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North Somerset Arts Week is in Full Swing

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Thanks to all who have visited over the week so far, it’s been a great success and I’m looking forward to seeing more of you over the remainder of the week. I’m open 10-5 up to and including Sunday 11th May. I’m at North Somerset Arts week venue 4 and you can wander down to Black Nore lighthouse through my garden in the same visit.

I’m lucky to have Andrew Hardwick RWA exhibiting with me. Portishead is his hometown and it’s the first time in his long career that he’s exhibited in the town.

Estuary, Sunset by Andrew Hardwick RWA

It’s a great chance to see his work and to see my latest larger seascapes and some paintings of the local area that don’t get taken to other art trails or fairs. if you can’t make it this weekend then I’ll be at the BS9 Arts trail at Redmaids school 7-8th June.

I’ve also been lucky enough to get a painting accepted into the New English Art Club exhibition which goes on show in the Mall Galleries in London from the 12th of June.

Photo Credit @stevecollier75

I’ve still got a few spaces on the landscape and portrait courses coming up, full details here https://ianpriceart.co.uk/courses/

If you want to see what I’m up to between occasional emails then follow me on Instagram or Facebook @ianpriceart.

I hope to see you soon.

Exhibition and Course News and Building Up to North Somerset Arts Week

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Just a quick update on where you can see my work and news on courses.

Where you can find me…


I’ve just had a successful Bath Art Fair back in February and you can see my latest plein air paintings including those painted in Bath at the Bath Contemporary Art Fair which is at Green Park Station this coming Sunday the 13th 10-5pm.

I’ll have some of the larger abstract seascapes there that I was working on over the winter using much more texture and glazes than my plein air oil work.

Passage


The Clevedon Art Club Show and Sell is also on currently and runs until the 15th of April, 10-4pm. It’s at the beautiful science atrium at Clevedon School again and always looks superb, I’ll have two local views there and some unframed lifeclass work.



If you really want to see all of what I’ve been doing over the last year then ink North Somerset Arts week in your diary from 3-11 May. I’ll be opening my studio here in Portishead and have invited Andrew Hardwick, member of the RWA to exhibit here too. I can’t wait to see his work here myself. Andrew is very well known for his imposing, heavily textured landscapes full of emotion, https://www.andrewhardwick.com. Coincidentally and very excitingly Andrew and I have both just been elected member’s of the Bath Society of Artists.


I’ve had two seascapes selected for the Wales Contemporary Exhibition and it’s moved on from London to the Waterfront Gallery in Milford Haven, if you’re heading in that direction drop in.

Courses coming up


I’m running some Plein Air painting days on Black Nore beach again this year, the dates for this year are the 15 and 16th of June (https://ianpriceart.co.uk/oil-painting-outdoors/).

If you can’t make these then I can do one to one sessions or take a group of friends out. I recently ran a painting session bought as a birthday gift and we both had a great day helped by this lovely recent weather.

Andrew James is back for his 24rd (!) Expressive Portrait painting course in Portishead this Autumn. He’ll be tutoring 2 day and 3 day courses with different models on each, 22nd to 26th of October. We’re very lucky to have him, he won the LeClerc Medal for portraiture at last year’s Royal Portrait Society show, one of the professions top accolades. I’ll be running a portrait course a couple of weeks before on the 13th-14th October also with a live portrait model, this will take less experienced painters through the drawing basics and how to develop towards painting, it also provides a chance to use oil paint for the first time. All course details here https://ianpriceart.co.uk/courses/

One of my recent paintings from life



Thanks for continuing to support me in only my second year as a full time artist.


If you want to see what I’m up to between occasional emails then follow me on Instagram  or Facebook @ianpriceart.

I hope to see you soon.

Artoholics your drought is over!

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I’m falling off the Art wagon in September after an arid couple of years.

As an aperitif September kicks off with the BS9 art trail at Trinity college in Stoke Bishop in Bristol the weekend of 4,5th September, it’s a beautiful new venue that I’ll be sharing with 15 artists and will be open 11-5pm. I’ve been painting sporadically over the last few years so the there’ll be lots of work being shown for the first time including larger looser landscapes painted during lockdown when the plein air options were limited.

Dawn Gordano Valley, a new larger lockdown work.

If you’re not sated North Somerset Arts week is following on and I’ll be opening up my house on the 11,12 and 18,19th of Sept as venue 28. Arts week is moving from it’s usual May spot to make this September awash with art. I’ll be open both weekends from 11am to 6pm. I’m pleased that Ruth Ander will once again be exhibiting atmospheric monoprints, many featuring the estuary. I’ll be joined for the first time by Hamish Young, a freshly minted RWA. Hamish is an intriguing contemporary artist who makes 2D and 3D work using everyday materials and found objects.

I’ll be supporting Black Nore lighthouse again this year which is accessible via my garden. I’ll be making a contribution to support Black Nore lighthouse from each of my paintings sold. Tea and Cake has kept it going for the last five years so it’ll be great to help in some way to keep it looking smart and insured.

That’s not all, if I am still standing there’s a chaser of the Portishead Arts festival, 25th & 26th September. I’ll be exhibiting with many other local artists at Somerset hall in the centre of Portishead.

The frazzled husk that remains of me will be running the Andrew James portrait class in October. It’s always a great combination of enjoyment and education, if you’ve experience of portraits and oil paints then come and stretch yourself with one the best portrait artists working in the UK today. There are 2 three day courses 18-20 Oct and 21-23 Oct. Full details are on the course page.

