We are opening step by step A small team is now back at work getting systems up and running and establishing an Autumn Programme. Our new working week is 10 am – 4 pm Tuesday – Saturday, the entrance is via Black Swan courtyard. Currently ‘details’ our art materials store and Frameshop our Picture Framing Service are open. From […]
It is almost time for Summer Holidays and we have some creative and fun activities to enjoy with your kids Doodle painting Have fun creating doodles and colouring them at the end What you will need: Pencils, Markers, Colour pencils, Acrylic Paintings, Watercolour paintings, etc. Collage & Paper cuts Get some scissors, glue and coloured […]
We are pleased to reopen ‘details’ our art materials shop and ‘Frameshop’ our picture framing service 10am Wednesday July 1st. Because of ‘Covid Secure’ advice and regulations this service is limited for the safety of everybody. Please enter through our Courtyard a few doors up the street. Our courtyard is a safe outdoor space with seating. Our […]
Newcastle City Centre has a shortage of trees that are needed to provide a much needed green lung. Yet in the heart of the City there is a huge area of barren moorland that should be used to create an outstanding Park for recreation and wildlife. This was recognised back in the 1960‘s as a […]
Although we had planned a partial opening of Details Art Materials Shop and Frameshop on June 16th this has now been postponed. Uncertain government data on Covid 19 and forecasts of poor trading conditions during the Summer months have caused the postponement of the opening of Newcastle Arts Centre. A small team will now be […]
My desk at home looks out into my garden and often I don’t have to travel to make pictures. The first image is a very lucky snap, a sudden rain storm hit the garden illuminated by a shaft of sunshine back in August 2007. I grabbed my camera and took just one shot rich in […]
These are a few from a new set of prints I am working on of marks made by the action of the sea. In painting terms – the ground is the sand, the pigment is coal dust and the brush is kelp while the medium is seawater. It’s a vision which often appears on the […]
Back in 1981 what is now Newcastle Arts Centre was a long abandoned and derelict group of buildings. Sold for redevelopment in the early 1970’s it became Listed because of its heritage.In 1980 it was for sale at a knocked down price because of the decline of trade as City Centre had moved north with […]
I’m very happy to be living at the coast and enjoying a daily walk along the shoreline with the time to look and think. I don’t feel isolated, as it is common for people who work ‘creatively’ to work alone. Sometimes being by the sea I sense that I am on the edge of the […]
The camera raises questions about how we see the world and the development of our visual understanding. Artists, Engineers, Architects and Designers all interpret the world as rectilinear while it is spherical. The rectilinear world is something we construct to define form and space, so much so that our brains are educated to interpret vision […]