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Somerset Art Works
United Kingdom
Приєднався 19 січ 2011
Somerset Art Works is an artist-led organisation and Somerset's only countywide agency dedicated to developing visual arts.
We aim to weave together communities and support the artists who enrich our lives. We want Somerset to be a place where people expect to engage with excellent visual art that is surprising and distinctive.
We produce films in house that document recent projects and events and we also showcase films made by Somerset Art Work members.
For more information about SAW please visit www.somersetartworks.org.uk or email info@somersetatworks.org.uk
Many thanks
The Somerset Art Wrks Team
We aim to weave together communities and support the artists who enrich our lives. We want Somerset to be a place where people expect to engage with excellent visual art that is surprising and distinctive.
We produce films in house that document recent projects and events and we also showcase films made by Somerset Art Work members.
For more information about SAW please visit www.somersetartworks.org.uk or email info@somersetatworks.org.uk
Many thanks
The Somerset Art Wrks Team
Needlefelt - Make a picture of a Common Blue Damselfly
Spinning a Yarn - Take Part
How to make a needlefelt picture of a Common Blue Damselfly with Lydia Needle.
Wool is amazing.
Not only is it natural, renewable, biodegradable, and sustainable, but it is also an adaptable craft material. This is one of 4 films which will show you how to use different wool crafts to create some of Somerset's rare and endangered species. You can also find worksheets for each wool craft here: spinning-a-yarn.org
Spinning a Yarn is a Somerset Art Works Project project focusing on Wool, with an exhibition, large scale installation and film. Opening in September 2024 at the Somerset Rural Life Museum Glastonbury, with project partners South West Heritage Trust. A programme of events for community outreach, school workshops and talks will also take place. Find out more here: spinning-a-yarn.org
Needlefelt is a craft that uses wool, a felting mat, and a special type of sharp needle to create 2D and 3D shapes and designs. The other films include: wet felt, punch needle and applique with stitch.
Common Blue Damselflies are one of our most common damselfly species and can be found around almost any body of water. Not only are they very beautiful and fascinating, but they are also an important food for Hobbies on the Somerset Levels and Moors, part of Somerset’s ancient landscape.
0:39 Step One: Materials and workspace
3:42 Step Two: Background colour
6:09 Step Three: The damselfly's body
9:31 Step Four: The black markings
11:17 Step Five: The damselfly's Legs
13:23 Step Six: Highlights and wings
Spinning a Yarn - Take Part Resources created by Lydia Needle and Nina Gronw-Lewis
If you would like your work to be part of an exhibition at the Somerset Rural Life Museum in September as part of Somerset Art Weeks Festival. Please send your completed pieces to ACEarts, Market Place, Somerton, Somerset TA117NB by 31 August 2024. Max dimensions 20cm x 20cm.
DISCLAIMER: Due to the nature of this project, we are unable to return any work after the event. Please note we may not be able to accommodate all the works submitted.
How to make a needlefelt picture of a Common Blue Damselfly with Lydia Needle.
Wool is amazing.
Not only is it natural, renewable, biodegradable, and sustainable, but it is also an adaptable craft material. This is one of 4 films which will show you how to use different wool crafts to create some of Somerset's rare and endangered species. You can also find worksheets for each wool craft here: spinning-a-yarn.org
Spinning a Yarn is a Somerset Art Works Project project focusing on Wool, with an exhibition, large scale installation and film. Opening in September 2024 at the Somerset Rural Life Museum Glastonbury, with project partners South West Heritage Trust. A programme of events for community outreach, school workshops and talks will also take place. Find out more here: spinning-a-yarn.org
Needlefelt is a craft that uses wool, a felting mat, and a special type of sharp needle to create 2D and 3D shapes and designs. The other films include: wet felt, punch needle and applique with stitch.
Common Blue Damselflies are one of our most common damselfly species and can be found around almost any body of water. Not only are they very beautiful and fascinating, but they are also an important food for Hobbies on the Somerset Levels and Moors, part of Somerset’s ancient landscape.
0:39 Step One: Materials and workspace
3:42 Step Two: Background colour
6:09 Step Three: The damselfly's body
9:31 Step Four: The black markings
11:17 Step Five: The damselfly's Legs
13:23 Step Six: Highlights and wings
Spinning a Yarn - Take Part Resources created by Lydia Needle and Nina Gronw-Lewis
If you would like your work to be part of an exhibition at the Somerset Rural Life Museum in September as part of Somerset Art Weeks Festival. Please send your completed pieces to ACEarts, Market Place, Somerton, Somerset TA117NB by 31 August 2024. Max dimensions 20cm x 20cm.
