Creates Magazine

18/03/2024

EASTER EXHIBITION! 🔴
I am delighted to announce that we will be hosting a pop-up event for Easter, showcasing new and exciting works from our talented artists and makers.

The exhibition will be held at 21 Agincourt Square, opposite the Shire Hall, from Thursday 28th March to Monday 1st April.

We are thrilled to be returning to Monmouth for this Spring show and we extend our sincere thanks to Renata for making this possible. We're also excited that we will be collaborating and curating the show with Monmouth and Wye Valley Fine Art.

We encourage you to save the date and join us for this special occasion. We look forward to welcoming you and sharing our passion for art and creativity 🙏

11/01/2021

THE EMERGING ARTIST AWARD 2021 🏆
CALLING ALL ARTISTS AND MAKERS! 🔴
11 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY! ✅
We are thrilled to announce that The Emerging Artist Award is back and we're looking forward to supporting this year's entries!
After a very challenging year for the creative industry, Creates Gallery is pushing ahead with this annual art award and continuing their focus to support artists and makers across the UK.

This will be the THIRD year of The Emerging Artist Award, and if you haven't applied before, it is designed to nurture artists and makers that show a unique approach to their work, expressing their talent through a variety of mediums and creating strong themes.
This competition is open to artists and makers of all ages and career paths, whether professional, amateur, student or graduate, and based in the United Kingdom. The award application accepts entries from a range of disciplines including; Fine Art, Sculpture, Photography, Ceramics, Illustration, Textiles, Glass, Jewellery, and Digital Media.

There are FOUR new categories this year all offering cash prizes of up to £500 to support art careers, plus an editorial in our UK-wide publication re-launching this spring and your work will feature in a public exhibition at Creates Gallery, in Monmouth.

The application process is still open! If you would like to apply please click the application link below!

YOU WILL HAVE TO COMPLETE YOUR APPLICATION BY 22ND JANUARY 2021!

Link: https://www.createsgallery.com/emerging-artist-competition

We look forward to supporting artists and makers in 2021!
Stay safe and good luck!

05/11/2020

THE EMERGING ARTIST AWARD 2021 🏆

We are thrilled to announce that The Emerging Artist Award is back and we're looking forward to supporting this year's entries!

After a very challenging year for the creative industry, Creates Gallery is pushing ahead with this annual art award, and continue their focus to support artists and makers across the UK.

This will be the THIRD year of The Emerging Artist Award, and if you haven't applied before, it is designed to nurture artists and makers that show a unique approach to their work, expressing their talent through a variety of mediums and creating strong themes.

This competition is open to artists and makers of all ages and career paths, whether professional, amateur, student or graduate, and based in the United Kingdom. The award application accepts entries from a range of disciplines including; Fine Art, Sculpture, Photography, Ceramics, Illustration, Textiles, Glass, Jewellery, and Digital Media.

There are FOUR new categories this year all offering cash prizes of up to £500 to support art careers, plus an editorial in our UK-wide publication and your work will feature in a public exhibition at Creates Gallery, in Monmouth.

The application process is now officially open! If you would like to apply please click the application link below!

YOU WILL HAVE TO COMPLETE YOUR APPLICATION BY 22ND DECEMBER 2020

Link: https://www.createsgallery.com/emerging-artist-competition

We look forward to supporting artists and makers in 2021!

Stay safe and good luck!

02/05/2020

SIX DAYS LEFT TO APPLY! 🔴
OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS & MAKERS
THE OPEN ART COMPETITION 🏆

In light of current unprecedented times Creates Magazine and Creates Gallery, has launched The Open Art Competition to support artists and makers across the UK.

The winner of this competition will be awarded a cash prize of £250+ to support them financially during this difficult time for the art industry, and they will also feature in a special edition of Creates Magazine worth over £500.

In addition to this, their work will be added to an online art exhibition where their work will be for sale - and shared with over 10,000 art buyers. Artists will be judged by the public, and participants will vote for their favourite piece. The winner will need to win with the most online votes, and this will be announced at the end of the competition.

This award is open to artists and makers of all ages and career paths, whether professional, amateur, student or graduate, and based in the United Kingdom.

Works to be considered for this award covers; Fine Art, Sculpture, Photography, Ceramics, Illustration, Textiles, Glass, Jewellery, Digital Media, and works that contain Mixed Media.

