25.4.07

Brian & Elvis


Brian & Elvis
Originally uploaded by fred pipes.

Last night was the launch party of the Artists Open Houses website and brochure in the Paganini ballroom of the Old Ship Hotel in downtown Brighton. It was a masked do, with wonderful invites designed by Jo Moore, and my mate Brian Grimwood (seen above with yours truly - without a drink!) designed the cover of the brochure (at long last). Thanks to Sarah Kelly for buying me the Elvis mask - I knew it would come in handy one day! Prize for best masks was awarded by Mr Mayor to my dear friends and social secretaries Peter Chrisp and Lisa Wolfe. (Note: that's Angie from The Dragonfly House, where I'll be exhibiting, on stage too)

Prize masks

21.4.07

Screenprints

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fred_shoreham2
Originally uploaded by fred pipes.

May is getting nearer and everyone is preparing for the Brighton Festival, particularly the Festival of Artists' Open Houses (AOH). As usual, Marc and Angie of The Dragonfly House, at the end of my street and part of the Beyond the Level trail, have offered me a corner of their house to display my artwork, which this year will include a couple of screenprints I produced at BIP. BIP is a great place stuffed with antique pressses and equipment - some artists almost live there! The prints are a result of a course I did with Jane Sampson, one of BIP's co-founders, finished off last week with a couple of afterthoughts in green! They were both done by cutting out red film with a scalpel and the screens exposed under ultra-violet light, with hardly any computer involvement! I love the way they are all hand-made and slightly different.

libellule

5.4.07

In our hands


In our hands
Originally uploaded by fred pipes.

It's not often you get a cup of tea, biscuits and a free plant to take away at a PV, but this was a morning one, in the open air outside St Peter's Church, for the inveiling of 'Brightons' only living sculpture' 'In our hands' by Harry Potter illustrator Cliff Wright and environmental artist Kathryn Jordon. It's a head and hand emerging from the grass covered in one of my favourite plants, the House Leek (Sempervivum). I missed the speeches, but we were entertained by a balloon man and the Silver Sounds samba band, starring Clarion member Sheila Schaffer. It was commissioned by Brighton and Hove's Eco-City in Bloom.