2024 News and Notices
TWASI MEMBERS SUMMER COMPETITION
A Competition for all TWASI Members.
- Entries may be in any media, the wildlife theme for 2024 is
“NATURE IN MOTION”. - Entries may be entered as a jpeg image (300dpi, up to 5MB),
and sent to saraiscrawshaw@aol.com
Please title your jpeg with Name, Title, Medium, and use Email
Subject “TWASI Competition”
or – Post an A4 photograph to TWASI, Appletrees, Main Street,
Willey, Rugby. CV23 0SH, with Name, Title & Medium written
on the back. If you wish to have the photograph returned, please
enclose a s.a.e. - Closing date for entries: 1 st July 2024.
- Entries will be judged by the TWASI Central Council members.
The winning entry will be shown on the TWASI website and in the
following edition of “On the Wild Side” Magazine, and if available,
may be exhibited at the following Annual Exhibition. - Prize: £50
SPRING WORKSHOP 9 TH & 10 TH MARCH 2004
AT NATURE IN ART – BOOK NOW
We are delighted to welcome back Daniel Wilson and Amber Tyldesley to spend a weekend with
us at Nature in Art.
Dan and Amber are a dynamic duo who often exhibit together and work together as Studio Wildlife https://studiowildlife.com to promote/sell their art and raise money for wildlife conservation charities. They will run a workshop each on the Saturday which will run from 10.30am to 5pm, the morning will start at 10am in the Nature in Art cafe with coffee and lunch selection; members will be welcome to arrive from 9.30 to set out their art materials in the education centre.
On the Sunday Daniel and Amber will give us a presentation on how to make the most of modern
technology to promote ones artwork, framing and presentation of work, and making the most of
our art and skill. This workshop will run from 10.30am to approximately 3pm, members to meet in
the cafe at Nature in Art at 10am for coffee and lunch selection.
Saturday Workshop Daniel Wilson Charcoal
Saturday Workshop Amber Tyldesley Acrylics
Materials list to follow
Sunday Workshop “How to promote and present yourself as an artist” making the most of
using the internet and other media.
Email: v.briggs746@btinternet.com for your booking form.
TWASI CHRISTMAS CARD COMPETITION 2023
An annual competition for all TWASI members:
1st prize winner Silvana Sumner with “Winter Food Shop”
The artwork was inspired by a photograph by Emmanuelle Keller used with permission. The challenge for me was to capture a sense of drama, as I imagined the fox prowling discretely, led by his raised paw, in the daily hunt for food.
I painted it on velour with Pastel. I chose velour because I felt it was a surface sympathetic to the soft gentle qualities I could see in the fox, although clearly it was also an intrepid hunter.
I very much enjoyed creating the sharp contrast between the red coat of the fox against the severe landscape, by adding the effect of snow in pastel.
2nd Place – Silvana Sumner with “Snow-Speckled Stag”
A friend of mine visited the Isle of Mull in November a few years ago, and came back with some amazing images that she gave me permission to use.
I was totally inspired by the landscape colours in the photographs, which reflected the Stag’s coat & camouflaged it into the background, so couldn’t wait to try a painting.
The original painting is in acrylic, and very autumnal, but I really wanted to find out if the painting would work in a winter landscape, so I went over it in pastel.
I was really pleased to see the glow of the original colours still showing through, but with a wintery feel in snow.
3rd Place – Karen Coulson with “Puffins under the Mistletoe”
Derwent Watercolour pencils & Coloursoft pencils on white mountboard.
This was just a bit of Christmas fun!
I was delivering a 2 Puffin picture Workshop at Nature in Art, and offered this picture as an alternative to the “sensible” advertised picture. Masking fluid was applied for the falling snow in the sky. A blue watercolour pencil was used for the sky colour. Coloursoft pencils were used to complete the puffins and snowy ground – so it offered quite a few techniques within the picture.
A visit from Wildlife cameraman and TV personality Hamza Yassin
Wildlife cameraman and TV personality Hamza Yassin joined TWASI patron Anna-Louise Pickering, President of The Pollyanna Pickering Foundation, to draw the winning ticket in their Winter prize draw.
Hamza is a British wildlife cameraman and presenter, known for his role as Ranger Hamza on the children’s television channel Cbeebies and his work on popular shows such as Countryfle and Animal Park. However he became known and loved by a much wider audience in 2022 when he lifted the coveted glitter ball trophy as the winner of the twentieth series of the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing!
Hamza was born in Sudan and moved to Northampton at the age of 8 after his parents – both doctors – were invited to work in the UK. At 21, he visited a friend in Ardnamurchan, a peninsula on the west coast of Scotland, in order to photograph stags. He loved it so much he packed his bags and relocated there two weeks later. For the first nine months, he lived out of his car, showering at a local campsite and washing his clothes at the local community centre. He progressed to staying in empty holiday homes while he built his photography business and guided tours, and eventually bought his own home. Ever since he has loved to share his passion for ornithology and wildlife, and was happy to support the Foundation by selecting the winning ticket.
Between the sales of prize draw tickets, donations and a percentage of sales from Pollyanna’s Summer exhibition the Foundation has raised £5,000.00 to build a bat rehabilitation unit at the Harper Asprey Wildlife Hospital here in the UK
Mrs I. Clayton of Sutton in Ashfield in Nottinghamshire is the lucky winner of a beautiful hand-embellished giclee picture. A full list of winners can be found on the website www.pollyannapickering.co.uk
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