DISCLAIMER: Due to the nature of this project, we are unable to return any work after the event. Please note we may not be able to accommodate all the works submitted.
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Wet Felt - Make a picture of a Large Blue Butterfly
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Spinning a Yarn - Take Part How to make a wet felt picture of a Large Blue Butterfly with Lydia Needle. Wool is amazing. Not only is it natural, renewable, biodegradable, and sustainable, but it is also an adaptable craft material. This is one of 4 films which will show you how to use different wool crafts to create some of Somerset's rare and endangered species. You can also find worksheets fo...
Applique and Stitch - Make a Dormouse
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Spinning a Yarn - Take Part How to make an Applique and Stitch Dormouse with Nina Gronw - Lewis Wool is amazing. Not only is it natural, renewable, biodegradable, and sustainable, but it is also an adaptable craft material. This is one of 4 films which will show you how to use different wool crafts to create some of Somerset's rare and endangered species. You can also find worksheets for each w...
Punch Needle - Make a Fern
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Spinning a Yarn - Take Part How to make a Punch Needle Fern with Nina Gronw-Lewis Wool is amazing. Not only is it natural, renewable, biodegradable, and sustainable, but it is also an adaptable craft material. This is one of 4 films which will show you how to use different wool crafts to create some of Somerset's rare and endangered species. You can also find worksheets for each wool craft here...
Artist Lucy Oates with YMCA Frome
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This short film has been made by young film makers supported by Somerset Film, documenting a Somerset Art Works project with artist Lucy Oates at the Frome YMCA Youth Club in 2023/24. Lucy worked with the young people to engage and inspire them to think creatively about their space and how it is used, to come up with new artworks and a design for the internal décor that can be used by the archi...
Culturally Chard - Bringing the community together through heritage, arts and music
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Culture, creativity and heritage play a key role in making the town centre a more attractive and vibrant place. Culturally Chard was initiated as a three year programme (2021 - 2024) celebrating the local character, culture, history and heritage of Chard, exploring what makes the evolving high street a special and unique place, relevant to current and future generations. Thank you to everyone w...
Dissolution to Evolution | Glastonbury Abbey 2022
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Dissolution to Evolution was a contemporary art programme that explored support systems, social experiments and religious beliefs; produced for Glastonbury Abbey and Somerset Art Works during Somerset Art Weeks 2022 by guest curator Josephine Lanyon. Dissolution to Evolution Work by Olivia Plender, Rory Pilgrim and Sally O'Reilly A Garden in Which Many Worlds May Grow Musicians: Carl Bevis, Tim...
Intro Video Gary Mills
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Gary Mills is the new Somerset Art Works Online Art Group lead artist Oct-Dec 2023
Gathering
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The large tithe barn at Stoke Sub Hamdon Priory, Somerset, is amongst a rare and unique group of medieval domestic and agricultural buildings. This was the focus of a contemporary craft project in 2015. The commissioned artworks was exhibited as part of Somerset Art Weeks 2017 at the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury. The title ‘Gather-ing’ references the function of a barn as a space t...
Exmoor National Dress
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Mystery Rain Rods
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Water Histories with artist Anna Chrystal Stephens A response to the ‘spirit of water’ in Chard, researching and referencing the heritage of water in the town. A Culturally Chard project coordinated by Somerset Art Works. During a series of workshops at Holyrood Academy, Anna Chrystal Stephens and a group of students explored water within the land beneath our feet. Learning traditional water di...
Window Wanderland in Chard - Community Projection Event
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Community-made animation projected onto the front windows of the Guildhall in Chard - all part of Culturally Chard! Window Wanderland - Amazing illuminated artwork for Chard Town Centre. Somerset Art Works and artist Richard Tomlinson have been running school and community workshops to create vibrant illuminated artworks for the Culturally Chard Window Wanderland celebrations. Community made wi...
Window Wanderland - Amazing Artworks for Chard Town Centre
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Somerset Art Works and artist Richard Tomlinson have been running school and community workshops to create vibrant illuminated artworks for the Culturally Chard Window Wanderland celebrations. Community made window displays have popped up in the town centre, and over the past few months local people have also been busy creating an animated artwork specifically designed for projection onto the b...
Space RAFT - an animation made by Street YMCA Youth Club
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Space RAFT An animation made by young people attending the Street YMCA youth club. This work is inspired by artist Rory Pilgrim's RAFTS project and was developed through a series of creative workshops with Richard Tomlinson and Jasmine Otley, with the young people, shaped by their interests and ideas. 'In moments of change and transition, what supports us and keeps us afloat? A raft is the simp...
