AT Open House
42 Hendon Street, Brighton BN2 0EG
A mere hop, skip and a jump from Queen’s Park, Hendon Street is just off Sutherland Road in Kemp Town.
The number 2 and 2a buses stop right at the end of Hendon Street and run from Shoreham to Rottingdean.
For those traveling from further afield, Brighton Train station is approx. a half-hour walk away.
If you are following the Kemp Town Trail, we are K8 on the trail map.
May 2013 : 4/5 11/12 18/19 25/26 11 – 6pm
A friendly open house near Queen’s Park showing an exciting selection of letter press, screen prints, painting, photography, textiles and more.
Delicious Industries small press, greetings cards and vintage prints Alice Pattullo illustrative prints and makes Dead Methods letterpress, screen prints and books Natalie Martin painting and drawing Snorkus screen prints and softies Petting Zoo Prints and Collectables handprinted critters and gig posters hello DODO prints, cards and totes Winsome and Saucy knitted accessories and jewellery Nathan James Page drawings and prints James Sawyer glittery shrines and icons Mr. Wingate hand printed textiles for your home Best. selection from the best. boutique Claire Scully illustration and drawings
PALACE ART AND CRAFT FAIR 2013
The Palace Art and Craft Fair will be held at Fulham Palace from 17th – 19th May 2013.
I will be on Stand 44 in the Fine Art Marquee
The fair will showcase both the best of fine art, painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture as well as exceptional, original, and innovative craft makers and designers across all media. Beautiful and unique jewellery, textiles, glass, ceramics, furniture and much more. Craft spaces will be within the Palace and the art spaces will be housed in a large floored and heated marquee on the front lawn.
- Thursday 16th May 2013 6.00pm – 8.30pm (ticket only)
- Friday 17th May 2013 12am – 8.30pm
- Saturday 18th May 2013 11am – 5.30pm
- Sunday 19th May 2013 11am – 5.30pm
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So my good intentions of keeping up with the blog obviously have got smooched under the weight of work and living life in the last few months but also, who knew May would be here so soon! Our six month long winter has pushed off to let the spotty summer begin and I couldn’t be more grateful and motivated to do stuff. It’s damn cold in that studio. Anyway let the good news begin!
May is here and with it the Brighton Festival and the Open House Trails. AT Open House very kindly asked me once again to put in some work and I am so happy to be back there, showing a couple of paintings and my brand new, never seen before drawings. Let me know what you think once you have seen them. Feedback for the new stuff is always welcome. Well, almost always.
Anyway, if you haven’t been to AT Open House yet, you really should. April and Tim have managed to curate an amazing show of really great artists and crafts people. Have a look at their website (and the online shop) and Facebook page for a sneak peek and then get yourselves up there for a warm welcome, lashings of tea and cake, and on Sunday 5th (today) performances of music and poetry by some truly fab folk. It really is one of the best open houses in the festival and I’m not just saying that because I’m in it! Just make sure you take some change to donate to the tea fund. They have a card machine for the art. It’s all very organised.
Three other super things happened this week. But…I can’t talk about two of them yet. Just watch this space and I’ll let you know when I can. Lets just say I’m very, very excited about them both.
The one super thing I can talk about is that I received a letter to say that both of the paintings I entered into the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition have passed through the first round of selection. If you don’t know about the process, about 12,000 works get submitted and the committee take a look at every one, deeming them either not suitable, or ‘doubtful’ – to be considered for hanging. They’ve changed the selection process a little this year, Previously, you would just get a letter to say you were in or out at the end of May but it seems that this year, they are letting people know after the initial selection if they are doubtful or not. I’ve been hung once and had a couple of doubtfuls but this is the first time I’ve got two paintings into that doubtful room and I’m just so pleased. From here it’s just luck as to whether my stuff fits in with the rest of the hang but even if I get them back, to see those lovely white chalk ‘D’s on the back of the paintings makes all the hard work worth it.
So overall it’s a pretty good start to the summer! If you want to be the first to see my new work or work in progress, find out about the RA or the other super stuff that’s happening, or indeed, see videos of my dog snoring in the studio, you should know that as bad as I am at doing this blog, I do tweet on Twitter everyday. And if you don’t like that, those tweets magically find their way to my Facebook page so you can see them there too if that’s more your thing. Of course, if you really desperately need to know something you can email me, and I might actually get back to you before Christmas. But let’s think warm, organised thoughts for now. Enjoy the sunshine! x
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So the second week back in the studio has been fun, if not slightly curtailed by a couple of snowdays that happily (?) coincided with me catching a cold. I’ve tried to convince myself that doing ‘research’ on the internet whilst snuggling under a warm Lemsip still counts as work but I think I’ve eaten too many chocolate biscuits to really feel like I’ve had anything but a couple of days off, watching people paint on YouTube!
It meant too that I was unable to get to Eastbourne for The Linchpin Gallery’s private view on Saturday for the new Winter Revolving show. The permanent artists have been invited to ask a guest to show alongside them from now until March so I have a couple of works up with Cat Ingrams and another 18 artists of various disciplines. Thankfully, there’s another PV on the 16th February so I shall be hoping to get to that one, barring more snow or train-related malarky.
On a happy note, the commission that I sent off last week seems to have been received well. I’m so nervous painting anything as a gift, as art can be such a personal thing so I was on tenterhooks for a couple of days waiting for the birthday boy’s reaction. It was all good though and I think he was as happy with it as I was.
