Past Events

Overview: Learn how to make collagraph artwork by printmaking from collages.

We will explore ways of creating beautiful, interesting marks. The joy of this work is a result of transferring the ink from the plate to the paper and the effects that are achieved.

Collagraph plates can be made by cutting into the card, peeling away layers of card, and by adding a variety of textured surfaces.

Suitable for beginners or those with some experience. In my workshop in Elsworth using a press. Although primarily a printmaking workshop, the day would be stimulating to those working without a press, and I will look at hand burnishing in relief printmaking and collages as textured artwork.

What to bring: All tools and materials will be provided.

 Workshop cost: £30 for Members and Friends, £40 for Non-members. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided but please bring a packed lunch.

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Overview: The workshop will be suitable for beginners and more experienced painters. In the morning I will demonstrate how to get colours to run together and how to prevent them getting out of control or making 'cauliflowers'. We will practice simple techniques. In the afternoon I will demonstrate a minimalist painting of a misty scene over water. Please bring with you a couple of small to medium sized sketches of a very simple scene such as a boat floating on water, children playing on the beach or a few trees in the distance beyond a lake.

I will provide some large brushes, paper and some sketching ideas. I will also bring approx. four boards and tape for those who do not have one, and a hair dryer.

What to bring:

- Your usual watercolour paints and mixing palette.
- The largest brushes you can manage.
- At least one small brush.
- Langton (Bockingford) 300gm NOT paper or similar.
- Drawing board and mounting tape if possible.
- Roll of soft loo paper.
- Hand-held hair dryer if you have one.

Workshop cost: £30 for Members and Friends, £40 for Non-members. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided but please bring a packed lunch.

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During Cambridge Open Studios 2019 I am taking part in an exhibition with Emma Bennett and Rebecca Stark at The Rock Road Library Art Space, 69 Rock Road, Cambridge CB1 7UG.

I will have a few of my landscape oils on display, solarplate etchings from my Cambridge Walkabout series - exclusive to Cambridge Contemporary Art, and a selection of new mixed media art work. 

I will also be holding a browser sale to make room for a new project. 

Please do drop in if you are in the neighbourhood - there is free parking during the weekends. A warm welcome and refreshments will be waiting for you.

Tracey and Iona are collaborating with other artists resident in Cottenham to create a visitors trail of open studios in the village. Joining Tracey and Iona on the trail, are ceramicist Amanda MacPhail, textile artist Bernie Witchalls and jeweller Claire Holmes. Iona and Amanda will be resident in their own respective studios, whilst Claire and Bernie, will be joining Tracey in her print studio in Marland Barn, situated in the High Street near the village green.

Iona's studio will be open during the weekends 6/7 July, 13/14 July and 27/28 July. Tracey's and Amanda's studios will be open for all four weekends during July. Opening times for all studios will be 11am - 6pm.

Work by new member, Katrina Wilkie has been selected from over 2,000 entries to appear alongside paintings, prints and drawings by some of Britain’s leading figurative artists at the New English Art Club’s Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries in central London between 14 and 22 June.

 The New English is a vibrant group of diverse artists whose work is highly collectible, widely admired, and informed by the visual world and personal interpretation.

 Its Annual Exhibition is a showcase for members and gives aspiring artists an opportunity to exhibit alongside some of the best living artists working today.

If any Cambridge Drawing Society members would like to go to the Private View of this event which is on Thursday 13 June, 11am to 8pm, please email me and I will send you an invitation which will admit two people. My email address: katrinawilkie2@hotmail.co.uk 

Clare will be taking part in Pint of Science UK (@pintofscience) Creative Reactions (@Creativerxns) in Cambridge 20-22 May.
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Clare is paired up, as an artist, with a Computer Scientist, Cambridge Gates Scholar: Krittika D’Silva
https://www.krittikadsilva.com/

Clare has produced a ‘creative reaction’ in linocut to Krittika’s work using pattern spotting and metrics from big data to help predict success and failure of food and beverage businesses with 80% accuracy.

Clare and Krittika will be appearing together at the Maypole pub on Portugal Street under the “How deep is your learning?” theme on Monday 20th May (unfortunately the tickets are already sold out)
https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/how-deep-is-your-learning

However, Clare's linocuts will be on display at the Creative Reactions Art Show in St. Barnabas Church, Mill Road on Saturday 25th May, along with other Creative Reactions at the UK Pint of Science festival.

CDS member Kate Gravett will be exhibiting a range of her work as part of "The Peculiar Trinity" collaboration.

My solo show is currently in full swing at Cambridge Contemporary Art, 6 Trinity Street, CB2 1SU.

The exhibition showcases new oil paintings and Solarplate etchings that reflect the City of Cambridge and out towards the East Anglian coast.

The exhibition runs until 2 June 2019.

On Sunday March 17th I am taking part in a special exhibtion to be held at the historic Cambridge Union Society debating chamber during the Cambridge Science Festival. The exhibition is free and open for one only day from 10am - 5 pm. 

The What a Nerve exhibition involves 6 artists (CDS member Jo Tunmer, Charlotte Morrison, Elizabeth Fraser, Virginia Mayo, Liza Reid from Growing Art Partnerships and Kelly Briggs), who explore the disease Multiple Sclerosis, bringing together stem cell researchers and MS affected persons.

The result is a stimulating exhibition of art expressing disease, science and cells through acrylic, glass, paper, photography, paint and sound. I will be installing an art installation in response to my own personal experience of a close family relative living with Multiple Sclerosis. 

If you would like to attend the talk where the 6 artists discuss the work they have produced for this colloboration please book for your free place here.  We would all love to see you there.

For more information about the event please go to the Cambridge Science Festival website.

(photo credit - Cambridge University)

By Beau Art Interiors

ARTISTS & DESIGNERS: Lucy Burley, Jo Davies, Jemma Day, Kate Dolan, Mireia de Coursey, Luke Ebbutt James, Melanie Goemans, Fipé Gouge Merrall, Oliver Hilton, Melanie Max, Hettie Pittman, Anna-Lisa Smith, Thelermont Hupton, Angeline Tournier.

Private View: 28 February 2019 6pm-8pm RSVP via www.beauartinteriors.co.uk

Show: 1-3rd March 10am - 6 pm and 7-10 March 10am - 6pm

This selling exhibition marks the first to be curated by Beau Art Interiors.

The original artwork on display will include unique works from the gallery's roster of talented artists and designers, including paintings on canvas, framed works on paper as well as a selection of ceramics, furniture and textiles made by artists and designers.

Lynn has a painting being shown at the forthcoming Pastel Society Annual Exhibition, being held at the Mall Galleries in London from 5^th – 16^thFebruary. Opening times are 10am – 5pm (closes 3pm on final day). This is an exhibition featuring works created in pastel, pencil, chalk and charcoal. 

Komorebi (Japanese for the effect of sunlight streaming through the leaves of the trees)