Bees Knees open studio. Walcot May 2016

A week spent with the Bees Knees – Angie Kinnear, Michelle Dash, Susi Bancroft and Alison Harper using Walcot Chapel as a working studio.  Fourth year now.  It works. Continuing the pigment experiments using plants from around the Chapel.

2016 Starting to play with Isle of Wight pigments

More when I get my sketchbook back! And more wip.

Last post for 2015. A memory from standing in Priests Cove watching the tide come in.

Isle of Wight oct 2015

A chance to go to the Isle of Wight – thanks Mick and Angela – started me experimenting with found pigments. more soon.

Inktense summer 2015

throwing colour at a flare up. small pieces slowly slowly a bit each day. playing with colour.

Walcot with the Bees Knees – open studio summer 2015

studio & a couple from trewellard spring 2015

more to come….need food…  about brisons veor and some wips. meanwhile see http://brisonsveor.org.uk/cath-oleary/

The Bees Knees do 44AD, Bath, sept 2014

We (Susi, Alison, Michelle, Angie and me) were offered the chance to use the newly converted 44AD gallery.  The plan was to use the space as an open studio as we’ve done with Walcot Chapel.  The building is right by the Roman Baths and the Abbey and had been used as council offices.  Three of us went to see it as the 44AD guys started to convert it into studios and a gallery – it was atmospheric and felt full of stories.  Somehow once there, the gallery space was so beautifully white and pristine that we ended  up having an exhibition.  I can only recommend this approach as a stress free way to prepare for exhibiting!

In the hallway we had a drawing wall which was popular and well used…might become a feature of whatever we plan next…Walcot as a studio space in June I think.