Mark Hearld’s Winter
Mark Hearld has just designed a couple of new pieces for Art Angels - a flying robin and a new winter inspired die-cut menagerie featuring hares, ptarmigans and a stoat in winter. Keep an eye out for these cards in shops in the coming weeks.
We'll soon be starting work on a Random Spectacular project dedicate to Mark's exhibition in York, The Lumber Room - Unimagined Treasures.
We'll also be working on new fabric and wallpaper designs for 2016. View Mark's current fabrics and wallpapers.
Baddeley Brothers
The Gentle Author, creator of the Spitalfields Life journal, has just published a book dedicated to the work of specialist printers, Baddeley Brothers.
This book is embellished with fine tipped-in samples illustrating the range of Baddeley Brothers’ print techniques, an anatomy of envelope design, a glossary of printing terminology, typographic designs by David Pearson, drawings by Lucinda Rogers and a fold-out map by Adam Dant.
Find our more about purchasing a copy of this wonderful publication.
Jonny Hannah cut-out cards
As part of his forthcoming exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, our friends at Art Angels have produced three cards based on Jonny Hannah's work.
Jonny has adapted three of his prints - 'Mare Vivimus', 'Fyret' and 'All Aboard the George Bennie' - to produce these die-cut cards. Also launching at the exhibition is Jonny's 2016 'The Captain's Calendar'.
'Main Street' will run from 14th November 2015 until 28th February 2016 at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and visitors will be invited to take a stroll down Hannah’s vintage-inspired homage to the independent trader.
Find out more about the exhibition
You might also like to view Jonny Hannah's fabric and wallpaper designs for St Jude's
A visit to The Lumber Room
In September 2015 we took a visit to Mark Hearld's curated exhibition at York Art Gallery, 'The Lumber Room - Unimagined Treasures'.
The Upper North Gallery has been transformed to reflect one artist’s vision of a Lumber Room – a room of miscellaneous stored objects and artefacts.
For the past two years, York-based artist Mark Hearld has been visiting the stores of the Yorkshire Museum and York Castle Museum as well as York Art Gallery researching the objects and artworks to include in the exhibition.
His choices include textiles, costume, oil paintings, works on paper, furniture, and taxidermy, many items of which have not been on public display before.
Alongside these are new works that Mark has created especially for the show which are inspired by the collections. The exhibition is influenced by a short story called The Lumber Room, by Saki, which was read to him in an English class when he was 15.
Mark explains…
“Since I heard Saki’s story I have always been intrigued by the idea of a locked room that contained treasures so wonderful they are beyond what your mind can imagine. In this exhibition I wanted to create the sense of excitement and wonder that you get when you discover the key to the room and see the “forbidden” objects for the first time.”
View further images from our visit or find out more about the exhibition.
You might also like to see Mark's range of fabrics and wallpapers for St Jude's.
Emily Sutton
In November 2015 Emily Sutton will be exhibiting a series of new watercolours and drawings at The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh as part of 'Four Women Artists' which also features work by Elizabeth Blackadder, Victoria Crowe and Alison McGill.
Edinburgh College of Art unites these four women artists. Elizabeth Blackadder graduated from the college in 1954 and was a dedicated teacher from 1962-1986. Victoria Crowe graduated from the Royal College of Art, London before being invited to teach drawing and painting at the college from 1968 until 1998. Alison McGill and Emily Sutton are part of a younger generation who continue to fulfil their journey through art, and in very different ways represent an ongoing painting and graphic tradition.
The exhibition runs from 4th to 25th November 2015 at The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh EH3 6HZ. Find out more.
You might also like to view the fabrics that Emily has designed for St Jude's or view a selection of her limited edition prints.
'Rocking Horse'
Watercolour, 76 x 56cm
'The Garden Room at 104'
Watercolour, 76 x 56cm
'Still Life with Coral Teacup'
Watercolour, 22 x 27cm
'Front Room at 104'
Pencil, 84 x 59cm
'Cap Oceane, Trouville'
Watercolour, 29.5 x 42cm
Ed Kluz – Monument
From 14th to 31st October 2015, Ed Kluz will be exhibiting a series of new mixed media collages at the John Martin Gallery at 38 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4JG.
Ed Kluz is an artist, illustrator and printmaker. His work explores contemporary perceptions of the past through the reimagining of historic landscapes, buildings and objects. The ideas of early Romanticism, the Picturesque movement and antiquarian representations of topography and architecture underpin his approach to image making. He has a particular interest in the eccentric, uncanny and overlooked – follies, lost country houses and ruins provide a constant source of inspiration.
As a designer and illustrator Ed has received commissions from the V&A, Faber, Folio Society, John Murray publishers and Little Toller Books, in addition to the fabrics he has designed for St Jude's.
Ed was born in 1980 and grew up in Swaledale, North Yorkshire. He studied fine art at the Winchester School of Art between 1999 – 2002. He now lives in East Sussex.
Find out more about Ed Kluz in this short film by Alun Callender.
Dark Movements
Artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins is currently exhibiting a series of works at Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
The Mari Lwyd or ‘grey mare’, a Welsh midwinter tradition, has been a key influence Hicks-Jenkins' work. Dark Movements is a multi media presentation of works inspired by the story. The exhibition includes a number of works from the original series of large scale drawings which the artist made following his father's death; works articulating a private grief and fear as well as exploring deep rooted cultural beliefs. Exhibited alongside these are new paintings and animated film using the artist’s puppetry figures, as well as examples of the ‘shadow puppet’ models which Clive uses in his painting practice. Puppets and models from the 2013 performance of the chamber work inspired by the artist's Mari Lwyd series, ‘The Mare’s Tale’ (composer Mark Bowden and librettist Damian Walford Davies) are also on show.
The exhibition runs until Saturday 25th July 2015 at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Full details
Find out more about the artist's work via his website.
The Citadel (2015)
Acrylic, gouache and oil-based pencil on board. 59 x 84 cms
Yarden. The Citadel (2015)
Acrylic, gouache and oil-based pencil on board. 59 x 84 cms
Horse/Man (2015)
Acrylic, gouache and oil-based pencil on board. 59 x 84 cms
Detail of the Dark Movements Toy Theatre (2015)
Mixed media
Veil (2015)
Acrylic, gouache and oil-based pencil on board. 59 x 84 cms
