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Katie's Paintings 2008 - Commissions & Gifts

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KATIE'S PAINTINGS 2008

Present for my colleague after her wedding on Friday 23rd May 2008

Des's Paintings 2008 - Miscellaneous

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Des's Paintings 2008 - Miscellaneous

Pop Art - Jesus Christ April 2008

Pop Art - Freddie Mercury April 2008

Des Paintings 2008 - Seascapes

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Des's Seascapes 2008

Port Na Chro - April 2008

Katie's Paintings 2008 - Seascapes

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Katie's Seascapes 2008

Sunrise in Paradise April 2008

Katie's Paintings 2008 - Miscellaneous

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Miscellaneous Paintings

Brock the Badger - May 2008

Harry Potter - May 2008

Exhibitions

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EXHIBITIONS
1ST Exhibition May 2008

Our 1st exhibition is fast coming round and we are currently working hard for this and will keep you posted, as and when we work out what paintings we intend to enter.

The exhibition is being held at The Tithe Barn in Sproughton, commencing with an open evening Friday from 7.30 to 10.30pm with Cheese & Wine. Tickets are £6 and can be purchased on the door. It will be open Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday for viewing of the many different paintings. This event is organised by The Lions Club for charity and this year they are donating the proceeds to The Ipswich Hospital Eye department.

Well we have sorted our paintings out and you can see below the ones we are entering:

Des's Paintings

Original Oil Painting By Des Welham

Bramford Church

Original Oil Painting By Des Welham
English Countryside

Original Oil Painting By Des Welham

Falling Waters

Limited Edition Framed Print of Original Oil Painting By Des Welham

Tizzy

Limited Edition Prints of Original Oil Painting By Des Welham
Tizzy

Katie's Paintings

Original Oil Painting By Katie Welham

Call of the Wild

Original Oil Painting By Katie Welham

Purple Peaks

Original Oil Painting By Katie Welham

Hart of the Forest

Limited Edition Framed Print of Original Oil Painting By Katie Welham
Bamburgh Castle

Limited Edition Prints of Original Oil Painting By Katie Welham

Bamburgh Castle

We attended our first exhibition preview evening. This was an exciting event for us and was good to see our paintings hung and on display. It is actually very exciting and my professional artist sister was very encouraging. Not only did she support us by wanting to attend the opening evening, but her comments were a source of encouragement.

KaDe's Arty News

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KaDe's News

This area will be for a slot where you can view the most recent projects, ideas etc that we are working on, but not just about our interest in art.

March 2008

Yesterday, we had a private class with our wonderful tutor Sue, when we painted her subject Remember a day. As we have never painted snow before, this was a new experience. We also learnt how to do different trees foliage, with a lacey effect and 2 figures in the painting. Having said that Des has been putting figures in a few paintings already, but this was a new experience for Katie. As soon as paintings dry enough to photograph we will publish them .................

We are currently preparing for our forthcoming (1st) exhibition in May. SCARY or what!!!!! Katie doesn't want to sell Bamburgh Castle, so Des has said he will get a print of it for her to put in exhibition and one to put in the counselling room. I have also been working on a variation of Amber Amblings but with a deer in the background and a sunset with a wolf. Sue also suggested that paint a local scene. I have not decided whether I will try to paint Sproughton or Bramford Church.

I have been busy this month with counselling work and designing and re-developing my therapeutic courses this month so unfortunately have not had that much time for painting at home. Although, I am still facilitating the Art Group at work on Tuesday afternoons and unfortunately our new volunteer art tutor has now got a job, so will probably be leaving soon.

Des & Katie were getting bored with signing there names in english and have therefore been exploring other options, namely: Hebrew, Greek, Egyptian and Runes (from the Vikings apparently). They decided on Runes, Des has mastered his, Katie is still working on hers:

February 2008

I spent most of yesterday evening uploading my sisters work http://animalartistlesley.blogspot.com/. She is a professional artist and has been so since she was quite young. I have always seen her as brilliant since I was very small, which put me off even trying to paint until last year. Some of her early work can be seen here http://lesleylordanimalartist.blogspot.com/ .

During our painting class this month Sue suggested that we enter our 1st ehibition in May! We came home and requested the registration forms and have started thinking about which paintings we might enter or which new ones we might paint. So watch this space !!!!!!!!!

