Showing posts with label etching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label etching. Show all posts

Friday 22 October 2021

I'm currently exhibiting at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in the Wolverhampton Society of Artists' Exhibition

 

I Am currentlyShowing Two Etchings In The Wolverhampton Society Of Artists’ Exhibition At Wolverhampton Art Gallery

16 October To 5 December.

The Gallery Is Open:

Monday – Saturday: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Sunday: 11am – 4pm
CafĂ© open Monday – Saturday: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Sunday: 11am – 3.30pm

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Red sky at night

Under the bridge

Friday 11 September 2020

I'm delighted to have my new etching 'Red by night' selected for the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Prize Exhibition

 I'm delighted to have my new etching, 'Red by Night' selected for the RBSA Prize exhibition which takes place 8 October - 21 November 2020.

This exhibition is now extended on line until 16 January.  See all work online here  Prize exhibition - scroll down page to see all artwork



Here's the etching and the metal plate the etching was printed from.


Thursday 20 August 2020

Exhibiting as part of Broadway Arts Festival, Costwolds, UK

Broadway Arts Festival - The competition and on-line selling exhibition is on now and until the end of the year.

There were over 700 entries from across the UK and mainland Europe and I was very pleased to be selected to take part in this exhibition.

I have 3 etchings on display in this on-line exhibition until the end of the year.

You can view and purchase from the online exhibition. You can also vote for your visitor’s choice once you have logged into the site.

Voting for the ‘Visitors Choice Award’
You can vote for your favourite pieces by clicking on ‘Details’ for an individual artist and then clicking on the small heart where it says ‘Vote for this piece’. Once you’ve voted for a piece the heart shape will be filled in red. You can vote for as many of the ‘Main Entries’ as you like, but you can only vote once for each artist.

Thursday 30 January 2020

RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, in the StArt 2020 exhibition until 15 February

I'm exhibiting 4 etchings in this exhibition - here's one of them 'Follow me'.


Summary of the exhibition

For over 200 years the diverse practices of the RBSA's Members and Associates have been displayed in this annual exhibition, including the work of those newly elected this year.
All work is priced at £300 or under. The exhibition is displayed over three floors and includes artwork in a wide range of media.
The exhibition ends on 15 February 2020.

Sunday 15 September 2019

Wolverhampton Open Studios - Saturday 12 October


I am participating in Wolverhampton Open Studios again this year on Saturday 12 October.

If you are interested in coming along to see some of my etchings, etching plates, lino prints and oil paintings in my Bradmore studio please contact me by email on linda_nevill@hotmail.com and I will give you further information.



Tuesday 19 February 2019

Inking and printing contemporary landscape etching - From hedgerow to hillside, The Wrekin, Shropshire

 Rubbing ink into the grooves and lines on the metal plate using a small rubber squeegee
 Wiping off the excess ink from the surface of the metal plate using yellow pages directory
Inked up etching plate on the press bed - final etching revealed by lifting up the paper

Sunday 27 January 2019

Solo show at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists - 11 February to 31 March 2019

My etchings are at the framers and I'm excited and nearly ready for my solo show at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery, St Paul's Square, Birmingham, B3 1SA.

http://www.rbsa.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/linda-nevill-arbsa/

All my prints in this exhibition are etchings but the subject matter is quite varied.  This is because I've been working with two poets, not to illustrate poetry but to create art that is inspired by it.

Here is an excerpt from Jane Seabourne's beautiful poem about trees...


Advice for Walking in Woods
‘Place the flat of your hand
on the first tree you meet
when you go through a wood.
Lay your life-line over
the bark. Let it cross-hatch.
Hold till you feel a bond.’…

I love trees too and I love the idea of laying your life-line over the bark and cross hatching and bonding with the tree.  I created this etching 'Through the trees'


Last year, I heard Emma Purshouse perform her poem about flamingos in captivity and was struck by the humour and the poignancy of the words

Flamingos in Dudley Zoo

…‘The pond by the gates, the faces,
The chair-lift soaring overhead,
us sky-watching, pale with envy.’…

To research for this poem I went to the zoo one cold, windy Autumn day. I went straight to  the flamingo pool near the main gate and it was empty! It started raining as I started to search for the temporary location of the flamingos.  I huddled as close to the building as I could to start drawing.  Of course they were moving, so I was drawing a head here, a leg there… Then the keeper arrived with two tubs of food and they plunged their heads into the tubs leaving only one view to draw!   Satisfied by their food, they preened their feathers, tucked their heads in and fell asleep.  Luckily, I had drawn enough heads, beaks, legs and bodies in my sketchbook and managed to use these to create my drawing.  This was the basis for my etching shown here printed in black ink and then re-printed with coloured inks. 















