News and events in the autumn 2013

First apologies for seeming to fall off the face of the earth - I cant believe my last post was December 2012.  Its been a busy year, starting off with an amazing trip to New Zealand where I spent 2 1/2 months visiting family and friends and re-charging my batteries - giving the odd talk and exhibition, and re-establishing contact with arty friends.

 
 Came back to a lovely summer here, getting back to work and  I'm busy with exhibitions this autumn so have a lot coming up.  One new direction is a series of black and white embossed unique monoprints and drawings, which will be showing along with my more colourful embossed watercolours this autumn.

My own solo show in London at the Curwen Gallery is coming up: 3 - 26 October. 

private view 2 Oct 6-8pm. details 

www.curwengallery.com

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I'm also an invited artist in Pure Art Group show at Powdermills Hotel, where samples of my new Black and white works can be seen. 

Powder Mills Hotel,Powdermill Lane, Battle TN33 OSP  

Fri 13 Sept - Sun 22 Sept10 - 6 details: 

www.purefineart.org.uk

One of my embossed watercolours, Joy I (see above), will be shown at the 

Sunday Times Watercolour Competition exhibition 

at the Mall Galleries, London, from 

16 - 21 September. details: 

www.mallgalleries.org.uk

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The DVD has been out almost a year now, and I am thrilled with the response - posting copies all over the world. I have ordered a second printing recently.See below for the playlist. Further details below if you'd like to order it.

TO PURCHASE

UK: post free.  Send a cheque, for £29.99, made out to Brenda Hartill , including your postal address to

Pound House, Udimore, Rye, East sussex, TN31 6BA.  We will post the next day.

Overseas: pay by paypal.  email brenda.hartill@gmail.com to ask for a paypal request to be emailed to you.  Tell us your country of residence so we can calculate the postage before sending the request form.  Then simply pay by credit or debit card, fill in your postal address and paypal will notify us when payment has been made.   We will send by airmail the next working day.

COMMENTS FROM RECENT PURCHASERS of the DVD:

I recently purchased your wonderful DVD series. I must say I have truly enjoyed watching them. II hope it is a great success for you and I hope it will not be your last! I want to watch them again and look forward to producing some nice prints using your methods. I wanted to say "Thank you" for sharing your process with others. It's nice to know there are artists that will share a few of their secrets.

Thank you Brenda. Your printers Dawn and Nicola are awesome!!

Phil Bivins, North Carolina USA

I am just watching it now and I am so mesmerized. Your work is amazing and I am beginning to understand how the plates are made. Thank you again for putting all this information out there for all to learn by.

Roberta Warshaw, Brookline, MA USA

The DVDs have arrived and I've watched them several times.  As a relative newcomer to printmaking I found the DVDs very easy to listen to and understand the methods explained. I also found the discussion about your creative process was equally interesting and insightful.  One of the main messages from the DVDs for me is to get out into the studio and start experimenting to develop my own creative language and style.  Thanks for imparting your expertise Brenda.  

Ellen Bennett, Mudgee, Australia

I’ve received your DVDs and must congratulate you on a thoroughly well thought out and well done job. Thank you so much for revealing how you do what you do (and do so well, I might add!). Your years
of trial and error with materials and methods have been handed to us on a platter and I must say that
it is very generous of you and much appreciated.

Caryl Peters, publisher Frog Hollow Press

Have just watched your DVD for 2nd time and I love it.  It is so generous of you to do this and I shall refer to it time and time again.  

Gerry McLoughlin, Norbury, Staffs UK

Bravo! For producing a wonderful DVD set which I received this week. Have already watched a couple of times. Thank you for your continued generosity as I am transported back to Udimore every time I watch it. There is a lovely ambiance in the DVD which is added to by the presence of Nicola and Dawn in the studio of course.

Jen Nieuwenhof Australia.

I am about three quarters of the way through watching your dvd's and I just have to say how fantastic they are.

