Pop in to Doddington Hall to see this exhibition if you can.
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Looking back at our last exibition a year ago!!! Here is the artist, Pete Johnston, talking about his paintings and their sense of place, nature and abstraction. If you see anything that catches your eye, feel free to contact the artist or ourselves – go on brighten your walls.![]()
www.granthammatters.co.uk/exhibition-by-local-artists/
Live painting demonstration with Oliver Lovely tomorrow.
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Some interesting ideas for lockdown!! Send us pics, let us know if you decide to try anything, we’d love to know how you get on.
Lockdown cabin fever? 56 tried, tested and terrific ways to beat the boredom
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Shaun Ryder keeps chickens, while Mel Giedroyc organises chutney tastings. These small, affordable suggestions won’t end lockdown misery – but they might help
We made someone happy!! Just love this Roger Federer print heading off to its new home. Perfect gift 🎾
Gorgeous silver flower choker necklace with garnet. 12 cm diameter. Made by Gill Pottle. ![]()
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Price £80.
Hand made, hammered Silver Heart and pearl on a silver necklace ready for someone special. Made by Hazel Ellerby. ![]()
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Price £35
Wildgoose Design beautiful free machinery pictures to make the perfect Xmas gift 🎄🎅⭐![]()
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Price £15 each
Did you know we stock a range of Jane Fulford’s work? These are beautifully layered, original hand-pulled monotype gel-plate prints. If you see anything you like we can post out to you.![]()
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Price £29 plus postage. Or collect from Grantham Tennis Club reception.
Xmas gifting ❄️ Does your tablet/iPad need to keep warm? Keep your tablet scratch free and protected with one of these wool pouches, button it up!! ![]()
Price £20.
Would you like a stag for Xmas? He could be yours!! 🎄 Illustrated by Andrew Berwick. He’s one of our cabinet favourites.![]()
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Price £32 stag cushion
Xmas gift ideas 🎄Ruby red tweed purse with cotton spotty lining only £16 and pretty tweed pin cushions with felt lining £15. All handmade by MairiB. Plus postage. Or free delivery to Bottesford.
More gift ideas, small and medium pictures!! Dachshunds, labradors, ducks, butterflies, stags, flamingoes. Made by Sarah Turner; all artworks are lovingly handmade in Sarah’s studio from waste aluminium cans Small £25. Medium £45. All artworks are small except for the medium Stag and Butterfly pictures. Free delivery options!!. If you see anything and would like to discuss delivery just DM we can sort something out. Support artists.
Xmas ideas! Beautiful fused glass sumptuously coloured soap dishes and coasters (set of 2) designed and made by Anneliese Butcher. Soap dishes Inspired by ocean fish; Red Fin, Angelfish and Orange, only £15 each. Coasters £18 per pair. Beautiful colours. Coasters are metallic edged giving a luxurious feel . The perfect gift idea for Xmas. DM if interested. Free delivery to Bottesford.
We have some gorgeous gift ideas in 🎅🎄 Free delivery to Bottesford!! If you see anything just DM us. Support East Midlands artists at this time of year, they appreciate it ⭐ @wildgoosedesigns @melted.glass @sheila_kerr_jewellery @sarahecodesign @whirlybird0
If you’re thinking of framing a special photograph and want it to last for years, here are a few tips!
Framing your photos – An Expert Guide
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This post details all you need to know for framing your photos. We focus on what you need to know before going to a professional framer. Outlined are the variety of material choices for frames, glazing, mat boards, etc. In particular we focus on what you need to do to preserve your prints as part of…
NEW COULOURS IN! Beautiful environmentally friendly hand made dish cloths – makes a lovely little gift as well helping our planet 🌍
Hello everyone, it’s been a while!! Our cabinet is open for business and we have these cheeky little Santa’s just in 🎅 to keep you company.
FACE MASKS BACK IN STOCK!!!! We have 2 styles; curved design double layer including children’s size. And square folded double material design. Plain, patterned colours, stars and spots. By Wildgoose Designs and Theresa Patchett.
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Here are some new funding opportunities you might be interested in.![]()
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8 grants of £750 each for St Hughs Foundation for the Arts ‘Artists Respond’ Programme.![]()
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Culture Recovery Fund: Through Arts Council England![]()
Part of the £1.57billion rescue package announced by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to safeguard cultural and heritage organisations across the UK from the economic impact of COVID-19.![]()
This fund offers financial support for cultural organisations that were financially stable before Covid-19, but are now at imminent risk of failure.![]()
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Round One: 10-21 August 2020![]()
Round Two: 21 August – 04 September 2020![]()
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This fund is for Individual artists and practitioners, community and cultural organisations, museums and libraries.![]()
What you can apply for: Arts, museums and libraries projects that engage people in England with creativity and culture.![]()
Rolling programme. Decision turnarounds of six weeks (for applications under £15,000) and 12 weeks (for applications over £15,000).![]()
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Take a look at this video with advise on the National Lottery Projects Grants youtu.be/bWrs12pLn98![]()
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The Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage![]()
Part of the £1.57billion rescue package announced by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to safeguard cultural and heritage organisations across the UK from the economic impact of COVID-19.![]()
Grants of £10,000 to £3million. Open for applications 31 July to 17 August 2020![]()
www.heritagefund.org.uk/funding/culture-recovery-fund-for-heritage
We love these FACE MASKS arrived today made by Wildgoose Designs. Only £5 each. If you’d like one just message and we can pop in the post to you. The gallery is not fully open yet as we’re based at Grantham Tennis Club and the indoor courts are not open. But, outdoor tennis is in full swing and as busy as ever. Wildgoose Designs
It’s been a LOOOOOONG time, the National Gallery will be the first major London museum to open on 8th July, let’s see what happens.
