Rosemary Humphries News
Workshops
My workshops and lessons show you how to tune into the
ideas which I know will help you. Come to a workshop or
lesson! I will show you how basic ideas are easy to understand
and can unlock your own freedom! For more details on my
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New Projects
Waveney Springs! www.waveneysprings.co.uk
I am pleased to join this local art collective, who maintain a high standard
of work and associated shows.
Waveney Springs Art Collective – September 2011
Two Open Studio weekends were very enjoyable and a chance to make new friends. The Art in Shop Windows trail was successful and a very useful way to display work.
The Collective is having more shows, Christmas 2011 and also in Redgrave Church 26-29 July 2012
Little Ouse Headwaters Project www.lohp.org.uk
23 Oct 2011 - A wonderful day! Rowena Langston from the Project guided two very informative walks on Broomscot Common and Scarfe’s Meadow. The rest of the day produced a large amount of successful art work based on the areas and the Project work, being displayed at the Project AGM.
I am working on pieces associated with the Little Ouse work, including studies of trees and also the workparties, at work and play!
This is a very worthwhile organisation to get involved with - wonderful walks, working parties, - have a look at the website.
The Bell at Rickinghall! www.thebellrickinghall.co.uk
A successful show was organised and held with 5 local artists.
Future
I hope to join the Friends of Banham Zoo Art Group and look forward to working with them.
Teaching
Is proving very successful!! I concentrate on monthly (or less often) sessions, to enable artists to work art in with the myriad of ‘stuff’ life throws at us, and also to fit alongside other classes attended. Sessions are now run at my home as well as a variety of venues.
I have workshops booked well into 2012 already!
2010/2011 at Orwell Park School
I was Artist in Residence again in 2010, enjoying my
3rd opportunity to work with groups. We concentrated
on drawing and observation skills, being adventurous
with inks/washes/colour.
I am pleased to report that the Exhibition and sale of
my associated work was very successful. A selection of
limited edition prints are on sale.
Memorable shows visited.
Degas and The Ballet – Royal Academy, London November 2011 .
A beautifully presented show which showed Degas’ emphasis on drawing, drawing drawing as essential to successful painting and sculpture!.
Apocalypse – John Martin. Tate Britain.
I felt his mezzotints and lithographs were more successful than the huge paintings!
Joan Miro – Tate Modern 2011.
The room full of a display of his Constellation paintings was a joy to see, as were his sketches.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow School of Art .October 2011 .
The building is a work of art in itself. I discovered Mackintosh’s watercolours and how he ‘looked and observed’ often for weeks before drawing.
Leeds City Art Gallery 2011
I love Britain’s provincial art galleries – they hold gems and important works. In
the corner of a room was a delightful small John Sell Cotman. Paula Rego’s
The Artist in her Studio was also worth the visit. The Henry Moore show had moved
here from London and it was fantastic to see it again.
Gauguin at Tate Modern. 2010
I visited 4 times! (Benefits of being a Member
of The Tate!) I confess I knew little outside the
Tahitian work but was inspired by his landscape and figurative
work based in Brittany. His Haystacks in Brittany
1890 gave me insight into how to simplify and abstract
landscape. His ‘Study of Martiniquaises 1887’ was
a joy to see, a rare opportunity as it is in a private
collection in Moscow.
Watercolour at Tate Britain 2011
I didn’t know what to expect from what seemed a huge
topic. It did show how adventurous this medium
is. My workshops aim to move away from representative
to emotional which was shown here. In particular,
Jenny Franklin’s ‘Scorched Earth’ – Arthur Melville’s
‘Venice’ and Thomas Girtin’s ‘Bamburgh’ show how the
artist moves into the subject to show a personal work
of art.
Italian Renaissance Drawings. British Museum 2010.
I read a lot about this period. It took my breath away looking at how studies were done and used – seeing how things actually ‘were’ – a huge movement from the Middle Ages. This period fascinates me. I would recommend ‘The Lost Battles’ by Jonathan Jones, about Leonardo da Vinci and Michaelangelo and how they ‘informed’ each others’ work. I have a a study of the use of colour from the Middle Ages to ‘Now’ which I give to groups.
Futurism, Tate Modern, 2009.
How must it have felt to see aeroplanes for the first time? Machines and motion – all new. This show captured this very short period of time which I thought was very powerful. Natalia Goncharova’s Velosipedist shows simple observation of motion, and very limited colour. Robert Delaunay’s L’Equipe de Cardiff’ could be of the present day, until you see the box plane in the sky! One that affected me especially was Carlo Carra’s I funerali dell’anarchico Galli. For the first time, chaos and movement of a moment in time was captured in amazing very limited colours.
Peter Doig Tate Britain 2008
I was bowled over with this. Totally personal to him and his work left a mark on me. I look at the catalogue often and show students his powerful use of colour and composition. You can see into his soul. Peter’s work inspires me to be true to myself.
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