This March we (‘Draw’ that is…) will be holding another of our Drawing Circus extravaganzas at the Salis Benney Theater. Here’s a little Arthur Rackham inspired scribble that I drew for the flyer today.
Today I had the pleasure of working with Nic De Jesus, a talented and thoughtful young photographer currently resident in Brighton. It was a privilege to be asked to sit for Nic, and added to that was the excitement of watching his process. I’ll post a few photos of the beautifully arcane equipment that he used in the shoot, but until then here is one of my favorite shots.
Art Noveau Frankie
Grimm Tales review
Click on the image bellow to see a review of Grimm Tales from Mary O’Connor of the York University student paper…
New England House Open studios today 12-late. Come by to see the studio and partake of a little mulled wine…drawings are for sale from a few pounds upwards…
Grimm Tales Private View at the Norman Rea Gallery in York…close ups of the 39 works in the exhibtion coming soon…
Yesterday I had the private view of my latest solo exhibition ‘Grimm Tales’ at the Norman Rae Gallery, York. Keep your eyes peeled for photos from the exhibition…
They are playing Christmas music
in the shops. I thought that this was much too early, but it would seem we are but weeks away. Ive been rather swept up in things lately and have been off of the whole blogging thing. I’ll be back to it soon. In the mean time here is our shiney new website for Draw and the life drawing classes… www.draw-brighton.co.uk
Fig 1. Draw logo (typeface by Colophon)
Corporeal: A Night of Drawing from the Human Figure
Fig 1. The Golden Ratio (Corporeal flyer front by The Entente)
Each year, as part of the Brighton White Night festival we run a drawing event where we seek to push the boundaries of our figure drawing classes, in 2009 we ran ‘Drawn from the Deck’ at Komedia, in 2010 The Cabinets of…
Projects…
I’m being a bit slow on the blogging front …Ive been working on a new Drawing Circus with the Life Drawing crew (Some info here) and have met some lovely new people including the multi-talented artist, model and aerialist Nomi Mcleod who has a rather lovely blog here: www.airandparchment.blogspot.com.
Fig 1. The Drawing Circus II
Ive also been working on plans for this year’s White Night celebrations, more on that next week. This time last year we were just starting to build the Cabinets of Wonder, this weekend we’re taking the lovely red cabinet out for its 3rd outing this year to the Coastal Currents festival in Hastings. For nostalgias sake, here are some pics of her being built…
