Recent artwork - April '13

Here are images of some of the work which has recently been created by artists at the Collective:

 Globe Theatre - By Jude

 Fox - by Keith

 Seahorse - by Sukhi

 Butterfly sign - by Vince

The new Pallas squirrel sign in place outside the enclosure

Spring 2013

Today saw the grand opening of the butterfly house gift shop in Brent Lodge Park which has been set up to sell merchandise and generate money for the Art Collective, the Animal Centre and Ealing Mencap. At the entrance you can see one of the banners created by Ealing Mencap attendees of Art Collective sessions:

 

The Art Collective has had some limited edition greetings cards printed by Accession social enterprise which are on sale in the gift shop. Some of the cards feature images from the animal enclosures: 

Artists continue to create some excellent artwork, including this train by Liam:

Keith has completed a horse tryptic as part of a private commission:

 And finally... the art collective held it's latest trustee/steering meeting on 10th March. We had 11 attendees including all 6 trustees in co-positions. Vincent (as co-secretary) took some pictorial minutes to accompany Jude's minutes. In negative they resemble a medieval blockcut print:

Some images from the past month

 The art collective designed 3 more signs for the animal centre including this one of the new geese:

Keith has painted some more of the animals and birds that can be seen around Brent Lodge Park including this Mandarin duck:

The Ealing Mencap art group have been working on butterflies in preparation for the 2013 opening of the butterfly house. Some of these designs will be used on merchandise which will be sold at a stall on site.

2013!

Happy New Year! 2013 already looks like it will be a busy one! We have more signage commissions, more work with youth groups and running the butterfly house with Ealing Mencap to look forward to and we plan on becoming a formally registered charity.

Here are some of the recent commissions we have worked on:

 The completed entrance sign for Montpelier Park

The finance and introduction pages for the Ealing Mencap Annual Report (portraits by Keith, fish by Gemma, Zubin & Keith, money by the Ealing Mencap art group)

BLP Art Collective in October

A quick look at the last month in pictures...

 We had our trustees meeting on the 7th October. We said goodbye to Sarah, who has volunteered since the Art collective was set up, and said hello to Dee who has started volunteering. Judith and Vince were nominated as our new co-secretaries.

 Eagle by Judith

 Abstract by Michael

 Fish by Shadrock

 Gardeners by Vince

We have been working on some images for Ealing Mencap's annual report with the RealMe art group

Composite image by the BLP Art Collective

This is an image which will be used on a park sign in Ealing. Contributing artists include Judith, Paljit, Keith, Hope and Matt.

Wildlife garden banners

Our most recent commission is complete! 5 new banners will be on display in the Brent Lodge Park wildlife garden featuring artwork from all of the BLP artists. Here are 3 of the designs - Bats, Beasts and Birds!

Things have been a bit quiet over the Summer with artists going on holidays and lots of other distractions including the Olympics, but we have still managed to get some banners designed and ready for the animal centre's new wild flower garden. 

Some more of our signs can now be seen around the animal centre:

 Keith, John and Sukhi go sign-spotting

 Bleeding Heart Doves

Blue Bellied Rollers

 Superb Starlings

We also have some more great paintings on display in the gallery:

 Gemma - untitled

Keith - seal

Lynda - wild flowers