28 January 2018
Palmers Green Art Group started 12 years ago to help a group of amateur artists nurture and develop their artistic skills in an informal and friendly environment. The group has changed over the years as different people have come and gone. Originally focused on watercolour, members now work in a variety of painting and drawing media, reflecting a diversity of individual styles and preferences. We do not offer formal tuition but enjoy an atmosphere of creativity, encouragement and support from.......
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11 December 2017
Following two exhibitions nearer to home, Palmers Green artist Patrick Samuel's work goes on show this week at a cinema and gallery in east London.
Clash of the IconsAn exhibiition by Patrick Samuel12 December 2017 - 16 January 2017Genesis Cinema, 93-95 Mile End Rd, London E1 4UJ
Exhibition Launch
12 December 2017 at 7pm
Patrick will also be showing a short film about his creative journey since he started his daily art therapy in December 2016, as well as playing music he composes when.......
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28 October 2017
Patrick Samuel - one of the artists involved in Enfield's bid for cultural recognition
An exhibition of work by Palmers Green artist Patrick Samuel will launch Enfield Council's bid for the borough to become a "London Borough of Culture".
Patrick's show, Escape and Return, runs at the Dugdale Centre from 7th November until 2nd December. Earlier this year we published an article written by Patrick - a moving story of how taking up art turned his life around.
The London Borough of Culture.......
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20 August 2017
There'll be so many things going on at the Palmers Green Festival on 3rd September that you might miss some of them, so over the next couple of weeks we'll be highlighting a few that you might enjoy, This time we look at the 2nd Palmers Green Art Festival.
A new feature at last year's PG Festival was the Art Festival, run by Starfish & Coffee. More than 35 artists exhibited their work along Aldermans Hill.
The Art Festival will be back this year in the same place. Aykut Hilmi.......
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04 August 2017
Anna Gaudia has posted this message on our Facebook page:
We are group of people who would like to see more art in Broomfield Park and we would like your input.
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Ps. Check out the bonus question if you would like to get involved.
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27 July 2017
The Lanscroon Murals in Broomfield House before the fires. The staircase at the Beaumont Care Home in Southgate also has murals by the same artist.
The Broomfield House Trust is hoping to work with local artists, teachers and schoolchildren on a project that would promote a lifelong love of art and learning while at the same time contributing to the Trust's multipronged efforts to raise funds to restore Broomfield House.
The project would be be run along similar lines to Take One.......
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22 July 2017
Hello everyone at Palmers Green Community,
My name is Patrick, I live in Palmers Green (since 2004) and I am autistic. My condition is challenging and complex but over the past 6 months I have been finding a lot of peace and happiness in art and art therapy. It's been reducing the irritability and aggression, along with the effects of marked anxiety and low mood, which I am also diagnosed with. I am supported by Enfield Complex Care, the Maudsley Hospital and the National Autistic.......
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28 April 2017
Artist Gabriela Schutz has been working on two detailed panoramas of shopfronts and houses in Myddleton Road, Bowes Park, executed in pencil, and each 7.2 metres long. They will go on show at Bruce Castle Museum in May.
In the meantime, watch this video in which Gabriela talks about the project and you can see it taking shape........
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20 February 2017
The Friends of Broomfield Park launch their 2017 season of special events in Broomfield Conservatory this Sunday, starting with a Sketching Workshop. The workshop is suitable for people of all ages and there'll be paper and pencils available, or you can bring your own coloured crayons or pastels. If you need any help, artist Cathy Taylor will be along to advise and assist.
Later special Conservatory events include live music, a children's event - Plant a Turf Head, various plant sales, a.......
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08 July 2016
Enfield Art Circle is a friendly group running an annual programme of art-based talks, demonstrations, practical evenings, art classes, art workshops and outings, and organises exhibitions where members can display and sell their work.
We welcome amateur and professional artists and others interested in our activities. There is a modest annual subscription.
Further information: Anne Meakins, Secretary, 07961 861199 or www.enfieldartcircle.org.
Enfield Art Circle's 84th Annual.......
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23 June 2016
The Spirals of Life final show of ceramic sculptures is now on in Broomfield Park conservatory. Most of the previous sculptures are back, with a few new ones (look out for the Venus baby-trap!).
