Art Events & Art Exhibitions Leicester

Angela Harding
Blackbird with Berries

PURPLE GALLERY
Mixed Exhibition 2010

Saturday 6th February - Sunday 21st March

Purple Gallery, 229 Mary Vale Road, Bournville, Birmingham B30 2DL

Wednesday and Thursday 9.15am - 5.15pm
Friday and Saturday 9.15am - 6.15pm
Sunday 2.15pm - 5.15pm

A mixed exhibition from established gallery artists, and paintings from new artists: Angela Harding, David M Martin RSW, RGI, Frans Wesselman RBSA.

Telephone: 0121 459 0941
For further information click here

Angela Harding

Peter Clayton
The Engineer
Lino Print

PETER CLAYTON
In Passion2Print

Tues 12th January - Sun 7th March 2010

Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Little Elborow Street, Rugby CV21 3BZ

This series of lino prints by Peter Clayton was specially commission from the artist by Rugby Art Gallery and can be seen in Passion2Print, see further details see below.

For further information click here

Peter Clayton

PASSION2PRINT

Tues 12th January - Sun 7th March 2010

Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Little Elborow Street, Rugby CV21 3BZ

Passion2Print is a selected exhibition featuring work by members of the acclaimed Leicester Print Workshop. The work is vibrant and varied, featuring a wide range of fine art printmaking techniques including etchings, monoprints, collagraphs, woodcuts, linocuts and gum arabic transfer prints. High quality original pieces produced by artists practising in this region, the work will be on sale with prices starting from around £60.

For further information click here

Sarah Kirby
Catherine Headley
Angela Harding
Henrietta Corbett
Peter Clayton

AINSCOUGH CONTEMPORARY ART
15th Birthday Exhibition

27 February - 13 March

Ainscough Contemporary Art
Drayton Gardens, Chelsea, London SW10 9QS

For further information click here

Angela Harding

Black Peat Fields
Henrietta Corbett

VISUAL ARTS SCOTLAND
Open Exhibition 2010

19 February - Sunday 28 March

Royal Scottish Academy, Lower Galleries, The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 2EL

A mixed exhibition from established gallery artists, and paintings from new artists.

For more information click here

Henrietta Corbett

THE FOUR SEASONS
Leicestershire Pastel Society Exhibition 2010

Showing now until 14 March

New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
53 New Walk , Leicester LE1 7EA

Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 11am - 5pm

On ‘The Wall’, ground floor of New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, an exhibition of pastels by The Leicestershire Pastel Society.

Telephone: 0116 225 4900
For further information click here

COMMUNITY PAINTING DAY

Saturday 6th March 2010

Oadby Evangelical Free Chruch, North Memorial Hall, Stoughton Road, Oadby, Leicester.

10am to about 4pm.  This gives plenty of time so you do not feel rushed, but if you need to leave earlier that’s fine.

£8.00 towards the cost of materials.

By popular request, this is the 3rd community painting day, when we paint a section from a well-known painting and then assemble it into one enormous work.  This painting day for adults (14+) has an Easter theme, using two sections of Hands Holbein the Younger’s ‘The Passion of Christ’, showing Christ being brought befgore Herod and a details of the crucifixion. There will be a grand unveiling of the huge finished pictures at the Easter Praise Service on Sunday 4th April at 10.45am.

You do not have to be an artist to take part.  For further information contact Margaret Chapman at the telephone number and email address below.

