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More exciting work for the October
Exhibition entitled Journeys

 

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
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EXCITING NEW PRINTMAKING WORK  JULY 2010

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

July 2010 Exciting new work
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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

 

Cherie – Director of the Circus Gallery:

For popping the question and knowing what the answer would be and making the rest of it all so easy (for me at any rate)

 

Annie – The curator:

She volunteered. No one else knows better what piece should go where.

 

Siân, Megan and Bronwen – The family:

Joint heads of encouragement and putting up with temper tantrums (for the last 24, 20 and 18 years respectively).

 

Chris – The framer:

Every painter needs one – no painter is luckier than me to work with Chris.

 

Caroline:  organising the mounting and finishing of 27 drawings from 2004 

- amazing things happen in NW6

 

Alan Jackson - The writer:

He who made sense of it in so many words (475 words approx) and who three years made sense of the last fifty-odd years (1000 words approx)

 

Circus people:

Smart, helpful and who respond well to chocolate.

Thank you Circus, thank you.

 


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.

 

 


FULL DETAILS OF THE SHOW

 

T h e  S e a,  T h e  S e a.

 

An exhibition of Paintings and Drawings

By Tim Baynes

 

Circus Gallery

 

October 22 – November 14 2009

 

Mon - Fri

Saturday October 24, November 7 & 14  

58 Marylebone High Street

W1U 5HT

 

 

Information - email timbaynes@msn.com

 


 

 

LIFE DRAWING AT TATE MODERN

 

Super-friend KH, the driving force behind the Guy Fox History Project - http://www.guyfox.org.uk/who.htm

invited Bron and I to the final in the current series of Tate Modern Life Workshops.

 

It was a wonderful opportunity to take part in an innovative and inspirational life drawing class amongst Tate Modern’s newly rehung Collection displays. In two full-on hours we created some huge pieces, worked along side 30 other artists and drew models from life.

 

We were exhausted! The galleries containing work from he Danish artist Per Kirkeby, who over the past four decades he has created paintings on hardboard and canvas, blackboards, works on paper, small and large-scale bronze sculptures was our inspiration. We worked within these rooms, each of us interpreting Kirkeby’s work and its impact on us and at the same time incorporating the life models the appeared amongst us, often fleetingly, inviting us to include them in our work.

Tate Drawing Class with thanks KH
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 Four images in the slide show: two showing the great class and our output

 


IN THE LAP OF LINGERIE – HIGH ON HABERMEHL

 

Bronnie and I visited De Montfort University in Leicester and saw a brilliant exhibition; the collections by third-year students from BA Honours Contour Fashion. It is the only degree course of its kind in the world which includes specialist options in lingerie, underwear, body wear, and swimwear. It is high on Bron’s list of colleges

 

The work, the collections, were so exciting; diverse, energetic and beautifully produced and displayed. Each designer exhibited finished piece alongside wonderful workbooks and folders showing great thinking and how ideas evolve.

 

The high spot was work by Lucie Habermehl

 

Here is fashion with an clear idea behind it. It harnesses all the complicated diversity of Japan – the formality of the courtesan, reserved and barely accessible, garments cut to reveal a sensuality that is uniquely Japanese. 

 

Lucie’s handling of colour has the impact of a Shibuya sidewalk! Her vermillion fabrics provide the energy and impact – bam! Then move along to contrast this with the delicate sage and pale creams that give her work such balance.

 

Domo arigatou gozaimasu Lucie-san!

 

 


THE PRICELESS WATERCOLOURS FROM JAPAN

 

My dear friend Yoshie, who has just finished her MBA at Birmingham, sent me some more wonderful watercolour studies painted for me, by her dear mother in Japan. What a honor and here they are: summer versions of small sweet peppers,rape blossom, and hydrangeas.

 

Another discovery: her father is involved in a charity to save Japanese beech forests, involved in opening a photo gallery and writing to explain the important of these trees to our ecology. We take so much for granted living where I do, in England, where beech trees are part of the fabric of our world and so very common. Iwanami-san's photographs are featured here too - the picture on the left won an award.

 

 

 

 

 

What a talent family and a great example of all that is exciting about Japan culture and why there is a piece of my spirit forever in Japan.

 


 

A SHAMELESS PLUG FOR FABULOUS SMOKED FISH

 

Super-friend Mike Muller recently relaunched his smoked fish business. We survived a whole week feasting wonderful smoked salmon when we were sailing with Mike in Ireland a short while ago. Gorgeous tasting fare from the dramatic West Coast of Ireland

 

Fine quality salmon, sea-trout and mackerel - fished from the wild, clear waters of the Atlantic and smoked to a special recipe on the western tip of the famous Ring of Kerry and now available in London, in leading restaurants, cafes and delicatessens, and directly to the public at Borough Market.

 

Visit Mike on http://muirennsmokehouse.co.uk or call 07734 402 117

 

 

 


SEEING TO GREAT FRIENDS MOVING FORWARD

 

Bucks Open Studios is the largest visual arts event in my part of the world. In the last two weeks of June every year over 400 artists and makers, in over 150 different venues across Buckinghamshire, open their studios and run exhibitions and events.

 

I went to see my two favourite painters Patricia Lynch and Isabel Fallow

They both work from Commercial Square Studios, an exciting workplace set in a partially disused warehouse in an edgy urban environment.

 

Patricia has moved into doing some lovely ceramics - their scale and their glazes are inspiring! They reflect the beauty of her egg tempera work!

 

Isabel who I had not seen for some time has taken here big canvas excitement from Japan to Venice and onward into print making.

 

Go see them both and other talents all in the same building - until June 28th

 

Commercial Square Studios

2nd and 3rd Floors Block C

Leigh Street
High Wycombe

HP11 2RH  Phone  07929 772 528

 

Click these Super Links

 

Patricia http://patricialynchart.co.uk/abouttheartist.aspx

 

Isabel www.isabelfallow.co.uk