peter

Web admin for Studio 36. Also known as songwriter Peter Farrie.

All About Ardyn

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Ardyn Griffin has been a firm friend of Studio 36 owner/artist Veronica Gosling since her days at Hay Farm and Ardyn has exhibited every year at Studio 36 since it’s inception too.

Ardyn lives and works in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire with her cat, dog and wild garden full of chickens, peacocks and guinea fowl.

Ardyn trained firstly at the Ruskin School, followed by the Froebel Institute for Education, Roehampton and finally at Goldsmiths college in London.

She had a large collection of sketchbooks from over the years documenting memorable events and people which are also a great source of inspiration for her work.

Veronica and Ardyn circa 1999

Veronica and Ardyn circa 1999

If you’ve had chance to visit us here in Denmark Road you perhaps might have spotted some of the lovely pieces of Ardyn’s artwork dotted around the studios – which presently includes two cows grazing happily in our office and a rather splendid wall clock taking pride of place in our kitchen.

Ardyn, who frequently attends and contributes to Studio 36 events, is a full of fun, lively character whose verve and gusto in life is reflected in her art.

Peacock04_wlg_9sept09If you want to know more, you can find out more about Ardyn and her work at www.ardyngriffin.co.uk

2 New Sculptural Doodles

Young Goose, using the floor of a sadly crashed family dinghy.

“Oh God! Why hast thou Forsaken me?”, a piece of broken branch echoing the violent breaking up of, so many lives in Iraq.

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Open Studio & Sculpture Garden – June 28th – 30th

Norman Bowler

We opened our Studios, the garden was great, the artists keen and we had on the Sunday a performance of voice and music, with Norman Bowler (actor, roles in Softly Softly and Emmerdale) and flautist Ruth Molins giving a rendering of the RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER.

On Saturday Peter Farrie played a short set of his songs and Paul Morris improvised on the piano.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS. Gordon Hill, one time international football referee and educator, has for the last years been experimenting in various media and now is working on wild drawings, faces, and landscapes; Julian Duckham, as always working on tables, shelves, built in and built out, restoration , and so on in his workshop here at Studio 36. Cass Stoddart, turned up here recently to help with anything, with a portfolio of interesting tree drawings and abstract paintings. He’s an Exeter Man, born and bred, educated at Exeter college, he walks on Dartmoor, the South Devon Coast and about town, using his camera to remind him of things to paint, which he says he does on the floor dipping thin bamboo into paint. Veronica Gosling lives and works here on all sorts of things, and enjoys especially hanging things in trees. Deborah Lowe’s stained glass panels are always here, she’s a very old friend of Veronica’s who puts them out at any opportunity: they are so good!

Exhibition of our Collaborative Workshops!

St Sidwell’s 5 collaborative experimental workshops with Penny Somerville and Veronica culminated on May 9th with a vigorous and impressive exhibition. Lengths of drawings, paintings, and collages stretched right around the room hung so that the progress from day 1 to day 5 was made very clear. The volunteers and manager made a huge effort towards the nourishment of guests and display of work, and the Guildhall Slummers Ukelele Band matched with excellence the vibrancy of the art work! Lets hope more such events occur.

We had enjoyed 5 experimental art sessions, experimental in the sense of work, materials, outlooks of 14 different people, facilitated by Penny Somerville a talented and experienced artist and teacher, & Veronica Gosling from Studio 36 helped by Dave Wright and generous members of the St Sidwell’s Community Centre.

The resulting collaborative work, the intensity of those working, has surprised us all. The Focus on what we are doing during 2 hr sessions has resulted in a surprising & exciting output. The silence of the sessions was due only to the extreme concentration of all participants!