The Savill Garden Sculpture Exhibition

We are delighted that two of our sculptures, Sprite and Sundance, have been selected for a new sculpture exhibition in the Savill Gardens. The gardens are part of The Royal Landscape in Windsor Great Park. May be we can now say we are by 'Royal Appointment' !? 

Savill Gardens is a contemporary and classically designed garden and the exhibition will feature sculptures inspired by natural forms on show from 1st to 31st August.

Stockport Contemporary Open Art Exhibition

One of my series of paintings 'Still Here' has been selected for the new Stockport Contemporary. The exhibition runs from 25th June to 14th August at Stockport Art Gallery.

Barnaby Festival Macclesfield

We've been away in Brittany for a couple of weeks which we really enjoyed. Really sunny most of the time, fabulous coastline and lovely old towns and villages.
Back at home it's the Barnaby Festival this weekend and Susan has work in the Amuse Cafe on Chestergate selected by Fiona Bailey of the white gallery in Bollington. The exhibition will continue after the Festival until 17th July. Also over the Barnaby weekend we will have a piece of sculpture in the Lost & Found exhibition staged by Victoria Mill Artists at the Resources for Business Centre on South Park Road.
This is only the second year of the new Festival but it looks set to be a growing and well supported event.

One House Garden Sculpture Trail 2011

We are exhibiting in the One House Garden Sculpture Trail near Macclesfield again and hoping this glorious weather will continue (well, with perhaps rain at night to help the plants!) The trail is open daily 10 - 5pm from Saturday 7 May to Saturday 22 May (£3 entry, children free) with tea and homemade cakes available. The trail covers 7 acres of garden, meadow and woodland with a walled Victorian vegetable garden and restored greenhouse. There will be felt making demonstrations on Sunday afternoons. For more information see the trail website.

Northern Lines exhibition

The Artisan Art Gallery in Bolton, run by painter Rob Miller, has a new exhibition showing nine Northern artists on until the end of June with work by Pete Marsh, Ruth Moilliet, Paula Velarde, Norman Long, Janet Samson, Michael Ashcroft, Rob Miller, Joan Bradley and myself.

Metal Sky I : Susan Laughton
Gallery photos : Rob Miller (see more photos here)

Desktop

People keep admiring the well used surface of my studio desk so here is a little bits of it - about six years of built up paint here! I suppose it also gives away the limited colour palette I work with too.

Printmaking Workshop

Went to an alternative printing making workshop at the weekend where artist Kate Lynch showed interesting ways of using a home inkjet printer to print onto fabric and different papers. They have to be taped to a standard sheet of paper and it does have the potential jam the printer...but interesting results if brave enough! This was a little postcard painting I did last year scanned in and printed onto cotton with some text added from an old-school style text stamp.