Sunday 16 December 2018

Meet the Artist: Linda Nevill ARBSA Saturday 16 March at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists' Gallery, St Paul's Square

I am exhibiting some etchings at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists from 
11 Feb- 30 March  and have a Meet the Artist day Saturday 16 March 11-4pm

http://www.rbsa.org.uk/whats-on/events/meet-the-artist-linda-nevill-arbsa/

Linda has collaborated with Emma Purshouse and Jane Seabourne over many years creating art inspired by poetry and poetry inspired by art. Meet Linda during her ground floor exhibition on Saturday 16th March. There will also be a live poetry performance from 2pm-2.30pm. 
In this collection of etchings Linda has explored a wide range of ideas including different aspects of landscape, still life, flamingos in captivity and football as a man’s game. She works also with contrasts to create social comment.  For example, the brightly lit clothes shop windows with their haughty, disdainful models and the homeless woman seated outside.  Or the blue, temporary tented homes set up in front of a block of flats where people live in heated accommodation with televisions and fridges and appliances.


Saturday 8 December 2018

Currently showing At the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists' gallery, St Paul's, Birmingham until 24 December 2018.


I'm currently exhibiting these two at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artist's Gallery in St Paul's Square, on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, as part of the RBSA Members and Associates Exhibition - finishes 24 December.



Dark cliff - oil painting 

Snowfall Birmingham - etching and aquatint


Wednesday 5 September 2018

'The Lightning Fields' - an art installation in the desert of New Mexico

I was listening to the radio a couple of day ago and heard someone talk about their visit to the  'Lightning Fields' art installation in Quemada, New Mexico and made me think again about my visit there in 2003.

Having seen an image of the installation on the front of an art book cover, I researched where it is and how to see it and it led to an amazing adventure!

You can't just locate it and drive up to it in the desert, you have to book on-line and a maximum of 6 people can view it at any one time.  You have to meet up at an agreed time and day at an unmarked building in a very small one-street town.   Then you leave your vehicle and are taken to the installation where you stay overnight.  There are rows and rows of steel poles in the desert and they have been located in a place that has frequent lightning storms.


Here is what I wrote and the etching that I created from a sketch I made at the time.



We arrive at breakneck speed in a very large vehicle – us two and 3 strangers – on a road at first and then a maze of dirt tracks.  As we pass a small mailbox by a ranch gate we see a streak of lightning zigzag down into the dry, bare earth.  It has begun.

Eventually we arrive at the isolated log cabin.  We stand on the veranda and look around across a vast plain surrounded by mountains. When the vehicle has left there is silence.  We stare at the emergency phone which must only be used if rattlesnakes come into the house. If they sunbathe on the veranda it’s not, apparently, an emergency.  We have noted the metal lined, rat-proof cupboard for food and the lack of curtains at the windows. We are on our own until 11a.m. tomorrow.

The ground is dry and cracked and studded with sage and rabbit brush. Tufts of fine grass also grow in small circles.    It’s hot, and huge inky clouds are forming in the sky.  We take wooden chairs outside and sit looking at the 400 steel poles stretching a mile left and right in front of us -  and wait.

As it grows dark, streaks of lightning fall over distant mountains and the poles fade away. Bright  flashes of pink energy burst into the sky from  the left. None hit the poles.  Humming birds dart up close, presenting long beaks to us.

I walk out across the field, examining the patches of burnt earth, following a line of poles almost to the end.  I look back at the cabin and see a streak of lightning hit the ground just behind it.  I decide to retreat, re-tracing my steps away from the metal rows.  

I sit and wait in silence. All the streaks of colour in the sky have evened out and it’s very dark.  A coyote calls across the plain and another answers. Then a few stars shine and a small, circular patch of light struggles to break through a cloud. It finally reveals itself as a pale, crescent moon – too weak to illuminate the poles.  Constellations of stars pierce the sky and show the way to another universe.  It’s time to sleep.

