Tynemouth sea front – a rather special commission

March 15 2011

“Can you work from a photograph?” is often asked. I can and I do.

Then the photo arrives in the post and you think, "oh dear, but I said I would". This was not so with the great photograph of the sweeping panorama of Tynemouth from which I have completed a large watercolour and acrylic.  It was specially commissioned by Mrs Abbigail Rettig commissioned a painting of one of Tynemouth. Delivered last week Abbi reports: “I gave Jerry the painting on Saturday and he LOVED it!!!” 

Tynemouth is a town and historic town in Tyne and Wear in the North East. Thomas Bewick the engraver wrote most of his memoirs there in 1822 and Peter the Great of Russia is reputed to have stayed briefly in Tynemouth while on an incognito visit to learn about shipbuilding on the Tyne.

Circus Gallery

58 Marylebone High Street London W1U 5HT

21 October - 14 November 2010. For more detail on the show please visit  telephone +44 07870 22 13 17 or email timbaynes@msn.com

 

 

"Journeys. . . and the best of them lead us not only outwards in space, but inwards as well” 

Lawrence Durrell: The Bitter Lemons of Cyprus 1957

 

 

More work for October show

 

 

EXCITING NEW PRINTMAKING WORK  JULY 2010

Here is the latest work about which I am so excited . . . 

July 2010 Exciting new work

Looking for a way to increase the scale and impact of my 100’s of travel drawings, I turned to mono printing. As the name suggests, a press, ink plates and printing plates are used in a process that is one off. This technique creates unique pieces which I describe as 'painting with out a brush.'

I see business travel as a great privilege – the places I have visited, the people I have met and worked with, and experiences I have gained. These are special gifts and this body of work is his way of saying 'thank you. Full details of exhibition in October to be confirmed soon.

Every day stories of creativity at http://timbaynesart.blogspot.com/

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR 2010 DISCOVERING MONOPRINTING 

When I was at Central St Martins School of Art last summer I was introduced to monoprinting by my tutor Ilga Leimanis and immediately saw it as way of scaling up or industrialising my drawings.

It will be the basis of my next exhibition in October 2010 at the Circus Gallery in London.

In January I became a pupil of printmaker Christine Lock and my early work with her is hugely exciting as I explore the medium which is best described as painting without a brush

A link to the early monoprint work is here

Hong Kong Evening - monoprint 20 x  40 cm

Background on Monoprinting

Monoprinting is a form of printmaking that has images or lines that cannot exactly be reproduced. There are many techniques including collage, hand-painted additions, and a form of tracing by which thick ink is laid down on a table, paper is placed on top and is then drawn on, transferring the ink onto the paper. Monoprints can also be made by altering the type, color, and pressure of the ink used to create different prints.

Monoprinting has been used by many artists, among them Georg Baselitz, Tracey Emin. Some etchings by Rembrandt with individual manipulation of ink as "surface tone", or hand-painted etchings by Degas (usually called monotypes in fact) are as monoprints.

Detail reproduced from from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoprinting

BRON WINS PLACE AT DE MONTFORT ON THE FOUNDATION COURSE 

 She will study design, graphics, photography, painting, drawing, 3D design, interior design, textiles, printmaking, sculpture, design crafts, ceramics, glass, jewellery, video and digital media.

After the Foundation year she will be well placed to enter De Montfort's exciting Contour Fashion BA (Hons)  - the only degree course in the world to specialise in lingerie, underwear, bodywear, swimwear and performance sportswear.

Here illustrated: a recent design by Bron.

MY RECENT EXHIBITION WAS A GREAT SUCCESS THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE

THE SEA, THE SEA: AN EXHIBITION BY TIM BAYNES

By Alan Jackson, Writer at The Times

Just as waves are impelled to break upon the shore, so man is and always will be drawn to the sea:  Artist Tim Baynes feels that tidal pull more keenly even than most. “Whatever the time of day, no matter what the weather conditions and wherever I am in the world, I love being by the water’s edge,” he says. “Be it on the fringes of a city or amid a desolate landscape, whether in extreme heat or biting cold, it’s where I feel most at one with myself.”

          For Tim, that may mean losing himself in such familiar territory as Frinton-on-Sea (he was born in what he calls the nearby ‘badlands’ of Essex), Suffolk’s Aldeburgh, the Gower Peninsula of south Wales and Scotland’s mighty Skye. Or it may mean his discovery of Seattle’s Alki, Sydney’s Bondi and other beaches in, say, Dubai or Thailand while travelling on business (he is a senior executive in the advertising industry) or as a keen-eyed tourist.

          Beyond that, the exhibition (its title is also that of the 1979 Booker Prize-winning novel by Iris Murdoch) comprises work in oils, acrylics and watercolours executed over the course of the last decade and ranging in size from large and dramatic canvases to a series of small and interrelated drawings which, says Tim, function “almost like a storyboard, in that they develop a narrative.” All show an artist in love both with his craft and with his subject.