Getting down to the first oil work of the year next week. So looking forward to it! And so relieved to feel this excited about work too. I’ll let you know how it goes! x
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The first week back in the studio after the long festive break has been rather lovely. A little hard getting up in the dark mornings but it’s so nice to be back painting again.
And even more cause for celebration came with the news that I will be showing at the new and improved Palace Art and Craft Fair on the 17-19th May!
I’m really looking forward to the new format, just 58 craft spaces within the Palace itself and 65 Art spaces housed in the heated marquee on the front lawn, curated as always by Jon and Sarah. I’ve been in the last (or should that be first?) two shows there and the venue is fantastic. Add to that the extremely fun and friendly atmosphere that the team create, and it becomes one of the best weekends of my year.
I’m also especially pleased to be participating as it means that I will be able to showcase the new body of work that I intend to develop this spring. It feels really exciting to be trying something new, not necessarily a radical change in subject matter but more a change in my approach and medium. I shan’t be chucking out all my acrylics but I feel that concentrating on painting in oils will help me avoid the stagnation that I could feel myself slipping into at the end of last year. If I do the same thing for too long my brain starts to shut off and seven years has been long enough.
So, fresh start, fresh work and a fresh venue to present the fruits of my labour at the end of it! Lots and lots to look forward to. Yes, as first weeks back go, this one has been rather lovely x
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So we survived the Festive Season and yet another apocalypse, which means another 12 months before we get to do the whole thing again! Which is something to celebrate, I think, most of all because we get to experience that special brief phenomenon in between, Summer Time!
I’m planning on making the most of any sun that comes vaguely near me this year but in order to do that, I’ve had to kick my behind into gear early and get back in the studio with a punishing painting schedule in front of me for the next few months.
And this evening, I’m feeling quite chuffed with myself.
My nemesis, the Blank Canvas, which usually has the power to incapacitate my brain rendering me helpless for several days, crumbled in the sight of my desperate need for a tan and I’m well under way to finishing the first painting of the year.
Which bodes well for the schedule. Now if I can keep it up til May, I’ll be on the beach before you can say, ‘Is it hot enough for you?!’ x
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So the end of the Festive Season is almost upon us and we’re stuck in that weird place between Christmas and the New Year. So to pass the time I thought I’d throw an extra piece of good will to all men out there and do a 2 for 1 offer on the giclee prints found on the Reproductions page.
To clarify, order a print between now and midnight on the 31st December 2012 and then let me know (via the other information box on the order form or email) if you would like another print of the same or lesser value and I’ll include it with your order. All other ordering stuff applies, 28 days, blah blah, you know how it works.
It could be an interesting alternative to doing all your 2013 Xmas shopping at the last minute!
I hope you all had a superb 2012 but that it pales in comparison to the year ahead. See you there! x
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Architexture is just days away from hanging and as usual, I’m not quite ready yet!
The lovely folks at Cultural Quarterly have done a fantastic article about the show which does make us sound ever so professional. They’re magicians, I tell you.
If you haven’t received your invitation yet, it means you are not on my mailing list and/or facebook/linkedin connected, so it’s your own fault.
I will be at the gallery, barring accident or injury, as follows…
All day – 29th, 5th. 10.30am-2pm – 27th, 30th, 3rd. 2pm-5.30pm – 23rd, 26th, 28th, 1st, 4th.
…so if you’d like to come and see me specifically, that when I’ll be there. Handy, of course, if you’re trying to avoid me too!
See you there! x
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Wow, it’s nearly May already and I haven’t written a thing all year. Well, to tide you over I thought I’d put up a link to my Pinterest boards. People often ask where I get my inspiration from and I’m never too sure what to say. I feel that everything in my life influences my work and as the things I put on Pinterest are a pretty good reflection of things that I love, you’ll get the jist of where my brain is at. There is bad language, nudity, things you may find offensive and gratuitous Batman references…you have been warned.
http://pinterest.com/nataliemartinuk/
Enjoy and I’ll see you soon x
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Just to let you know that I’ll be trying to add to my new YouTube channel as the year and work progresses. This is just an overview of my work with some info. Enjoy x
Natalie Martin-The Artists Solution-Portfolio
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It’s a bit of a double edged sword when the days get longer and the weather starts to warm up and be lovely. I so miss the light during the winter months but once it’s here I’m either outside basking and feeling guilty about not being in the studio or I’m in the studio staring sadly out of the window like a veal. Luckily this month I’ve had a couple of good excuses to get out and about with work-related chores to sooth my conscience.
The Saffron Gallery are having a Made in Brighton exhibition which they have very kindly asked me to be part of. Battle is just lovely if you fancy a day out in a country town and the gallery is really nice with some really good artists. It’s not a huge place but they’ve managed to accommodate a lot of art without making the place feel cluttered or over hung. I heartily recommend it.
April also means the Blue Monkey Studio Open event, Materialize, for the Eastbourne Festival. If you haven’t come before, where the hell have you been? This year they have some fab artists (my favourite Sam Lock among them) and being that I was on such a roll last month, I kinda went crazy again and have done them another giant painting! Transportation wasn’t so traumatic this time and I think it looks fab on the stairs up to the studio. It will look even more fab if someone else has to go through the trouble of taking it home though x
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