a creative activity for families and small groups Saturday & Sunday 19 & 20 June and 26 & 27 June – 10.30 – 1pm and 2pm – 4.30 pm – £6 per group Experience the joy of a summer meadow in full bloom! You will see a riot of wildflowers and grasses native to our…
ONLINE WORKSHOP £45 Mapping and developing thoughts and process through sketchbooks and studiesTuesday 29th June, 10.30 – 3.30 … Winter & Spring into Summer Join Linda Ingham for a day’s workshop based on the RSPB Blacktoft Sands Nature Reserve in the East Riding of Yorkshire. During the session you will be taken on a virtual…
Originally Blacktoft was a saltmarsh (like Blacktoft Sands today). There is scant evidence of habitation in Roman times as drainage machines have bought up the odd bit of Roman tile, pot and quern. Whether anyone else followed in the dark ages is not known. For in 1016 King Sweyn of Denmark sailed up the Ouse…
As part of the GATHER project I am inviting artists to submit a piece of which will be included in an online slideshow/film this summer as a major part of a body of work which considers plants and place. To accompany the launch of the summer aspect of the GATHER, some of which will happen…
It is fortunate that I have been gathering material – mainly photographs and film – since that time, and have a small archive covering an hour of a December day in 2018 which I have used to begin the work for this project. It was expected that I would have been on the reserve, making…
ANNOUNCING – FIELD NOTES – ONLINE workshops Sustainability and thoughtfulness of the planet in terms of what we do, consume, and make is growing more and more important to me as a person and within my practice. To these ends, I’m introducing a series of workshops that use simple eco-dye technique, s-l-o-w processes and stitch…
ASH (leaf fragmented) pieces accepted into Open Iso online exhibition Two pieces from the ASH (leaf fragmented) series have been accepted into The Old Lockup Gallery’s Open Iso (lation) show, which is an online version of their usual spring open exhibition. Please follow The Old Lockup Gallery pages on Facebook and Instagram to vote for…
We are delighted to announce that Vitalistic Fantasies is coming to The Cello Factory, London. An expanded version of the exhibition originally planned for 2020 BEEP Painting Biennial in Swansea will open on 2 December in London just as lockdown ends.Works by 41 painters from Contemporary British Painting bring a visual conversation to ideas discussed…
Work created during the Covid-19 lockdowns Having been studying an RSPB reserve meadow in the East Riding of Yorkshire since January 2019, leaf fragments gathered in January 2020 (at the time with no plan of how they were to be used) became the material which informed a series of work begun during the 2020 March…
Greenfall Crown sold to private collector as part of #Artists Support Pledge This has been a wonderful support to many artists during the Covid-19 pandemic. Many of us have lost income from teaching and events which often support our practices. During 2020, my own workshop programme was wiped out, delivering only three over the whole…