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| View of Museum buildings by a member of the group |
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| The Suffolk Trinity in mixed media |
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| Work in Progress |
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| Painting by Alex |
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| Painting by Alex |
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| Painting by J. A. Mee |
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| Painting by J. A. Mee |
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| A Member of the Group |
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| Sketch of a boot in wire by Barbara |
Sunday, 17 June 2012
Art In MInd @ Museum of East Anglian Life
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Work Inspired by the Museum of East Anglian Life
Featured below are some wonderful pieces of work by a member of our group. The initial images are drawn on site, photographed and edited. The stages that the work goes through produces these strong and unique images that capture the atmosphere of the Museum.
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Art In Mind @ Museum of East Anglian Life
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| Portrait of Beth by Alex |
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| Pencil Drawing by J.A. Mee |
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| Gypsy Wagon by N.C. |
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| Mixed Media Study of Chair |
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| Study of Top Hat by Alex |
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| Pencil Drawing of Piano by J. A. Mee |
Friday, 23 March 2012
Session Eight at Christchurch Mansion
We have now finished this course at Christchurch Mansion. When we began we were leaving the sessions in the dark winter afternoons, after our last session we emerged into sunshine and spring flowers were visible under the trees in Christchurch Park.
We had been working on the theme of collections. The final pieces of work reflected this;
Historical portraits paintings in the Mansion became abstracted into a series of strong, bold portraits.
The motionless figures that people the rooms in the Mansion were captured in delicate watercolours.
A study of patterns on walls and furniture inspired a riot of colour, paint, fabric and stitch onto canvas.
Careful observation of landscape paintings and plates have been documented with notes and a sketchbook has been filled with a comprehensive series of drawings reflecting a passion for the Mansion and its contents.
A hand painted panel in a bedroom became a journey into sourcing flower motifs in paintings which in turn became an ethereal space full of light painted onto canvas.
An exploration of the structure of the Mansion became an investigation into a resist process with oil pastels and various water based paints. These experiments form the basis for an abstract painting.
The wonderful collection of toys contains an bear, dressed in a military uniform, who has seen better days. This bear has been modeled and re made.
A collection of kitchen utensil, mixing prints taken from plastic spoons printed onto fabric and drawn bowls from the porcelain collection, pieced together with a variety of different textures and colours.
We had been working on the theme of collections. The final pieces of work reflected this;
Historical portraits paintings in the Mansion became abstracted into a series of strong, bold portraits.
The motionless figures that people the rooms in the Mansion were captured in delicate watercolours.
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| Watercolour by Moya Copnall |
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| Watercolour by Moya Copnall |
Careful observation of landscape paintings and plates have been documented with notes and a sketchbook has been filled with a comprehensive series of drawings reflecting a passion for the Mansion and its contents.
A hand painted panel in a bedroom became a journey into sourcing flower motifs in paintings which in turn became an ethereal space full of light painted onto canvas.
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| Work in Progress by Mary Machin |
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| Experiments with wax resist by B B |
A collection of kitchen utensil, mixing prints taken from plastic spoons printed onto fabric and drawn bowls from the porcelain collection, pieced together with a variety of different textures and colours.
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| Printed and pieced fabric by Barbara Clarke |
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| Printed and pieced fabric by Barbara Clarke
An exhibition of illustrated childrens books in the porcelain room sparked research and a debate on craft before and after the war. The final piece is a thought provoking montage accompanied by a text on the subject.
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| Work in progress by Molly Pugh |
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Session Six at Christchurch Mansion
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| Printmaking samples - Barbara Clarke |
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| Resist examples in sketchbook - B B |
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| Resist examples in sketchbook - B B |
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| Sketchbook pages - E K |
Felixstowe Library Exhibition
The Exhibition at Felixstowe Library
"I shall miss attending the course, now that it has finished. Very relaxing and helps relieve stress."
"The course was very organised in teaching me new skills. I gained confidence and tried new skills."
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| Scenery - P Bowman |
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| Sketchbook page - P Bowman |
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Sketchbook page - P Bowman Puppets - Janet   |
Monday, 6 February 2012
Christchurch Mansion ... again
We are now into our third week at the Mansion. The theme of this course is 'collections'. A collection is an accumulation of objects gathered for study, comparison or exhibition. Christchurch Mansion is set out with period rooms and covers 500 years of history from the 16th century through to the 19th century. There are many areas to inspire from kitchen utensils, paintings, ceramics, toys and costume.
We started the first session with making sketchbooks and trying to identify a collection of objects from the museum that had a personal interest. We did some word association exercises in order to pinpoint a particular colour or form that interested us and then explored the Mansion to find objects that contained or represented them. For instance, the colour blue could be narrowed down into midnight blue and any object that had a deep blue, a night sky etc became the part of the collection. A circle or sphere came to represent the sun and again any object that featured the sun in any way became a collection of 'sun objects'.
Using these collections of objects as starting points we engaged in a series of exercises looking at alternative ways of documenting them such as collage, word poems, drawing sections of the object and making patterns.
The fourth week will be spent in working up one of these initial ideas into a piece of artwork.
ALL OF THE WORK BELOW ARE PAGES FROM SKETCHBOOKS SHOWING INITIAL IDEAS:
We started the first session with making sketchbooks and trying to identify a collection of objects from the museum that had a personal interest. We did some word association exercises in order to pinpoint a particular colour or form that interested us and then explored the Mansion to find objects that contained or represented them. For instance, the colour blue could be narrowed down into midnight blue and any object that had a deep blue, a night sky etc became the part of the collection. A circle or sphere came to represent the sun and again any object that featured the sun in any way became a collection of 'sun objects'.
Using these collections of objects as starting points we engaged in a series of exercises looking at alternative ways of documenting them such as collage, word poems, drawing sections of the object and making patterns.
The fourth week will be spent in working up one of these initial ideas into a piece of artwork.
ALL OF THE WORK BELOW ARE PAGES FROM SKETCHBOOKS SHOWING INITIAL IDEAS:
Mixed media: B.B.
Pastel drawing: B.B.
Mixed Media: Barbara
Collage: Barbara
Mixed Media: Cathy Walsh
Drawing: Moya Copnall
Drawing: Moya Copnall
Collage: Mary Machin
Collage: Molly Pugh
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