Blue Couple, a busy year and other stuff.
Just getting back into blogging after a very busy year at De Montfort University. The two images in the previous posts are two halves of a piece, Blue Couple exhibited earlier this year at The New Walk Museum as part of the Leicester Society of Art annual show. It was finished only just in time for the show and sold so I feel as if I never really had it for long. Its a weird thing I do want to sell my work but feel attached to it in quite a personal way. Especially when the content is personal which even if not obvious my work normally is.
What have I been doing to prevent me from keeping this blog up to date?? Well it has been an interesting and rewarding year teaching on Foundation Art and Design as usual and what a brilliant year. Some excellent students and a really fantastic show. I have thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to seeing how they all get on at degree level. I have also been teaching Life drawing with First year Game Art Degree students. Quite challenging with the initial large groups but I’ve seen some great drawing and it has been a pleasure. Just hoping to be back there next year. I have had another new challenge working on a drawing project with the U3A in Countesthorpe. I am lucky that my career enables me to work with such diverse groups. This was such a great experience, working with more mature students is quite leveling. They bring a whole life time of experiences and there are lively discussions on a whole range of topics during the sessions as well as plenty of humour. I’m looking forward to some new projects with the hopefully. Add to that several community workshops in some interesting locations it really has been a busy year. Thanks and good luck to all my students, its a pleasure as ever to teach enthusiastic and delightful students.
So what is happening now? Some tragic circumstances have meant I will not be opening my studio this year as normal as part of The Harborough Artist Cluster. I will be participating in Art Windows (see image below of last year’s piece), Quinns and other group events around the same time. I’m actually looking forward to a different summer working on drawing and other creative projects. There is the LSA annual again later this year and the Project show which I try to enter if I can. Sometimes it is good to stop and review things; something I tell my students to do regularly but possibly fail to do myself.
Exhibited in Wesses’s Bakery Window 2013.
Blue Couple
Blue Couple Right hand side
Blue Couple
Blue Couple
Agnies’s sketch from shirt manipulation work
Agnies’s sketch from shirt manipulation
Garment workshop – shirt manipulation
Open Studios- So far so good
A big thank you to all those who came to visit me yesterday in my studio. It was great to chat about Art and other topics, cake and tea were consumed and the garden got much praise also. It isn’t such great weather today but hopefully it won’t put visitors off. The kettle is hot and ready to go. A few tasters in case you aren’t sure what to expect.
Girl Move – On
Open Studios
As part of my Arts practice and as a member of the Harborough Artist Cluster I will be opening my studio to the public this weekend (14th/15th September) and next weekend. Situated in Market Harborough town centre I am easy to find and look forward to a very busy few days.
There will be a range of work on show including several new pieces, work from ‘Objects and Artefacts’, a mini Installation and access to my digital portfolio and website. cards and postcards also available.
I will be on hand to chat about my work and anything else for that matter. It is a lovely opportunity to catch up with other creatives, friends and supporters.
Please have a look at my website http://www.heatherwharam.co.uk
Parking is very easy at Sainsbury’s carpark and my studio is opposite Homebase, behind 14 Springfield street, MH, Leics, LE16 8BD. Look out for signs and posters.
Don’t forget to look around Town for the ‘Art Windows’ pieces, approximately 28 shops in the town centre have work on display for the whole of September and there is a fantastic prize draw to enter. Forms available in shops, Quinn’s bookshop, from studios etc.
All Harborough Cluster artists are open for The Trail Weekend, this week end and at other times individually. More information is available at http://www.harboroughartists.co.uk
I look forward to welcoming you to my studio.
