Watch this space for the latest
information - this is where Ash and Polly keep you up-to-date with their
news......
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.
Newsletter May 2008
to January 2009
Workshop dates for May 2008 to January 2009 are now
available here on the website, as well as in the newsletter posted out
to everyone on the mailing list. 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.
We would like to build up an address book of email
addresses for all you folks - it should make it quicker and easier to
keep you in touch with plans at short notice - if you would like to
be on our address book, please send us an email and we will (try to)
do the rest!
Happy Painting!
Pastel Portrait Painting
Special Event!
2 days with internationally acclaimed pastel portrait artist Rob Wareing
Rob will be over from South Africa again for a Summer season which
will include 2 days at High Meadow Studio -
Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th August 2008 –
come along to experience a day (or 2!) of pastel portrait painting with
one of the most respected pastel portrait painters in the world!
Demonstrations from Rob and practical help to tackle painting with
a studio model!
Places will be limited to just 10 students each day to allow plenty
of time and space to enjoy this special opportunity
£45 per day – please contact us to reserve your place!
Studio, Picture Framing and Art Materials - Opening
Times
The gallery and art materials shop is open
from 10-5 most days except Mondays, although Bank Holiday opening hours
do vary.
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.
Suffolk and Constable
Country - Painting Holiday August 2008!
STOP PRESS NEWS! We will be heading down
to discover the beautiful countryside in and around the area of Suffolk,
made famous by the paintings of John Constable, for our main painting
holiday in 2008 (please see below for details of additional mini-break).
It will be from Monday 25th August to Friday 29th August 2008.
Please click here
to go to the 'holidays' page for more information, or here
to download a pdf with further details and booking form.
As always, places are likely to be filled
very quickly so please do act early to avoid disappointment.
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 £9.99 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.
Successful Winter Exhibition 2007
The opening weekend for the 2007 winter
exhibition was Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th November,
and despite some bad weather, was well attended.
Open from 10am to 5pm every day through
December - here at High Meadow - there was a good chance for everyone
to come and see the varied styles Ash presents, hopefully to get some
inspiration for classes to come along to through the year, and maybe
even to find the odd Christmas present for family and friends!
There were around 250 original paintings
in watercolour, pastel, acrylic and ink; in sizes that vary from a few
inches in each direction to works that are over 3 feet square. Subjects
included traditional landscapes, figure paintings, flowers, abstract/contempory
style paintings.
A wide range of limited edition prints
were on sale, selected from original paintings that were on display.
To view a selection from the range of prints, please click here
To get a reminder of what you saw at the
exhibition, click here
Thanks to all those who came along and
supported the exhibition - it was great to see so many of you over the
month.
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