Watch this space for the latest
information - this is where Ash and Polly keep you up-to-date with their
news......
Workshop days: January 26th/27th/28th
Please note that the previously advertised workshops on January 26th/27th/28th
have been cancelled - I have been forced to go skiing so will not be
around to paint... sorry!
Painting holidays 2010!
We are pleased to announce 2 new painting
holidays for 2010... making 4 holidays through the year...
'On Tour with Ash':
Normandy - Monday 14th to Saturday 19th June 2010
Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve - Friday 9th to Sunday 11th
July 2010
Peak District - Monday 23rd to Friday 27th August 2010
Please see the future holidays
page for more information.
Also, a slightly different format:
Italy (with Beautiful Italy Art Holidays) - Weeks commencing
23/05/2010 and 30/05/2010
Please see below for more information.
Newsletter and workshop
dates - January - July 2010!
The newsletter and list of workshop dates
for the next 6 months are now available here on the website!
We now have a much larger e-mail address
book - thank you all. It really does make it quicker (and cheaper!)
to contact you by e-mail - and makes it possible to keep you in touch
with plans at short notice! If you haven't received an e-mailed copy
of the newsletter/dates it means I haven't got your e-mail details saved.
If you would like to, please send
me an email to let me have your details again!
If you do not normally receive a paper copy of the
newsletter and would like to, please contact
Polly.
Otherwise, you can download your own copy of the dates
here
and the newsletter here.
Please give Ash or Polly a ring on 01507 526842 or
email: ash@ashbuckingham.co.uk
to reserve your place.
Happy Painting!
Winter Exhibition 2009
The 2009 Winter Exhibition at High
Meadow took the form of a retrospective look at the best
of my paintings created during the past year - watercolours, pastels,
acrylics, charcoal and mixed media works, covering a wide range of subjects
- local and more varied landscapes, flowers, wildlife, still life, figures
and abstract paintings all found a place in the exhibition. Many thanks
to all those who came along!
This year there was an extra twist to the displays, because
some of the paintings were there as a taster of the Spring, Summer and
Autumn exhibitions that will follow in 2010. In the spring I look forward
to presenting, "Legs and Co" - an exhibition dedicated to
figure paintings. In the summer, "This Lincolnshire" will
be the theme for an exciting new collection of work inspired by our
beautiful County, and in the autumn the exhibition will be entitled,
"On Our Travels" - a collection of paintings inspired by visits
further afield. Prices of original paintings from around £50 to
£500, and limited edition prints available from £25 to £100.
See the exhibitions page for
more details.
Italian holiday 2010
Weeks commencing 23/05/2010 and 30/05/2010 - Painting
tuition in watercolour, pastel and acrylics as well as sketching tuition
by Ash Buckingham! Small group sizes - around 12 painters...surrounded
by amazing scenery, don't miss this wonderful opportunity to enjoy some
Italian hospitality in fantasic surroundings!
See www.beautifulitaly-artholidays.com
for more information, or email organisers marinick@libero.it
for more information and help booking cheap flights.
Life Classes
Sunday November 15th saw the first "Life Drawing"
class here at High Meadow. The life day concentrated on sketching and
drawing of the female form - quick and then more detailed studies ready
to be developed into finished works of art!
We were very pleased to have an experienced model to
sit for us in the first of what I hope will be a regular event here
at High Meadow - places are very limited for these life classes, so
please shout if you are interested! More life classes will appear on
the next list of workshop dates, from January 2010.

On Tour with Ash - Normandy 2010 - Monet &
co.!
The painting holiday to Normandy in June 2010 has just
a few places left - if you think that you might enjoy a few days of
painting and sightseeing in one of the most inspirational and painted
parts of France, then have a peep at the "holidays"
page for more information, or get in touch for a chat!
You can download the information
letter and booking
form. As always, places will be filled on a 'first come first served'
basis.
Please give Ash or Polly a ring on 01507
526842 or email: polly@ashbuckingham.co.uk
to reserve your place.
On a personal note: Alan, one of our regular
painting holiday travellers, is travelling alone on this occasion -
so if anyone would like to save money and share a twin room please let
us know.
Happy Painting!
Jersey - Painting Holiday June 2009!
Wow, what a week! - we always hope for
dry weather, with anything better being a bonus - and what a bonus we
hand! Wall-to-wall sunshine made the outside painting such a pleasure
(even if the paint did dry a little quickly at times!)
We started off at Corbierre with its spectacular
rocks and lighthouse, followed up with a day at Samares Manor - a wonderful
garden with so much variety (and a little scaffolding!)
The day at Durrell Conservation Centre
provided a very different challenge - how to paint an Orang Utan that
won't sit down...... the sane amongst us opted for stone buildings and
the flamingos that stand still!
Gorey harbour and castle provided another
challenge - made so much easier to bear after a crab sandwich and Jersey
ice cream (while for some, the lobster salad and a bottle of wine helped
produce interesting artistic results!)
The final day at Hamptonne Farm Museum
was a delight - thatched buildings, chickens roaming and some sloping
ground that, for some, made staying on a painting seat a real challenge!
This was the first painting holiday on
which we have travelled by air - flying out of Humberside proved to
be so convenient for so many. As ever, Polly did a great job putting
it all together - and a big thank-you to the artists who all helped
to make it such fun!
Let's hope that Polly will manage to organise
something for next year - watch this space!
Please click here
to go to the 'holiday photo gallery' page.
Scunthorpe Venue Change!
Please note there has been a change of
venue for Scunthorpe classes. St Andrew's church in Old Brumby St is
closed and currently up for sale - so we have been evicted!
The new playroom was to have been in St
Mark’s church, but they unfortunately couldn’t accommodate
on all the dates; so we are now in Frodingham church hall,
on the opposite side of the road to St Lawrence's Church, in
Church Lane, Scunthorpe – just beside the GPO building.
There is lots of car parking on the grass by the hall.