It's just £5 per entry (up to six entries), entries will close on Sunday 31st May 2020. The online exhibition will run from 5th June - 3rd July 2020. Click the button below for further info and to enter the competition.

Link: https://www.createsgallery.com/open-art-competition

19/04/2020

Weekend oil painting workshops in Ross on Wye
Portraits, Animals and Still Life 🔴

Learn classical oil painting techniques in a friendly and positive workshop.

With only 4 students to a workshop I will help you develop new skills and gain the confidence to take forward everything you learn.

"Thank you so much, we both had a wonderful time, learnt a lot and laughed a lot. Mike, you are a superb teacher."

“I had to write and say THANK YOU! I have had the most fantastic weekend! I have learned a huge amount about oil painting from a SUPERB teacher; spent time with like minded enthusiasts and broken bread with some special people"

For painting commissions and workshops:
Website: www.mikeskidmoreonline.com
Telephone: 07814 687280
Email: [email protected]

18/04/2020

Judith’s journey as an artist began on the banks of the Shashi River, in Botswana, in July 1954.

Growing up around beautiful wild animals, and amongst gentle, patient, kind African people, has enriched her vision, and her philosophy of life. Which is to seek peace, and the beauty of light each day, in the people around her, and especially in the landscapes of...

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine: https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/30

Email: [email protected]

16/04/2020

As a child, Ian was always drawing animals and in his mid-twenties he saw the paintings of tuna by Stanley Meltzoff in a National Geographic Magazine, and that planted the seed of wanting to be an artist.

Ten years later, he was learning to scuba dive, and he decided to leave his full time job as a graphic designer and illustrator and become a wildlife artist...

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine: https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/28

Website: www.colemangallery.com
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15/04/2020

With Dali and the psychologist Carl Jung as crucial influences on Anne’s outlook and art, she uses the juxtaposition of images as a way of communicating her emotional response to places and things.

Anne has been greatly inspired by her recent travels to Myanmar, The Holy Land, India and Kenya, as well as trips to beautiful locations closer to home...

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine: https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/26

Website: www.annebatewilliams.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
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13/04/2020

Jennie is an artist specialising in portraiture and she is fascinated with the sentimental value of the objects we possess. She aspires to create artwork which records the moment or nostalgic quality of the person or object it depicts.

Since graduating from art college in 2013, Jennie has relocated to the Forest of Dean, married the love of her life and become a mother. Despite these life events taking precedence in her life, the dream of...

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine: https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/25

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12/04/2020

Victoria has drawn since she was a child, always fascinated by the shapes and patterns of animals and birds and putting the unusual together creating quirky associations. Originally training as a textile designer at Falmouth School of Art she worked in the industry for the United Turkey Red Company. In the 1980s she studied printmaking at Hereford College of Art and more recently at West Dean College and the Sidney Nolan Trust.

Since becoming a printmaker her work has become more illustrative, incorporating her love of...

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine: https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/25

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.victoria-keeble.com

11/04/2020

Lynn Keddie is a fine artist based in Frome, Somerset. Before moving there, she lived in Wiltshire for 20 years. This part of the world is filled with wonderful scenery and stunning skyscapes.

Lynn has been a professional flower and garden photo-grapher for 20 years, and in 2009 she came back to...

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine: https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/24

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.lynnkeddie.com
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10/04/2020

Sally Anne, assisted by her husband Peter, has worked on canvases to create a unique collection of paintings portraying the historic parkland of Windsor Great Park, in its varying moods throughout the seasons.

This has meant weekly visits to the park to paint en plein air. She immerses herself in...

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine: https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/22

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.sallyannewakejones.co.uk
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09/04/2020

Pete Bryden is an abstract artist working mainly with acrylic paints on canvas. When he starts to work on one of his current Series 2 paintings, he selects the colours that he intends to work with and then launches in with no more of a plan than the simple fact that he intends to create a painting.

Working mainly with palette knives, he also uses pads and sponges, adding more paint here and there when the painting...

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine: https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/22

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.petebryden.co.uk
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08/04/2020

Throughout the 1970/80s, Les exhibited his work in a variety of single and group exhibitions, including a one man show at the Zella Gallery in New Orleans, and the PMC exhibition at the Barbican, London. In the late 1980s, Les began work in art education, culminating in 2011 when he retired from the post of Faculty Director for Creative Industries at Bournemouth and Poole College.

