Merry Christmas from Yvonne & Ian

                                                   All the best to my Artistic friends.. Alan x

Ickenham Festive Community Night

Just to let you know that Jane, Yvonne and I will be selling some of our wares, including jewellery, cards and books in the village hall in Ickenham on the Friday 12 December.  Its a great atmosphere in Ickenham  on Community Night as the shops stay open and many a drink and mince pie, music, train rides for little ones and other jollities abound. How better to spend a Friday night!

Happy Christmas!

 

I have been busy making cards and wreaths. Happy Christmas everyone!

Chris's Gothic makeover

Chris had his Gothic makeover and he has sent this photo that I will be putting up on his web page later.

 " The alter ego of Captain Colourblind with one of his handbag designs".

Illustrated books

I have been working on an illustrated story book about the miniature railway in Ickenham over the last year and decided the best way to get it underway was to self-publish it. As a trial I worked on one of the books I had made for my grandchildren, called Rudolph's tale and made versions for publishing on demand print to be sold through Amazon and Kindle. 

 

The Kindle form proved complicated so I have put that aside for the railway story for the time being.  Now I have added a third book, called Too many hats to my collection and hope to add the others I have written in the near future. I am in the process of trying to get some hard copies to sell but these have to come from the USA. I have found it interesting to do and you know what they say about the benefits of learning a new skill at my age! If you want to look at my authors page you can find it here

Art Competition

Hello attempting the blog spot,after a period of quiet art wise and need for rest .
I entered artwork for a competition at the London Diocesan House in Pimlico and have had 'Finding Peace'shortlisted.
Also you may already know,but next year Hillingdon will be marking 50 years as the London Borough of Hillingdon,maybe one of the exhibitions at Cow Byre could work round this or set up something new. Perhaps use the frames that Lisa has either for our own response to Hillingdon or use in a way similar to Jane's successful Uxbridge project.

Seeking Hope

Finding Peace

Egon Schiele Exhibition

Can thoroughly recommend this exhibition at the Courtauld
gallery

http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhibitions/2014/Schiele/index.shtml

Call for Artists

Found this if anyone is interested. It will be at the Mall galleries and you have until Dec 12th to submit an entry.
http://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/index.php?pid=162

Urgent appeal on behalf of Chris Dilger aka Captain Colourblind

Chris tells me he has cancer and is having a bit of a makeover and he is going to be done up in Gothic style. Reason, he has a handbag and is going to have some photos done as his alter ego holding his bag! (see his website link).
Has anyone got any Gothic female clothes he could borrow size 14. He needs them by 12 November!
Contact him by email or phone here

Tower of London Poppy installation

For anyone who has not been able to see the First World War commemoration installation by ceramic artist Paul Cummins at the Tower of London here is a photo I took at the weekend. It is awesome in scale and very moving. Ian

I have taken onboard a comment from Shivastie that my stronger work was more my abstract design
work..It's not that I can really choose to dedicate only in that direction but I am aiming there now.

This is an image of one of six called "Alone"

This is one of my latest digital works using hundreds of small digital images..
There is a crossover link between canvas painting and digital art which I wanted to convey.

It is called: Real life capture..

Mexican Street Art

This is a seed pod I found on the street - it's really beautiful - does anyone know what it is?

Pop up art in Oaxaca Via Jane Greer in Mexico

The Malevich exhibition is on until the 28th of October at Tate modern.
Entry price £14.50 But so well worth it..!

The Work of Artist Jonas Burgert is at the Blainsouthern Gallery 4 Hanover Square until 22nd November 2014.. I found his work so powerful..I could hardly speak afterwards. Free to get in and the people were very helpful..

The Really Affordable Art Fair

31st October - 2nd November 2014

Studio 11, Bayford Business Centre, Bayford street, London E8

Bethnal Green (Tube)/ London Fields (Train)

Come and see me, it's free entry and a chance to see different artists with affordable art in a different location. www.gingerwhitespace.co.uk :-)))

Upstairs Gallery, Berkhamsted

Jane Greer and I have just delivered our artwork and cards to the Upstairs Gallery for the Landmarks exhibition which is taking place from Wednesday 22nd October - Saturday 8th November.
For details see
 www.upstairsgallery.co.uk

Please visit my website and subscribe to receive updates of events and my latest work.

komalmadar.com

Counting down to my Solo Exhibition in London

Counting down to my Solo Exhibition in London from the 10th - 16th November 2014: Venue: The Gallery, at The Tabernacle, 34 – 35 Powis Square, London W11 2AY:

See link to website:

http://www.tabernaclew11.com/dancing-in-the-sun-an-exhibition-of-paintings-by-patricia-ogundero/

Latest image of work..

                                Just thought I would share my latest image of work with you all..

                                               It is called "Yellow Dress" by Alan Judge

Invites

I have sent out invites to 7 members to see if we can get our blog under way. If that is successful then we can add all Hillingdonartists as editors onto the blog.
Ian

Open Studios

Yvonne and I have recently finished our Open Studios event during which we had time to get on with a bit of work. I managed to finish a winter picture of St. Giles' Church in Ickenham where our son happened to get married.  He liked the picture so much it has already gone to its new home. If only I could shift all of my artwork that quickly!
Ian

St. Giles' Church Ickenham

Welcome to the Hillingdonartists art group blog

Hi there all you art lovers and welcome to our Hillingdonartists group blog.  We are all artists living or working in the London Borough of Hillingdon. We have more than 40 members and we create many different kinds of work including paintings, photography, pottery and ceramics, textile art, printmaking and sculpture. 

We have a live website if you want to see what kinds of work we do. We look forward to what our members have to say and show in forthcoming posts.
Ian