Developing my on-line shop

I've been developing my on-line shop selling original prints (woodcuts, lino prints, monotypes, etchings, collagraphs, carborundum prints, oil paintings, iPad drawings and Fine Art greetings cards.   

I'm aiming at clear photographs of the work, interesting descriptions and some technical information.   It's difficult to know how much technical information to give.  If people want more will they find it on my website?  I hope so - or they can contact me directly.




http://www.freewebstore.org/Linda-Nevill-Fine-Art
 http://www.freewebstore.org/Linda-Nevill-Fine-Art

Encyclopaedia Britannica - altered book exhibition is on at the Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd, Presteigne, 7-15 Sept, 2013

 You can see my 'Swimming the Butterfly' entry for the Encyclopaedia Britannica Challenge at the Sidney Nolan Trust  from 7-15 September... see below.

 

h.Art exhibition - Fine Art Prints and Encyclopaedia Britannica Challenge

7 - 15 September 2013  10.30am - 5.00pm - Tithe Barn Gallery

This is our 12th Annual Fine Art Prints exhibition showing new work by artists using the Trust's printmaking studio and workshop or attending our range of courses.
Alongside we are showing our Encyclopædia Britannica Challenge. In 2012 the Sidney Nolan Trust was given a set of 1950s Encyclopædia Britannica after all attempts by their original owner to find them a new home failed. They were destined to become pulp when the Trust stepped in with the idea of asking artists to select a volume and transform it into a new work of art. Participants include established book artists and newcomers to this exciting fine art medium. Some are regular members of the group of book artists working at the Trust; others simply responded to publicity about the project.

http://www.sidneynolantrust.org/whats-on/exhibitions/h-art-exhibition

'Swimming the Butterfly' - Volume 21 of the Encyclopaedia Britannica - Sidney Nolan Trust Challenge

‘Swimming the Butterfly’ – Volume 21 of the Sidney Nolan Encyclopaedia Britannica Challenge
On receiving volume 21 I flicked through the pages, my mind flitting and flying from one subject and idea to another.

 

Eventually, it was the hot summer, and experiences arising out of it, that led me to my final creation. I have never been swimming as much as I have this year and my garden has attracted more butterflies than usual, including one of my favourites – the Peacock.

Skimming through the text I settled on a section headed ‘SWIMMING’ and read about the butterfly stroke. It led me to think of the phrase, ‘Swimming the Butterfly’ and the surreal connotations of combining butterfly and swimmer. It’s a racing form of the breast stroke, so I felt that it had to be organised in lanes across my book and I had to decide upon a winner … the butterfly that excites me the most – the Swallowtail.

 

 

Encyclopaedia Britannica Challenge

I accepted the Encyclopaedia Britannica Challenge a few months ago.   This involved having volume 21 which I need work with to create an altered book.  This is quite a well established kind of art form now and I have experimented a little in this in the past.  An exciting prospect...but what to do?

I considered all kinds of possibilities, but this warm summer I have been swimming a great deal and  I had also made drawings and created prints of butterflies a couple of years ago for a book (Shropshire Butterflies edited by Nadia Kingsley).  So, on seeing the section on SWIMMING in my volume and thinking about 'Swimming the Butterfly' I started....

 

 

 

NEC Gardeners World - a few of the gardens

 African garden - painting walls with strong colour - magenta and burnt orange here - really lift the mood even on a dull day.  Used here with wood, wicker, bark and some simple planting.

 I love the combination of foxgloves and old pots with lichen in this 'Birmingham Borders' category of garden designed by a student Ben Corah.   Some of my own foxgloves are in flower now but I'm still waiting for the chocolate ones.

 The grey-green of the aloes, lavender coloured cushions and wood + sedums made a calm, minimal and low maintenance garden.

An interesting idea of what to do with an VW if you have had enough of repairing it!

New title for my blog - Gardenista - Linda's Art and the Garden

I had planned to start a new blog in order to mark a new phase in my printmaking, however, it's proved easier to just give my existing blog a new title.

I've been working on images relating to the garden on and off for some years and plan to make it a focus for a while now.  I want to comment on my garden, other gardens and garden-related things as well as the art I make that relates to it.

I'll see how it goes....

How to cut and print lino and vinyl

How to do relief printing - e.g. cutting and printing vinyl and lino - a video of me demonstrating cutting and printing, published on Youtube and made by Chris Hill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JK1S6tVUAg

Please note that I am changing the title of my blog to:
http://gardenistaartandthegarden-linda.blogspot.co.uk/