Congratulations! I am delighted to inform you that your work has been selected for Artlink’s Contemporary Art and Craft Fayre on Saturday 28th May 2011.

The Fayre will take place at the Artlink Centre for Community Arts, which is situated at 87 Princes Avenue, Hull, HU5 3QP and will open from mid-day until 4pm. The event is for local talent to showcase their crafts in a well-established venue.

I will of course be taking along my ever-popular hand painted notebooks as well as my range of mini paintings on easels, wooden trinket boxes, magnetic notepads and greetings cards. I may also take some of my smaller paintings if I have room.

Artlink have created  a Facebook event which you can view here.

Here’s an example of some of the work I will be selling:

Here’s a couple of the new ones I’ve created:

Celestial

Ruby

]]> http://blog.roguegenecollective.com/mini-art-show-2-954.htm/feed 0 http://blog.roguegenecollective.com/ferens-open-exhibition-950.htm http://blog.roguegenecollective.com/ferens-open-exhibition-950.htm#comments Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:47:44 +0000 Aitch http://blog.roguegenecollective.com/?p=950 Continue reading →]]> This morning I dropped off two paintings for the annual Ferens Art Gallery’s Open Exhibition, which takes place from Saturday 12th February until Sunday 3rd April 2011. I have entered a few times in the past without success, but I have positive feelings this time – I am entering “3 Wise Men An An Interloper” and  “Red Rocks”. Both paintings are an acrylic/ink media on canvas board and are mounted and framed. I entered them successfully for the East Yorkshire Open Art Exhibition last July so decided to use them again.

I will find out if I have been successful on 4th February, so fingers crossed!

Red Rocks

3 Wise Men And And Interloper

My favourite tree was the recycled one. Preston couple, Tony & Maureen Dale, used the tree they had decorated last year and which they’d planted in the garden since. It had not survived so they decided to create their entry this year based on the theme of recycling. They sprayed the tree white and decorated it with an assortment of items that would normally be thrown away. Most ingenious of all, however, was the dynamo-powered fairy lights. In order to see them lit up, you had to sit on an exercise bike and pedal! I had to have a go, naturally! It kept me warm for a while, too – the church is extremely cold!

Here are some photos that Keith took at the weekend – spot the nutter on the cycle!

Decorated by Preston Primary School

Preston Parish Council Tree

I love the view of the trees in the shot above – the pews have had a “tree table” placed along the full length of them in order to accommodate all the trees within the church!

This, however, is my favourite tree, mainly due to the creative way of utilising the dead tree and the powering of the lights!

I found out first of from reading an email message from the curator of the Treasury, michellpryorart. Then I saw a link on Facebook to Andrea’s latest personal blog post mentioning the fact that we were both featured in the same Treasury.

Here is a snapshot of the Treasury – you can visit Etsy and look at all the items in more details by clicking on this link if you wish, too.

In the Treasury, Michelle has kindly featured one of Andrea’s hauntingly ethereal landscape paintings entitled “All In It”, which is for sale in her Etsy shop at $30 (approximately £19) including free postage. You can view it full screen by going to Andrea’s Etsy shop here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/29132770/all-in-it-original-ethereal-landscape?ref=tre-4cde10b839fc8eef8023afd6-14

The painting I have had featured is one of my mini paintings complete with easel – “Moonflowers”, which is for sale in my Etsy shop, Arty Aitch, at $14 (approximately £9). You can view it full screen here.

Many thanks for Michelle for featuring two members of Rogue Gene Collective in her latest Treasury, it is much appreciated!

So, it could be a really large one such as “Watching Paint Dry” (which is 76 x 50cm)

Watching Paint Dry

Or a smaller one, such as Marooned (which is 35 x 35cm framed)

Marooned

Alternatively, I could go for a theme – such as floral, and have “Anniversary Flowers” and “Golden Daffodil” as my entries, or have a musical theme and use my “Violin- Dedicated to Daniel” along with “Fine Tuning”. Hmmm, decisions, decisions! Any ideas, anyone? Entries have to be in on October 18th….so thinking caps on please!

There are about 70 entries for this exhibition so it should be quite varied and I look forward to seeing the other items on display. It’s the first time I’ve entered this particular exhibition but as I am trying to enter as many local shows as possible, I didn’t want to miss out.

Cool Sticks, Acrylic on board.

Violin - Dedicated To Daniel (pastel)

I didn’t like to take any more photos since it was fairly busy, with it being a Bank Holiday weekend – the painting you can see next to my two is called Manhattan Sunset, painted in acrylic by an Lesley Webb – I’ve not heard of her before.

As well as the exhibition, which was situated upstairs in the West Wing (several rooms, actually), there were lots of other artworks on display (some of which were temporary and others permanent) along with a museum, a room dedicated to Amy Johnson and lots of rooms full of antique furniture etc. The grounds were full also today – there was a vintage (or was it classic??) car show and a display of jousting by some people who re-enact certain periods in history – not my cup of tea at all, but obviously very popular.

My favourite view of the day was the following snaps I took of some llamas that are resident within the gardens of the Hall: