ARTLINE08 at Slawit Studio

ARTLINE08 was the first art show at the recently opened Jane Galvin Gallery in the Slawit studio which is located in a village called Slaithwaite in the Colne Valley, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. As you can see the preview night got the show off with a bang a great time had by all including the five artists.

Walks around Marsden

Installed Picasa on my Ubuntu box during the summer and just got around to checking out some of the newer features. ( Picasa is default set to automatically update to beta versions ). So here is my first blog using said program. This image was taken on Wednesday 12th November 2008 on one of my walks around Marsden. Im calling it,

" The hanging of a drowning cloud "

Its going into my,

"Just as I saw it gallery ¨

Holmfirth Art Week

Open to the public from 10.00 a.m. today and one of the major art happenings around Huddersfield is the annual Holmfirth Art Week. Two of the Soul Oaks are at the show all week drinking in the heady arty brew that's on tap, £2.00 a visit.

A SHIFT-Y look round this morning brought into focus the wide range of ability and subject matter that forms the mainstay of this essentially 2D show, see Paula Moss , John Coombes and Jean Bashford and Robert Norbury.
Jewellery and ceramics showing an increase in the number of entries along with some excellent furniture pieces, Look out for Mick Silkstone, Alison Cambell and Ian Marsh.
Amongst the sculptors Look out for, David Mayne , Mick Kirby-Geddes , Wayne Markwort , Jamie Frost, and Julian Pratt.

Ahh, now for the Fringe again, over the road and into the Co-Op car park just in time to see A Load of old balls......

Waiting outside the Methodist Church for the morning service to end so that they could get in and erect some serious Heres fencing upon which they were mounting the Exhibition of the same name. Trash 11 Treasure were presenting 250 works from 42 artists. Probably just as well the methodists hadn't seen the connection, Eh !!


Here are a few ballsy sayings uttered by one of the characters in a novel called Shibumi when in a tight situation, just to round off.

BY THE..

Vapourous balls of the Holy Ghost!

Hopeless balls of St Jude.

Damp balls of St. John the Baptist.

Rocky balls of St. Peter

Burning Balls of the Bush.

Ripple 6

May bank holiday and we're into Ripple 6... Marsden's annual chance to view the work of outstanding contemporary artists working in England and from around the world through our Myspace friends. Visit www.rippleonline.com to network with artists from around the world and see all the artists taking part in the show.

The main hall Marsden Mechanics

Lunch and a bit of painting in the outside studio

Needed to take some photos of the first picture in the second series of Entanglement images. To get some even lighting I hang the paintings on the outside wall of the studio.

Ahhh ! the wall has weathered the winter
It's an uneven colour of white.
It'll need painting,
after lunch me thinks, thinks I, me thinks.

Starting on the wall ......

Entanglement Series 2 Picture 1

IMBOLC

The Green Man

IMBOLC

Jack Frost

#A Celtic culture festival which takes place on February 2nd Halfway between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. More at www.en.wickipedia.org/wiki/imbolc

The festival which takes place in Marsden, West Yorkshire, England and known as the, Marsden Imbolc, has only been celebrated since 1993, and was originated by, Duggs Carre, a folklore enthusiast working for the local council. More at, www.asanas.org.uk/files/002jonesi.pdf.

It's a great do and the fireworks display has to be seen to be believed.