Basildon District Art Trail Residency

My Inspiration

Initial Colour Sketch

Here Goes......



 





Nearly Done

The Final Piece

I had a thoroughly enjoyable weekend at The Willow's Centre Wickford as a resident artist.  I met lots of lovely people had some wonderful comments and had my art signed by over one hundred local people.

Basildon District Art Trail

2010 sees the launch of the first Basildon District Art Trail on 16th - 20th September.
Artists including myself and the George Hurd Center will be showcasing their work and promoting their practice throughout the district, including Basildon town centre, Barleylands, The Fold, Billericay and Wickford.  A sample of my art can be viewed and will be located in Life as Art at the Barleylands craft village.

I will be based as resident artist in the Willows in Wickford on Saturday 18th and Sunday 17th and there will also be a range of different art events featured throughout the trail including George's All-sorts of art at The George Hurd Day Center on Friday 17th September 9.30-4.30, where I volunteer as an art tutor.

We hope to get as many people involved as possible and appreciating the work of many local artists.  If you are in any of the areas please pop along to see the art.

Basildon District Arts Trail

I was invited to the pre-launch of the arts trail last week and found myself in the local paper along with other artists and the guy organising it all Dean Smith.

The Art Trail is expected to see art lovers from all over the region come to the local areas to view the work, from Thursday, September 16th to Monday, September 20th.

Fingers crossed some of my art or some of the excellent art work coming from the George Hurd Centre will be on display.

Click this link to read what the echo had to say.

For more information about the Art Trail, call Mr Smith on 01268 522973.

Sketches

Watercolours

A few randoms

A class demonstration on the female form in pencil

Experimenting with watercolours and masking fluid.

You can guess who this one was for!

George Hurd

Here I am doing voluntary work at the local over 60's centre. I am demonstrating watercolour techniques.

Pre-school Sign

The local pre-school gets a new sign.

February 2010