April 2025 - amanda duke - letting go of the outcome
Amanda Duke wowed the audience with her very beautiful work this week at PACS. She was hugely inspirational with her talk about enjoying and managing the process of creating artworks. She told us all about her art journey and gave us
lots of hints and tips about how we can all go forward with our own work and enjoy what we are doing, letting the work guide us to an outcome rather than trying to control it!
Louise Turpin Demonstration Coordinator
Linda took up basket weaving 20 years ago and became a tutor in 2013. She regularly gives demonstrations at the Weald and Downland museum in West Sussex and over the course of a 2 hour session she created the lions share of a typical basket made from two different types of willow. Linda had fashioned the base of the basket beforehand and proceeded to show how the side is formed using two different weaving styles and another for the rim. As she wove she fielded questions from a large and enthralled audience. By the end of the evening the basket was within a whisker of being completed. Lind says a basket of the type she worked on would typically take 3-4 hours of actual weaving. Linda will be back running a workshop in October, but owing to the space needed places will be limited.
Above :- Linda at various stages of creating the basket
Below:- some of Linda creations and general scenes from the evening
February 2025 - Mix up night
Images from the recent mix up night where 8 members came along with their kit to show the group how they do what they do. Some were even able to let attendees have a go. A good night was had by all.
We had a fantastic evening with 8 of our members on hand to show their respective arts and crafts. Below are some snaps of the demonstrators in action. Thanks to all of them for making this such a great evening.
january 2025 egg tempera icon painting with jackie hunt
For our 2025 season opener, members were treated to a potted history of the art of creating icons using egg tempera. This was followed by a practical demonstration of how to extract the egg yolks and then use them to mix with natural pigments, water and alcohol to create colours that can be applied with a brush. It was amazing how little of the egg ends up in the final mix. The wonderful translucent colours created were very vibrant, and as history has shown, the finished works are very long lasting, albeit they can easily be damaged by water or touch.
Naturally, with such a sort time available and the time it takes to build up the several layers of pigment that make the finished work, Jackie was only able to give a flavour of the technique. However, she has said that she will finish and share the piece she started in the demonstration, so do come back to this page later for another look. In the meantime here are some images taken on the night of Jackie in action.
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