to have looked at this work again. I intend to revisit the things I found with these figure studies in my interior paintings, to play with the surface of the painting, to pull more energy and expression from the surface, to intensify  the contrasts of dark and light. to merge the figurs with the backgrounds... stir things up again. mmmm.

A conversation with Blue King and Annabel Mednick

Exhibition of my paintings and a Life Drawing and Painting Workshop coming up

People have been asking about me running an all day workshop.
So Blue and I have arranged one. It will be on Sunday 6th December, 10 am -3 pm.
A couple of weeks before, on Saturday evening, 21st November 6.00 -9.00pm  I will have an exhibition of my paintings from when Blue and I worked intensely every week over some years. The Blue Years, to which you are very welcome.
 I have always worked from the model as part of my practice. I use the tiny observations to build the drawing or painting; I look at the subtle changes of light bouncing off the skin, the delicacy of tone. I enjoy the rapid marks that capture the immediacy and dynamic form of gestural poses.
When I worked with Blue for over four years, sometimes we worked on the same pose for week after week which allowed me to work more deeply than just getting a likeness. In one series I explored the emotion, in another the composition, the humanity. Blue understands what I am trying to evoke in my painting, it has become a two- way exploration with paint and shape. This symbiosis continues in our work with our students, we work as a team.