UKCPS Member Exhibition

UKCPS member Graham Brace's exhibition during the next month with seascape artist, Clive Gould) is currently showing at The White Lion Street Gallery until 28th July. If interested, you can view the show online with the following link...

http://www.artmatters.org.uk/artist/shared-vision

UKCPS Dales Local Group

UKCPS Dales Local Group are holding a joint exhibition at the Blue Light Gallery, Little Market Place, Masham, North Yorkshire, HG4 4DY, from Saturday 31st May to Friday 27th June, 2014. The members exhibiting are Lesley Sharman UKCPS, Amy Horton UKCPS, Tony Brown, Maureen Oates and Niki Firmin.

There will be around 50 CP/mixed media pictures on show and for sale, as well as some "crafty" items they have produced.

The following comes from UKCPS Silver Member, Tiffany Budd, who has a one woman show of 26 CP pictures ongoing until 18 October: ---

This is just one of the pictures on show:--

'Lets Play Marbles' - Coloursoft on Fabriano Artistico

Clevedon Art Club Exhibition

UKCPS stalwarts, Bev Lewis and Pauline Longley, have been busy again!!

This comes from Pauline:

I was thrilled to find that both Bev and I have had 4 pictures each juried in to the Clevedon Art Club Open Exhibition. It was also good to see another coloured pencil picture in the exhibition from a none UKCPS member.

The exhibition is on until 24th September and is really worth a visit. Details can be found http://www.clevedonartclub.co.uk

POSTSCRIPT TO THE ABOVE:

Congratulations also to Jenny Campbell who also has two pictures accepted!

and -- the exhibition actually ends on 24th August - NOT September!

CP in Botanical Art - Exhibition

This comes from UKCPS member, Val Hopkins:

The Gloucestershire Society for Botanical Illustration will be staging its Annual Exhibition at the Nature in Art Museum at Twigworth, near Gloucester, from March 26th - April 7th, 2013.

Quite a few of the regular contributors (myself included) use coloured pencils. We have no selection (other than availability of space and copyright checks) as we like to encourage beginners. The contents, therefore, range from the professional to the less accomplished. Nevertheless, people tell us the standard is still very high indeed.
Thanks,
Val

Patchings Art Festival

UKCPS members will probably be aware that our own 2013 Open International Exhibition will be held at the Patchings Art Centre ( its near Nottingham!) between 31st August and 6th October 2013.   Details for entry will be forthcoming in due course!

In the meantime - why not enter the Patchings Art Festival?  6th June to 21 July 2013

The call for entries is out now!  Full details from 'Leisure Painter' or 'The Artist' magazines, or via www.painters-online.co.uk .

Even if you don't enter - make a note of the dates, and arrange a visit.  It really is a great event with lots of demos, trade stands, and of course some fabulous pictures on display.

[Even UKCPS might be there! -- but not yet confirmed!!]

Visitors Choice at Nuneaton

The most popular picture chosen by the visitors to this year's  UKCPS Open Exhibition at Nuneaton Art Gallery (it closed on 25th November) was this beautifully detailed drawing entitled "The Red Lion", by Berkshire artist, Morryce Maddams. Well done, Morryce!

 

Lin Goodwin @ Bedworth Arts Centre

An update on the info given below --- The exhibition is a SOLO event by Lin herself! - and it will run from 5th November to 30 November 2012

UKCPS member, Lin Goodwin, is one of a number of artists exhibiting colour pencil works at Bedworth Arts Centre during the whole of November.

For further information, contact Bedworth Arts Centre, High Street, Bedworth, Warwickshire, CV12 8NF. Tel 024 76643255 Email bedwortharts@aol.com

NEWA - Nat. Exhibition of Wildlife Art

I made a quick visit to the NEWA exhibition at the Gordale Garden Centre, here on the Wirral, today.
It is good to see so many CP works having been accepted on show, with many of them by UKCPS members.