A ceramic sculpture of a pitcher plant hanging among real pitcher plants in Broomfield ConservatoryIn addition, the work from the two ceramics workshops are being displayed. (Participants can collect their work next month from 3rd to 24th July, during normal opening hours.) There are also a couple of.......
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13 April 2016
During April the theme for the Spirals of Life exhibition in Broomfield Conservatory is Bamboo and Grass. "Botanical sculptures" created by Cathy Taylor and June Dawes can be seen nestling among the normal plants in the flower beds.
Grasses from Broomfield Park, with Cow Parsley (porcelain paper clay with porcelain slip)Cathy writes:
"Can you imagine how to make a sculpture of grass? It's not easy, is it? Ai Wei Wei did it, but his grass was hard and spiky, and each tuft of grass.......
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23 March 2016
Easter Sunday is the last Sunday in March and therefore the last chance to see this month's Spirals of Life sculptures in Broomfield Conservatory before they give way to the April exhibits.
The March exhibits are sculptures of lilies and ferns created by Cathy Taylor and June Dawes.
Cathy writes:
"Ferns first caught my eye in the beautiful La Mortella Gardens in Ischia, Italy, where the fronds of giant tree ferns interlaced against the sky. Tree ferns are a very old form of life, familiar.......
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02 March 2016
The first month of this year's Artist-in-Residence scheme in Broomfield Conservatory was brought to a close with a very popular drop-in workshop, giving visitors an opportunity to learn how to create ceramic leaves.
Cathy Taylor's five-month residency goes by the overall title "Spirals of Life", each month having a different theme, but all within the overall concept of "biological sculptures".
Cathy's report on last Sunday's workshop:
"The ceramics leaf-making workshop in the Conservatory in.......
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01 March 2016
Prizes of up to £1000 are being offered to artists living in Enfield or Haringey for an artwork which illustrates what life in the two boroughs might be like if environmental improvements had been made.
The competition is being run by Enfield and Haringey Green Parties in conjunction with Collage Arts. The challenge they are setting is to create art that depicts, embodies, or expresses what it could be like in Enfield and Haringey if one or more of the questions below were to be.......
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27 January 2016
Broomfield Conservatory's artist in residence for 2016 is Cathy Taylor. In conjunction with fellow Friend of Broomfield Park June Dawes, she will be exhibiting her botanical sculptures set among the hothouse plants in Broomfield Conservatory. The exhibition - Spirals of Life - starts this Sunday (31st January) and continues until the end of June........
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21 July 2015
Tottenham Art Classes have provided details of taster workshops to learn printmaking and illustration.
For anyone who has ever wanted to try printmaking or illustration, now's your chance!
We're holding taster workshops in Printmaking and Illustration in August. Open to anyone aged 14 years and over and adults.
PRINTMAKING TASTER WORKSHOPS
Choose from two dates:
Tuesday 11th August from 1pm - 5.30pm
Saturday 12th August from 11am - 3.30pm
Course info:
An introductory workshop to mono.......
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13 July 2015
The video below, released in connection with an exhibition at Bruce Castle Museum, is a beautifully filmed and soberly narrated tour of the architectural and artistic delights to be found within churches in Tottenham, Hornsey, Stamford Hill, Noel Park and Harringay. The buildings date from the middle ages right through to the 1990s - but the modern buildings contain some astounding items salvaged from demolished buildings.
Well worth spending half an hour watching (I could have done.......
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25 May 2015
Last year over 600 people visited All Saints, Edmonton, for a glorious week of poetry, music, theatre and a wide range of other events. They were there for the Lamb Festival, an arts festival celebrating the lives and legacies of Charles and Mary Lamb, and the success of that first festival left us in no doubt that there should be a second (and hopefully a third, a fourth, a…).
The Lamb Festival 2015 will be held from Saturday 6th to Friday 12th June, and once again we’ve got a rich.......
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27 May 2014
This year's Open Studios and Arts Trail includes four free craft workshops, three of which will give you a chance to try for yourself.
Bookbinding in Broomfield Conservatory
7 June 1.30-3.30pm and 4-6pm - booking essential (cost of materials £5). Click for details.
Graphic window art at Printfields
7 June 10am - 1pm (drop in, but please register an interest in advance). Click for details.
Blacksmithing in Broomfield Community Orchard
8 June 2-5pm - drop-in.......
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