![The Red Garage Art Studio is full to bursting of original artworks. You will see mostly oil paintings that experiment with different styles & canvas sizes, suiting most tastes. In her work, Sandra Harper tries to capture the diversity and wonder of the natural world, the complexities of the human face and images that explore the meaning of life.
Everyone is welcome to stare or buy. Wide range of prices. Dot your favourites! There will be generous helpings of Cream Teas in our untidy country garden. Donations will be for Christian Aid’s work amongst the world’s poorest communities. Last September Sandra had a successful solo exhibition in Stamford Art’s Centre. Her next one is July/August 2023.
[caption id="attachment_14352" align="alignright" width="353"] Frost. The inspiration for this painting were the patterns of frost on a window and the shapes and patterns that could simultaneously be seen through the window. Oil on stretched canvas. 1metre square.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_23199" align="alignnone" width="533"] Sherwood Forest. In the evening light everywhere glowed red. We had a wonderful holiday in a wooden cabin with the grandchildren. The sounds of nature in the early morning was orchestral and although winter everywhere was a feast of colour.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_23198" align="alignnone" width="533"] RESCUE After the earthquake in Turkey I saw an article in our newspaper about this rescue of a young girl by volunteers. I wondered about these real people, how they were affected by the disaster and where they were now. I had to put them down in paint.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_14355" align="alignleft" width="265"] Portrait of a male model.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_14356" align="alignright" width="320"] Portrait. Captain Tom.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_14358" align="alignleft" width="394"] The Trinity. After a sermon on Trinity Sunday at our local church I was inspired to paint this representation of the words I'd heard. Sorry the picture is the wrong way round![/caption]
SANDRA HARPER www.artharper.com
I STARTED PAINTING with relish in 2010. Now at every opportunity I have a paintbrush in my hand. Everything seems to demand exploration. Consequently content, size, technique and style are continually changing.
[caption id="attachment_6206" align="alignleft" width="373"] Naomi's Family. This painting was a commission and is a metre square. I thought about the characters in the family and matched flowers to each of them. For example, the delphinium, just left of centre represents a strong, upright member of the family whereas the red amarylis is a family member who is flamboyant and loves Christmas.[/caption]
INSPIRATION can happen at any time, anywhere. As a result paintings range from splodges to naturalistic landscape; from portraits to body forms; from complex compositions based on text to simple emotion expressed on canvas.
Take a look at my website for current work.
[caption id="attachment_6337" align="alignleft" width="404"] The Wave. In Lee Bay, North Devon the waves crash against the rocks and on the beach. Lying in the sea and looking along the wave, I saw an eye. This is my take on it.[/caption]
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="376"] Flood in Ferry Meadows. In January 2018 Peterborough had downpours reminiscent of Mediterranean rain. The land in Ferry Meadows was completely covered in water. Amongst the trees I saw this fallen log. The light was blue/purple. It was a magical sight.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4494" align="alignright" width="236"] Lee Bay, North Devon. Oils on canvas. A small private beach with enormous rocks, beaten by the sea during winter months.[/caption]
For some landscapes I've found the lightness of watercolours appealing especially subjects that include trees, water and clouds.
[caption id="attachment_4496" align="alignright" width="177"] Walk in the Spinney. Watercolour. The spinney is in Yaxley and is an oasis of peace and quiet situated beside St. Peter's Church and surrounded by countryside.[/caption]
Although oils are my great love I do dabble in watercolours when a scene demands it.
[caption id="attachment_4508" align="alignright" width="231"] The Girl with the Emerald earring. Oil on canvas. Grey floating frame.[/caption]
During this year my focus has been on portraits and landscapes. Both inspired by Renaissance artists and Impressionists.
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![[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.
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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:
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