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Village life with a Springer…
25 Aug 2017

Village life with a Springer…

by stephen | posted in: Family, General | 0

It is now over six years since we ditched our familiar city home and lifestyle for somewhere a little more peaceful and rural. We felt it was time for something new. A small Derbyshire village, one local pub, a tiny … Continued

bungo, derbyshire, dog, dog walking, I, springer, springer spaniel, village
Clara goes to Lincolnshire
30 Apr 2016

Clara goes to Lincolnshire

by stephen | posted in: Clara Holdsworth Villa, Family | 0

The first Clara post for quite a while, which would imply that things have been going swimmingly well with our erratic & temperamental  VW campervan. Not so, unfotunately. A more accurate blog post would have started with a ‘Clara goes to … Continued

bungo, campervan, camping, campsite, Clara, Lincolnshire, springer spaniel, T25, VW, Wooshall Spa
One man and his dog
7 Feb 2013

One man and his dog

by stephen | posted in: Family, Travel | 0

Before I embark upon this canine tale from back in 2003, an important fact you need to know. The Springer Spaniel is a crazy, insane, fruit-loop breed of dog. Our’s is still all of those things now aged 11. Back in January 2003, … Continued

dog, sheep, springer spaniel, Wales

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So, after a 15 year break, it was time to revisit my beloved oil paints 💗

This was done using Daler Rowney water based oils. I'd never used water based oils before. I'd also frowned upon them a wee bit, but these were surprising nice to use 🙂

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Music: Someday
Musician: Alexander Delarge
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Samira Ahmed portrait with Steph
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Another portrait, more ink pen and more insanely complicated maps and collage 🙂

'There's an Orchard Green in Avalon' - 2020

Ink, acrylic and collage on paper

42 x 30cm 

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Melanie Blatt portrait with Steph
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This week's sitter on the Sky Arts Artist of the Week show was DJ and presenter Nihal Arthanayake.

Decided to throw a bit more colour into this and to spend a lot more time planning the collage background.

"The Stars that light my Garden' - 2020

Ink, acrylic and collage on paper

42 x 30

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Nihal Arthanayake portrait with Steph
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One of my ink & collage portraits... This is another of the Sky Arts Artist of the Week  attempts, with sitter Annie Mac 

'Dún Laoghaire' - 2020

Ink, acrylic, pencil on music sheets and an old Irish map.

42 x 30cm 

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All comments, likes, shares and subscribers  are most welcome 💗💗💗
Annie Mac portrait with Steph
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Another of my ink & collage portrait videos. This time I decided to give a self portrait a go 🙂 Always an interesting challenge...

"Still She Haunts me, Phantomwise" 2020

Ink, acrylic on collage 

42 x 30cm

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As always, any comments, likes or subscribers are most welcome 💗💗💗

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Music: Feel like that
Musician: Nordgroove
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Self portrait with Steph
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Another of my ink, acrylic and collage portraits and another of the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Week challenges. This week's lovely sitter was Mary Beard, who was an absolute joy to draw 🙂

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All comments, feedback, likes and subscribers are always most welcome 💗

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Music: Fugetta
Musician: Ilya Truhanov
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Mary Beard portrait with Steph
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Here's a fun little craft activity to celebrate Pride month.

Materials needed are:

A4 paper
Pencil
Marker pen
Coloured pencils or crayons
Scissors 
Pencil rubber

Here's a link if you want to see what Pride flags are currently available...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_symbols

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Comments, questions, feedback and subscribers are always most welcome 💗🙂💗
Pride flags with Steph
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This is craft activity which demonstrates how to make simple peg puppets and a theatre booth.

Equipment you'll need:

Card - Pencil - Eraser - Scissors - Glue - Pegs - Coloured pens, pencils etc - Some circular to draw around - Black fineliner pen.

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Any questions, comments, feedback, likes, subscribers all welcome 💗💗💗
Puppet theatre with Steph
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Another of my Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Week challenges, with this week's lovely sitter Clare Balding. As with all of my others, this is done in ink pen & acrylic, on top of some appropriately found collage pieces...

A must point out that in my intro, I wasn't remotely implying that I'm not a fan of lovely Aine Devine's great artwork 😯 I was trying to say how awesome she was to watch 😃💗😃

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Music: Turismo
Musician: Spaceinvader
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Clare Balding Portrait with Steph
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UK trans female, gin loving, fine artist 🎨
Occasional writer, casual photographer and wannabe chef
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Stephanie Siân Coley
How to annoy a 14 year old 🙂 (16/365) #photoa How to annoy a 14 year old 🙂

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F#m 🎸 (15/365) #photoadaychallenge F#m 🎸

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The obligatory January snow pic... (14/365) #ph The obligatory January snow pic... 