Telephone: 0116 271 68723
Email: margaretchapman100@ntlworld.com

Margaret Chapman

SCREENPRINTING
Workshop with Angela Harding

Sunday 7 March

Rufford Craft Centre
Rufford Country Park, Ollerton, Newark, Notts NN22 9DF

10.30am - 4.30pm

£55 / £50 concessions
Tutor: Angela Harding

An introduction to silk screen printing on paper by Angela Harding for Leicester Print Workshop. Over the course of one day you will learn the basic techniques of silk screen printing including working with colour and stencils to create unique images on paper. Maximum 12 people

Telephone: 0116 255 3634
Email: info@leicesterprintworkshop.com

Angela Harding

BATTERSEA ART FAIR
Foss Fine Art: Stand K4

11 - 14 March

Foss Fine Art (Stand K4)
Battersea Affordable Art Fair
Battersea Park, London SW11

For further information click here

Angela Harding

BOOKMAKING TASTER DAY

Saturday 20 March

The Guildhall
Guildhall Lane, Leicester LE1 5FQ

10am - 4pm

£55 / £50 concessions

Tutor: Sarah Kirby

Glue, fold and sew to produce unique books in this taster day by Sarah Kirby of Leicester Print Workshop. An opportunity to dip your toe into the world of bookmaking; working with simple structures you will learn the basics to create small books and pamphlets.  Maximum 12 people.

Telephone: 0116 255 3634
Email: info@leicesterprintworkshop.com

Sarah Kirby

PORTRAITURE
With Scott Bridgwood

Sat 28th March

Address: The Richard Attenborough Centre, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 7HA
Time: 10.00am - 3.30pm
Fee: £35.00 (concessions £17.00) per session
Tutor: Scott Bridgwood

Portraiture workshop with Scott Bridgwood. Experiment with a variety of approaches to drawing and painting a portrait from life.

Telephone: 0116 252 2455
Email: arts-centre@le.ac.uk
For further information click here

Workshop

Scott Bridgwood

MARY RODGERS
New Work

From Sunday 28th March

Croft Wingates Picture Gallery, Wingates Walk, Market Harborough

New paintings by Mary Rodgers

For further information click here

www.croftwingates.co.uk

Mary Rodgers

Poster design
Mikkki Longley
Shenac Rogerson

125th ANNUAL EXHIBITION
Leicester Society of Artists

Saturday 3 April - Sunday 9 May

New Walk Museum and Art Gallery
53 New Walk, Leicester, LE1 7EA

This year is a celebratory year for Leicester Society of Artists.  The 125th Annual Exhibition promises quality and diversity in a stimulating and creative show. This exhibition will include many disciplines from sculpture to paintings, embroidered mixed media pieces, artists’ prints, drawings and woodcarvings.

 There will be over 175 works displayed in this exciting exhibition by many members of Leicester Society of Artists, creating the ideal opportunity to acquire individual and original art created on your doorstep.

Telephone: 0116 225 4900

CASE BOUND BOOKS WORKSHOP
Advanced Book-Making Techniques with Sarah Kirby

10 and 11 April

Leicester Print Workshop, 50 St Stephens Road, Highfields, Leicester LE2 1GG

10am - 4pm

£120 / £108 concessions

Led by Sarah Kirby

Learn advanced sewing, folding and dlueing techniques using specialist book cloths and decorative artist papers to create and take home a French sewn multi section book. Maximum 6 people

Telephone: 0116 255 3634
For further information click here

Sarah Kirby

SCREENPRINTING
Workshop with Angela Harding

Sunday 11 April

Hub National Centre for Craft & Design
Carre Street, Sleaford, Lincs NG34 7TW

10am - 4pm

£55 / £50 concessions
Tutor: Angela Harding

An introduction to silk screen printing on paper by Angela Harding for Leicester Print Workshop. Over the course of one day you will learn the basic techniques of silk screen printing including working with colour and stencils to create unique images on paper. Maximum 12 people

Telephone: 0116 255 3634
Email: info@leicesterprintworkshop.com

Angela Harding

BOOKMAKING TASTER DAY

Saturday 24 April

Rufford Craft Centre
Rufford Country Park, Ollerton, Newark, Notts NG22 9DF

10.30am - 4.30pm

£55 / £50 concessions

Tutor: Sarah Kirby

Glue, fold and sew to produce unique books in this taster day by Sarah Kirby of Leicester Print Workshop. An opportunity to dip your toe into the world of bookmaking; working with simple structures you will learn the basics to create small books and pamphlets.  Maximum 12 people.

