Karen Coulson - Artist-in-Residence

Wildlife artist and UKCPS silver member, Karen Coulson, is Artist-in-Residence at 'Nature-in-Art' during this next week.  'Nature-in-Art' takes place in the village of  Twigworth, situated on the A38 in Gloucestershire.  Karen will be working on three different pictures from Tuesday 17 January until Sunday 22nd, and also hopes to have room for a 'Have-a-Go' table, space permitting.

The event, which features a wildlife photography exhibition, is open 10 am until 5pm, and costs £5.25 for adults, but there are concessions.  Nature-in-Art have a website: www.nature-in-art.org.uk

Karen says "If you are visiting the Wildlife Photography exhibition or are local to the area please call in and say hello. I've not done anything quite like this before, so it would be lovely to see some friendly faces."

New local group - Keswick area

Zoe Ginty, a UKCPS member, and one of the staff at the Pencil Museum in Keswick, has been in touch with news of a local coloured pencil group just starting in the Keswick (North Lakes) area :--

Hia everyone!
A new local pencil art group is starting up in Cumbria on Saturday 21st January. We have been lucky enough to have had lots of interest in our group, so will be holding it at the Quaker Meeting House (near Booths Supermarket) in Keswick rather than at the Pencil museum education room, as previously planned.
Free parking is available at the Pencil Museum, so please ask at the Museum reception and you will be given a parking permit for the session(10am to 2pm). It will take place on the third Saturday of each month, at the small cost of one pound per person.
Everyone is welcome,so please bring your pencils, paper and enthusiasm for a session of drawing, experimentation, show, tell and some demonstrating with like minded pencil art fans.
Look forward to meeting you !!
Please contact us for more details.....
Zoe Ginty (you may know me from the Pencil Museum) 07843416183 and Barbara Murray (our very own Chairman) chair@ukcps.co.uk

Leisure Painter - Simply The Best 2011 results

Congratulations to UKCPS members, Irina Garmashova-Cawton, and Judith Heilbronn-Crown, whose CP pictures are featured in the February edition of  'Leisure Painter' as winning entries in the Hobbycraft 'Simply The Best Competion 2011'.

 The pictures were on display at the recent Art Materials Live Show held at the NEC in November.

I should also mention that the February 'Leisure Painter' contains the 2nd part of a colour pencil article by Veronica Winters, featuring two seperate still-life execises using fruit.

Try Coloured Pencils - on the Wirral

I TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO WISH ALL OUR READERS ALL THE HAPPINESS FOR THE NEW YEAR.
Alan

Beginners and experienced CP users alike will be welcome to join me at St Chad’s Church Hall, Roslin Road, Irby, Wirral, CH62 3UH from 9.30 am to 4 pm on SATURDAY 25 February 2012, for a friendly day of coloured pencil demonstration, and ‘Have-a-Go’ workshop.

Our guest for the morning will be Brenda Chappell, a
well-known Manchester artist, who will be demonstrating
techniques using the famous Caran D’Ache range of pencils.
Brenda is a regular demonstrator at art societies throughout
north of England, at Art Materials Live in the NEC, and at
the Patchings Festival. A former textile designer, Brenda
now specialises in flower paintings, but also produces landscapes
and portraits.

Brenda will demonstrate the use of the Caran D’Ache excellent
‘Luminance’ pencils, their water-soluable pencils
and Neocolor II range, and other products from the Caran D’Ache range.

AFTERNOON WORKSHOP
Dig out those old pencils you last used in school (or bring along last year’s birthday present), and
‘have a go’ with other pencil artists. Paper will be provided. Bring your own subject matter or use some of the photographs available.

and all this for £6 (MORNING ONLY) or £8 for FULL day!!!


Entry forms and further details available from me at:
Alan McMahon
32 Noctorum Dell
Prenton
Wirral
CH43 9UL

Tele: 0151 670 1680   Email: alanmacann@btinternet.com

Christmas reading

Sometime over the next few days, members should be receiving their December edition of 'Talking Point' containing, amongst other things, the Call for Entries to the 9th World of Coloured Pencil Exhibition 2012 at Keswick, the Minutes of the UKCPS AGM back in October last, and a list of available courses and workshops for the New Year, plus lots of stuff about the 10th Open Exhibition last September.

Good reading to you all, and I take this opportunity to offer my personal best wishes to all our blog readers for a very happy Christmas.

Alan

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