'Finishing off' the L.A.B. | STUDIO 3 - *Full show 'Crookid stiks 'n' $tones' ON in the three studios*

Dungeness Open Studios -
Three open studios on the West-side beach. All work on show is made to a standard finish in a third studio to the right of Studio 2 and completed over time in early morning sessions in these buildings. Studio 1 is used as a 'clean space' for colouring and printing relief prints. Studio 2 hosts part-time residencies for invited visiting artists and is used as a showing space for new projects or as a viewing space for individual works seen online. L.A.B. | Studio 3 - is used as an impromptu showing space for new projects.

Generally as soon as paintings, prints or drawings are more or less completed they make their way here prior to purchase or further exhibition. We do not consider these spaces to be a 'gallery' as such, more a public extension of a continuing working practice enabling the preview of work in a clean and organised environment.

Directions by road -

www.paintings-for-sale.net/dungeness-open-studios.html

Associated blog | Crookid Stiks 'n' $TONES -

dungenessstudios.blogspot.co.uk/

Web site - www.paintings-for-sale.net

www.paintings-for-sale.net/

In the garden today - Finch | bunny puncher

In the garden today - Finch | bunny puncher
Originally uploaded by Bruners

*marvelous Sparrow Hawk - After the... Finches, sadly - But 'Hey' | So it goes...

Westfalia | Logs

Westfalia | Logs

*Another one missed for Crookid Sticks & $tones show.

(Next time) - Full | Power | Drive

No more fiddlin' about | A sense of balance established

Crookid Stiks n $TONES

*Preview now on in Studio 1 & 2*

Crookid Stiks & $TONES - FONT work - Preview now on in Studio - I

Crookid Stiks 'n' $TONES - FONT work - Preview now on in Studio 1

Originally uploaded by Bruners

South Face | UP_FROMTHE$TONES - unique FONT work
Crookid Stiks 'n' $TONES - Preview now on in Studio 1 & 2
Paddy Hamilton | Ol' Schofield
Full show in three spaces from the 26th of March
*Information | Background & the friendly crew here - dungenessstudios.blogspot.co.uk/

Crookid Stiks & $TONES - Photoframe | Good Voodoo - Preview now on in Studio 2

What we do to Lo | Fi digital frames 'round 'ere... Further augmentation

'A fine Merz'

Paddy Hamilton | Ol' Schofield

Full show in three spaces from the 26th of March

*Information | Background & the friendly crew here - dungenessstudios.blogspot.co.uk/

Good ol' Unkle Kurt defines 'MERZ' as:
“I call[ed] my new manner of working from the principle of using any material MERZ. That is the second syllable of Kommerz [commerce]. It originated from the Merzbild [Merzpicture], a picture in which the Word MERZ, cut out and glued-on from an advertisement for the KOMMERZ-UND PRIVATBANK [Commercial and Private Bank] could be read between abstract forms...When I first exhibited these pasted and nailed pictures at the Sturm [Gallery] in Berlin, I searched for a generic term for this new kind of picture, because I could not define them with older concepts like Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism or whatever. So I named all my pictures as a species MERZbilder after the most characteristic one.”

Crookid Stiks & $tones

Postcards hit Studio 1 prior to our new show - Crookid Stiks & $tones

And, they are a lovely job too.

Too much time | Expanse

Too much time | Expanse
Originally uploaded by Bruners

Funded the arts

Funded the arts
Originally uploaded by Bruners

left in lieu in Studio 1 - * Disappointment was all mine .. bit.ly/xJGn28

Apollo 1 | Night for Day

Tiny images/references *earmarked for large future paintings will be shown as 'themselves' in a new show - Crookid Stiks & $tones

Showbiz | Black frame

*Glazed & Framed - Showbiz in the night with weighted borders editioned | titled | signed with full provenance.

When glazed the dark print has an interesting 'mirror like' quality..

*Available unframed

Untitled.. TIKS '&' $ToNeS

Untitled
Originally uploaded by fraser donachie

Phraser/Fraser Donachie | The Lumix 'dark dancer'

A potential phuture/future... Author for Crookid Stiks 'n' $tones

*Collective blog...

