Category: events
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All you lovely people…
Massive thanks to all the lovely people who braved the most unpleasant weather last weekend and came over to Ivinghoe to support the Discover group in our pre-Christmas Art Fair. It was an excellent few days for local artists, with a number of other groups also staging fairs and exhibitions, and really shows what amazing talents…
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Discover go to Ivinghoe…
Just a week away now from our Discover Original Art Fair in Ivinghoe, which means a heady mixture of excitement and mild panic as we try to get everything ready in time. I know many followers here live far too far away to visit us in person, but if you are near Ivinghoe next weekend,…
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We’re here…
Just in time for summer – or so it seems – we’ve opened our latest Discover Original Art exhibition in Datchworth, Hertfordshire. I’m still pinching myself, I’m so thrilled to be hanging out with the rest of these brilliant artists. We’re at the Mardleybury Gallery until 28th June, open Wednesdays to Sundays – and most…
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June at Mardleybury Gallery…
Only 48 hours away now from the opening of our latest Discover Original Art exhibition, at Mardleybury Gallery, Datchworth, Hertfordshire. Excitement is now taking over from panic – although it’s perfectly possible that panic may set in again before we finally open to the public! Only joking, I’m sure everything is under control… There will be…
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Discover goes to Mardleybury Gallery…
I’m absolutely delighted to be able to break my stitchy purdah, with the news that the Discover Artists are going to be exhibiting together again in June – this time we’ll be at Mardlebury Gallery, Datchworth, near Knebworth. For this exhibition, we’re also being joined by a couple of new artists – more details coming…
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It’s the final countdown…
There’s a wonderfully informative and motivational book I once read, called ‘I’d Rather Be In The Studio’, by Alyson Stanfield. (You can read her blog here). When I first discovered the book, I was just beginning to recognise that I’d found my preferred medium, and was simply stitching, all the time, so I read Alyson’s ‘how…
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Discover Sarah Russell
So thrilled this morning to highlight the work of local artist and participant in the forthcoming Discover Original Art Fair, Sarah Russell. Sarah describes her inspirations… I am interested in creating a place where I would want to be. I aim to portray an emotional response to landscape…and my journey to the studio and…
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Discover Jenny Smith McOnie…
I’m delighted to introduce you to the artist Jenny Smith-McOnie, who will be showing her sublime work at the Discover Original Art Fair on the 29th & 30th November. Jenny Smith-McOnie creates original hand-made prints on paper and specialises in the collagraph and drypoint printmaking techniques. Much of Jenny’s time is spent in Wigtownshire in…
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Discover Jan Drury…
Visitors to our forthcoming Discover Original Art Fair, will have the wonderful pleasure of seeing ‘up close and personal’, the abstract works from artist Jan Drury. Jan creates superb pieces, using many different media, gradually applied in layers, each contributing to the overall beauty and mystery of the finished work. These layers draw you into the experience,…
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Discover Joanne Bowes
Landscapes and the patterns created in nature, feature prominently in the delicious work of Joanne Bowes, who will be one of the eight local artists exhibiting at Discover – 29th & 30th November. Joanne is an established, professional artist, who achieved Foundation Diploma (Best in Year End Show), and Fda in Fashion and Surface Pattern Design, both…
Ann Pawley 