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Closing down …

mike — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:44:27 +0000

We’re closing down this Rogue Gene Collective blog, as its no longer actively used. If you want to follow us we are now using the Rogue Gene Gallery blog, together with other artists represented on Rogue Gene Gallery.

Aitch exhibiting at Artlink, Hull.

Aitch — Sun, 22 May 2011 17:30:28 +0000

I have recently received the following confirmation email, which I am delighted about:

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:

Art in the Street, Maidenhead

amanda — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:36:35 +0000

The date for the next Art in the Street Sale in Maidenhead has just been announced. It will be on Saturday 7th May and I’ve just heard that I have been successful in getting a stand! There will be around 60 artists displaying and selling some of their latest works. The market will be open from 10am to 4pm and more details can be found on the official website: www.maidenheadartmarket.org

Here’s a picture of my stand at the November market.

In May I’ll be showing some of my newer works with a range of small and large paintings all for sale. Come along and see me!

Mini Art Show

Aitch — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:44:18 +0000

I have recently entered 7 paintings for the 2nd Mini Art Show to be held at the South Street Gallery in Scarborough. I created 4 new ones for the exhibition and entered the 3 that I had entered in the first one also. The exhibition runs from February 17th to April 3rd.

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

Celestial

Ruby

New Artwork

amanda — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:40:10 +0000

Thought I’d share with you a picture of my newest painting – Japanese Blossom.
I love chinese and japanese artwork with garden flowers and cherry blossom and was inspired to try a variation of my own. I was also thinking ahead to Spring (wishful thinking maybe!) when there is always a fantastic display of cherry blossom all down my road. The first true sign that spring has arrived and summer is on it’s way. Not long to wait now!

Ferens Open Exhibition

Aitch — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:47:44 +0000

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

Illustration

Rob — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:38:58 +0000

Rogue Gene member Rob has formally launched his illustration business after completing a large commission from a company specialising in young people’s welfare. Illustration can mean a lot of things to different people…Rob draws on 20 years of experience in magazine illustration and cartooning to offer a complete service, including Fine Art, character development, corporate design and digital software manipulation / enhancement . See his work at www.acrylicsandoils.com

Andrea and Aitch in Etsy Treasury!

Aitch — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:13:29 +0000

Today I discovered that both myself and fellow Rogue Gene member, Andrea Farmer , have had one of our pieces of art selected for a Treasury on Etsy. Getting your art in a treasury is a boost to your self esteem as it reinforces the worth of your work when fellow art lovers are show-casing it on your behalf. It is also a really useful way of getting a lot of extra promotion since a lot of the time, Etsy users (both sellers and buyers) use twitter and other social networking applications on a regular basis.

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!