If you appreciate ART in any form, Northgate Studio in the heart of Chester is the place to be.
With regular fine art exhibitions, a number of fantastic creative workshops, art lectures and creative talks, theatrical performances and musical events, there is always something exciting going on here.
Impossible
Mark Edmonds is an artist based in Stoke on Trent working exclusively in mixed media, which is a conscious choice by him.
‘I work in contemporary mediums. My studio is a mess of circuit boards, plastic resins and paint. I spend my time meditating and splicing one material with another. I love the contrast I create between colours and textures, everything is in a constant juxtaposition. I am probably considered a painter by many, but I feel more like a sculptor who works on canvas. To me the challenge is to create something with ‘feeling’ that evokes strong feelings in others. I am not always successful and at times this journey is painful, especially when you make that connection. Often, I feel naked when this happens, because someone is looking at me without my armour of bullshit. After the initial shock dies down and I no longer feel as vulnerable, I realise I have achieved something, that I am not pretending, there is a genuine connection.
The exhibition will run until 23 July.
Join us for a glass of bubbly and some breath-taking contemporary art on 11 July at 7 PM.
Paint like Monet – Oil Painting class with Marc Turner!
Fancy painting your own masterpiece?! Have you ever tried painting in oil paints or wanted to get back into oils? Or, even if you want to find and refine your skills, then this is the workshop for you.
Take advantage of this amazing oil painting class with Marc A Turner, a professional artist and tutor who exhibits with us regularly!
The workshop will run on Tuesday, 18th of June 2019 from 6.30 pm till 9 pm and all equipment is supplied. Marc uses his own special branded oil paints and brushes to create his fascinating art.
All you need is to bring is yourself and ideally some old clothes or an apron.
This workshop is designed to give you an insight into painting a landscape like Monet and is ideal for all levels.
The masterpiece you create you get to take home.
The cost of the workshop is £35 ONLY
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Space Dive – Art Exhibition by Luciana Hermida – private view
Luciana Hermida is a visual artist and graphic designer from Buenos Aires (Argentina), based in Chester UK.
Luciana brings a unique approach to mixed media art. Through her series ’Space Dive’ she looks to challenge the way we perceive reality. In this series there is also a prominent protagonism given to the creatures of the deep sea, a very deep passion of hers. These creatures are put in unusual environments alongside unusual elements in order to create imaginary worlds and challenge the mind. The creatures swim into space and vice-versa. There is no set narrative. The space, the sea and land are merged in order to allow the creatures move around freely.
‘Space Dive’ invites the observer to let go of natural ways of perceiving the world and dive into space with the imagination.
Seduction, metamorphosis, transformation, after life, time travelling are some of the topics that appear in Luciana’s artworks present in the series ‘Space Dive’.
Her art is visually stimulating as well as an imagination stimulant. Bright bold colours are embraced, giving each piece a very contemporary and fresh feel.
We look forward to seeing you for Luciana’s Space Dive private view on 23 May, 2019, between 6:30 and 8:30!
The exhibition will run until 6 June 2019.
ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING! workshop
ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING!
Got a special occasion? Ladies Day at the Chester Races?
Be totally individual and unique with a fascinator you created yourself!
Saturday 23rd March
1pm – 4pm
£30.00
All materials provided. No special skills needed.
Limited places available.
BOOK NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.
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UK trained milliner, Valerie Wareing recently returned to the Chester area from Malta after collaborating with a high end designer, running her own business of designing and creating upmarket head wear.
Val continues to sell to her customers internationally and is happy to bring her highly successful workshops to Chester In order to share a fascination with fascinators with you all.
Christmas Card Drawing Workshop
Christmas Card Drawing Class – Tis the Christmas season……..
How about creating your own original cards for family and friends?!
A seasonal workshop to design and draw festive themed cards at Chester Art Centre using coloured pencil for a traditional or modern approach.
£22 including cards, envelopes, drawing materials, tuition and maybe some glitter
Mince pies and mulled wine also included.