January 2008

Been to Sue's for 1-1 lesson on Bamburgh Castle, as I love purple Sue allowed me to do it in purple today. I normally enjoy attending her classes with my husband and have only ever been on my own - once before. It is really nice for a change to have Sue all to myself, expecially today as this was a intermediate class!

As always Sue (http://www.ayoubart.co.uk/) is brilliant, patience & understanding could be her middle name. I also had the bonus of sharing my chair with the delightful Ziggy.

Well as you can see on 'our paintings from lessons', we attended a new lesson last weekend with painting subject: 'Golden Brown'. This was not the topic we went to do, but as is often the case with our creative instructor, she showed us the work she had been busy undertaking, which resulted in us deciding to do this subject instead!

Thanks Sue, as usual a wonderful relaxed day. Sue has a kitten (well he is growing up now) called Ziggy. He is a little sweetie, who likes to watch the painting, till he falls asleep on one of our chairs (whilst Sue is demonstrating the next stage). Sue also has another cat called Ripley, but we do not often see him, as we are animal lovers this adds to our painting sessions!

Despite the fact that Des (his painting seen here)

& I were painting the same topic you can see that our paintings are quite different! It is relaxing in itself to spend time with Sue as she is has so much patience and understanding and the actual painting, as well as Ziggy is a good way to chill and unwind from the stresses of the week.

For some time now we have been thinking about showing our paintings, but neither of us have much understanding & knowledge of running a website (our business ones are looked after by other people). Unfortunately, we did not consider this to be a viable option for the paintings as we need to be able to update it regularly, without relying on others to do it for us. Sue (Art Tutor) suggested this - which seems to be manageable for even me. I am quite PC literate having designed my own Therapeutic Courses for about 7 years now, but that is mainly word/powerpoint/publisher etc.

Forthcoming Projects

We love Scotland and usually return at least once a year - to the 'wilds of Scotland' beauty & peace, so it is now wonderful to be able to capture the beauty on to canvas. We started some projects when we were there in November, which we will hopefully complete soon and will post them when done.

Katie's Commissions & Presents

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These are paintings I have made to order.

December 2007

Forest Glade Skipness, Argyll - December 2007

This is based on memories and photograph shown on our photographs.

Our Photographs

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This is a selection of photographs we have taken, to use in future paintings.

Stowmarket, Suffolk Photographs

Stream - Combs Ford Stowmarket 2008

Argyll, Scotland Photographs

Forest Glade - Port 'n' Chro, Skipness, Argyll, Scotland 2007 (Commission painting based on this photograph. )

Forest Glade - Port 'n' Chro, Skipness, Argyll, Scotland 2007

Skipness Castle, Argyll, Scotland 2006

The Gatehouse, Skipness, Argyll, Scotland 2006 (see Des's Painting)

St Brendan's Church, Skipness, Argyll, Scotland 2006

Arran from Port 'n' Chro, Skipness, Argyll, Scotland 2000

Rainbow Arran from Port 'n' Chro, Skipness, Argyll, Scotland 2000

Arran, from Skipness House, Skipness, Argyll, Scotland 2000

Sunrise, Port 'n' Chro, Skipness, Argyll, Scotland 2000

Highland Cow, Argyll Scotland 2000

Des's Commissions

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These are paintings I have made to order.

December 2007

Arran from Skipness, Argyll

Katie's Gallery own paintings 2007 - 2008

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These are my paintings that I have worked on from actual scenery, photographs taken, or ideas in my head and adaptations from painting classes.

January - March 2008

Purple Mountain - 11th February 2008

"Just Grazing" Port na Chro Skipness - November to 2nd February 2008

Sunset Lake- 27th January 2008

This is a photograph I found on internet at: http://www.wildlightphotography.co.uk/
and my interpretation of it.

