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June 16 PEOPLE WHO HAVE A LOVE OF NORFOLKI want to promote this site and hope that others will join and contribute anything of interest. Visit i-sky-norfolk June 08 UKCPS Having been a non-active member of UK coloured pencil society for some years I thought it was about time to do something about it. I've just joined the UKCPS Yahoo Group and have been so pleased with the warm welcome I've had in becoming one of their new members. There is some amazing art work in the albums, reflecting many different styles, interests and abilities and is so inspiring to see such lovely pictures, it's started to make me want to get out all my coloured pencils and get a new piece of work on the go. It's great to see how people are prepared to share their experiences and I was surprised at the range of surfaces that people used as a support. I already have my favourites but I'm definitely tempted to experiment on other ones to see how different surfaces affect the final results. All exciting stuff for an artist believe me! June 07 GOING PLACES IN NORFOLK Today I went out with my friend Anna to visit a few places in Norfolk. Anna is known in the area for organising Craft Fairs over the last couple of years, but now she is concentrating on designing and making jewellery. Anna is multi skilled, and very talented in a number of crafts, but her speciality is jewellery created primarily from glass and silver. Anna hand crafts many of the beads she uses in her jewellery working the glass in high temperatures and adding intricate patterns by the use of different colours and techniques. So today, I accompanied Anna taking her jewellery to The Gallery@Horning (in the Broads). Not only was this a gallery with beautiful handcrafted goods, paintings and photographs but also a deli serving delicious food to eat in or take away. I had an amazing cock-a-leekie pastie with salad and couldn't resist buying a blackberry and apple pie to take home with me too. z   We also visited Alby Crafts, a collection of working studios, gallery, shops, and a tea room. We had a look around and chatted with Sue who makes the Lli Mai jewellery and then made our way to see Helen C.Dixon, sculptor as Anna wanted to ask a few questions about firing and materials. Helen was really helpful in giving her time, and I was enjoying looking at her beautiful sculptures and seeing the many versions of the Green Man. There is also the possibility of Helen creating a Green Man of somebody you know.......how cool is that?! x  This is a picture of Helen and Anna http://www.helendixon.co.uk   I thought this was a lovely sculpture in the garden ......... pity about the white streaks though.   June 04 ARTHUR FINDLEY COLLEGE-Stanstead As I've been so tied up with my Open Studio event, I never got around to writing about my visit to The Arthur Findley Training college for mediumship and healing., which also offers
residential study courses covering the philosophy associated with the
religion of Spiritualism. This was somewhere I'd wanted to go to since I was a teenager and as I had some friends going there to an Open Day I went too. At first I was struck by the beautiful house and gardens and the feeling of being engulfed in countryside, yet we were only a short distance from the M11 The Open Day provided a number of Mediums to give private readings/sittings as well as the larger group events that you could opt into throughout the day. Since I'm sometimes used for 'psychic portraits' of guides and loved ones in spirit and to provide 'evidence of survival', I decided to have a sitting with Alan Stuttle, a psychic artist, partly for seeing who would appear in the drawing for me, but also to see his way of working. I have seen a number of psychic artists at work in the past such as Bill Forrester but also in the 1970s the famous Coral Podge, so being an artist myself, I always find these demonstrations or sittings interesting. Firstly I attended a large group where a medium and psychic artist worked together. The drawing was being carried out with pen and an overhead projector. I had seen an overhead projector used this way before, and it enables the drawing process to be viewed better by the audience, who might recognise the person being drawn. It was interesting to observe, but I did feel that the demonstration of Clairvoyance didn't seem to gel well with what was being drawn, although the recipients of the messages anmd portrait did seem to find everything relevant to their lives. The colleg has a lovely little shop where you can buy from a good range of books, meditation & music cds and other gifts. As the range of material is not commonly found in other places I was tempted to spend a fair bit, but REALLY PLEASED with what I bought. I attended another group where there were 2 mediums giving clairvoyance and one of these women was particularly good as well as being entertaining in her delivery, sadly I had to leave before the end as my private sitting with Alan Stuttle co-incided. This also meant that I couldn't attend the groups about Trance Mediumship which was something I'd like to have done. Once I arrived for my sitting, which turned out to be in the 'loft' and difficult to find, I was warmly greeted and asked if I had a tape to record the session. I'm not going to gointo a lot of detail, but just to tell you that I came away with a lovely pastel portrait drawing of my late uncle, and a tape with all that was spoken between us and why he had come to me now. The description of my uncle captured the essence of how I knew him, with his sense of humour and his personality and the drawing itself appeared to show him at an earlier stage in life, which is often the case with psychic portraits. I'm reminded of the time somebody told me that she knew I could draw her late husband, I wasn't so sure but nevertheless decided to try. Well, the person who appeared in the portrait she said was not her husband but still looked familiar........ a few weeks later, I learned that it WAS her late husband, only he showed himself as a young man in the portrait and she didn't know him back then . It only came to light when she found an old photo. So, I guess this was actually a more convincing way of giving 'evidence of survival' plus it's the one and only time I ever met that lady. I was able to attend another demonstration of clairvoyance before leaving. The day went by quickly but it was a lovely visit, and so nice to see such a beautiful house and sanctuary. Will I ever go there again? Somehow I have a feeling that it was not my one and only time. June 01 REFLECTING BACK ON MY OPEN STUDIO Well as it's been my first Open
Studio I took notes on all the things that weren't so good to help me
plan better if I decide to do it all again next year. There were quite a few things I could've done better, but over all I felt the whole event went well for me. Being on the edge of town, I didn't get the 'drop ins' like I would have had, if I lived in town. The 37 visitors who came, had all chosen to come to see my work specifically from the brochure........ and I certainly did have some interesting, and lovely comments in my guest book! Plus, I also sold enough work to pay for the 'particpation.' and I think there's likely to be 'spin offs' 'cos what people were enquiring about may be tomorrow's commisioned pieces. To round off the 2 weeks of open Studio I had a last minute small gathering yesterday for a little celebration, which was all rather lovely. A big THANK YOU to all the people who helped to make my event a success, with their support and encouragement! AND a big THANK YOU to all the people who made time to come and see my art work and meet me. It was lovely to meet you all. |
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