Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
Art, Painting Commissions and Prints from Berkshire Artists
A Winter’s Tale
This winter scene of a suburban area is done in watercolours. Reminiscent of the holiday season, it is cosy inside, but if you happen to venture out, you just might see an outstanding play of light in the atmosphere.
Image Size: 11.8” x 15.7” unframed
Art Medium: Watercolour
Painting Price: £190
Commissions Invited
Kusum Shabong
Watercolour Artist
Kusum Shabong is a self-taught Watercolour artist living in Reading, Berkshire. Although she has enjoyed painting from a young age, she has only seriously started pursuing it for the past six years. She enjoys the medium because of its immediacy and wonderful luminosity. She likes to try different styles and techniques and enjoys painting different subjects, primarily relating to nature, flora and fauna and architecture. A subject of deep contrast attracts and inspires her to paint. Currently she finds herself drawn to the human form and its various emotions and is experimenting with it. She is constantly learning and enjoying her art journey tremendously.
She likes to work from photo references, although she enjoys 'plein air' painting too. She takes some time to study the subject and break it down to its different stages and finds herself painting mostly in a loose, impressionistic style using the medium in transparent washes. Watercolour painting has given her immense pleasure and satisfaction and she feel inspired by watercolour painters of today- like Chien Chung Wei and Thomas Schaller.
Art Group / Exhibitions
Kusum is a member of Art Societies in her area (Reading Guild of Artists and Wokingham Art Society) and these are thriving and active societies and have frequent exhibitions and demos and workshops. She has exhibited with them and is also represented by some online galleries. Her recent achievement has been being one of the winners in the Diversity Exhibition hosted by Doncaster Art Fair.
Sunday, December 13th, 2020
Art, Painting Commissions and Prints from Berkshire Artists
The Maiwand Lion, Reading
The iconic Maiwand Lion stands proudly in the Forbury Gardens and is one of Reading’smost loved monuments – even appearing on the shield of Reading football club. It was sculpted by George Blackall Simonds and erected in 1886.
The 31-foot lion commemorates the Berkshire men who fought in the Battle of Maiwand in the Second Afghan War, a battle described as one of the bloodiest battles in history.
Forbury Gardens sit on what was land shared by church and townsfolk, which was given to the public when the Abbey was dissolved in 1539 for recreation and grazing. By the 1840s it was virtually unusable, due to the disposal of rubbish and dead animals, but thankfully for us, the Borough Council bought it in 1854 and within 10 years the beautiful gardens we see today were established. The lion is glimpsed here from an unusual angle through the Forbury railings.
Image Size: A2, unframed
Art Medium: Watercolour
Painting Price: £150
Commissions Invited
Thérèse Lawlor
Mixed Media Art
'Concertina' Sketchbooks
Greetings Cards
Thérèse has lived in Reading for over 30 years and uses the town and her allotment as two of the inspirations for her work.
She develops paintings from sketches she makes on location and some of the scenes captured become greeting cards, with the history of the place on the back. Some of her work has represented Reading with its twin town of Dusseldorf and she has been commissioned to depict many local buildings for promotions or as presents. She is very happy to discuss commissions.
Video
Enjoy this video of Thérèse Lawlor in her studio letting us know about her cards available at Reading Museum and showing us examples of her wonderful concertina books. You can use the controls on the video to enlarge it to full screen size.
Greetings Cards
'My cards carry the history of the image on the front in the case of local places, or recipes on the back of my food pictures, or gardening advice on my allotment cards.'
Art Group / Exhibitions
Thérèse is a member of the Reading Guild of Artists, Woodley and Earley Arts Group, Reading Urban Sketchers and Mixed Media Monday Group. She exhibits at Whiteknights Studio Trail, The Henley Arts Trail and at many local arts events in Berkshire.
Thursday, January 2nd, 2020
Berkshire Artists & Berkshire Art Scenes – Paintings, Commissions and Prints
This Berkshire Art is by an artist from the Surrey Artists Website
Sera Knight, SWA
Horsell, Woking, Surrey
Paintings in all Media
Commissions Invited
Gallery Of Berkshire Art Scenes painted by Surrey Artists
For more work by these artists, see their portfolios on the Surrey Artists website
Sera has been drawing and painting since childhood. She paints mainly in watercolour, acrylic and mixed media. Tackling human figure and perspective has always been her favourite subjects but she enjoys the challenge of different subjects. Regardless of the subject, to be able to use the light cleverly, create a mystical atmosphere together with technical and emotional strength is her aim. Sera also paints on glass objects to the effect of stained glass and exhibits these separately.
Born in Ankara, Turkey, Sera has a degree in Architecture. She lived in Stavanger, Norway from 1980 to 1993 and worked as an architect in the oil industry. Now living in the Woking area of Surrey, Sera is a member of various art societies and groups and exhibits her work regularly with these. She also teaches adult education classes and tutors private groups in mainly watercolour, mixed media and drawing mediums.
Fine Art Prints, Gifts, Greetings Cards & Christmas Cards
A collection of Sera’s paintings have been made available as Art Prints, Greetings Cards and a wide selection of Gifts. You can see them here: Art Prints & Gifts Portfolio
A collection of her work is also availabe as Art Prints in a range of sizes and frame options here: Framed and Unframed Art Prints
Some of her winter art has been made available as Christmas Cards. See the website: www.fine-art-greetings-cards.com
Sera Knight SWA (Society of Women Artists) is also a member of Woking Society of Art, Guildford Art Society, Virginia Water Art Society & Farnham Art Society.
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