| Happy New Year from the Willow Gallery & Café | | A WAY OF SEEING WITH REG TURRELL
Homeward
 I did this painting after a day trip into Wales when we were allowed over the border. I wanted to portray a brisk walk in January on a cold, clear morning. When I thought I'd finished, I puzzled over why it didn't convey what I'd wanted. After a while it became obvious: it needed a figure walking! | | | | NEW YEAR EXHIBITION
Until 5 March
Featuring new works created by Borderland Visual Arts plus our
Winter Open Exhibition for you to explore | | DAVID BANNISTER
Disturbing the Waters
Acrylic on board  LESLEY FISHER
Night Sky
Acrylic on canvas
 JANIE MCLEOD
Night Sky above the Bay
Oil and graphite on canvas | | | UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
MIXED SPRING EXHIBITION: 12 March-30 April
Including works by Margaret Charman, Maggie Furmanek, Judith Harrison, Jaci Hogan, Alison Holt and Sara Piper Heap
BORDERLAND VISUAL ARTS: 7 May-25 June
Including Artists' Open Studios 11 & 12 June and 18 & 19 June
SHROPSHIRE GUILD OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFT: Summer 2022
Beautiful handmade crafts | | | Drawing Portraits with David Bannister
Sat 12 March, 10am-4pm ? £60
David will guide you through the principles and techniques that will enable you to continue to develop your portrait drawing with style and confidence. Everyone from beginners to more advanced are welcome. | | | Felted Art: Skies & Skylines
with Susan Mulcock
Sat 26 March, 10am-4pm ? £60
Experiment with various types of fibre to give the effect of different types of cloud, before producing your own sunrise/sunset picture. Bring along some images to inspire you. | | | Scraggly Lines - Experimental Drawing
with Peter Monaghan
Sat 2 April, 10am-4pm ? £60
With an emphasis on exploratory and experimental work, transfer line drawings into paintings while retaining the energy of a sketch, using line weights to add depth and interest. | | | Clashing Colours
with Peter Monaghan
Sun 3 April, 10am-4pm ? £60
Using acrylic and ink on board, canvas or paper, mix and match high-contrast colours in unexpected combinations and purposely clash colours to co-exist as happy partners. | | | Mosaics with Lindsey Kennedy
Sat 9 April, 10am-4pm ? £75
Perfect for the mosaic beginner, you will be introduced to a wide range of glass and ceramic materials, tools and techniques required to create coasters, hearts or a decorative panel. | | | Light and Landscape with David Bannister
Sat 23 April, 10am-4pm ? £60
Working from your own reference photographs or drawings, and taking inspiration from great landscape artists of the past, use water-based paints, colour, contrast and tone to explore methods of capturing light in landscape art. | | | Still Life in Batik with Jenny O'Leary
Sat 30 April, 10am-4pm ? £60
Work with hot wax, bleach, inks and paper to create a still-life composition in batik. Suitable for any level of experience (beginners will be taught from scratch): bring a few favourite objects for inspiration. | | | Create a Lutradur Tealight Holder
with Sylvia Stead
Sat 14 May, 10am-4pm ? £70
Working with lutradur (a polyester fabric-like material great for textile art), make a tealight holder in the colour of your choice, embellished with embroidery and beading. All materials and equipment supplied. | | | Handbuilt Ceramics with Sara Piper Heap
Sat/Sun 21 & 22 May, 10am-4pm each day ? £120
Using simple tools, learn to create and decorate slab-formed ceramics. Slab-building is the oldest method of making pots and is great for students with no previous clay experience. Your pieces will be glazed and fired, then made available for collection. | | | Felted Art: Waterfall Weekend
with Susan Mulcock
Sat/Sun 4 & 5 June, 10am-4pm each day ? £120
Experiment with different ways of using fibres to show rock formations and moving water, then look at how to structure and layer a more complex image. to produce your own waterfall picture. | | | Landscapes in Batik with Jenny O'Leary
Sat 2 July, 10am-4pm ? £60
Use the ancient technique of wax resist to create beautiful landscape effects. Tutor Jenny's own batik paintings are notable for their rich colours and blending. All abilities welcome - beginners are taught step by step, and nobody is left behind. | | | BATIKS INSPIRED BY JOHN PIPER
The artist John Piper loved British landscapes and often used them as inspiration for his artwork. He particularly liked to focus on objects in the landscape such as monuments, churches and landmarks. Using his work as inspiration at her November workshop, textile artist Jenny O'Leary demonstrated to her students a variety of techniques to create batiks in his adventurous and unique style.
 Using wax to create their batik designs, students found the workshop a lovely, creative experience - and would encourage others to discover the beauty and possibilities of this fascinating art. | | | | OTHER LOCAL EVENTS & INFORMATION | | SHOCK HORROR!
Briefly, on December 17, Oswestry became the centre of the universe as the world's press - according to the Shropshire Star - descended on the town in response to the news that the North Shropshire parliamentary constituency - in the hands of the Conservative party for nigh on 200 years - had been taken with a handsome majority by the Liberal Democrats in the by-election held the day before.
Using the backdrop of the Oswestry Station building, the winning candidate, Helen Morgan, in pink, commits to working for the best interest of all the people of North Shropshire. | |  Sickert: A Life in Art
At the Walker Gallery, Liverpool
A major exhibition showcasing around 100 paintings and 200 drawings by Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) See in one of the country's best galleries how this artist chronicled Britain during a period of rapid change. Sickert was drawn into the messy realness of society and was often inspired by music hall, theatrical life and urban scenes.
Suspense, c1916 Born in Munich, Sickert moved to Britain as a child. As a young artist, he worked as an apprentice to the American painter James McNeill Whistler who, along with French Impressionist Edgar Degas, greatly influenced Sickert's early work. A prominent figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism, he was also one of the first artists to work from photographs. | | | | LATE CONSTABLE At the Royal Academy of Arts, London
Until 13 February One of Britain's best-loved artists had a radical side that definitely deserves to be seen. Bringing together over 50 works (paintings and oil sketches as well as watercolours, drawings and prints), this intriguing exhibition explores the free and expressive brushwork that came to define Constable's late career. |  Stonehenge (1835) Rainstorm over the Sea (c1824-28) | |  Pantone Color
of the Year 2022:a 'happy periwinkle blue'
For its 2022 Color of the Year, American colour company Pantone has for the first time created a brand-new shade: Pantone 17-3938 'Veri Peri', a vibrant periwinkle blue with violet-red undertones, described as 'the happiest and warmest of all blue hues'.
Pantone's Color of the Year has been going for 23 years. The colour selected is supposed to sum up the mood of the year, influencing products across fashion, home décor and industrial design.This year's 'Veri Peri', says the company, blends 'the faithfulness and constancy of blue with the energy and excitement of red' and was designed to 'evoke the glowing touchscreens of the digital world and the creative possibilities of the future'. That may sound a little pretentious to some - but expect to see this colour popping up everywhere! | | | Tel: 01691 657575
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