Author: artsandcraftsv

Hi, I’m an art teacher in the community teaching drawing, painting, and crafts in Birmingham, Solihull, and Warwickshire. I create my own small clay work, felting and mixed media artwork and these are displayed with prints of my work at various galleries, currently Birmingham, Kenilworth, Royal Leamington Spa. I have also exhibited collage in The Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry. I graduated with BA(Hons) from the University of Central England (formerly Birmingham Polytechnic) many years ago! I went on to complete PGCE(PCE) and have thoroughly enjoyed teaching art and craft ever since! I teach for several institutions and am also freelance. My private art classes began in Solihull January 2018. Please drop me a line using the Contact page if you would like further information and to make purchases of my art and craft artwork. Thank you for visiting my site and hope to see you soon!

Stay cool and paint!

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It might be sweltering outside but keep the blinds closed and enter the world of creating!

It’s worth printing out colour images and saving them in a protective file as you come across different topics. I’ve built up a wonderful image library over the decades! I keep them in sections (to be honest there are so many I have different book files!) and on a day like this a quick flip through soon motivates me into creating my next new acrylic painting (if I haven’t one on the go!).

Select your colour palette, take a deep breath and off you go into a wonderful colourful world! Happy painting! 🎉 🎨

Ikon Gallery Reopens Exhibiting Deep Sea

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So excited that my artwork Deep Sea will be exhibited at the famous Ikon Gallery in Birmingham in May 2021!

Life is moving forwards and returning to normal! What a way to celebrate!

The artwork describes my experiences diving, the plants, colours, light, fish. It’s another world!

Artwork for sale through @ikongallery

Deep Sea

Big News, Good News in Lockdown!

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https://m.facebook.com/Vickys-Artwork-106115798125748/

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago when I ran and jumped through sheer joy of being surrounded by art, other art students, paint, clay, textiles etc al…I was an art student 👩‍🎓

Every Friday morning we went into the other campus to take part in the history of art module at Birmingham Polytechnic. In the afternoon I worked at the Ikon Gallery when it was sited in John Bright Street.

Well, full circle! One of my artworks has been accepted for exhibition there 💕 So happy! So many brilliant memories too! Can’t wait 🖼

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

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To quote the Clash in their famous 1982 release, that is the question!

With private art classes on hold during the Coronavirus19 pandemic and my artwork happily temporarily residing in galleries across Birmingham and Warwickshire do I need my website?

I can not decide since my artwork sales are through the galleries and my private art classes are closed for the duration of the pandemic. Marketing gurus may ask what is your long term goal? I would answer to continue selling through galleries and to restart private classes when we can all return to normal. So, stay with the website or go and rely on social media https://www.instagram.com/artsandcraftsv/ and galleries? Answers on a DM 🙂

Designing for Christmas!

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It might sound strange but come August Christmas card designs for private clients started!

Researching trends and colours for this year and design ideas resulted in one of the designs: Christmas in a Bottle. Work in progress… 🎅🏻

One of the Christmas card designs showing work in progress, 2020

Come October I will be encouraging students to create their own designs to send out to their loved ones 💕 🎄