Since retirement, Les has worked with a wide range of mediums and techniques. This past year he has concentrated on...

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine: https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/21

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.leslees51art.com
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07/04/2020

From her studio on the borders of the Wye Valley and Forest of Dean, Eileen has naturally spent many years being influenced by the natural world around her. The shadows, reflections, colours, patterns and textures in both the natural and man-made environment are the source of all her inspiration.

Using the many techniques gained from a City and Guilds course in Surface Design and Embroidery and from her own further...

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine: https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/20

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.gardenshedtextiles.com
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06/04/2020

Originally from Yorkshire, Chris now lives on the east coast in the Scottish Borders, is self taught and has been working as a professional artist since 1995.

Fusing both traditional and self-discovered painting and printmaking techniques, he tries to create pieces which possess a tangible and tactile quality...

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine: https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/19

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.chrisbrook-artworks.co.uk

05/04/2020

Alex Waddell is an English Sculptor and Stonemason based in South Wales. Alex trained as an apprentice at Wi******er Cathedral and has worked in heritage for 3 years. He learned a range of traditional skills, as well as building conservation using mortar repairs...

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine:https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/18

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.alexwaddellcarver.com
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04/04/2020

Tia Lambert is a landscape painter who lives on the slopes of the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. With a love of wild flowers and inspired by natural forms in the landscape, whether it be frothy white cow parsley or tracks that wind along the ridgeway, Tia works outside directly from the landscape whenever possible, injecting a fresh contemporary feel to her paintings, whilst using traditional techniques.

Tia’s vibrant oil paintings show a love of strong colour and a fascination with the transformation...

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine: https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/17

Website: www.tia-lambert.com
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03/04/2020

Stephanie Else is an award-winning artist who creates vibrantly beautiful glass artworks using a variety of kiln forming techniques.

Taking inspiration from the ever-changing elements of nature, she combines surface texture, pattern and colour to create beautifully tactile pieces which shift with the light throughout the day.

Seeking to exploit the natural translucent and jewel-like qualities the glass possesses...

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine: https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/16

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.glassinfusion.co.uk
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02/04/2020

Latest post from Soane Britain sharing Mark Lumley’s work on Instagram.

Mark Lumley was our Spring 2018 “Cover Creative” and featured in the first UK wide edition of Creates Magazine.

You can read more about about Mark on the Soane Britain website, link below.

Click here: https://www.soane.co.uk/craftsmanship/blacksmiths/

02/04/2020

Helen originally qualified as a research scientist working within the pharmaceutical industry, but while living abroad for 17 years in Europe and then Australia, she decided to change course and follow an artistic path. She embarked upon City & Guilds courses by correspondence in stitched textiles and embroidery and has never looked back. She creates her textile art from her studio in Oxfordshire, splitting her life and work between the UK and the sunshine of Australia.

Her work explores personal connections to the landscape, her ancestry...

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine:
https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/12

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.helenmacritchiedesigns.com
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01/04/2020

Sadie lives and works in the beautiful South Hams, Devon and the need to be creative has been part of her life for as long as she can remember. It started with a desire to develop her passion for drawing, which eventually led to experimentation with digital photography, via The Open College of the Arts, which opened up a fascination with exploring colours and form via macro/still life photography.
Sadie wanted to experiment further with different mediums and was inspired by wire sculpting. Following a ‘light bulb’ moment...

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine: https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/10

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.sadieaucott.com
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31/03/2020

Oriane is a young portraitist living in South Wales. Having attained a first class degree in Fine Art from Oxford Brookes University and further training at Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal Drawing School, Oriane is on the road to establishing herself as a fully fledged portraitist, balancing commissioned work with other self motivated large scale projects. She has exhibited in galleries in London, Oxford and Cardiff, and has been shortlisted for several portraiture awards.

Oriane not only tries to achieve an accurate likeness of her subjects, but treats each portrait as an intense exploration of tone, colour and composition....

Read this article in the latest edition of Creates Magazine: https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020/8

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.orianepierrepoint.co.uk
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01/03/2020

Welcome to the Spring Edition of Creates Magazine 🔴

Link: https://issuu.com/createsmagazine/docs/creates_magazine_spring_2020

We welcome you to the Spring Edition of Creates Magazine, supporting Artists, Galleries, Art Fairs and Makers across the United Kingdom.

