Meet the Artist: daily presentations at ARTWORKS 2015
Saturday 26 September 2015: Valerie Armstrong – Creating mixed media backgrounds in paintings
Valerie Armstrong will be at the ARTWORKS exhibition on Saturday 26 September 2015 sharing tips and techniques in mixed media painting. She will be in the demonstration area of the ARTWORKS exhibition from 10.30am – 4pm.
This ‘Meet the Artist’ event is free, no booking required. Pop in any time on Saturday, 10.30am – 4pm, to learn more about creative mixed media painting techniques.
An introduction to mixed media from Valerie:
I am going to begin work on a series of starts, taking them as far as feels right. To begin I am planning to create a stash of coloured and textured papers ready to tear and to cut up for the collage elements of my work. I shall also be working on background beginnings using gesso, moulding paste, collage texts, textures, and playful markmaking. At this stage it is all play and anything can happen and emerge. It is a matter of shutting off the structured logical brain and looking for the child within.
I dream of sacred places
Valerie Armstrong on her new series of mixed media paintings:
My latest, more abstract work explores the intangibility and ephemeral nature of the mysterious world we enter when in sleep… I always paint with music as my muse, combining collage, words and textures, obscuring then working back, so barely visible traces can be glimpsed through layers of transparent glaze.
Artworks 16th Annual Exhibition
Saturday 5 – Sunday 27 September 2015
Open daily 10am – 5pm
Blackthorpe Barn
Rougham
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
IP30 9HZ
The Artworks exhibition is open daily, 10am to 5pm, admission is free, ample parking, wheelchair accessible. Free exhibition catalogue.
We also have the ARTWORKS shop for visitors to browse: original handmade prints, small paintings, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, glass and metalwork, large range of greetings cards and artist postcards. There is also a café selling light refreshments.
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