To download a PDF version of the map to print, please
click here.
Technology update
- major credit cards now accepted!
We now take plastic – so mail orders
are easily available – please phone 01507 526 842 – or email
us and we will phone you back.

Suffolk
Painting Holiday August 2008
The weather changed at just the right moment
to give us a dry week in Constable Country.
The painting started at Flatford Mill, where we were
well looked after by the catering staff at the field studies centre
- a great start, with so much to inspire.
The Tide Mill and boats on the estuary at Woodbridge
provided another challenge, and some fell for the lure of shops in the
town - while at Aldeburgh, the boats on the beach provided a stiff test
of sketching skills and made the perfect excuse for a little retail
therapy around the shops and galleries at Snape Maltings. The highlight
of any gallery visit is often to realise that we are actually better
than we give ourselves credit for - and many of the crazily priced paintings
at Snape made us realise that!
Many thanks to all who came along - you really impressed
with the quality of work produced! You can find some photos from the
trip here.
Here's to the next holiday away in Jersey - 30th May
to 6th June, 2009 - check the future
holiday page for details!
Greetings cards -
create your own!
As a recent addition, Ash and Polly are able to offer you
the chance to have your own original artwork reproduced onto greetings
cards of your own design to a similar professional standard to Ash's
own cards. This service is available for very small print runs - a minimum
of only 20 cards - and at very competitive prices.
For more details of your chance to produce your own original
greetings cards please click here.
Pastel Portrait Painting
Special Event!
The 2 day workshops with internationally acclaimed
pastel portrait artist Rob Wareing were a huge success.
Rob came over from South Africa again for a Summer
season which included 2 days at High Meadow Studio. Many of you come
along to experience a day (or 2!) of pastel portrait painting with one
of the most respected pastel portrait painters in the world!
The results were inspirational - see below for yourself!



Special thanks to Jenny and Maggie on Saturday and
Polly and Mick on Sunday for sitting so nicely!
Please do let us know if you would like to be included
in future events of this kind so we can ensure we plan something to
suit!
Many thanks to Rob for an excellent couple of days.
For more details of Rob's work take a look at his website, www.robwareing.com.
Studio, Picture Framing and Art Materials - Opening
Times
The gallery and art materials shop is usually
open from 10am-5pm on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays,
although Bank Holiday opening hours do vary.
We are also open from 6.30pm-9pm on a Monday,
Wednesday and Thursday.
Please phone/email to confirm all opening times prior
to coming along to ensure we are here.
With Botts coffee shop just across the
road, we hope that it will make a place of interest to bring your friends
- not just the rich short sighted ones with lots of wall space………..but
they would be very welcome!
Find directions to the studio and gallery
here.
Limited Edition Prints!
It's finally happened
- a selection of paintings have been turned into limited edition prints
using the giclee digital printing method - light fast colours guaranteed
for 75 years (how do they know that?) Available in 2 standard sizes,
A4 and A3+, mounted, or mounted and framed - the range of prints will
increase steadily, so please ask about availability.
To View the current range of prints, please
click here.
DVDs
A new range is now available! Remastered
from the original tapes, with one complete painting on each disc. As
with the videos, the DVDs come complete with composition drawing.
They are available at £19.99 each. For more details of the available
range, please click here to go to the videos/DVD
page, or do contact Ash or Polly for more
information.
Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve - Painting mini-break
May 2008!
We had an exciting new Painting Mini Break
staying at Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve on the weekend of May 10th
and 11th. This was a chance for a small number of folks to spend a couple
of days at the wild and wonderfully tranquil Lincolnshire nature reserve,
located just down the coast from Skegness. One or two folk got muddy
shoes but no-one fell in the water - success!
The reserve is comprise of sandy and muddy
seashores, sand dunes, salt marshes, fresh water habitats, a small woodland
area, the estuary of the River Steeping with its boat morrings and of
course, the Wash Study Centre - our accommodation for the weekend. The
reserve of over 1000 acres is managed by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.
It is recgnised as an area of outstanding wildlife and geomorphological
(wow!) importance.
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