We hope so... (view his work)

Content & imagery [in this project blog] will be provided by Paddy Hamilton, Robyn Banning, Oliver Schofield + Authors | Critical minds

*Most energies from Dungeness Open Studios are currently transferred to - Crookid stiks.. Until the show 'Is up & running'

New 'Boxing day additions' - Studio 2 - New light + Squiddly's full on..

Oil on fine linen - Oblique diptych - Dungeness style..

A 'twelve'

A 'twelve'

Small paintings | Larger intentions

* Oil on canvas 8 cm X 12 cm - Tiny $2 stretcher from 'Pearl paint'

*Manly toil

Taring & felt roofing.... In bright winter sun - Dungeness Open Studio 1

Half way point..

All done for today..

Love your shed - *Keep the water out*

L.A.B. 'Squiddly's' X 2

Full on | Oblique

Oil on linen

'Rest & recreation series' - *Completed*

Squiddly's X 2

Oblique | Full on

Oblique...

Oil with Beeswax and damar varnishes on linen - 30 cm X 24 cm

SOLD

Full on....

Oil with Beeswax and damar varnishes on linen - 30 cm X 24 cm

SOLD

Evocative figurative oil paintings on fine linen featuring this iconic Ice Cream van. The most recent paintings from the rest and recreation/private passions series.

*New private commissions showroom | Train carriage

Showroom

Intimate and warm private space to view commissioned work within Marina house at Dungeness Open Studios.

The curved train carriage roof provides an 'all over' dynamic daylight bounce.

*Enabling a clear viewing of subtle colour work and texture.

To commission a painting, photograph or limited edition relief print - Contact Dungeness Open Studios

View a selection of previous commissioned works - Here

New 'sketchbook Blog' - Crookid Stiks 'n' $tones

Visit - Crookid Stiks 'n' $tones

Energies are currently transferred to - Crookid stiks..Until the show 'Is up & running' (!)

A sketchbook | open resource for the creation of a winter 2013 collaborative show in four showing spaces on Dungeness beach. (2 more than usual)

Address - Dungeness Open Studios, Marina, Dungeness Road, Romney Marsh, Kent TN29 9ND

Content & imagery [in this project blog] will be provided by Paddy Hamilton, Robyn Banning, Oliver Schofield

*keith-arnatt2 \ image

keith-arnatt2
Originally uploaded by Paddy Hamilton

The mighty, funny & profoundly subtle Keith-Arnatt - * Inspirator for CROOKID STIKS 'N' STONES collaborative show at Dungeness Open Studios.

Keith Arnatt seminal - * NOT my Photo.. *refs for up coming-show.. *

L.A.B. - 'Allo' | Work in progress

L.A.B. - 'Allo' - Progresses | Exuding it's own non-attractive appeal
Originally uploaded by Bruners

L.A.B. - 'Allo' - Progresses | Exuding it's own non-attractive appeal.

* Carpentry phase completed to create an air of the... 'jaunty'

'Allo' | Exudes it's own non-attractive appeal.

'Allo'
Originally uploaded by Bruners

L.A.B. - Rough style support up on the frame in 'New look lab'

maartje jaquet • m@ (12 hours ago )
" Frankenstein in the woods... "

Plywood & fixings (In progress)

L.A.B. - Rough work begins in 'New look lab'

L.A.B. - Rough work begins in 'New look lab'
Originally uploaded by Bruners

Starting to 'dirty things up again ...' after days of picky | anxious P & D

'Snooper' - High colour print

As I work in the studio this 'Snooper' comes to peer at me from time to time tapping lightly on my skylight window, needing to be seen...

Limited edition digitally manipulated photo print on 170 gramme (colourful/matt) Folex paper - Edition limited to 100 only.

A limited edition of 100 prints - Dimensions 42 X 59cm (A2)

Signed, titled with edition number. Dispatched with full provenance - Intensely colourful (the highest quality print) on a heavy acid free quality paper at an affordable price

[View a larger print image in a new window]

 

Price - £48.00

The postage is free for UK dispatches.

Available FONTworks - Dungeness FONT

Compound linocuts -

Limited edition linocut prints - 40 cm x 50 cm printed in brown/black oil based ink on high quality heavy paper.

Purchase a print *Please specify a title on ordering. - >Contact us*

Price £60.00 each (unframed) * Discounts apply on multiple purchases *

A Dungeness style...... Solution

That's how we make 'em * shipping crate 'In the Dungeness style'

The Dungeness Fish Hut - Super fresh | Siempre fresca

The Dungeness Fish Hut - Very, very fresh fish & seafood...

