Open Studio Notts 2024

 Very much an experiment for me was signing up for the Open Studio Notts (Click Here) 2024. 

This is an imagined landscape influenced by a motorbike ‘adventure’ in South Africa.

The South African veld and farmlands evoke something in me. The vistas and the wide-open spaces dotted with those iconic wind pumps which drag borehole water from deep in the ground and pipe it into corrugated tanks for irrigation and drinking.

A painting on the wall of a friend spurred me to have a go at painting something similar - two women. I think of them as Russian (don’t know why) and have called the painting Svetlana and Oksana.

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This is Natassia and Anastasia. 

Here is an attempt at painting my MotoMates on a motorbike ‘adventure’ to South Africa and Namibia (see www.motofile.blogspot.com) or just click here

Interpretations of the View from our Patio

 

Our Competition Theme this Year was Florence Nightingale!

Here is another beautiful painting from one of our art group people.

Florence Nightingale's Little Owl - Karen H.

Belper Art Group - Room 109 The Far Side

Paintings and drawings are coming in to our virtual gallery.

Richard N

Karen H

Don H

Anne D

To view more just click on Older Post below.

BAGgies Virtual Art Group

As the World Madness continues our little art group is experimenting with going virtual. Just because we cannot meet as a social group doesn't mean we can't share our paintings. Here is the latest post:

Patricia F

Our members can also use the following social media to be sociable:

http://belperartgroup.info/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1546609852283495/

Experimental Posts for Belper Art Group

During this period of World Madness our art group has been suspended. Doesn't mean that we have to stop painting and sharing. IF you want to share your art work on this blog just send me the photo(s) by email attachment (.jpg) and they will appear here.

Two of my paintings:

Florence Nightingale

Queenstown New Zealand 

Local Art Group - Life Drawing

Coincidentally with recent BBC programmes our art group staged a life drawing evening. Below are a few examples of our drawings. Same pose - different aspects. Maybe click here for an amazing drawing link? And HERE.

by AD

by RP

by JM

by KH

by DH

by PF

ARTfile up and running.

This experimental blog is associated with Belper Art Group. Click on this link: Belper Art Group.


Below are some poor attempts at painting and drawing influenced by Henri Matisse, Joan Eardley, Norman Cornish and Valeriane Leblond:

Norman Cornish painted Durham miners and scenes from the northeast of England. Joan Eardley painted mainly children from the tenements of Glasgow. Matisse painted women (with exceptions) seated by windows in sunny rooms somewhere on the Mediterranean. 

 After Joan Eardley

 After Matisse

 After Norman Cornish

 After Norman Cornish

 After Norman Cornish

After Norman Cornish

MOTOfile, AEROfile and now ARTfile!

This is very much an experimental platform, a rock in the pond. Let's see where the ripples take us.

Here are some of my favourite artists:

Walter Sickert. Cuthbert Orde. Ghislaine Howard. Susan Isaac. John Sprakes. Bob Rudd. Roland Hilder. Ian Houston. John Piper. Laura Knight. JH Pierneef. Kyffin Williams. Mesdag. Jan Toorop. Paul Wright. Sean Cheetham. Mutomba Makiwa. Norah Neilson-Gray. William McTaggart. Sally Strand. Gregoire Boonzaier. Nigel Cooke. Raoul Dufy. Lawson Wood. Bob Burridge. Saggy Mann. Egon Schiele. Trevor Lingard. Ford Maddox-Brown. D.Westry. Wayne Thiebaud. Michael McKee. Mari Kanstad Johnsen. Henri Matisse. Ralph Steadman. Steve Bell. Frank Mason. Dorothea Sharp. Pam Carter. Eric Hanson. Andre Derain. Charles Sovek. David Curtis. Edward Seago.

An attempt at iPad art. This is after Matisse!

This is after Raoul Dufy

This is after Vincent

And this is after Valeriane Leblond

Just scribbling on the iPad

After Matisse

After L.S.Lowry

 Pylons and Sheep

Shottlegate Derbyshire

Woman in the Blue Hat - after Matisse