Summer Catch Up

Below are the galleries and events you will find me at this year. Just click on the names and that will take you through to their websites. Some more will be added later, and I will keep you informed of updates. Remember you can telephone and come to the studio any time to see what I am working on. Or follow me in Twitter - I am told I am quite amusing!

I am please to announce that:

McAllister/Thomas FineArt
117 High Street, Godalming, Surrey, GU7 1AQ
will be  representing me in Surrey with my smaller more domestic pieces while my larger pieces for outdoors will be available at:

The Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden
nr. Ockley, Surrey
May - October 

The Art Room
Topsham - contemporary art gallery in Devon
10 May-8 June 2014
This will be a solo exhibition, if you would like to come to the Private view on
Saturday 10th May 2014 2-5, pm please let the gallery know Tel: 07718 480604
Artist Talk Sunday 25th May at 4.00 (booking in advance essential).
I will be showing some of my new wall pieces, a big departure for me an example can be seen at the top of this newsletter.

The Garden Gallery
Stockbridge, Hampshire
May - October
Private View 10th May 2014 - 19 July 11-5

I will also be specially selected artist at:
Bevere Gallery
Bevere Lane, Worcester, WR3 7RQ 31St May-9th July 2014

Plus some of my new pieces have gone off to:

Beukenhof Pheonix
Ronde Van Vlaanderenstraat 9 - 11 B-9690 Kluisbergen Belquim for their summer exhibition.
May- September 2014

There will be other exhibitions happening throughout the year, which I will keep you informed about, but in the meantime if you would like to see the new pieces I am working on please link onto Facebook, Twitter or clink on pieces just finished.

 

 
  

New Website

This year has started very slowly, what with the bad weather and getting a dreadful cold virus which knocked me for six. But now I am fully back to speed and creating new work for exhibitions planned this year.

Firstly I would like to share the redesign of my website, which I am delighted with. Please have a look at www.patriciavolk.co.uk and let me know what you think.

patricia volk

Also got my Axis membership renewed and up and going.  Again please go and have a look and pass on to your friends.

Below are the galleries and events you will find me at this year. Just click on the names and that will take you through to their websites. Some more will be added later, and I will keep you informed of updates. Remember you can telephone and come to the studio any time to see what I am working on. Or follow me in Twitter - I am told I am quite amusing!
 
The Affordable Art Fair Battersea - Sheridan Russell Gallery
13-16th March

 
Beukenhof Pheonix 
Ronde Van Vlaanderenstraat 9 - 11 B-9690 Kluisbergen Belquim for their summer exhibition.

 
The Art Room Solo Exhibition
Topsham, near Exeter - contemporary art gallery in Devon - May 2014
Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden
nr. Ockley, Surrey
May - October
The Garden Gallery  
Stockbridge, Hampshire
May - October
The Bevere Gallery
Bevere Lane, Worcester, WR3 7RQ
May   
Doddington Hall & Gardens
Lincoln
2nd August-7th September   

Please note: If you have any photographs of my pieces in situ, I would really love to see them!

 Lets hope the weather gets better and we have a lovely spring and summer ahead.

Process from start to finish

I am often asked how long does it takes to make my pieces.

I thought, I would share with you the process from the 'clean' studio through to the finished pieces and how they evolve. Nothing is planned when I start, all these pieces could have turn out completely differently depending on my mood.

The time period is from the 14th October until 10th December 2013.

I try to start a new series of work with a tidy studio

The clay is laid out in slabs and cut into a variety of shapes very freely.

The pieces are left and finished until totally dry then stacked into the kiln.

The pieces are taken out of the kiln, I then make decisions on what pieces will go together.

Holes are drilled and pieces put together

Mounts are selected that will suspend the pieces

The pieces are covered with several coats of Gesso and the painting begins.

 

Several coats of paint to get the density of colour needed

Each piece is looked at and decisions made.

After a final protecting coat the pieces are ready to be photographed.