Allnew & improved - On Dungeness Rd | roadside, just before the new lighthouse on the left.

* The Dungeness fish hut will be open during the week and weekends *

Once landed from the Thomas family boats - *It's fresh fish daily* 

 

Follow @dungenessfishhut on Instagram for Catch List 

L.A.B. Commissions - Squiddly's Ices X 2

'Lay in' Earthy underpainting continues with Hot pinks/cerise + Cobalt teal

A FLEET OF TINY BOATS

A Fleet of Tiny Boats

Dungeness is also a working beach long inhabited by hard grafters making a good living from the sea.

As Doris Tart said " Don't Forget - The beach will always give you a living"

This project joyfully documents 'that which surrounds' - boats, boats and more boats...
The approach/style is reminiscent of popular prewar 'tourist paintings'. These tiny jewel - like paintings are made with intense concentration and a subtlety which imbues each subject with a sense of celebration and 'longing'.

Our Cathlene

Small painting in the continuing series - 'Fleet Dungeness'

The Project celebrates a fine mess painted with a reverence for Daumier and Millet.

This painting is on show at our Open Studios

Painting Size: 14 cm x 20 cm
Oil with Beeswax and damar varnishes on primed canvas.

Sold *

linocut - Blank | Space

linocut - Blank | Space

Limited edition linocut print - 14 cm x 8 cm printed in brown/black oil based ink on heavy quality bleached vellum paper with generous borders.

Purchase Print - The VOID

Price £22.00 (unframed)

FONT for the home - Postcode commissions

'FONT for the home' - Postcode commissions

See - http://www.paintings-for-sale.net/font-dungeness.html

Compound linocut example - 'Marina' postcode monoprint - *Commission your postcode in this format.

Monoprint linocut print - 20 cm x 100cm cm (length may vary on character widths) printed in brown/black oil based ink on heavy quality paper.

Commission a print by providing your postcode and housename/number as a title or.. a preferred title - All prints editioned as one of one (monoprint) signed, titled, with full provenance and sent unframed. *Prepared for display in the above composition.

Price £60.00 (unframed)

Press release - Secret life of beaches

Dungeness Open Studios is revealed as one of Britains' beaches best kept secrets this Sunday June 17, at 9pm.

As part of the one hour long programme Nick Crane meets Dungeness Studios' fine artist Paddy Hamilton. Together they experience this wildly beautiful shingle foreland through, printmaking, conversation and storytelling.

Paddy Hamilton, the artist, commented: "This episode of Coast was fimed about a year ago - Nick Crane showed a great deal of insight into how I made artwork out of the very stuff of Dungeness itself, he was particularly caught by the honest toil required of the printmaking process in the main beach studio A.K.A. The Laboratory.

"The visit culminated with Nick revealing his own print from the Twister winch shed series on camera."

-Ends-

Editors' notes:
Twister winch shed - Lino print series

DUNGENESS FONT - A digital print download

DUNGENESS FONT RX-12

In a digital format - (Download).

Designed for easy use on your computer

*Compatable with Windows and Mac

CD features - Alphabet, punctuation, numerals & extras

Download version of DUNGENESS FONT released under a creative commons licence - (Commercial copyright held by the artist)

Purchase download FONT - DUNGENESS FONT - RX12

Price £40.00

A heap of FONT - *Interactivity phase approaches..

'Heap
of
FONT'

Oil based ink on heavy paper - *Interactivity phase approaches..

DUNGENESS | drift ... * In space

* For the attention of journalists & bloggers *- bit.ly/ISZihl - Dungeness | drift - Press release + Link to a download pdf from the website * Consider yourself cordially invited to meet the Drifters....* Feel free to print out or share on line.

DUNGENESS | drift

A selection of photographs, paintings and prints by Andrew Sullivan, Paddy Hamilton and Marc Christmas interpreting the liminal, ever-evolving landscape of Dungeness in Kent.

2 – 20 May 2012 Space Gallery 7 The Old High Street Folkestone Kent CT20 1RJ

Opening Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 10.00am – 4.00pm Closed Mondays – Tuesdays

spaceseven.co.uk/ enquiries@spaceseven.co.uk