Telephone: 0116 255 3634
Email: info@leicesterprintworkshop.com

Sarah Kirby

SCREENPRINTING
Workshop with Angela Harding

Sunday 25 April

Lakeside Arts Centre
University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD

10am - 4pm

£55 / £50 concessions
Tutor: Angela Harding

An introduction to silk screen printing on paper by Angela Harding for Leicester Print Workshop. Over the course of one day you will learn the basic techniques of silk screen printing including working with colour and stencils to create unique images on paper. Maximum 12 people

Telephone: 0116 255 3634
Email: info@leicesterprintworkshop.com

Angela Harding

SCREENPRINTING
Workshop with Angela Harding

Saturday 15 May

Rufford Craft Centre
Rufford Country Park, Ollerton, Newark, Notts NN22 9DF

10.30am - 4.30pm

£55 / £50 concessions
Tutor: Angela Harding

An introduction to silk screen printing on paper by Angela Harding for Leicester Print Workshop. Over the course of one day you will learn the basic techniques of silk screen printing including working with colour and stencils to create unique images on paper. Maximum 12 people

Telephone: 0116 255 3634
Email: info@leicesterprintworkshop.com

Angela Harding

Man and Fish
Henrietta Corbett
Drypoint

DRYPOINT AND CHINE COLLE
Workshop with Henrietta Corbett

Sunday 16 May

Rufford Craft Centre
Rufford Country Park, Ollerton, Newark, Notts NN22 9DF

10.30am - 4.30pm

£55 / £50 concessions

Tutor: Henrietta Corbett

Line engraving into perspex combined with collage in this day with Henrietta Corbett for Leicester Print Workshop. Incise into a plastic plate so that the scratches and the reamaining burr create differing qualities of line when inked and printed. Tissue collage will be used to create unique one-off pieces within a limited selection of prints. Maximum 10 people

Telephone: 0116 255 3634
Email: info@leicesterprintworkshop.com

Henrietta Corbett

PAINTERLY LINO PRINTING
Workshop with Peter Clayton

Saturday 22 May

The Guildhall
Guildhall Lane, Leicester LE1 5FQ

10am - 4pm

£55 / £50 concessions

Make strong multi media images using lino cut printmaking onto acrylic painted board in this workshop by Peter Clayton for Leicester Print Workshop. Drawing on and cutting into a lino plate to produce relief designs that will be inked up and then printed onto board painted in acrylic paints, to produce a finished work of art. Maximum 10 people.

Telephone: 0116 255 3634
Email: info@leicesterprintworkshop.com

Peter Clayton

BOOKMAKING TASTER DAY

Sunday 23rd May

Rugby Art Gallery & Museum
Little Elborow Street, Rugby CV21 3BZ

10.0am - 4.0pm

£55 / £50 concessions

Tutor: Sarah Kirby

Glue, fold and sew to produce unique books in this taster day by Sarah Kirby of Leicester Print Workshop. An opportunity to dip your toe into the world of bookmaking; working with simple structures you will learn the basics to create small books and pamphlets.  Maximum 12 people.

Telephone: 0116 255 3634
Email: info@leicesterprintworkshop.com

Sarah Kirby

Field Lines
Henrietta Corbett
Carborundum

COLLAGRAPHS AND CARBORUNDUM WORKSHOP
Workshop with Henrietta Corbett

Saturday 12 June

Leicester Print Workshop, 50 St Stephens Road, Highfields, Leicester LE2 1GG

10am - 4pm

£ 70 / £ 63 concessions

Tutor: Henrietta Corbett

Create rich imagery in texture and line in this spontaneous technique where the artist cuts directly into cardboard, essentially drawing with a knife. Experiment with painterly marks, cutting shapes and lines using heavily embossed pattern. Adding carborundum grit gives an extra dimension producing strong, rich, textural images. Maximum 8 people.

