Welcome to Artaffect Studios and Gallery
We are located in Jedburgh, Scottish Borders. We enable space for creativity, well being and positive transformation in systems and daily life.
Upcoming events
Taster: Landscape Painting with Acrylics, with artist, Pippa Sinclair, Sat 27 June, 10am – 1pm
We are delighted to welcome Pippa to ArtAffect for a Taster course, open to 16+years and suitable for complete painting beginners as well as people with previous experience. This course can be viewed as a follow-on to the course by Deborah Fallas, or as a Taster for new participants. All materials provided and cupfuls of tea and platefuls of biscuits also provided! This course will open out new possibilities for participants who want to continue their work with acrylics when we move the the new Art Centre in the old Bakery in Jedburgh, with a further 5 week landscape painting in acrylic course in November.
'The act of considering and portraying landscape can calm and inspire as it focuses the mind on that beautiful wild place. Acrylic is a wonderful versatile paint.In this workshop we will create small, explorative and experimental landscape studies from photographic references to build confidence with using acrylics, colour and composition.To support this we will investigate the colour wheel, using a limited palette and why this is useful in landscape painting.We will find inspiration from some of the landscape Masters from beautiful art books from the Gledhill Arts Library.'This will be a fun, non judgemental, friendly space and we hope you can join us!
Please note that acrylics do not easily come out of clothing so please wear old clothes if you have some - just in case!
If you can’t afford the full price but would love to participate, please contact us directly (jmanley@artaffect.co.uk) for a concessionary price.
ABOUT PIPPA SINCLAIR
‘I am a landscape painter based in the beautiful Scottish Borders. I try to create paintings that capture a little of the escapism and joy that I feel from my surroundings.
I am excited by the endless possibilities of paint itself and work in a mixture of techniques always looking for ways to use the quality of the paint to capture a sensation. By adding texture and varying finishes I hope to bring a high level of surface interest to my art so they change under different lighting conditions.
My investigations centre around ways of conveying space, light and effect and I enjoy playing with dimensions and ways of seeing. It is the spatial presence of trees, watercourses and birds that continually draw me.
My paintings, although referenced from life, are completed in the studio. By the nature of this process painting becomes a meditative act of remembering and I am trying to capture a representation of a memory rather than specific realism.’
Intuitive Art Making 2 with the Gledhill Arts Library
Following on from a wonderful sold out session in March, creative therapist Vicky Inam is back to offer new activities and prompts to help kickstart your creativity!!
Using the books in the Gledhill Arts Library as stimulus and inspiration, Vicky will lead us through different art-making exercises in order to help free our creativity and intuition! This session is suitable for complete beginners as well as returning participants, all art-making materials will be supplied and no experience is necessary.
Returning participants from the first session receive £10 discount! (reimbursed on the day)
New participants receive a free 6-month subscription and Library card to the Gledhill Arts Library!
AND everybody gets to participate in a lucky draw: the winner will be able to choose a new book of their own to take away from the Library before it gets catalogued.
Winner gets to choose from 15 brand new books
There are so many opportunities in this workshop…! Ignite your Inner Arts Bookworm!!
ArtAffect is delighted to welcome the renowned artist and arts tutor, Chris Kent, for a beginner's course for drawing and a refresher for those who have done more art.
What does it meant learn to draw?
Drawing and sketching is a great observational skill as well as a creative process, developing new ways to represent the world. Drawing helps you develop other projects such as painting, printmaking, crafts etc. It’s challenging and good fun! We will be learning to play with pencils plus charcoal and a rubber.
Drawing develops skills like observation, concentration and can be absorbing and relaxing, as well as encouraging mindfulness and developing self-confidence.
What will we do?
There will be a tutor talk and/or demonstration of drawing methods. Student practice - students will have the opportunity to try out methods (have a short break) and share their work, if they wish. 1-1 Tutor advice.
Students will develop confidence in their drawing while making observational sketches, to record information as well as working intuitively and experimentally with a variety of media, plus learning about ideas of shape, form, composition.
Everyone will have a couple of drawings to take home afterwards and Students will be encouraged to begin to keep a sketchbook to begin their own artistic journeys…
And the future…
There will be further courses about a range of drawing materials, e.g. pastels, (oil and/or soft pastels), inks (with brushes and other utensils), coloured pencils, (including watercolour pencils) and working in drawing books.
A word from Chris Kent
'Everyone can draw. Whether it is doodling while on the phone, scribbling ideas for a new kitchen. Everything that we see around us that has been made has first been drawn. When we run out of words we draw. By drawing we can create another world'. About Chris Kent
These classes are led by Scottish Borders based artist Christopher Kent who studied at Bath, Sunderland and Newcastle. He has exhibited his work across the UK, in Europe and USA, in group as well as solo exhibitions(including the Royal Scottish Academy).
He was selected for the Sky Portrait Artist of the Year 2016. He has written and published 3 graphic novels. As well as painting and drawing, his practice has also included wood sculpture and has worked on a range of private and public commissions, including for Marie Curie and the National Trust. His work is held in a variety of national collections, (including the City Art Centre, Edinburgh. His work also includes performance, which he has written and performed - ‘Compulsion’ (about Orson Welles), and ‘The Phantom’(about Edgar Allan Poe).
Our vision
Explore the entangled potential of art and creativity with a mixture of courses that challenge traditional boundaries and reimagine creativity. Our innovative approach opens up creative spaces that question and redefine our perceptions of our present time through creative experiences that are accessible, engaging and multi-dimensional.
