This refers to the Monday sessions and the Orange art group activities.
Everyone has been welcomed into a drop-in session facilitated by Jill on Monday mornings. These gatherings have been enjoyed by many over the past forty years in different venues around the city. They include projects, life drawing, and review sessions. During lockdown various what’s app groups have been interacting. Monday session may resume later in 2021. There are weekend away opportunities that have also been planned.
These projects are the last in the three-month series that have made up our various what’s ap group interactions and exchanges. The images and responses that have come out of the last months have been informative and inspiring. Thank you … Read More
#ORANGEARTGROUP AND WHATSAPP GROUP INTERACTION AND EXCHANGE. Dear All, it has been really interesting watching as new ideas, comments and really exciting new images have been posted on the Instagram pages and WhatsApp groups. Sometimes it feels a little … Read More
Janet Bishop and Katherine Rothkopf. From an essay; Imagining into another; John Elderfield. “One of the most mysterious semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind’s imagining into another.” (John Keats, Marginalia to Paradise lost.) “ Matisse … Read More
Francoise Gilot Consider this; “ We need one tool to do one thing, and we should limit ourselves to that one tool. In that way the hand trains itself. It becomes supple and skillful and the single tool brings … Read More
Monday morning art group (Whatsapp) and #orangeartgroup It will soon be May and we may be able to walk out; we may be able to meet and hear the voice as we see the face and apprehend the new experiences … Read More
Project three “where are you?” “here I am, here we are”. We are surrounded by new uncertainty and greater unknowns, these days. To assist in locating ourselves and each other we started, in the first project with a self-portrait. The … Read More
The first ideas for this online initiative while we are all on lockdown was titled; “We want to see you; you want to see us.” The idea is to make a self-portrait in any medium and send it to the … Read More
During this time of social distancing and therefore introspection I thought it would be useful to work on self-portraits. Your eyes are free, they can touch whatever they want to. Open or closed (as in dreaming) they allow us to … Read More
Booking essential Jill Trappler: 2020 Vision 2020 vision: exploring how visual acuity can vary using different approaches and materials – Three day workshop Thursday and Friday, 07/ 08 May 2020 from (09h00 -12h00) and (13h00 – 16h00) Saturday 09 May … Read More