"I am an abstract painter & printmaker, I make work which resonates with the urban landscape around me and my own emotional landscape. " 

I use a playful mixture of collage, drawing and painting to build up the surface of my paintings. They have scruffy surfaces, which are forensically created by layering over a number of years. 

Some of the collaged fragments come from cardboard packaging (tea, soap, toothpaste). Once flattened they create edges, jutting square and straight; forming raised creases and folds. Where there are holes in the card these make windows.

I also use linear ink drawings made on transparent rice paper. These sink into the surface and make areas of sharp focus amongst the messy surface.

Lucy will talk about her view of the world and how it messes up patterns.And bring some of her current work to show us!

Venue: The Sailing Club, The Beach, Clevedon BS21 7QU

Max tells us how it is to be a professional artist and tutor. And he should know. He’s had five decades of practice. He not only paints for a living – versatile in all-media, a winner of many awards, hung in London galleries - but he also offers a range of classes on an eclectic range of subjects, writes regularly for magazines with a book in progress and demonstrates to art clubs like our own.

Come along with questions at the ready and Max will be willing and able to answer them after his talk on Tuesday evening, 12th November kicking off at 7.30pm at the Sixth Form Centre, Clevedon School with a break for refreshments and chat.

https://www.maxhaleart.co.uk

October 8th - Stewart Geddes RWA -

Stewart Geddes is a painter. He is Past President of the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) and an Honorary Royal Academician in London until 2019. 

​He currently exhibits with Close Ltd, Tin Man Art and Blond Contemporary, London. He recently collaborated with Philip Selway of Radiohead with visuals for his solo albums 'Strange Dance' released in February 2023, and the subsequent live album 'Live at Evolution Studios' released in December 2023.

He is currently preparing for a solo exhibition - 'Letting String Fall' - at Close Ltd opening on Saturday 19th October, 2024.

https://stewartgeddes.weebly.com

10th Sept- Ian Shipton Art Educator.

• Ian has had a varied creative career. He began by making jewellery in 1983 and graduated in 1989 from Loughborough School of Art and Design with BA(hons) in Jewellery and Silversmithing. He has also have received a MA Fine Art from Bath Spa University. Ian also has over twenty years of teaching experience. Currently Ian is painting, running jewellery workshops and designing and building gardens. He has also established Codename Octopus, a collaborative educational organisation delivering a range of creative courses and exhibitions supporting the work of local artists.

• Talk; Ian’s talk will be in two parts: Firstly he will give a overview of his practice and how he has sustained a creative career by diversifying into different disciplines. The second part will concentrate on how through teaching, he has managed to identify methods to encourage creativity in students; as well as to offer some thoughts on what blocks there are in developing a genuine creative voice and how to overcome them. There will also be the opportunity to ask questions throughout the evening.

Jessica is an artist and illustrator whose work spans collage, paper sculpture, paper cutting, digital drawing and painting.

Jessica will reveal how her way of thinking as an artist has evolved through her illustration training, working in museums and galleries, forming collaborations, learning by teaching art, working on commissions and experimenting with mixed media.  She will talk about the techniques she has developed and the tactile nature of the way she works, share her appreciation of materials and show her sketchbooks and materials, as well as various pieces of her work.  She will also talk about becoming an artist later in life, retraining and how to approach a change of career – the losses as well as the considerable gains in quality of life. Jessica’s clients include Disney Pixar and English Heritage.

(Jessica will return to the Club to hold a workshop on 20th April 2024.)

Check out Jessica’s website: http://jessicapalmerart.com

Nicky King explores a topic and gives us some insight into the genre.

Nicky is a local enthusiastic art teacher. She worked as a fashion designer for number of years and is a great mentor.

Join Esme Clutterbuck talking about and demonstrating her drawings. They are non-representational and representational. Some explore formal concerns on multiple surfaces – paper, flannels, household linen, walls, magazine pages, and plaster. Others are careful delineations of hair, drawn onto digital images, which explore loss and memory.

INTRIGUED? JOIN ESME AND LEARN MORE https://esmeclutterbuck.co.uk

Esmé has exhibited nationally and internationally and shown in numerous Open Exhibitions including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

https://esmeclutterbuck.co.uk

Meet the Watercolour Artist- Ros Cuthbert RWA

https://www.roscuthbert.com

- Since Covid and the lockdowns Ros has been working on a series of watercolours inspired by streets and buildings close to her home in North Somerset, often seen at dawn or dusk.

Ros will be bringing a selection of yer work and sketchbooks to look through.

Two of our fabulous members will be showing us their latest work and giving us more insight into their craft; be prepared to hear their different approaches to working with felt!

https://www.textileartist.org/gordano-textile-artists-natural-selection/kirsten-hill-nixon-robin/

Amanda Chambers is a British multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, ceramics, music, drawing, photography and printmaking. Recently she has had a residency, working in Japan.

https://www.amandachambers.co.uk

– Amanda is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and an elected member of the Royal Society of Sculptors

Take a look at Stephens work here…http://stephenjacobson.co.uk/?doing_wp_cron=1676979114.5650730133056640625000

- Since moving to Portishead Stephen has found a new and unexpected source of imagery.

Sara will talk about her work and the connections she makes with the landscape.

‘From a child collecting buckets of crabs on the shoreline of the Stour Estuary or jam-jars full of sticklebacks caught in local streams, my heart has always been rural and coastal. The natural environment and its myriad of inhabitants with their interwoven relationships has been a constant fascination and the enduring locus of my artistic practice. CONNECTIONS are at the heart of everything I paint, draw or film.’

Due to pressures of work Chi- Yen is unable to join us on Tuesday

You can explore her work on her web site…..

https://chiyiensnow.com/new-blog

Where she showcases her work and looks behind the scenes at Sky’s Landscape Artist of the Year 2019, with Chi-Yen; a local member of the club and winner of Art Battle Bristol 2019.

‘Although it only took one day of my life, the impact of taking part in Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year has changed my perspective permanently. Since filming for the show, I’ve started to hire studio space in order to pursue my ambition of painting as a full time career.’