Monthly Archives: June 2013

Carved and colourful

Lina Peterson in G5 will be exhibiting work in wood, plastics and textiles including a new body of carved colourful brooches, necklaces and earrings at Open Studios.

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Times Square & the scale of the spectacle

“I recently went to New York. Times Square was amazing, the scale of the spectacle made it feel like an encounter with a dramatic natural landscape.  Since then I’ve been painting a series of spaces across the city, further exploring  … Continue reading

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Portraits and 3D collages

Since Brian Innes’ 60th Retrospective Exhibition last December, he has continued to work with a new series of 3D collages as well as a new collection of paintings, which are based on the theme of ‘portraits’.

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Warped Light

For Open Studios Tamsin van Essen in G4 will be showing her series of slip-cast bone china lighting ‘Warped Light’. The design is based on traditional Chinese paper lanterns. “I wanted to recreate the concertina effect of these lanterns using bone … Continue reading

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Fascination of the natural world

Keith Ashley in F1 creates paintings, sculpture and ceramics. As ever, the natural world provides the fascination for Keithʼs work. In pencil and oil and on unstretched canvas, the paintings are spontaneous and intuitive so that the result is both … Continue reading

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Fish platters and artichokes

  Sophie MacCarthy in G1 creates ceramics which are thrown and slip-painted earthenware. When they are dry Sophie paints a range of coloured slips sometimes over stencils or wax resist, or both, overlapping the colours to produce greater tonal depth. This … Continue reading

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Tea, cake and summer

Chocolate Factory artists enjoying lashings of afternoon tea, cake and summer in our pretty cobbled courtyard, nestled in a quiet street between Dalston and Stoke Newington.

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At Open Studios…

At Open Studios there are many things to explore including ceramics, fine art, design, prints and lighting. This is Machine No 1, a kinetic sculpture by artist and production designer Alice Power, being investigated here by Bella.

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Busy at work

Chocolate Factory ceramist Akiko Hirai busy at work in her studio.

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New RUDE furniture and textiles

  New from the Chocolate Factory’s RUDE who “make Cushions, Stationery, T-Shirts, Prints & Furniture for our own brand Rude and we make stuff for other people like National Theatre Cards and Doctor Who Tea Pots.” New RUDE furniture and … Continue reading

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