National Gallery will be first major London museum to reopen after coronavirus closure
www.theartnewspaper.com
Visitors will be requested to wear masks and stay two-metres apart from 8 July
These prints look great!
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Looking forward to the day we can re-open. We love Sarah Turner"s can pictures, here’s a butterfly and dog one next to Andrew Berwick’s beautiful cushion designs and notebooks. @sarahecodesign @andrewberwickillustration #artist #maker #design #animal #ecoartist #fanta #sprite #coke #Grantham #rose #tennisclub
Vote for Abbie 🌟A huge congratulations to Abbie Breakwell who has been nominated for the Positive Role Model (Disability) Award at The National Diversity Awards 2020 in association with ITV News! Please help her to win. Head to the below link, read her story and write your reason(s) for nominating her. Voting closes tomorrow, and every vote counts! Good luck, Abbie! ![]()
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This tennis court will be the nearest looking thing to a beach this summer !! Fabulous location for our gallery. @grantham_tennis_club
We love these busy bees free machined using Libery fabric. If you’d like an extra bee just message us and we can arrange it for you. We’re not open yet. @wildgoosedesigns @grantham_tennis_club #grantham #gallery #contemporaryart #design #busybee #bee #giftideas
Throw back to hosting @gast.studio which was one of our favourites; of their performance with @laura.mahony @dalefearnley & @simpson.nick at our exhibition opening night for @j4ckieberridge #performanceart #artist #throwback
Get creative today and take a line for a walk, all you need is paper and pen!!! We’d love to see your line drawings too, so don’t forget to show us.
Taking a Line for a Walk with Multi-Media Artist Jill Carter
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Take time-out of your day to document and draw where you are and what you are feeling by using one continuous line to capture what you see. "I love doing thi…
Try some life drawing live Tuesday 8pm why not!! m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3165510853674047&id=1753037328254747
Here’s Grayson’s Art Club Episode 2 on animal art and we all love animals!!! 🐕🐱 Grayson gets viewers to send in their artworks of animals – a beloved pet, an abstract, or an exotic animal. He’s joined by Harry Hill and artist Maggi Hambling. www.channel4.com/programmes/graysons-art-club
Should be interesting!!! Grayson Perry tonight 8pm channel 4, brings the nation together through art, making new works and hosting masterclasses set to unleash our collective creativity during lockdown www.channel4.com/programmes/graysons-art-club ![]()
#lockdownart #graysonperry #art #artist #masterclass
Submit your artwork on fantasy …
Wow!! What a studio!!
Love his studio space and all that paint!!! nothing like blossom to cheer you up and of course rainbows!!!
Damien Hirst’s rainbow giveaway
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The artist is hoping to raise funds and spread joy with his latest artworks, created in response to the coronavirus crisis.
Looking forward to watching Twelth Night!!! from tonight 7pm its available for a week. youtu.be/aig5ObghHS4
Official Twelfth Night featuring Tamsin Greig | Free National Theatre Live Full Performance
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Watch Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s whirlwind comedy of mistaken identity and unrequited love, featuring Tamsin Greig as Malvolia. Twelfth Night is streaming …
Making art in isolation …
Making Art in Isolation – Talking Point | Tate
www.tate.org.uk
Explore how artists of past and present have been creative whilst in solitude
Carolyn is keeping super busy making her concertina books. Well done!! Love your posts @carolynjrobertsartist #artist #contemporaryart #abstractart #keepingbusy #blue
One day hopefully soon we’ll get there Maggie Smith!!!![]()
My studio is within a community of small businesses. Here is a list of them that you might find interesting.![]()
Some are running online and many of us are sitting tight, working alone and hoping to emerge from all this healthy and ready to go. ![]()
Please have a look, remember to come and check us out sometime in the future if not now.
It’s business as unusual ‘at’ Sneinton Market
www.creativequarter.com
Find out who’s open for business, working remotely and taking online orders in this handy rundown of all the independent businesses based in Sneinton Market.
Something to look out for, we can all draw …
Grayson Perry to teach lockdown art classes in new Channel 4 show
www.itsnicethat.com
Aimed at the “average Joe”, the new show will take viewers through the principles of drawing, painting and sculpture, in the hopes of encouraging them to make work about self-isolation.
How are you doing? Looking forward to when some sort of normality comes back to our lives. Meanwhile here are some lovely paper cut card designs by Vanessa Stone ready to go when we are! @vanessastoneartist #grantham #artist #artgallery #greetingcards #papercutting @ Bottesford, Leicestershire
Hi there, Just came across this article, it might be some help to self employed artists and small buinesses in the arts during these very difficult times.
www.theartnewspaper.com
We have gathered information about grants and loans around the world to help you get through the Covid-19 crisis
If you’re interested in architecture this could be for you!! A virtual tour of the Royal Academy’s Sensing Spaces Exhibition.
Art Gallery Virtual Tour | Royal Academy 360 Tour | Gallery VR
www.eyerevolution.co.uk
Art gallery virtual tour: 360 tours of the Sensing Spaces exhibition at the Royal Academy, London. Gallery virtual tours by Eye Revolution, London.