Congratulations then to members Alan Jones, Brian Ainsworth, Jo Goudie, Karen Coulson, David Pritchard, and Valerie Briggs.  Victoria Parsons had a 'colour crayon' picture listed in the catalogue, but that might have been CP in another name?

Congrats also to June Lesley Fox - but hers were all watercolours (nice ones though!)

The NEWA exhibition is one of the top wildlife exhibitions in the country with over 400 pictures in all media.  Well worth a visit if you can get to it before the close on Sunday next, 29th July.  Open 09.00 to 18.00, except Sunday closing at 17.00.

Beverley Courtney at the Blue Ginger Gallery

 Beverley Courtney is having an exhibition of pencil and coloured pencil works
throughout July and August 2012 at the Blue-Ginger Gallery in :-

Stiffords Bridge,
Cradley,
Malvern,

Worcestershire
 WR13 5NW


Open Wednesday to Sun
day 10am to 5.30pm
contact for further information:
01886 880240
www.blue-ginger.com

This gallery is famous locally for its reasonably-priced but delicious homecooked food, and its wide variety of exhibitions and displays, both indoor and outdoor art, and workshops.

Me - for a change

'Oranges'

Just to add to the acceptance of CP works in galleries -

I've just received news in the midday post that my picture 'Oranges' has been accepted for display at the Wirral Summer Art Exhibition 2012, to be held at the Williamson Museum & Art Gallery, Birkenhead, from 30th June to 9th September.

It was completed using Derwent Coloursoft on Daler-Rowney Extra Smooth Cartridge paper.

2012 NEWA call for entries

I know that some of our members have made good sales at the previous NEWA exhibitions.

The 2012 NEWA Exhibition (National Exhibition of Wildlife Art) takes place at the usual venue of the Gordale Garden Centre, Chester High Road, South Wirral, from 13th to 29th July.

If you are entering the exhibition this year your Application Forms need to have been received by post

or on the NEWA web page, with your fees by June 6th. [www.newa-uk.com ]

Payment by cheque can be sent now.

Payment by BACS can be done now

Payment by card can only be done between 1st June to 6th June.

  Contacting NEWA:         Tel: 07748533448 , Email: info@newa-uk.com

Or write to: 11, Dibbins Hey, Poulton Lancelyn, Bebington, Wirral. CH63 9JU

Please remember to copy or print the Rules as they are removed from the NEWA web page after 6th June.

Demonstrators Wanted!!

The society's International Open Exhibition at the Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery, will be open to the public from 6th October to 25th November - a much longer period than we've had in previous years.

We not only want to show the visiting public the best of CP artwork on display, but we also want to encourage participation, and to inform visitors about CP techniques and materials.

We are therefore seeking volunteers amongst the membership who would be able to give up some of their spare time either to demonstrate CP techniques (and you get to show off your handiwork!), or to assist with have-a-go sessions. 

If you feel you would like to volunteer (in any capacity), please contact: Barbara Murray, 23 St Herbert Street, Keswick, Cumbria, CA12 4DF.  Telephone: 07791451361. Email: exhibitions@ukcps.co.uk

Anyone bound for Paris soon?

The UKCPS Chairman, Barbara Murray, has recieved an email from Elizabeth Patterson, a member of the Coloured Pencil Society of America [CPSA], who writes:-

"Hello Barbara,

Hope this email finds you well! I am a member of CPSA from Southern California and wanted to contact you because I will soon be arriving in Paris for a month long stay. I am hoping that I might have a chance to meet some of your members. I don't know that I will be leaving France during that time, but perhaps some of your members live there? I was in contact with Ann Massey some months ago, but it appears she is no longer an officer, hence my email to you.

The reason for my trip is a solo exhibition at Galerie Louis Carre' & Cie which is opening Thursday, Jan 26th. I would like to have the gallery send an invitation to your chapter, but do not see an address. I got the impression that your membership is spread across a rather large geographic area, so I understand if no one can meet with me or come to the opening, though I would be so happy to see ANYONE from UKCPS there, as I will know few people! This is only my second solo exhibition and as the time draws near, I am getting quite nervous about the entire prospect. I have never even been to Europe!

