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Wednesday 1 June 2016

Invite to our special once yearly open studios at Harrington way (off Warspite Road) in Woolwich London SE18 5NR where around 450 artists, makers and designers will welcome you to visit their studios.

PV Thursday 2nd June 18:00-21:00
and Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th June from 13:00-19:00

Also at the same site, exhibited at No Format gallery;
Modern Makers IV: Sculptures 

Emmanuelle Camus- The colour was the aim




6 artists 6 schools

I have realised that I omitted to share this on my blog...

In 2015, I was chosen to take part in a community project called  6 artists - 6 schools. The selected artist was to produce some artwork with school children and their chosen community in order to celebrate the children artmarks achievements.  The whole project was recorded and later exhibited at the Discovery Centre in Greenwich in July 2015.

My setup involved working with 2  reception classes and for our work to be permanently exhibited at the Vista Field Children’s Centre in Eltham, London.

After my initial visit, I realised that too many restrictions applied to putting anything inside the building and I therefore opted to have the permanent installation outside the building.

I decided to create a "zen garden" entitled Positive ripples-  where children and community alike could come to hear, see, feel and generally take some time out to reflect, being inspired by the work around them.

There was 3 main ideas:

The sound - a giant windchime where children would cut out shapes in slabs of clay and where a swirl would be printed onto it.
The visual - 7 poles painted with black and white lines (easy colours for babies to see) and relating to ripples.
The kinesthetics - 7 half spheres made by the children where coils and pieces of clay were added to moulds and sealed to the ground. Used as seats or to stand on and to feel their textures...in the colours of the rainbow.








Wednesday 10 September 2014

This exhibition is about to close, you have until Sunday to catch a glimps of it
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London SE10 9NN
Sat 2 Aug 2014 - Sun 14 Sep 2014
Open 10.00 - 17.00 Mon - Sun

Monday 2 June 2014

what is wrong with this blog, the posts are all messed up....feeling fed up and hopeless with this...

I have just discovered the very interesting work of Lauren Kelly. Big scale envy...


Consumed Debauchery (detail)

Les Oreades- William Bourgereau


William Bouguereau,Les Oréades,© Musée d'Orsay, dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt

Les Oréades


Les Oréades sont des nymphes des montagnes et des grottes (la plus connue est Echo), réputées sortir en troupes alertes et joyeuses pour lancer le cerf, poursuivre le sanglier et percer de leurs flèches les oiseaux de proie. Au signal de Diane, elles accourent prendre part à ses exercices et lui former un brillant cortège. Le catalogue du Salon de 1902 donne, après le titre, ce long commentaire : "Les ténèbres se dissipent ; radieuse l'aurore paraît et colore d'une teinte rose la cime des monts. Alors s'envole vers le ciel une longue théorie ; c'est la troupe joyeuse des Nymphes qui, pendant la nuit, prenaient leurs ébats à l'ombre des grands bois, au bord du fleuve aux eaux tranquilles ; elles quittent la terre, et, sous les yeux des faunes étonnés, regagnent leur patrie et les régions éthérées où habitent les dieux".

Avec ce tableau, Bouguereau se montre chevillé à son idéal d'une peinture académique. Comme dans un autre tableau du musée d'Orsay, L'Assaut, la mythologie est ici un prétexte pour faire montre de son époustouflant talent de dessinateur, capable de saisir toutes les attitudes du corps humain. La mythologie permet également de se commettre dans le registre érotique (le regard concupiscent des Satyres est, à cet égard, sans ambigüité), sans toutefois verser dans la grivoiserie.

Avec cette envolée de corps féminins, Bouguereau ose un tableau d'une imagination débridée, sans négliger une note poétique, sensible dans l'extraordinaire paysage crépusculaire du second plan, digne de Corot, et mâtiné d'accents symbolistes. I

Wednesday 5 March 2014