Thank you so much for putting this information together, and the prints are an absolute visual delight.

I am taking my time watching these, about an hour at a time once or twice per week, as you have been so generous with your knowledge that I need time to take it all in.

I just wanted to say thank you very much for putting the videos together and being kind enough to sell them, they are extremely

inspiring.  I just need to find the time to get into the studio and put some of it into practice.  

Elizabeth Burton Australia

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Finally my winter Open Studio in Sussex will be on the first full weekend in December, 

December 7 & 8, from 11am - 4pm 

If the weather is really bad we will probably open the following weekend - ring!

OAST HOUSE GALLERY

Pound House,

Udimore, Rye, East Sussex.

TN31 6BA

Tel:01424 882 942

I'll be selling my unique cards and we will be demonstrating printing small prints and cards. see my website www.brendahartill.com for details

 www.brendahartill.com/events

BRENDA'S OPEN STUDIO IN RYE

BRENDA HARTILL

EXHIBITION & OPEN STUDIO

OAST HOUSE GALLERY 

Sat 8th & Sun 9th December 11am - 4pm

Other times are possible by appointment

Oast House Gallery Open Studio, Last June

Pound House, Udimore, Rye, East Sussex, TN31 6BA

www.brendahartill.com  brenda.hartill@gmail.com 01424 882 942

Small and large, framed and unframed unique paintings and prints, 

hand-made cards, only available at the Open Studio, 

50% off selected works

A selection of works on show this year.  I have been doing mainly my embossed watercolours this year, but will have a large selection of imited edition collagraphs and etchings available to buy

 

Blue Wind I, Embossed watercolour

Rainbow Storm III embossed watercolour,33x43cm

Nightland X, embossed watercolour 12x18cm

Lightening VI, embossed watercolour, 56x58cm

Blue Structure I, embossed watercolour

Blue Layer I, mixed-media Collage.  Just back from Italy
Prize winner Chiaciano  International Art Exhibition, at the Art Museum

Greenflow I, embossed watercolour 20x12cm

DVD NEWS

My new DVD, Collagraph and mixed-media printmaking: selling for 29.99 - packed with all sorts of info about making collagraphs, plaster prints, carborundum, gold and silver leaf, and my special printing method called "the rubs" For more details see my website www.brendahartill.com

I have had some very encouraging feedback from all over the world. 

I recently purchased your wonderful DVD series. I must say I have truly enjoyed watching them. II hope it is a great success for you and I hope it will not be your last! I want to watch them again and look forward to producing some nice prints using your methods. I wanted to say "Thank you" for sharing your process with others. It's nice to know there are artists that will share a few of their secrets.

Thank you Brenda. Your printers Dawn and Nicola are awesome!!

Phil Bivins, North Carolina USA

I am just watching it now and I am so mesmerized. Your work is amazing and I am beginning to understand how the plates are made. Thank you again for putting all this information out there for all to learn by.

Roberta Warshaw, Brookline, MA USA

The DVDs have arrived and I've watched them several times.  As a relative newcomer to printmaking I found the DVDs very easy to listen to and understand the methods explained. I also found the discussion about your creative process was equally interesting and insightful.  One of the main messages from the DVDs for me is to get out into the studio and start experimenting to develop my own creative language and style.  Thanks for imparting your expertise Brenda. 

Ellen Bennett, Mudgee, Australia

I’ve received your DVDs and must congratulate you on a thoroughly well thought out and well done job. Thank you so much for revealing how you do what you do (and do so well, I might add!). Your years
of trial and error with materials and methods have been handed to us on a platter and I must say that
it is very generous of you and much appreciated.

Caryl Peters, publisher Frog Hollow Press

Have just watched your DVD for 2nd time and I love it.  It is so generous of you to do this and I shall refer to it time and time again.  