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Make your very own Pottery Christmas Angels – Session 2
Make your very own pottery Christmas Angels!
Come to Chester Art Centre and make some darling Angels in time for Christmas, they’re cute ornaments either to keep or give as gifts.
It’s a messy class playing with mud…….but so much fun!
There will be two classes two weeks apart to allow for firings. The first for making the second for glazing after which your Angels will be delivered to the centre for you to collect.
Dates: November 27 and Dec 11
Cost £90 per person including all materials, clay, tools, tuition, glazes, two firings and of course some festive refreshments at both sessions
It’s CHRISTMAS!!!! ️
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Make your very own Pottery Christmas Angels – Session 1
Make your very own pottery Christmas Angels!
Come to Chester Art Centre and make some darling Angels in time for Christmas, they’re cute ornaments either to keep or give as gifts.
It’s a messy class playing with mud…….but so much fun!
There will be two classes two weeks apart to allow for firings. The first for making the second for glazing after which your Angels will be delivered to the centre for you to collect.
Dates: November 27 and Dec 11
Cost £90 per person including all materials, clay, tools, tuition, glazes, two firings and of course some festive refreshments at both sessions
It’s CHRISTMAS!!!! ️
Book NOW to avoid disappointment!
hello@chesterartcentre.co.uk
01244313700
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The Illusory Temptations of the Subconscious Self-Doubts – Art Photography by Anastasia
Same as last year I’m celebrating my Birthday with an exhibition… A bit short notice but I’ve been MAD busy with Chester Art Festival! It’s been a massive success and now I can concentrate on my own art and not Pablo Picasso:)
The Illusory Temptations of the Subconscious Self-Doubts is an exhibition of my abstract art photography and has NOT been planned. Improvisation in its purest form it will give you a bit of insight into the world of illusions, reflections, shadows and rays of sunlight.
Looking forward to seeing everybody at Chester Art Centre this Saturday, 13 October for a few Birthday drinks and some of my abtracts. Hope you like them!
Love,
Anastasia
xxx
P.S. The name of the exhibition has no deeper meaning or grandiose message behind it. It’s just me trying to seem clever:)
An interpretation of Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece
Yoko Ono
Cut Piece
Ono’s work related destruction to interpersonal, often intimate, human relations. This element was particularly thought-provoking in ‹Cut Piece›, one of many actions she did as DIAS [Destruction in Art Symposium]. Ono had first done the performance in 1964, in Japan, and again at Carnegie Hall, in New York, in 1965. Ono sat motionless on the stage after inviting the audience to come up and cut away her clothing, covering her breasts at the moment of unbosoming. Cut Piece entailed a disrobing, a denouement of the reciprocity between exhibitionism and scopic desires, between victim and assailant, between sadist and masochist: and, as a heterosexual herself, Ono unveiled the gendered relationship of male and female subjects as objects for each other.
(source: Kristine Stiles, Uncorrupted Joy: International Art Actions, in: Out of Actions: between performance and the object, 1949–1979, Paul Schimmel (ed.), MoCA Los Angeles, New York/London, 1998, p. 278.)
An interpretation of Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece
Produced by Kingsway Collective
Performed by Charles Deakin
St Michael’s Church
5 th October 2018 2pm-4pm
Gong Fu Tea Ceremony
Gong Fu Tea Ceremony Gong Fu is a Chinese way of making tea and it means doing something well or with skill. It is the implication that time, dedication and effort will produce the ultimate tea experience.
Although this is considered ‘ Speciality’ here, in China it is fairly routine for tea drinkers to brew this way.
I will be brewing and sharing a Wuyi Rock Oolong Tea brewed in a traditional Yixing Clay Pot and a beautiful Yin Shen (Silver Needle) white tea brewed in a Gaiwan Pot.
This is a free presentation in support of Chester Art Centre’s Art Festival at St Michael’s Church in Chester
Starts at 2 PM! Looking forward to seeing you there!