I awake at 5.40am. A pale light is beginning to illuminate the silence and three of the poles from the left. The pink sun slowly appears above the mountains a hundred miles away and more and more of the poles gleam silver then golden.  Long, precise rows appear for the first time and stretch across the desert scrub into the distance.  Rabbits chase each other, birds are fluttering, a horny toad and a black beetle follow secret tracks.

Without pre-arrangement we all whisper to each other, realizing that this is the time.  We separate and observe, draw and write trying to capture the moment.

When we come together again we try to define our experience. There was no spectacular lightning show involving the poles but we had made time to observe the light, the soil, the vast sky, animals and birds which we seldom have time for in the course of our normal lives.  It had been a spiritual experience for some, a re-connection with nature for others. An aesthetic experience, a calming experience – but definitely an experience.




Saturday 12 May 2018

Royal Academy Summer Show 2018

Ooh - I've just delivered two etchings to the Royal Academy in London for round 2 of judging.   Will they get through round 2?   I think about 11,500 were eliminated in Round 1.... I won't know until 26 May...

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Prize Exhibition - on now and until 23 June 2018


The RBSA Prize exhibition is now on and I have two etchings which were selected by ZoĂ« Lippett, Exhibitions and Artists’ Projects Curator at The New Art Gallery Walsall.  They are both social comments on homelessness.


Orange umbrella


Passing by






http://www.rbsa.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/prize-2018/

Wednesday 1 November 2017

One of my etchings has been selected to be part of the Victoria and Albert Museum's permanent collection

I'm very excited that one of my etchings, 'Bare mountain' has been selected to be part of the Victoria and Albert Museum's permanent collection.    Currently it can be seen at Morley Gallery in London but, two from this edition, will be kept in the V & A.

Printing my etching Hedgerow to hillside - the Wrekin

Once I have an image on my etching plate, this is how I ink and print it.  If I want another one, it is possible to go through the process again but the next print will not be exactly the same - it's hand printed so every print is unique.



 Etching a metal plate in copper sulphat

 Putting onto onto the plate - pressing it into the grooves with a piece of rubber


The metal plate is on a hotplate to make the ink looser and easier to wipe
 Wiping excess ink from the surface of the plate using paper (Yellow pages)

 Printing the etching plate on the press

 Peeling back the paper to check it has printed well
The final print From Hedgrow to hillside'

Many thanks to Graham Stubbs for taking the photos. 

Tuesday 10 October 2017

Delighted to received an Art Award for 'outstanding work' at Wolverhampton Art Gallery 23/9/2017

I was delighted today to receive the 'Elsie Holland award for outstanding work' at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, for my etching 'Homed and homeless'.
The award was presented by Wayne Attwood Vice President of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.  It's a new art award that Wolverhampton Society of Artists were honoured to give this year.
 
 
Image may contain: 5 people, people smiling, shoes
 
Image may contain: tree, plant, outdoor and nature
'Homed and homeless' etching and aquatint
 
Elsie Holland was a remarkable woman who devoted herself to adult education.  Inspired by her socialist principles she was a stalwart member of the Worker's Educational Association (WEA) which organised dozens of courses and educational trips.  She was especially keen on Art and the ways in which it can enrich people's lives.  The prize was awarded both to honour her memory and to recognise her contribution to the visual arts in Wolverhampton

Friday 22 September 2017

Wolverhampton Art Gallery - I'm exhibiting 2 etchings from tomorrow until 18th November



I'm very pleased to be exhibiting two etchings in this show. 

 The Opening is 12.30 in the gallery.  All welcome.

Book art - last chance to see the 'Re-Imagining the Laws of England the Wales exhibition - now at Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre

Last chance to see this exhibition

 
My artist's book 'War and Emergency' has been touring for over two years across the UK as part of the 'Re-Imagining the Laws of England and Wales' exhibition and its final exhibition is now underway at the Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre from 5 September-24 November 2017.  

A set of volumes of the Halsbury's Statutes, the accepted authoritative texts for statute law (Acts of Parliament) of England and Wales was donated to the Sidney Nolan Trust and each of these has been transformed by artists across the country into a work of art exploring themes related to the topics covered in their volume. http://www.sidneynolantrust.org/events-programmes/whats-on/re-imagining-the-laws-of-england-wales