Artwork installation at Camp Hill School, Nuneaton

Recently I have completed another artwork installation utilising the artwork created by the Children from Camp Hill Primary School in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

I was commissioned to decorate the school reception corridors using the themes of identity, community, collaboration and the rights of the child.

Over 10 weekly After School Art sessions I helped a group of Children develop their ideas with the themes to create images on tracing paper that would all assemble into another stained glass effect artwork.

The slogan for the school is ‘Growing Together’ which the children voted for along other some other sentences to describe the artwork.

Each child had total freedom with their own creative ideas and produced several images that they felt represented themselves and their own surroundings.

The stained glass effect is a great method of joining individuals work together and help to connect the different thought processes.

New portrait

The past few years have been extremely busy, what with community art projects, windmills, and setting up art classes at my studio. So I haven’t really had much time and focus to concentrate on a set of art works.

My background before moving to Warwickshire was that of commercial art and graphic design, I have always regularly sketched and painted using watercolours or acrylics, but I’ve always avoided oils until now.

I made the conscious decision to transition from acrylics to oils and though that doesn’t sound very life changing, it was a huge step in my confidence. One of the reasons I suppose is that when I look back during my art college days I felt that I wasn’t good enough or worthy to convert to try oils. I did try a couple of oils paintings but I didn’t feel comfortable with it back then and found Acrylics to be more that adequate for what I needed at the time. 

I am not sure whether that was to do with all the expectations and pressures that came with my education back then, but now I do finally feel ready to explore this medium a lot more.

That all probably sounds a bit bizarre, but the process of oil painting and took me right back to basics in a great way. Taking more time and attention to values in painting and trusting the process a lot more.

So present day I have decided to do a selection of paintings in oil and the exciting thing is I am not sure which pathway the subject matter will take me other than starting with a couple of portraits that includes this one pictured.

The painting is of a good artist friend of mine called Tim. Myself, Tim and other creatives in the North Warwickshire area meet up every other Wednesday for a Sketchclub. So I decided to do some sketches, studies and photos of the creatives for part of my oil painting exploration.

I am really enjoying the process so far and I can see a lot of advantages to acrylics. Oil has a lovely richness and flow that is hard to replicate in other mediums, it also makes you have more of a sense of planning where to place your values, steadily building layers. 

What’s exciting is this new sense of learning and I will update more as and when I complete each painting.

Art Sessions for Home Education, Warwickshire

 Recently I have some new art classes sessions for Home Educators. They will take place every Thursday mornings at my art studio in the Chilvers Coton Craft Centre in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

Like with all the Children's and Adults sessions I run, I encourage person centred creativity, embracing everyone’s own way of mark making and outlook on how they visualise the world around them.

Contact me for more information.

Here is also a link for booking options.         Book a session here.

New portfolio pages

I am currently in the process of adding and updating my portfolio of artworks along with some images of the various art sessions I run and completed community projects.

You can go to the link here or on the tab at the top of my website. 

https://www.antsgreentree.com/p/portfolio.html

Art Classes and workshops

Looking forward to stepping back from the larger art projects that have been completed over the last couple of years to have a chance to focus on my painting and drawing and further developing the local art sessions that have been established over the past couple of years. It is continually exciting to meet new people of all ages who are on their own creative journeys.

Just to let everyone know, there will be a slight price increase on the sessions starting from September 6th 2025 due to an increase in costs and overheads. I have tried to avoid increasing prices for as long as possible but unfortunately it is no longer sustainable to run sessions at current prices.

I’m considering the option of season tickets to be able to offer a slightly reduced rate for those able to commit. Please let me know if you would be interested.

To book a session here are the options below:-

NUNEATON: Art classes Adult & Children / Life Drawings Sessions

NOTTINGHAM: Tuesday Evening Adult Art Class

Bamboo returns for a few creative school projects

It’s that time of the year when the creative bamboo comes out again! This time in the form of a structure for a party in the playground summer fair at St Paul's C of E Primary School in Stockingford, Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

I helped create a sculpture with my great creative friend Phil Eddolls and St Paul’s teacher Ben Trews, that would house the artwork we created with the school children the week before. It is a great way to absorb the creativity into education and connect with the wider community who attended on the day and used it as a place to post their wishes upon a star! Next up is Wembrook Primary School! Watch this space!

Windmill clip at Riversley Park, Nuneaton

 

Footage of my Bamboo Windmill Sculpture which was on display at the Imagine Bamboo day last year at Riversley Park in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The artworks that were on either side of the mill formed the community art mill where members of the local community contributed their artwork.

Special thanks to filmmaker Chris Cuthbert for the footage and a thank you to the Creative Explorers project, NBBC and fellow local Artists Tim Franklin, Spencer Jenkins and Alisha Millar who also exhibited their bamboo sculptures on the day.

Plus my daughter who was an amazing help and support on the day.

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