Telephone: 0116 255 3634
Email: info@leicesterprintworkshop.com
For further information click here

Henrietta Corbett

FOLD, STITCH AND GLUE
An Introduction to Book-Making

26 and 27 June

Leicester Print Workshop, 50 St Stephens Road, Highfields, Leicester LE2 1GG

10am - 4pm

£115 / £103 concessions

Led by Sarah Kirby

Learn a range of simple book structures including single section sewing, accordian folds and Japanese stab binding to produce a series of original and unique hard and soft back books. Maximum 10 people.

Telephone: 0116 255 3634
For further information click here

Sarah Kirby

COURSES & WORKSHOPS

Courses, Workshops and Tuition available throughout this year

ART CLASSES WITH SCOTT BRIDGWOOD

Tues, Wed & Thu

Address: Gallery 3, (above Tippetts the florists), 17 The Parade, Oadby
Time: Tue evenings 6:00-8:00pm | Wed & Thu 1:00-3:30pm
Fee: £10.00-12.00 per session

Scott Bridgwood is offering art classes in:
Life Drawing: Tuesday evenings from 6.00-8.00pm
Portraiture: Wednesdays from 1.00-3.30pm
Still Life: Thursdays from 1.00-3.30pm

For further details about the classes and fees please contact Scott Bridgwood.

Telephone: 0779 272 9417

Scott Bridgwood

LANGTON STUDIOS
Classes and Workshops with Mary Rodgers

Langton Studios
Main Street, East Langton, near Market Harborough, Leics LE16 7TW

Courses and classes take place all year round in this purpose built studio and painter’s garden, looking over the Welland Valley.  Courses are available for absolute beginners and experienced artists, and for both small groups and individuals, with restricted numbers for personal interaction with the tutor. 

Mary Rodgers tutors at heritage locations and directs workshops for art societies. She has an established reputation in watercolours, oils and pastels. She exhibits in the UK, France and Italy.

Current courses

Tuesday mornings: Watercolour for improvers
Wednesday mornings: Drawing for beginners and improvers
Thursday mornings: Painting and Drawing workshops
Watercolour for beginners
Summer School 2009 - bookings accepted
Individual Tuition and Special Interest Groups

Telephone: 01858 545 365
Email: reception@langtonstudios.com
For further information about the courses and gallery click here

Mary Rodgers

GENERAL PAINTING & DRAWING CLASS

Every Thursday

Address: Fosse Art Centre, Mantle Road, Leicester
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Ongoing throughout the year.

Telephone: 0116 222 1904

Peter Clayton

ART CLASS FOR PEOPLE RECOVERING FROM A STROKE

Every Thursday

Address: Fosse Art Centre, Mantle Road, Leicester
Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm

Ongoing throughout the year.

Telephone: 0116 222 1904

Peter Clayton

ADVENTURES IN ART

2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month

Address: Oadby Free Church, North Memorial Hall, Stoughton Road, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4FL
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm during term-time

This is a church based group, so we just suggest a contribution of £2.00 each time to help with materials.

Email: art@oefc.co.uk
Click here to visit the OEFC website

Art Group

Margaret Chapman

PAINTING LIGHT
Life drawing with Scott Bridgwood

Fridays from 2 - 4.30 pm

Address: The Richard Attenborough Centre, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 7HA
Dates: 10 weeks from 11 January - 27th March 2010 (halfterm break 15th February)
Time: 2:00-4.30pm
Course Fee: £125.00/£62.00

Life drawing on Friday afternoons with Scott Bridgwood. Discover the varied ways of capturing light on the human body, where colour is implicit and the emphasis is on the effects of light and shade rather than anatomical detail

Telephone: 0116 252 2455
Email: arts-centre@le.ac.uk
www.le.ac.uk/racentre

Life Class

Scott Bridgwood