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My passion is sketching and painting the world around me in my sketchbook diaries. Standing in situ I draw with a black biro as much as I can of what is going on around me, adding colour with my small field box of watercolours. Four of my sketchbooks have been published-two volumes of ‘London in Landscape’, the ‘Stamford Sketchbook’, and ' A Fellow Traveller', which records my journey as a Churchill Fellow. I undertake delightfully diverse commissions for individuals and organisations, painting places with special meaning to them, or creating bespoke illustrations for their projects. I lead sketching workshops for all levels and give illustrated talks. Refreshments are available at The Place and there will be some sketching demonstrations.

Karen Neale

My passion is sketching and painting the world around me in my sketchbook diaries. Standing in situ I draw with More

I am a printmaker/ illustrator.  My works is figurative, happy and cheerful. I exhibited my work in gallarirs in Cambridge, illustrated books and magazine and designed greeting cards and wrapping paper. Greeting cards on sale as well as framed prints. More works can be viewed with a prior arrangement at othertimes   [caption id="attachment_22731" align="alignleft" width="406"] Whales by Kay Kaoru Miyake / single plate etching[/caption] [caption id="attachment_22734" align="alignleft" width="421"] Gorillas by Kay Kaoru Miyake / single plate etching[/caption]                                 [caption id="attachment_22736" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Swan by Kay Kaoru Miyake / Single plate etching with aquatint and embossing[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_22018" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Jungle by Kay Kaoru Miyake / mixed media incl etching and mono print[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_22735" align="aligncenter" width="401"] Penguins by Kary Kaoru Miyake / single plate etching[/caption]    

Kay Kaoru Miyake

I am a printmaker/ illustrator.  My works is figurative, happy and cheerful. I exhibited my work in gallarirs in Cambridge, More

VENUE 14 ALSO SHOWING WORK BY TEXTILE ARTIST ANITA BRUCE & PHOTOGRAPHER SAILESH PANCHAL Fundamentally my work is all about drawing and mark making; I find it difficult to separate myself from their vitality and importance whether I choose painting, collage, printmaking - or a mixture of the three, ‘Drawing’ is what it continues to be about. ‘Drawing’ with a paintbrush or in collage ‘drawing’ with shapes of paper and colour. Setting in motion the development of an idea plus a sense of renewal and continuation. Julie was awarded as one of the six winners in the 41st Mini Print International de Cadaquès 2021. The exhibition in Cadaquès Catalunya, has been running for over 40 years and brings together works from over 640 artists worldwide who each submit 4 pieces of work using printmaking and it's tendencies. As a winner Julie was given a solo exhibition in Gallery Taller Fort in the beautiful town of Cadaquès, famously the home of Dali and a draw to artists from across the globe.The exhibition which ran throughout August 2022 was a great success and & she will be showing similar pieces at her open studio exhibition this year This year's open studio will also include work in progress for Julie's forthcoming solo exhibition at Stamford Contemporary Arts in September Julie says, "I am delighted to be, once again, opening my studio, garden & home gallery this year The Miniprint win meant an awful lot to me and I am really excited to share similar works and the process behind the making of them in my studio" Julie's work is shown and collected internationally      

Julie Reid

VENUE 14 ALSO SHOWING WORK BY TEXTILE ARTIST ANITA BRUCE & PHOTOGRAPHER SAILESH PANCHAL Fundamentally my work is all about More

I'm a children's book author and illustrator- I work predominantly in watercolour, soft pastel and collage, and love to draw animals! My eighth book, Balancing Bernie, features lots of dogs, and was published in November 2021 by Hodder Children's Books. Having spent much of my time at school doodling covertly on the last pages of my exercise books, I went on to complete a degree in Graphic Design at Bath Spa University, specialising in illustration, followed by a Master’s degree in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. After graduating in 2007, I began to write and illustrate picture books alongside teaching art classes in a primary school, during which I invariably managed to get more paint on myself than the children did! Now fully freelance, I create books and run children’s art classes from my studio (see Artivity), ably assisted by my basset hound, William. You can see more of my work on my website, http://www.elliesandall.com or my Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/EllieSandall