£480.65 raised for Black Nore Lighthouse during N. Som. Artweek

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The sun has set on North Somerset Arts week, Ruth, Brian, Nibs and I would like to thank all of our fantastic visitors for the great feedback, encouragement and purchases. We all sold something in the first hour and a half which blew away the nerves.

Congratulations on your generosity and appetite; cake, tea, card sales and donations raised a massive £480.65 for Black Nore Lighthouse charitable trust.

Thanks to Bill Shier for his amazing efforts taking people up and down the lighthouse both weekends and for being the person that saved it from being scrapped.

Thank you all!!!

Open Studio weekends coming up in May

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I’ll be opening my studio for North Somerset arts week again 11.00am to 6.00pm over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend (including BH Monday) and the following weekend, 4th, 5th, 6th and 11th and 12th of May. If you can’t make these dates and are local we’ll be opening up on Weds evening 8th May 5.30 to 8.00pm.

This time I’ll be sharing the venue with incredibly talented local printmaker Ruth Ander. Ruth layers unique prints on Japanese paper, she’ll be presenting a range of work including new work evoking the estuary location.

Hopefully there is something for everyone to enjoy, come along to browse, chat, listen, eat, drink or explore…

As in previous year’s Black Nore lighthouse will be open for visitors to climb inside during the afternoon while I’m open. This is accessible via the garden and I’ll be selling tea and cakes in support of its upkeep.

I’ll have a large number of new plein air oil paintings of the local area and from further afield on show for the first time as well as new studio paintings, apologies for not sharing more on the blog recently. Much of my new work is exploring the fast changing light at dawn and dusk.
I’ll also be showing some examples of my portraiture and life class work.

Also I’ll have Raku pottery by Brian and “Nibs” Fowler at the venue, they’ll be exhibiting a range of vessels, bowls and figures that show this exciting medium off to the maximum. If you’ve never seen the Raku process before it’s fiery and unpredictable, there will be a couple of Raku burnings in the garden on the final Sunday when you’ll have an opportunity to scrub off the carbon yourself and reveal what the process has created.

Finally I’ll be showcasing some estuary soundscapes by a local producer Dave Howell to add to the atmosphere. When that’s not on I’ll be playing a bit of vinyl on my turntable, or LPs if you are my age.

So something for everyone, hope to see you there.

Don’t forget you can also follow me on twitter and on Instagram @ianpriceart as well as Facebook @ianpriceart or just browse the galleries on my website.

Thanks,

Ian

Over the hump in 2018

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This morning I got set up for the NSA #65 show in Nailsea, this evening I looked around the venue for the BS9 art trail at Elmlea school and lunchtime I found out I’ve had a painting selected for the New English Art Club for the first time EVER.

Come and celebrate the post hump 2018 with me at the private view of the NSA exhibition #65 on Friday (13th April). Ignore the fact it’s Friday the 13th and get out from under your duvet, it’s all downhill from here, see you there.

My wall at the NSA #65 show

I’m particularly excited about finally getting a piece into the NEAC show at the Mall Galleries. One of the first “proper” artist’s I met was the marvellous Dawn Sidoli NEAC RWA who has always been overwhelmingly supportive of my efforts over quite a large number of years of no NEAC luck, so I’m relieved to feel I’ve rewarded her faith.

To quote from the press release, ahem…

“Work by a local artist has been selected from over 1,600 entries to appear alongside paintings by some of Britain’s leading figurative artists. The New English Art Club’s annual exhibition is on display at Mall Galleries in central London between 15 and 23 June 2018.

Continuing to build on its tradition of painting and drawing from observation, the New English is a vibrant and diverse group of visual artists whose work is highly collectible and widely admired.

Its Annual Exhibition is a showcase for members and gives aspiring artists an opportunity to exhibit alongside some of the best figurative artists working today in painting, drawing and printmaking.

Many diverse styles of art have developed since its founding in 1886, adding richness and variety. The New English aims to foster excellence in all its activities and continues to assist and encourage the art of painting to develop even more expressive possibilities.”

Some of the “richness and variety” in my selected work was added by it being blown off the easel and rolling down the slope leaving all sorts of exciting vertical marks which I embraced.

The show in Bath is still on until Mid-May, get along if you can, it’s a cracker.

Don’t forget you can also follow me on twitter and on Instagram @ianpriceart as well as Facebook @ianpriceart for more recent news or just browse the updated galleries on my website.

Paintings by Richard Sergeant also available at my Open Studio #NSAW15 #Venue10

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Richard is incredibly creative and inventive and has a really original view of the world. He has hung his paintings at my venue today ready for the opening on Saturday and they are wonderfully presented (after lots of shuffling around and polyfillaing!).

They are beautiful jewel-like little objects. Real gilding on the frames too, he’s been teaching me how.

Come and see them for yourself.





Open Studio – Bank Hol Weekend

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Open Studio over the BH weekend (inc. Monday) and the following weekend.

I’ll be showing 50 paintings most of which are of the local Portishead coastline and many painted outside in oils. In addition I painted some scenes in Cornwall recently and am also including a few portraits and life class studies.
 
I’ll be sharing my open studio with Richard Sergeant whose work is often more abstract, unexpected and always interesting and Karen Lilley who will be displaying beautiful glass vessels and jewellery. I’ll also be selling cards, tea and homemade cake in support of Black Nore lighthouse.
 
The lighthouse will be open to look at on the BH Monday (you can get to it through the garden).
Bonus event! There’ll probably be some folk music playing on the Sunday afternoons with some of these guys. http://youtu.be/1DVlAeS72_s
Opening times and further details in the image below. It’s venue 10 in the Arts week brochure if you have it.