Winter Reflections - A Hazy Shade of Winter

Winter Reflections Exhibition This is “A Hazy Shade of Winter” all framed up and ready for our Winter Reflections exhibition. A mixed media piece including painted glass…Hope you like it! :)

Please feel free to share this post with your friends, we’d love to get as many people along to the exhibition as possible & stay tuned for details of where you can get a sneak preview of a couple of pieces before the 15th!!! :)

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Our Winter Reflections exhibition this year runs from November 15th until December 20th It incorporates the Oxfordshire Artweeks Christmas Weekend of November 22nd-23rd. We will be showcasing a new group of paintings by Graham Rice which depict the enchantment of a winter landscape. This series of work is based on figures of children in evocative woodland scenes - skipping across stones, hiding behind trees, watching the fall of leaves. Reflections of figures in the water and shadows against the snow add to the nostalgic and narrative feeling in these pieces. The paintings are all created in mixed media in cool and subtle wintry colours, featuring new three-dimensional devices such as trees and snowflakes painted on the glass itself, in the forefront of the paintings. This creates a unique eye-catching and subtle layered effect.

The exhibition will also feature new winter jewellery designs by Sheila Raven, inspired by the leaves and berries found in a forest in the winter. The collection includes beautiful textured silver oak, ivy, holly and mistletoe leaf earrings, with matching pendants made of complimentary leaves in both silver and copper with acorn or berry embellishments. The saw-pierced and beaten leaves create a stunning natural look.

All of the artwork in the Winter Reflections exhibitions is inspired by our rural workshop setting in the woods and fields of the Cotswolds landscape.

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Maureen Gillespie Solo Exhibition at SOTA in Witney

These are a selection of the paintings we’ve framed up for artist Maureen Gillespie’s solo exhibition which is currently running at the SOTA Gallery in Witney. It’s a beautiful collection of work inspired by her love of the countryside and sea. We’ve framed a number of originals in a variety of hand painted frames, along with some prints framed in oak. Her work has a wonderful sense of depth and the textures are gorgeous. Well worth a visit :)

For further details on Maureens work go to… http://www.artbymaureengillespie.co.uk

For further details on SOTA, go to… http://www.sotagallery.co.uk

John Stezaker photo

 

Here's a very interesting piece we had in for framing last week. A photo by artist John Stezaker. The image is heading off for an exhibition and the framing needed to match the existing pieces that had already been framed, lucky we managed to find the same frame, so it was just a case of making an inner spacer to keep the glass away from the photo as there's no mount. This is a lovely way to frame photos, especially something as conceptual as this.

You can find about more about Stezaker's work here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stezaker

 

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A Norman Hayes original

 

Following on from Mr Hayes's exhibition earlier in the month we've had this lovely purchase in for framing. We've used a silver/gold frame that echoes the colours of the wall in the background, and shows off this beautiful water colour to its best :-)

You can find more of Norman's work at http://normanhayes.co.uk/

 

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Lorna Marrison - Painted frames

 

A beautiful selection of small canvases by artist Lorna Marrison. We've set these in a light blue tray with an off white outer frame and they look really great :-)

More details of Lorna's work can be found at http://www.lornamarrison.com/ and she's exhibiting in Artweeks from the 18th May. Site 398

 

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Framing for Artweeks

 

Here's a beautiful ink and watercolour piece by Lorna Marrison. We've gone for a waxed oak frame with triple mount on this one. You can find more of Lorna's work at http://www.lornamarrison.com/

 

 

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White Gold Apple Tree

 

This is one of my paintings that I've framed up for an exhibition next week (details below). I've used white gold in the painting, so I've echoed this in the framing using a similarly coloured slip. Surrounding that is a super glossy black frame. A hopefully super stylish look :-)

Graham Rice

Solo Exhibition

1st March - 8th March

Mon-Sat 9.30-4.30

Sun 10-2PM

SOTA Gallery

9 Langdale Court

Witney, Oxon

OX28 6FG

 

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Getting ready...

 

Getting everything ready for my painting day at the SOTA gallery in Witney tomorrow. I'll be painting between 10 and 4.30 so pop in and say hi if you can :-) please note, The Cuckoo's nest will be closed for the day...we'll be open as normal from 10 o'clock Saturday :-)

 

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One of my paintings framed

 

This is one of my paintings that I've framed in a dark wooden tray with a waxed oak frame. It's on show at the SOTA gallery in Witney currently and I'll be in there this Friday doing a painting demonstration on a similar portrait :-) call in and say hi if you're in the area :-)

 

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Pink Elephants...sort of...

Things

I'm just waiting for some things to dry, so I thought I'd post another of today's frames. This print on cloth has been simply mounted and framed in aluminium, with UV Artglass to preserve the vibrant colours. A really fun piece to work on :-)

 

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New pottery arrives

We've some wonderful new pottery come into the shop today, gorgeous glazes! Here's a little bit of information about the potter, Alison Randle.

Alison has recently returned to an early passion for pottery and has been training at The Lansdown Pottery in Stroud where she has been able to develop her interest in glazes, especially the Oriental glazes.

Some, such as the green celadon, are used singly and simply whilst others such as Takeshi, titanium and copper reds are applied in layers to give less predictable results. Every piece is unique.

The pieces Alison creates are designed to be used - function is as important as form.

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Exhibition all ready for tomorrow

Our Autumn exhibition opens tomorrow and runs through to the end of October. We've a new collection of forest themed paintings by Graham along with a selection of prints including some Andy Warhol art prints and beautiful Tintin cover posters. We're open every Thursday 12 to 8, Friday & Saturday 10 to 6.

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