Adventure 2015

We're not the most techie bunch so despite the lack of posts, a lot of work has been going on behind the scenes all year, culminating in the return of our annual Adventure exhibition at Jubilee Community Centre, East Grinstead.

The exhibition opens with a private view on Saturday 5 December, thereafter it runs until 13 January. With 13 artist's work there should be something for any art lover. Please do come and long, we'd love to see you!

 

Michael: Ashdown Forest 14

While I try to work out what to next with the linocut that's in progress, here's another of the small paintings from the Ashdown Forest series.



7 October, 2.45pm. Autumn sun on dry bracken, fire gold.
Acrylic on canvas, 15 x 15 cm.

Michael: Ashdown Forest 13

Another of the small paintings from the Ashdown Forest landscape series.



10 December, 3pm. Winter's afternoon quickly turns to evening.
Acrylic on canvas, 15 x 15 cm.

Michael: Ashdown Forest, summer days

27 July, 3pm. Long hot summer days stretch beyond the horizon. Another of the small paintings from the current Ashdown Forest exhibition.



Acrylic on canvas, 15 x 15cm.

Michael: Ashdown Forest 10

3 April, 11am. In the distance, yes, the first sight of gorse.

Acrylic on canvas, 15 x 15cm.

Michael: Ashdown Forest 9

Start of a new series of the Ashdown Forest landscapes. I'm trying to push harder to the boundary between naturalism and abstraction. This series is on smaller size of canvas, to see how much information can be packed into the smaller space.



9 January, 1.15pm. Searching for colour in the depths of winter, and finding it everywhere.
Acrylic on canvas, 15 x 15 cm.

Michael: Ashdown Forest - High horizon

A hard climb to the high horizon.



Acrylic on canvas, 25 x 25 cm.

Michael: Late summer rain

Late summer rain threatens to spoil the afternoon.



Acrylic on canvas, 25 x 25 cm.

Michael: Ashdown Forest — Last of the sun

The last of the sun going down over the hills catches the edge of the bracken.



Last of the sun. Acrylic on canvas, 25 x 25 cm.

Michael: Ashdown Forest 4

Dusk comes early to the forest hills as autumn draws on.



Acrylic on canvas, 25 x 25 cm.

Michael: Ashdown Forest 3

A sunny afternoon in early Spring cut short by storm clouds moving northwards from the English Channel and across the downs.



Acrylic on canvas, 25 x 25 cm.

Michael: Ashdown Forest 2

Another painting for the Ashdown Forest exhibition. Dark clouds at the end of a late autumn day. Sheets of red bracken stretch up to the horizon.



Acrylic on canvas, 25 x 25 cm.

Michael: Ashdown Forest landscape

Our exhibition at the Ashdown Forest Centre opens soon. Next week. It's about time that I got on and did some work for it. Here's the first of my paintings.



29 July, 2pm. Acrylic on canvas, 25 x 25 cm.

For more information about the exhibition, click here.

Michael: Happy sheep

Happy sheep!
I've got those hap-hap-happy sheep!
Give them a low-down bleat
And they begin dancing!


Acrylic on canvas, 15 x 15 cm.

Well, somebody had to do it.

Richard - Work in progress

With our Ashdown Forest exhibition just confirmed to open the week before Easter, its time to buckle down and finish some pictures. At the moment I'm working on another group of four. Nearly there ...

Sheri - Ashdown

Here are my latest two Ashdown paintings - driven a little more to abstraction with each one.

Lynn - 2nd Devon painting - early stages

A way to go with this one as well...

I also mentioned on Tuesday about the small, postcard sized ultra quick studies we did in class. It was a usefull exercise, though obviously much easier to keep things simple when so small (as opposed to A1 full size paintings).

Just a few, we did about 20..

Lynn - some of the work I've been doing at Emily's this term.

Our theme this year has been New Work from Old, taking inspiration from classic works to create work of our own. Last term I concentrated on making studies/paintings from The Fighting Temeraire by Turner. All about mood, atmosphere, new versus old themes, seascape, boats and luscious paint. This term I'm building on this with work about Devon seascapes, predominantly Newton Ferrers where we holiday.

The first painting above (3 stages in reverse order for some reason!) is supposed to be about being out on the water on a still, misty morning. Still more work to do.

Even more work needed on painting 2, which I've worked on twice so far. Will post separately.

Sheri - Ashdown 2

And here's the painting I finished last time:

Sheri - Ashdown

I continued work on my latest Ashdown painting last night. There's still a bit more to do, but not to much, I promise. This is acrylic on canvas.