Forest Monarch - 21st January 2008

Monarch of the Glen - 20th January 2008

Woodlands Hollow - Jan 08

October - December 2007

Katie's Interpretation of Spring Stream (from Sue Warne's Gallery http://www.ayoubart.co.uk/ ) - Christmas 07

Mountain Lake - Nov 07

Ramblers Forest 2 - Oct 07

Ramblers Forest - Oct 07

July - September 2007

Forest of Gold - September 07

Arran from Skipness 2 - Sept 07

Arran from Skipness - Sept 07

Emerald Tranquillity - August 07

Mangrove Oasis 2 - August 2007

June 2007

1st attempt at a mountain - June 2007

1st attempt at a Waterfall - June 2007

Black & White Sunbeams 2 - June 2007

Katie's Gallery from lessons 2007 - 2008

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These are some of the paintings I have done during workshops or private classes with Sue Warne ACI (Alexander Certified Instructor) of http://www.ayoubart.co.uk/

April - June 2008

Jesus of Nazareth (Pop Art) - April 2008

January - March 2008

Bamburgh Castle - Jan 2008

Golden Brown - Jan 2008

October - December 2007

Ever Purple - December 2007

Ever Green - December 2007

Leo the Lion - December 2007

Make a Wish - October 2007

Up Hill Down Dale - October 2007

June - September 2007

Purple Haze - September 2007

Cascades - September 2007

New Day - September 2007

New England - August 2007

Hidden Secret - August 2007

Mangrove Oasis - August 2007

Amber Amblings - July 2007

Sunbeams - June 2007

Des's Gallery own paintngs 2007 - 2008

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These are my paintings for 2007 - 8 that I have developed from places I have visited, photographs or adaptations of workshop paintings.

January - March 2008

My painting of Tizzy (my cat) - Feb 2008

Photograph of Tizzy (my cat) - Feb 2008

Otter - Jan 2008

Girl in Forest - Jan 2008

October - December 2007

Highland Coo - Nov 2007

Loch Fyne - Nov 2007

Blue Moonlight Oct 2007

The one that got away! Aug 2007

July - September 2007

The Gatehouse - Skipness Sept 2007

Clyde Puffer Sept 2007

Green Falls August 2007

Willow Aug 2007

April - June 2007

Sunlit Mountains June 07

Scottish Sails June 07

Puffer April 07

Des's Gallery from Lessons 2007 -2008

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These are some of the paintings I have done during workshops or private classes with Sue Warne ACI (Alexander Certified Instructor) of http://www.ayoubart.co.uk/

January - March 2008

Golden Brown - Jan 2008

October - December 2007

Leo the Lion - December 2007

Make a Wish - October 2007

Up Hill Down Dale - Oct 2007

July - September 2007

New Day - Sept 2007

Cascades - Sept 2007

New England - Aug 2007

Hidden Secret - Aug 2007

Mangrove Oasis - Aug 2007

Amber Amblings - July 2007

May - June 2007 Sunbeams - June 2007

Lakelands Walk - May 2007

About Us

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This blog is not about the counselling side which is our work, but about how we relax and unwind from our jobs, by painting and undertaking creative activities that are fun, exciting and pleasurable.

Des and Katie are both qualified counsellors with BACP (British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy).

Des Welham MBACP

I started painting about a year ago, but found it very difficult trying to learn from just books. I tried to find an art tutor in Suffolk, who held classes at weekends and eventually found a brilliant lady named Sue Warne ACI (Alexander Certified Instructor) of Ayoubart in May 07. In just one session I learned more from her than months of pouring over art books. I was starting to learn the 'Wet on Wet' technique started by Bill Alexander and I believe later by Bob Ross.

My job can be quite stressful and therefore I find this an excellent way to relax. Since May I have been attending Sue's workshops and private classes at least once a month, which I really enjoy, and have not looked back since.

I persuaded my wife Katie to come along to my second workshop with Sue in June 07.

Katie Welham MBACP (Accred).

I have never painted anything since I had to at school. I believe this was mainly because at about 5 years old I remember my sister painting the most beautiful landscape I had ever seen (she was only about 11) and I knew I could never do anything like that! Well I was to find out many years later I was wrong!!!

Although over the years I have been creative in many ways making cards, crafts etc I have always avoided painting.

In May 07, I was amazed when my husband Des came home with this beautiful painting from Sue ACI (Alexander Certified Instructor) at Ayoubart's Workshop. I allowed him to persuade me to go on the next workshop in Stowmarket, when we painted Sunbeams.

Sue is absolutely brilliant, she takes you through, step by step and is very patient and understanding. I am now bitten by the painting bug!

I too work in a field that can be stressful and we find this an excellent way to relax and share this hobby together.

More details about us can be found at http://www.suffolkcounsellors.com/; http://www.kade-counselling.com/; http://www.coursesforgrowth.com/;