Ellie Sandall

I’m a children’s book author and illustrator- I work predominantly in watercolour, soft pastel and collage, and love to draw More

[caption id="attachment_21749" align="alignnone" width="746"] James Tovey One Summer Day 2023[/caption] [caption id="attachment_23697" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Battlelines Peterborough, September 29th 2023, a collaboration between Cur_5 and Flourish, two artists drawing about food , here is James Tovey's finished peice, Posca pens on painted board, 4ft x 3ft.[/caption] During lockdown I made an instagram account @tufiarts with over 550 posts and highlights from my artwork, covering the period 1987 to 2023. You also can click on the website button on this page: www.toveyarts.co.uk About James Tovey Artist and Craftsman I love painting, drawing, making and building things, from visual 2d images through to large wooden structures. I try and draw everyday, noting my ideas and exploring where next my work will take me.  I make drawing and paintings to commission, offer private tuition and also run a craft business manufacturing and repairing bespoke wooden items and boats; see one of these new build projects that also incorporates my artwork at PAOS 2023. For commission, tuition or business inquiries please call me on: 07908794691. Open normal office hours.   About James Tovey: Artist and Craftsman, born 1971. see my profile on Instagram: ᛏᚢᚠᛁ  Education:Byam Shaw School of Art Universities of Hull and Exeter International Boatbuilding Training College Lowestoft  Some examples of my exhibitions and events: Digital drawing translated onto glass using Posca pens 2023. Made for the launch of an exhibition curated by Lauren of Flourish Peterborough. Drawing about the real food available in Peterborough. The Growing Together exhibition continues until the end of September 2023 with a display at the museum, ten specially decorated windows around the city and city centre and a series of talks and events - pick up a brochure from Peterborough Museum to find out more. https://www.flourishpeterborough.co.uk/ @flourishpeterborough #posca #windowdisplay #realfood #jamestovey #toveyarts #peterboroughmuseum #foodhall James Tovey and John Elson Pop Up Art Production Studio The Vivacity Unit has been set up as a production studio for the week of live art. Visitors can get involved in the drawing experience as well as talking to John and myself about our methods and ideas. See the creative process from conception to the digital version ready to submit for publication. You could also get drawn...! Each of us makes very different work but both of us often use digital tablets to work on, we can also offer hand drawn portraits should a visitor want to sit for one. John’s speciality is caricatures which have proved very popular at many events around the country including last years Peterborough beer festival.When:From Saturday 1st February – Sunday 9th February 2020 10am - 5.30pm daily (Late night Thursday till 7pm) 10am - 4pm Sundays Where:Vivacity Unit, Queensgate, Peterborough. (Guildhall entrance off Cathedral Square)Over the last few years Peterborough's leading cultural charity Vivacity has been donating their shop unit to artists from Peterborough Artist Open Studios to showcase their work. This February 2020, the unit will once again be set up as an art space, going live with art in action, demonstrations and the chance to get involved creating some new energetic designs, some even destined for digital output and online presentation.Open for a week, the space features work from two of Peterborough’s artists, James Tovey and John Elson. The two artists have worked together on numerous community projects including the successful Future Floodlands event held in Cathedral Precincts and a two week project at the Westraven Community Garden building Peterborough's first SolarPunk eco-constructivist sculptures as well as running workshops with the local community.You can also get details on how to become part of Peterborough's growing arts community in joining the yearly Peterborough Artists Open Studios event. Exhibition organised by Peterborough Cathedral Education team and Peterborough Environment and City Trust. Located at new building, Peterborough Cathedral, August to October 2019 to coincide with the Luke Jerram Gaia installation.The artwork idea was originated from bench ends and miserchord designs, particularly the Mermaid of Zennor.Framed in a large red oak frame and set up on a specially built temporary stand in the new building, the artwork received over 800 engagements many from Peterborough school children, The picture has been widely viewed and engaged with on the internet. A further note on the making of Mermaid with her Mahi-Mahi and Oceanplastic: I held all the seaplastic objects in my hand whilst painting them, there is no fixed view point or