Exhibition this weekend ...................further info!

Update on guest exhibitors .........................below are highlights from our four new guest exhibitors

Joan Lumkin - with some of her fun and pretty stuffed toys and dolls - perfect gifts for a child's birthday or Christmas. Joan used to design for the Jaeger fashion house - their bridal gowns. Since retiring she has focused her talents on crafting and quilting. Her craft work is beautifully finished and often involves a lot of hand finishing.

Zoe Rubens will be exhibiting her stunning metal sculptures ................... they range from small pieces to quite large  sculptural pieces. Bertoli oil cans reworked into funky watering cans - nuts, bolts, and screws fused into Christmas trees and fun items of jewellery plus some prints of her work. Check out her work here 

Zoe Rubens

 

This is her latest piece 'BIRD' and it is coming to the show

I just love it! 

A selection of Zoe's work - fun and funky! 

Zoes' metal bird - is it not a stunning piece! 

I know she will be bringing this and other larger pieces.

Beryl Scott from Felixstowe - a printmaker - she will have some of her prints framed and others mounted - ideal if you want something that little bit different to put in that space on the wall to add that finishing touch or an unique gift for someone who has moved into a new house. I bought some of her prints at Art on the Prom - some really funky chickens! I cant wait to see what she will bring for this weekend ............
here are some of the prints she had on Art on the Prom ......................

Butterflies

Teapots 

The Salon 

Morning Cockerel

Jim Nind will be recreating his installation he created for Art on the Prom - below is a photograph I took of it. He will also have lovely colourful prints of his work and his book relating to his current work - so something to read on those forthcoming dark winter nights! See more of his work here :  

Jim Nind

Some of Jim's art work and free form hangings being admired on the Prom at Felixstowe 

He will be bringing a selection of these to Wolverstone 

Jim Nind's installation ' Bottles in the Sand' 

or is it ..................

'Message in a  Bottle'  there sadly will be no sand or sea at Wolverstone! 

Jim writes:  I have decided to focus on the idea of ‘the pull of the sea’ and will use the idea of ‘message in a bottle’ as the theme and working title. The installation will feature a number of bottles (plastic for Health and safety purposes) situated amongst old ropes, drift wood, stones, shells etc. Each bottle will contain a ‘message’ in the form of photographs overlaid with texts. The texts will draw upon literary and cultural sources and will be embedded in the photographs. The photographs will feature East Anglian coastal localities

Hundreds of bottles with different messages in linked and tied together with rope, and other found objects from the beach - anyway Jim will be recreating this interactive freeform sculpture in the forecourt of the High School - so you can read pick up or move the bottles. 

So people will act like the tide moving and shaping the work 

All very exciting - first time we will have something like this - so please do come and take part - not only in this interactive art work but in our exhibition as well 

The best of local crafts, from the Shotley peninsula and local area  will be on display and for sale 

in the Green Room and Orangery 

Plus of course you can take a break and enjoy a cup of tea/coffee and a gorgeous cake 

The exhibition will be stewarded by the Peninsula Craft Society members - so plenty of informed craftsmen/women to talk to about the work on display and their work 

So please do come to chat to the exhibitors about their work, and enjoy not only the items on display and for sale but the lovely surroundings of the school buildings and grounds and of course the refreshments available. 

We hope to see you over the weekend!