Gerry McLoughlin, Norbury, Staffs UK

Bravo! For producing a wonderful DVD set which I received this week. Have already watched a couple of times. Thank you for your continued generosity as I am transported back to Udimore every time I watch it. There is a lovely ambiance in the DVD which is added to by the presence of Nicola and Dawn in the studio of course.

Jen Nieuwenhof Australia.

Thanks to all those artists who took the trouble to give me feedback!

DVD now available

COLLAGRAPH  A SCULPTURAL APPROACH TO PRINTMAKING DVD NOW AVAILABLE After a long silence, for which I apologise (again) I would like to announce  that my long-promised DVD is finally published.  When I started this project, I was blown away by how much detailed information could be imparted by my amazing high definition panasonic movie camera.  With no special lighting  the camera was able to go in very close on plates being inked up, prints being pulled, and  demonstrations of platemaking, showing every detail.  All the filming was done in the studio, either by me or my then assistants Nicola Jackson and  Dawn Cole,(Dawn has now left to go on to do more of her own thing).  The great advantage  of doing it ourselves, was that when something interesting was happening, we didn't have to  book a film crew, but simply whipped out the camera,and of course we could keep the cost  under control.  I won't win any prizes for smooth presenting, but I do feel that the DVD goes  a long way to showing how I approach my work, how to make collagraph plates,  and print them I have spent the last 4 years compiling the DVD which contains 16 short films and a slideshow of selected available prints, and which give an insight into the  processes which I employ to create my sculptural print works: collagraph, etching and  mixed-media. The construction and printing of collagraph and etching projects, interviews, courses, a  catalogue of selected available works, as well as practical studio demos, and print-making  tips, make this series of films of interest to the art lover, print collector, student, teacher  & printmaker. Towards the end I was lucky to find Kevin Law of Klaw Productions who helped me  brilliantly to pull it all together, levelling the sound, adjusting the music, and adding images  and text to make it more interesting and understandable.  He also insisted I redo all my many  voice-overs, because of the background hiss made by recording directly into the computer!! If you would like to order the DVD please email brenda.hartill@gmail.com 3 1/2 hour DVD on 2 disks: Launch price £29.99 I send post free in the UK, just send a cheque made out Brenda Hartill with your mailing address to: Brenda Hartill Pound House Udimore, Rye, East Sussex, TN31 6BA For overseas customers, please email asking  for a paypal request, telling me your  address, and I will calculate the postage, and send you the request.   I will then mail out the DVD shortly after I receive the payment ALSO AVAILABLE: Collagraph, and Mixed-Media Printmaking, a book  published by A&C Black and a new Pure book What's the Story - artists talking about original printmaking in which I feature along with other selected artists,   Both these books are available on Amazon

Apologies for long delay in publishing on this blog - too much happening in my life. I will try to do better.  Should be uploading a new video shortly.

Events to look out for below:

Talk at Ochre Print Studios

Thursday 3 May 7pm - tickets £10, please book

This talk will cover the range of techniques 

Brenda uses to create her etchings and collagraphs, as well as the use of 

print in painting, collage,mixed-media and encaustic works

Ochre Print Studio Lockwood Day Centre, Westfield Rd,

Skyfield Industrial Estate, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 1RR

tel: 07988 229 763 www.ochreprintstudio.co.uk info@ochreprintstudio.co.uk

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ARDQUIN FINE ARTS

Group Exhibition

Brenda Hartill Michael Clarke and Anthony Murphy 

15 may - 7 June

private view Monday 14 May

6.30 - 8.30

www.ardquinfinearts.co.uk

Ardquin Fine Arts

15 Junction Place,

Haslemere,

Surrey

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There will be an Open Studio in 
June  this year, 
as part of the South East Open Studios

June 9 & 10, 2012

June 15, 16, 2012

11-5pm

Demonstration of printing from 1.00pm on Sunday10th June, 

and video demos throughout the two weekends

POUND HOUSE, UDIMORE, RYE, EAST SUSSEX,  TN31 6BA

More information:01424882942, brenda.hartill@gmail.com