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Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Art Workshops

Printmaking Workshop:

Saturday 11th June 2011 – 10-1.30pm

Room: Print Room in the 150 Building

Tutor: Peter Bright

West Buckland School, Barnstaple, Devon EX32 0SX

Course Aims:

A hands on introduction to woodcuts and how to create a series of prints. Within the time frame it is hoped that each participating member will be able to create a finished image. The techniques shown will be simple ‘kitchen table’ processes that will be easy to replicate at home.

Read more about my work .. .

Equipment needed: All materials are provided.

Additional costs: No additional costs.

Refreshments: Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.

Location:West Buckland School, Barnstaple. As you turn onto the school site, take the left turning to the car park. The 150 building is located adjacent to the main car park, and the front door is at the far end of the building as you walk towards it.

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Friday, 25 March 2011

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Printmaking Course in North Devon

Peter Bright (aka This Window) will be giving a hands on introduction to woodcuts and how to create prints at West Buckland School in North Devon (UK). Within the time frame it is hoped that each participating member will be able to create a finished image. The techniques he will be introducing will be simple 'kitchen table' processes that will be easy to replicate at home. Read more about his work...

Printmaking Workshop:

Saturday 11th June 10-1.30pm £28.75

(venue: West Buckland School, NorthDevon, UK)

For further details of the available courses, or to request a booking form please contact Karen Wicks kaw@westbuckland.devon.sch.uk or telephone 01598 760281.

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Peter Bright - Artist

What do people who spend their working days in front of the computer do when they get home? Do they turn on their PC or Mac straight away and eat diner in front of it gaming or searching for porn?

Computers drive me nuts, they are so predictable - they conk out or create the same prescriptive rubbish over and over again....

This is what I do, which probably proves my words of warning to my kids, "You spend to much time in front of that computer, it will drive you insane' - I think I have!

I have begun a series of prints called “Saint Austell” - a saint from the 6th century who was a confessor and disciple of St. Newman of Cornwall, England. Modern scholars believe that Austell was a woman named Hoystill, a daughter of Brychan of Wales. Her (?) feastday is June 28.

Q U O T E

Christianity with its unchangeable principles, and without misjudging the justifiable demands of the age, undertakes to guide the woman movement also into the right path. The life-task of woman is a double one.

As an individual woman has the high destiny obligatory upon every human being of acquiring moral perfection.
As a member of the human race woman is called in union with man to represent humanity and to develop it on all sides.

A D V E R T

Broomhill Art Hotel near Barnstaple, Devon still have a few of Peter Bright's paintings available for sale. Examples of his work are in collections in the USA, Switzerland, France and many other European countries.

Address: Broomhill Art Hotel, Barnstaple, Devon, EX31 4EX

Website: www.broomhillart.co.uk

Email: info@broomhillart.co.uk

Telephone: 01271 850262

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A new exhibition of prints and smaller works is planned for June 2011. Below is an extract from his blog:

In preparation for an exhibition in June I have begun to draw again. My previous methodology relied on me subcontracting my creativity to either ‘chance’, allowing the medium to take partial control over the finished image or by letting the computer system deal with my creativity in its prescriptive manner – the program has ways of dealing with commands in a very limit way, hacking the software is the only way of producing images that are different from our everyday visual blitzkrieg of imagery…we are subjected to via the Internet, the printed page and video.

Going back to the basic skills of drawing is an interesting excursion – a journey I’m not sure I will complete. Drawing a life model for the first times in decades was a bit daunting but old tricks and shortcuts were soon remembered and in many respects drawing is a bit like riding a bicycle.

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Tuesday, 29 March 2011

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