This edition features Cover Creative, Jane Keay along with Emerging Artist Award 2020, Oriane Pierrepoint, Sadie Aucott, Helen MacRitchie Designs, Stephanie Else, Tia Lambert Artist, Alex Waddell, Chris Brook, Waycott, Les Lees, Pete Bryden, Sally Anne Wake Jones, Lynn Keddie, Jennie Blunt, Anne Bate-Williams, Ian Coleman, blue-ginger gallery, and Judith Malan, as well as Creates Gallery, and many more...

Creates Magazine is free and is delivered to over 300 venues across the UK. Read online now or pick up a copy from one of our venues countrywide. Please get in touch if you would like to find out more or visit our website.

18/02/2020

The Spring Edition of Creates Magazine is almost here... sign up to our mailing list to get your free copy online! 🔴

Link: www.createsmagazine.com

18/02/2020

The Spring Edition of Creates Magazine is almost here... sign up to our mailing list to get your free copy online! 🔴

Link: www.createsmagazine.com

12/02/2020

LAST CHANCE TO BOOK! 🔴

VALENTINE'S POP-UP 😍
FRIDAY 14th & SATURDAY 15th FEBRUARY 2020

VALENTINE'S MENU FOR TWO £25 ❤️
6:30pm -9pm

We're thrilled to announce that we are opening on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th February for our first of many evening menus.

Book now and enjoy our Valentine’s set menu with a complimentary glass of Prosecco on arrival! 🥂

Main: Artisan Pizza + Side dishes
Dessert: Chocolate Dipped Strawberries & Cream

The menu will be available from 6:30 - 9pm and it is essential to book.

Please book via telephone or email (using the link button below) and let us know of any dietary requirements when booking. We will have Gluten-Free, Vegan, and Vegetarian options available. Download a copy of the menu via our website.

If you'd like to stay with us, enquire about our special Valentine's B&B discount.

The launch of our Valentine's weekend will also coincide with the launch of our latest exhibition at Creates. If you're not looking to eat with us, then please reserve a table for drinks and nibbles (available on our new bar menu), while enjoying the variety of works that will be on show by established artists and makers.

Make reservations with us for loved ones, friends and family - all are welcome! ❤️

Click here: https://www.createsgallery.com/coffee-shop

CREATES
Gallery . Bistro . B&B
7 Church Street, NP253BX
(previously known as Farrington's)
Tel: 01600 460492

23/01/2020

If you’re looking for a gallery, coffee shop and B&B with a difference... this is your place!
A delicious well thought menu (full vegan, gluten-free and vegetarian options), stunning modern rooms, and a beautiful art gallery showcasing works of art by artists from all over the UK. Don’t miss out on The Emerging Artist Award exhibition, on show until 8th February 🔴

10/01/2020

And the winners are... 🏆
Congratulations to all of the winners of The Emerging Artist Award 2020! We’re looking forward to featuring you in our Spring edition of Creates Magazine! You can see all of this year’s finalists at “Creates”, 7 Church Street, Monmouth. This is the newest venue for Creates Galleries, and is also a coffee shop (offering delicious gluten-free, vegan and vegetarian cake & coffee) and B&B. Take a look at the website for the latest information and opening times. The Emerging Artist Award finishes on Saturday 8th February, don’t miss it!
Link: https://www.createsgallery.com/coffee-shop

03/01/2020

We’re looking forward to this on Saturday! 🔴
Don’t miss the opening or this new exhibition. This year the Emerging Artist Award is sponsored by us! 🏆

We’re almost ready to open the doors of our new venue... “Creates”.

We're thrilled to announce that we are opening a second venue in Monmouth on Saturday 4th January at 5pm - 8pm, just a few doors down from our Fine Art Gallery on Church Street.

Creates will not only extend our current art gallery in Monmouth, but it will also be a Coffee Shop and a B&B. This venue will replace our current Forest of Dean based galleries at The Dean Heritage Centre and Ta**us Crafts. From 4th January 2020 you will only find our galleries in Monmouth and both on Church Street.

It is a double celebration, as the opening of our newest venue will also be the opening of our first exhibition of the year with "The Emerging Artist Award 2020".

All are welcome to the opening on Saturday, doors will open at 5pm. Please feel free to bring guests. We look forward to toasting our new venture with you 🥂