Tuesday 12th January 2015
The Causeway, The Wiltshire Downs
painted April 1937 by Eric Ravilious
(22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942).
Picture in the V&A.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1069108/the-causeway-wiltshire-downs-watercolour-eric-ravilious/
Tuesday 18th November 2014
For those people still looking for special Christmas presents, here’s a reminder that local artist Chico Holton has a large range of his limited edition pen and ink prints (numbered and signed from original drawings) of various scenes in Warminster and the surrounding villages including Bapton, Bishopstrow, Boyton, Brixton Deverill, Chitterne, Codford, Corsley, Corton, Fisherton Delamere, Heytesbury, Hill Deverill, Horningsham, Kingston Deverill, Kilmington, Knook, Longbridge Deverill, Maiden Bradley, Monkton Deverill, Norton Bavant, Sherrington, Stockton, Stourton, Sutton Veny, Tytherington, Upton Lovell, Upton Scudamore, West Knoyle, Wylye, and Zeals, for sale, price £25 each plus postage and packing, via his website:
http://www.chicoholton.com/penartist/
Chico can also be contacted by email:
or by telephone: 01985 215291.
Sunday 23rd February 2014
Magpie, the gift and art shop, at
6 East Street, Warminster, BA12 9BN,
has an artist’s studio available to rent.
Enquire inside Magpie
or telephone Julie Read, 01985 840655.
Christmas Day 2013
Here’s a card we’ve received at dannyhowell.net
this Christmas. There’s no printed message inside,
so the sender wrote her own wishes inside to us,
and she chose the card for us, she says, because she
knew we would love the picture. And yes we do!
It depicts St. Giles’ Church, Imber, and is from
a watercolour by Hilary Jackson, who lives at
Victoria Road, Warminster. Hilary is obviously
very talented and it’s wonderful to know we
have such gifted artists and creative people
living and working in Warminster. If you want to
know more about Hilary and her work, visit
www.hilaryjacksonpaintings.com
email: hilaryjackson@hilaryjacksonpaintings.com
Saturday 13th July 2013
Peter Hogarth, artist, who lives in Sutton Veny,
pictured with one of his splendid works
at Sutton Veny Flower Show
on Saturday 13th July 2013.
The photograph was taken by Danny Howell.
Peter takes commissions for portraits of
people and/or pets.
To contact him, telephone 07979 127538
or e-mail: peter.hogarth@aol.com
Dolly Mixtures, a well-established group of diverse artists will present an exciting exhibition of framed and unframed paintings, prints and cards, in a wide variety of subjects and media, at affordable prices, at Warminster Civic Centre, Sambourne Road, Warminster, BA12 8LB, during the Wylye Valley Art Trail which runs from Saturday 25th May to Sunday 2nd June 2013.
Among the Dolly Mixtures’ artists, whose work will be on display, are:
Suzy Davis, Sally Flynn, Maureen Hanman, Jilly Hazleton, Jane Hindle, Chris Johnson, Marion King, Vivian Ley, Pattie Lockett, Catherine Love, Marianne Marrs, Kay Norris, Hazel O’Hara, Mamie Pitt, Meryl Pike, Muriel Pursall, Carol Smith, Daisy Swallow, Mary Thane, Lorna Thomas, Cate Tye, and Melissa Wishart.
The group contact is Kay Norris, telephone 01985 840157.
Wednesday 1st May 2013
Artist Karen Welsh, from Boyton,
is painting a view of
the landscape near Tytherington.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Wednesday 1st May 2013.
Her chosen subject here is the landscape
across Windmill Piece to the downland,
west of Old Tin Shed, Tytherington.
The scene, with bales of elephant grass
below the downland.
Work in progress.
Karen says she moved here from Surrey
two years ago, when she first visited
the bi-annual Wylye Valley Art Trail.
Karen will be participating in this year’s
Wylye Valley Art Trail
(Saturday 25th May to Sunday 2nd June 2013).
Karen Welsh.
This painting, and others,
including one from Lord’s Hill
(also currently a work in progress)
will be exhibited and for sale
at this year’s Wylye Valley Art Trail.
Karen says this particular picture
at Tytherington, being on a large canvas,
will probably sell for about £600.
Karen is working here with oil and acrylics.
Karen says she is impressed
by “the big sky” over Tytherington.
To find out more about Karen and her work,
visit her website:
www.karenwelshcreativearts.co.uk
Karen may be contacted by email:
karen@karenwelshcreativearts.co.uk
or by telephone: 01985 851058
Wednesday 1st May 2013
It’s Art Week this week at St. George’s Catholic School, Woodcock Road, Warminster, hence this rainbow produced by some of the students, made out of recycled materials, woven into the fence by the school entrance.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell on Wednesday 1st May 2013.
Thursday 13th December 2012
Chico Holton is offering prints and originals of his pen and ink illustrations of views in Warminster and the Wylye Valley. They make an ideal Christmas gift. Telephone 01985 215291 or visit www.chicoholton.com
Friday 19th October 2012
Over the summer something was going on in Warminster.
Appearing in different businesses, cafes and pubs
in the town were display boxes with postcards in them.
The Art Team at the Warminster Festival
launched a project called Face Mail
and encouraged local residents to draw self-portraits
on the the free postcards, which were
sponsored by the Footprints Gallery in Chinn’s Court,
Warminster. The message from the Art Team was:
don’t feel intimidated – just have a go!
Danny Howell took these photographs of the Face Mail
portraits on display in the windows of the former
Intek mobile phone shop in the Three Horse Shoes Walk,
Warminster, on Friday 19th October 2012.
About 200 postcard-size portraits on display.
Below are just a few of the self-portraits:
Pat
Nikki
Hilary Jackson
Mimi
Joshua
Rebecca
A final look at the portraits.