Pieces all lined up and ready for photography

Apogee H54W60D10 cms

Cyclic (Wall Piece) H73W32D20 cms

Eternal H69W30D30 cms

Lunar H48W36D8 cms

Pi H39W59D11 cms

Nadir H44W32D10 cms

Phase (1) H29W40D8 cms

Phase (2) H33W40D8 cms

Across (3) (Wall Piece) H50W14D12 cms

Quotidian H42W64D10 cms

Across (1) Wall Piece H45W17D11 cms

Across (4+5)(Wall Piece) H45W40 cms each

 I was so delighted to seeing my work in front of the Affordable Art Show in Battersea, I thought I would share it with you (below).

 

As you can see the colour changed quite dramatically with the lights, 

but this picture gives a good idea of the scale of the pieces

Patricia Volk: Newsletter

Patricia Volk - Sculpture

I've been very excited about recent developments with my current work, so I thought I would briefly share with you my plans for the coming year.  I'd be delighted if you could catch up with me (or my pieces!) at one or other of these venues.

March 15-18 - Affordable Art Show, Battersea, London

I'm thrilled to be showing here courtesy of the Sheridan Russell Gallery, and to be showcasing my new installation of seven sculptures (called "Individual"), which has been chosen to be displayed prominently outside the fair.

 http://www.affordableartfair.com/battersea/home/
http://www.sheridanrussellgallery.com/patriciavolk.html

May to October - Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden, nr. Ockley, Surrey

Hannah's is the most wonderful setting for sculpture and I'm always proud to be seen there in a magnificently designed garden surrounded by the work of so many sculptors I admire.

 http://www.hannahpescharsculpture.com/represented_artists.html

From March - The Garden Gallery, Broughton, nr Stockbridge, Hampshire

Proprietor Rachel Bebb, a Garden Designer, promotes the wealth of living artistic talent creating garden sculptures, and other works of art for gardens, which she believes deserves greater recognition and support.

http://www.gardengallery.uk.com/cms/index.php/the-artists/35-patricia-volk-arbs

March 31-May 6  - New Craftman Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

They say: "On display will be a collection of works by leading contemporary sculptor Patricia Volk, whose striking abstract ceramics explore the relationship between shape, colour and line in their purest form." Which is fine by me!

http://www.newcraftsmanstives.com/index.php?location=home

April 26-October 31 - Monnow Valley Arts, Walterstone, Hereford

This charitable Foundation, set up by Rupert Otten, formerly of Wolseley Fine Art, is dedicated to the promotion of contemporary sculpture and is located in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
http://www.monnowvalleyarts.org/

Summer - Beukenhof-Phoenix Galleries, Kluisbergen, Belgium

A breathtakingly beautiful gallery between Ghent and Lilles, with sculpture in the house and also a picturesque valley outside, run by lovely people with an infectious love of contemporary art. Well worth a trip.

http://www.beukenhof.com/

May 5, 6, 11-13 - Cloth Road Arts Week (Open Studio, Stowford Manor Farm, Trowbridge, Wilts) 

A perfect chance to come and visit my studio and have a face-to-face chat. All welcome. Also *newsflash* best cream teas in Wiltshire also available in the adjacent farmhouse!

June 15-July 31 - Sculptural at Coombe Trenchard
Described as "An Edwardian estate in the Arts and Crafts manner", this grand home also hosts Gardens Illustrated's Arts & Crafts Garden Fair (1-2 June). The sculpture exhibition is curated by the William Benington Gallery.
http://www.coombetrenchard.co.uk/coombetrenchardk.html

August 1-31 - Art in the Garden, Rococo Gardens, Painswick, Glos

The intimate and unique Rococo Gardens are curating a new contemporary art exhibition on the theme of "Embarkation for Dangerous Liaisons" inspired by the painting of that name by Watteau. My husband Stephen and I are planning an installation piece called "Incident" - which will be very different from the ceramic work you may be used to seeing from me - but nevertheless a continuation of my usual preoccupations. (There will also be some of my sculptures.)
http://www.artinthegarden.org.uk/2012.html

Aug 4-Sept 5 - Sculpture at Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire

This August, the Gardens of Doddington Hall are the setting for a Sculptural Exhibition of over 250 works from over 60 national and international sculptors from all over the UK.  Sculptors chosen are from all over the country as well as Northern Spain, Germany and The Netherlands. 
http://www.doddingtonhall.com/sculpture/

If you cannot make it to the exhibitions above, please do keep in touch via my website. (If you do not wish to receive future mailings, please let me know.)

Wishing you all a happy and productive 2012.