Many thanks!
Elizabeth"

If any of you members out there are visiting Paris at the end of January, and would like to be put in contact with Elizabeth, then email Barbara Murray at chair@ukcps.co.uk for further information.

Dave Richards - Hafren Award

Ukcps Silver status member, Dave Richards, was awarded First Place- Hafren Award in the Hafren Themed Art Competition/Exhibition which opened in Newtown, Powys, on  26 November last.  The theme was 'Revelation'.

Dave's picture (shown on the right) is entitled "Feelings Revealed" and was done exclusively with Derwent Artists coloured pencils on Rising Stonehenge paper.

Dave has commented "I have a set of 72 of the Artists pencils which were the first set of pencils I bought. I was inspired to pick them up again after seeing Suzy’s [Herbert] beautiful ‘work in progress’ picture of pears she was demonstrating at the Open Exhibition in September. I seem to have come full circle after trying many different makes in search of the ‘magic’ pencil".

"A total of 74 pictures were accepted for the exhibition. There was a wide range of media including 2 in wool, however there were only 2 coloured pencil pictures [my entries], It was very pleasing to see cp being accepted as an equal".

The exhibition is in Newtown, Powys, Mid Wales and runs until 27 January 2012. More details are available on the Hafren website at:
http://www.thehafren.co.uk/gallery.php

10th Exhibition Workshops

If you are proposing to visit the society's 10th Exhibition at Westminster Hall in London (19th Sept to 1st October) why not take advantage of one of the excellent colour pencil workshops given by leading CP artists.
 See the list on the right, but contact the artist direct to book your place and receive full details.

Marion Brown - Lymington Open Art Exhibition

UKCPS member, Marion Brown has had her 5" x 7" still life picture 'Fruit Salad' [SEE RIGHT]accepted by the Lymington Open Art Exhibition at St Barbe's Museum & Art Gallery.
  Marion is very pleased because the exhibition, which is on until 21 August, was juried, and, as far as she is aware, hers is the only CP work to be accepted.  One of  her pictures was accepted in the same exhibition last year, and was sold. 

Jo Goudie at NEWA

[See my previous Post]  I still haven't had a chance to get to the Gordale Garden Centre to view the exhibition, but UKCPS Silver member, Jo Goudie, has written to say that two of  her CP works (shown on the right) are also on show at the NEWA Exhibition.

Well done to you, Jo

If any other members have works on show, either at NEWA or any other exhibition, please let me know by email [blogmaster@ukcps.co.uk] and if possible enclose a thumbnail of the picture/s.

Brian Ainsworth - NEWA Exhibition

Congratulations to UKCPS member, Brian Ainsworth, for getting three of his drawings accepted into the annual National Exhibition of Wildlife Art at the Gordale Garden Centre, on the Wirral.
Gordale, one fthe largest garden centres on the Wirral, have been hosting this exhibition for a number of years, and its popularity grows year on year.  This year there are over 400 wildlife pictures and craft on display, and as someone who attends every year, I can vouch for the excellence of  the exhibition which features exhibits from many top UK artists.
The exhibition runs from 15th July til Sunday 31 July, and is open from 9.30 to 6pm each day.  Admission is free.
The address is: Gordale Garden Centre, Chester High Road, Burton, Wirral, CH64 8TF

Victoria Parsons - Award winner

Congratulations to UKCPS member, Victoria Parsons, who has been awarded a Gold Citation by the Wildlife Art Society International (TWASI) at their Annual Exhibition held at Nature in Art, Twiggworth, in Gloucetershire.
The Award was presented by international wildlife artist, Polyanna Pickering, and was for the best artwork showing "Behavior typical of the species". The image was of two wolves sparring, and was worked in a range of coloured pencils on Pastelmat. The title of the work was: "Leader of the Pack"