Lyngford Park Primary School Animation
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Somerset Art Works has been working with schools in South Somerset and Somerset West and Taunton as part of an extensive Arts & Wellbeing Project commissioned by Somerset County Council’s Public Health Team. Creative activities led by artists Julia Mckenzie and Richard Tomlinson encouraged reflection, connection and an opportunity for pupils to explore their experience of the pandemic through c...
A remarkable project, full of varied information, shared so imaginatively! Thank you for sharing a video that captures elements of the project so beautifully for those of us who couldn’t be there in person.
The project was such good fun to do. It was also a real privilege to work with such outrageously talented musicians, artists and wordsmiths. Lovely video Hannah!
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I just watched it again Fiona and was even more enthralled by all your work….inspiring me to pay even more attention to the beauty of nature in my own backyard 💜
I might just give this a try.
Great to see the vacuum bit which has become part of more and more papermakers' toolset. It was part of the original Fourdrinier machine, I've seen it large scale at Awagami in Japan, and even in little shops there. Charles Hilger used a vacuum table and Mark Lander shared his design with me. Finding the appropriate technology is always what artisans do.
That is so good, Chard needs more artistic endeavours such as this. The window displays were excellent too.
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Fiona, I loved all of this….should have a lot more views! Thanks for sharing 🐸
Thanks for the kind feedback! Hoping the film will be shown again in a show this September (Brewhouse, Taunton, UK - 2023 )
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I have to try this out!
beautiful thankyou
Can we do it on fabric? Thank you.
I love how this film really shows the impact of this project mixing art and outdoor work, people and artist. A great example of social prescribing in action. Well done!
Nice
There's a myth that all anthotypes are doomed to fade over the years when exposed to light. That pretty much applies to *any* type of photograph, of course. Something you printed with traditional darkroom techniques should not be exposed to direct light. That said, anthotypes created in the 1840s by Mary Somerville and John Herschel are still around. 🐧
Wonderful and what about UV indoor light ?
I'd read that direct, "full spectrum" light - ie., the sun - is necessary, that you'd have to run a UV light for several weeks to get an image using even a strong UV lamp. Wrong! It turns out someone has created turmeric-based anthotypes using a UV lamp in "only" two hours. ua-cam.com/video/DpOMyDttxt8/v-deo.html
I do use your paper and I love it! I get your paper from Jackson's art, they don't carry the 300lb paper anymore. Do you still make it? I will buy some if you do and have it shipped to Canada Please reply!!thank you
Definitely not wasted sir.
This is great! Thank you. Even I can do this. Is there a way to "fix" these prints so they won't eventually fade?
Thank you for watching. There is unfortunately no way to fix Anthotype prints. You can keep them in a box and view occasionally. Or you could make a high resolution scan and reprint the image as an archival inkjet print.
Great video!!!
Thank You
Lovely
Amazing.....and the name of this is beautiful piece is perfect
Thank ever so much
Well done 👏dear very proud
Thank you dear
❤️👏
Well done Susan, proud of your work. So inspiring. Your Art speaks volumes
Thank you to come
Thank you very much, you're the best and it's a great idea to make it
Is there a way of fixing the image so that it doesn’t fade?
Hi good morning 😊 my name is Armando I am from Mexico, excuse me I would like to ask you if there's a way to take a photo with the light of the sun creating a homemade Cyanotype I would really thank you you an answer
Thank you for watching. There is unfortunately no way to fix Anthotype prints. You can keep them in a box and view occasionally. Or you could make a high resolution scan and reprint the image as an archival inkjet print.
Keeping them out of bright light is the best bet. Sunlight creates the image - sunlight can erase it. That said, anthotypes created in the 1840s by Mary Somerville and John Herschel are still around. 😸
Nice prints, Carolyn. And a hurray for lovely Somersetshire.
Utterly mesmerising. Thank you.
Thanks Dawn, belatedly!
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so precious Fiona! thanks for sharing Dara
A belated thanks so much, Dara! :-)
Visiting, buying and then working on the Two Rivers paper gave me a huge delight and appreciation of paper itself. Thank you so much.
"... stuck in some artist's portfolio." Lol. I think you meant it differently than I took it, but funny just the same. Cheers.
Very interesting film , like a mini visit, thanks
It's great isn't it!
Attractive process !!!
It is so important to capture working class oral history of what are fast disappearing communities.
great work!
Really good to see this.
Brilliant work!
Nice work, guys! Ian