vanishing point in the painting. The objects were never arranged other than in the painting for the effect of pattern and the illusion of space. The depth and space in the painting comes from the scale compared to the viewer and the mermaid and her fish. Some objects are larger than life-size, others smaller. I purposely did not play with combining different viewpoints in a cubist manner nor reverse perspective in a David Hockney type way; but the floating placement without a single perspective position and the conscious play of scale does nod to Hockney in that respect. The original concept was to make use of black delineations in a cartoon/graphic manner consistent with my ink drawings but that would have then flattened to space and obstructed the content as I felt its method would have become too dominant. I was injured at the time and had to paint with my right hand as well as my left it slowed me down and I averaged about six pieces of plastic a day, overall the picture took about a month to make, the sea blues had to be painted a few times to help with the depth in the pigment.‘Drift’ The Peterborough Open: 29th March 2019 – 26th May, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery #peterboroughmuseum #pboromakefest 2018 Fifth Musician of the #Plastocalypse @#plastigeddon in the #plasticene . See the figure recently made during #pboromakefest 2018, by a gang of small and tall builders; on temporary exhibition in the Peterborough Museum Garden. with Milly Tovey at Peterborough Museum & Vivacity Heritage. Plastic, Native, Temple Vivacity Unit, Queensgate Peterborough, PE1 1PU 7th - 20th May 2018 Plastic is now ubiquitous. We’re living through the Plasticene.  You can buy a 2.4m plastic cactus for your hallway; you won’t have to water a real cactus using tap water, that itself now contains plastic micro-particles. [caption id="attachment_4697" align="alignleft" width="600"] Mermaid and oceanplastic 2018[/caption] ‘The plastic arts’ is a term that had existed long before plastic itself. I have wanted to try and look at the plastic objects I had collected over the last few years as naively as possible, as though life-drawn for the first time by an art student intent on learning through prolonged observation. Not interested in the Neoplastism of the De Stijl movement, instead my initial thoughts were of a metamorphosis and of bringing ancient mythology and plastic ¬- a 20th century invention - together in an uncomfortable way. However I found myself reluctant to go too far down the path of the collision of two plastic objects to transmogrify into a third construct - yet there is a definite modernist basis for some of the elements. The mermaid painting backdrop idea came from a small toy figure found as sea plastic litter. It is actually the top half part of a small Barbie figurine, but I initially thought it to be Disney’s The Little Mermaid. I researched mermaid art and came across the mermaid of Zennor and was attempting to build a composition around that and some lines from Ovid but the plastic overwhelmed it. Wood is an obvious counterpoint and natural contrast with which I have felt more at ease. The plastic components are essentially ready-mades although altered by collision with natural processes in the environment and some minor assemblage. Wood is also an ancient, relevant building material. In this installation, the wood forms a sanctuary, a natural structure and the plastic is an imposition on it and in it. There is no doubt the terrible convenient addiction that societies have developed for plastic eases the struggle against decay in the short term. What now looks to be a permanent error is that plastic is with us for the foreseeable and has been injected into the human food chain. I can imagine a child born being described as a plastic native to perhaps a planet slowly choking at Plastigeddon, [caption id="attachment_4574" align="alignnone" width="600"] Polystyrene skulls and accumulated plastic 2018[/caption] AFTER THE FALL: Friday 29th & Saturday 30th December 2017, Castor Village Hall, Peterborough Road, Castor, PE5 7AX. Open 10am - 10pm FREE ADMISSION Castor Ales Brewery will be providing a bar for exhibition veiwers refreshment. Inktober 2017: The Inktober drawings gave me the chance to renew my interest in illustration techniques I had learnt at school,  University and work, as well as refreshing my memory of technical ink drawing techniques and the many ways a drawing can be put together in preparation for publication Buy my work at: https://www.saatchiart.com/Tovey https://www.stateoftheartmarketplace.co.uk/en/tufiarts see more at: James Tovey Artist https://www.instagram.com/tufiarts/    

James Tovey

During lockdown I made an instagram account @tufiarts with over 550 posts and highlights from my artwork, covering the period More

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