Aug 23, 2024 | Blog, News
Congratulations to Bill Simpson, whose painting in oil, Blue Peter, won this year’s Visitors’ Choice, with 21 votes.
Debbie Peaty was the runner-up with 18 votes for New River-Town Park, while D’Arcy Sallion came a close second with 17 votes for Into the Woods.
D’Arcy was the overall favourite, netting a total of 51 visitor votes, followed by Elizabeth McCrimmon, Mary Horsfield and Pam Riley.
To see these artists’ work and others from our recent show, visit the exhibition, which continues online.
Aug 9, 2024 | Blog, News
Don’t miss our annual summer exhibition, now open at Capel Manor Gardens until 17 August.
Come along and meet our artist members, like Bill and Steve (pictured), who will be stewarding each day and keen to chat with visitors.
The work on show is all by local artists, in a wide range of styles and mediums, including oil, acrylic, watercolour, pastel, digital painting and mixed media.
Many works feature local Enfield scenes, such as Forty Hall, Gentleman’s Row and the New River. Other works cover animals, birds, still life, landscape, seascapes, trains, boats and planes, and much more.
Most of the work on show is for sale, with prices starting at £50.
Apr 24, 2024 | Blog, News
We enjoyed a stimulating talk in April from Bruce Pearson on being An Artist in the Natural World.
Taking a dynamic approach to working in the field, Bruce aims to capture moments in nature through drawing and painting, letting his attention be drawn by whatever is happening around him.
Working instinctively, he often draws on a roll of B&Q lining paper, using twigs, grass and any other natural materials that come to hand.
Bruce distils the day’s experience through ‘evening sketchbooks’ and then works up his final compositions in the studio, letting his imagination work on all that he’s observed.
Mixing watercolour, graphite, oil pastel and coloured pencil, he aims to create multi-layered compositions with a sense of tension, a moment suspended in time.
‘A painting is an evolving surface,’ says Bruce. ‘A piece of paper can’t recreate the texture of an iceberg that’s millions of years old. You are trying to convey essential rather than literal truth.’
He also speaks about the importance of giving back, of ‘putting art into service’. His exhibition and book, Troubled Waters, which explored the decline in albatross species over a decade, helped to raise awareness and inspire positive action in wildlife conservation.
Mar 11, 2024 | Blog, News
This superb drawing in graphite pencil of a gardener at Forty Hall in Enfield, by EAC artist Elizabeth McCrimmon, is on display in central London this week.
He Tends the Garden is on show at the Society of Graphic Fine Art exhibition at the Mall Galleries near St James’s Park from Monday 11 to Saturday 16 March.
Mar 2, 2024 | Blog, News
This beautiful acrylic, Mismatched, by EAC member Mary Horsfield, is on display at the Royal Society of British Artists annual exhibition from 29 February to 9 March.
Feb 12, 2024 | Blog, News
Fascinating workshop with Kim Amis for our February gathering, with a good turnout despite the awful weather! We drew bugs, working from images provided by Kim, using soft pencil to create the images and then lifting out some of the pencil marks to create light and movement.
Jan 26, 2024 | Blog, News, Thursday Meeting Event
Our Thursday meetings got off to a great start in January, with a stimulating demo from artist Keith Morton on painting a portrait in acrylics. Keith uses a limited palette of primary colours to focus on a careful construction of the face to underpin later layers of paint. Thanks too to our model, Casey Kitchener!
Nov 23, 2023 | Blog, News
There’s a great opportunity to buy original art from local artists on Saturday 25 November, when EAC artists will be exhibiting and selling their work at St John’s church hall in Palmers Green.
The sale is on from 10.30am to 5pm in the small hall at the rear of St John’s Church, 1 Bourne Hill, Palmers Green, N13 4DA.
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