ISOLartION – a glimpse through Lesley’s studio window
Lesley Rumble has shared her lockdown story with us A few weeks before the lockdown, my husband was diagnosed with cancer, which sent us reeling into despair. Determined not to let the illness defeat us, we got on with coping as best we could. I…
Postcard challenge results
Since May 15th, we have been running a Painting Positive Postcards competition to help Vandy Massey get closer to her 1000 paintings for charity initiative – Running with Brushes. She received 103 postcards from members and friends in the 6 weeks of the competition with…
ISOLartION – A glimpse through Surinder’s studio window
Surinder Beerh shared his lockdown journey with us, as well as some of his new pieces. The last twelve weeks have not been easy at all. I had my son and his family move into our house due to COVID. They are based in London…
ISOLartION – a glimpse through Helen’s studio window
Helen Clarke has been very productive during lockdown – here is her isolartion story. Somehow having an empty diary has felt very refreshing. I have painted most days and started illustrating a collection of my poems. It also gave me the chance to re-organise my…
ISOLartION – a glimpse through Astrig’s studio window
At the beginning of lockdown, Astrig Akseralian posted some lively 2 minute landscape sketches in our friends’ and members’ facebook group. They intrigued us, so we asked her to take us for a walk through the work she has been doing and how she approached…
ISOLartION – a glimpse through Annie’s studio (and classroom) window
At the beginning of our ISOLartION series, Annie Rice contacted us to let us know what she had been painting, and in passing mentioned that she was doing Facetime art classes with her grandchildren, so we asked her to share the experience. At the request…
ISOLartION – A glimpse through Sue’s studio window
Sue Downie has been making books during lockdown – she explains the process Making books I am really taken with making books. No, I don’t mean ‘How to paint bad watercolours in 5 minutes’ but unique artwork in book form. Until I started making books…
ISOLartION – a glimpse through Alan’s studio window
Since the beginning of lockdown, Alan Noyes has been amusing himself and the Hawkedon regulars with cartoons that illustrate life in lockdown, real and imagined. On April 24th he sent out a series about laying turf, with this message: It has been a while but…
ISOLartION – a glimpse through Anthony’s studio window
This painting by Anthony Mashman, was chosen for our Spring Exhibition poster. Sadly, the exhibition was postponed. It is such a lovely image, we have decided to use it for our next exhibition poster as well. Anthony was kind enough to share a bit of…
ISOLartION – a glimpse through Vandy’s studio window
Vandy Massey has found it hard to tackle large paintings during these uncertain times, but luckily, she has a marathon art project to finish and would like others to join her. VE was poignant for me – it reminded me of my grandparents and their…