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When you're carefully trying to help with your son When you're carefully trying to help with your son's 'build the longest marble run' homework, and this knob decides to help too!!! 🐶

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Tin Star... (10/365) #photoadaychallenge Tin Star...

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Cooked John 💗🐟💗 #johndory Cooked John 💗🐟💗

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January skies... (7/365) #photoadaychallenge #sk January skies...

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This is the 'Oooooh look she's putting her coat on This is the 'Oooooh look she's putting her coat on' face... Walk time 😃😃😃

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2020 was rather a creative & productive year... P 2020 was rather a creative &  productive year... Portraits (lots of), collage, mixed media, a bit of sculpture and quite a few commissions 🙂

Here's for a lot more creative fun in 2021 💗

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Time for some time travel... (4/365) #photoadayc Time for some time travel...

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Day one. Twenty twenty one. The photo a day obsess Day one. Twenty twenty one. The photo a day obsession continues 😄

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In years to come this photo will pop up on my soci In years to come this photo will pop up on my social media memories and I'll wonder just why we were drinking Babycham on New Tiers Eve... Then I'll remember it was the end of Twenty Fucking Twenty!!! Rock & roll baby 😀

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Logs on the fire and a festive tipple 🍸 (365/3 Logs on the fire and a festive tipple 🍸

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The Gangster 🐯 (364/366) #photoadaychallenge The Gangster 🐯

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When you wake up rather warm, squashed and find t When you wake up rather warm, squashed  and find these 🐶🐯

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Always entertaining when our loopy hound snaps ano Always entertaining when our loopy hound snaps another dog lead 😳

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A global pandemic will not stop the usual Xmas Eve A global pandemic will not stop the usual Xmas Eve boozey meet-up 💗💗💗

Happy Xmas you lovely lot 🎄😍🎄

Missed you @ryansbar_events 😕

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Arts projects, teaching and art commissions all no Arts projects, teaching and art commissions all now done for this barmy year. Surviving as an artist in this crazy year has been a spectacular battle, and that's putting it very mildly. 

2020 has made me realise who values the arts and who doesn't. It's made me realise which companies and organisations are lovely to work for and which ones are not. It's made me really grateful for all of the arts work that has been offered to me and has made me really appreciate all of the lovely people who've attended my classes/courses/workshops 💗

Time for me to say a happy Xmas to you all. Here's hoping 2021 will bring better and brighter things ☀️☀️☀️

And as I don't do winter, here's a sunny scribble of somewhere hot and sunny from my old dog-eaten sketchbook XxX

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Almost 400 years since Saturn & Jupiter appeared t Almost 400 years since Saturn & Jupiter appeared this close to each other in the night sky. The great conjuction or the solstice star shone brightest tonight, apparently. It was cloudy as f#ck in our sky 🙄 so here's a photo of the massive security light at the near by explosives factory 😀⭐😀

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Apologies if any friends or family receive this in Apologies if any friends or family receive this inside their Xmas present. He loves any open box 🙄 

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6 days 16 hours ago

Hello fellow arty friends. Don't panic, I'm not selling anything 🤓

Basically I need to get a bit of feedback/input from as many local arty folk as I can. Today I spent ages trawling through my Facebook friends list for any local Derbyshire based arty people. I then added all of those people into a Messenger Group, but apparently Messenger has new European rules that currently prevent certain features from working 🙄 So I'm posting on here instead...

Last summer I worked on an arts project for Community Growth CIc -Arts, Heritage and environmental Education a Chesterfield Cultural Education Partnership organisation. We got talking after the project and they are really keen to support the arts as much as possible going forward, which is obviously really nice to hear. Especially in these barmy times. So I was tasked with the lovely job of gathering a bit of feedback…

One possible way that was mentioned was a Facebook Page (or other such connectivity site) called something like Creative Collaborations. A place for artists, schools, cultural organisations etc to find each other, moot and share ideas and collaborate. What are your thoughts on this? Is it something you would engage in yourself? Does this already exist elsewhere? Do you have any other ideas for how we could support local creativity and culture in Chesterfield and surrounding areas?

So there you go. Have a think. Let me have any of your thoughts. Share with other local arty folk that I may not know. And many thanks for your time.

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My Zoom Portrait classes are filling up nicely, but I do still have a few more spaces if anyone fancies this...

4 weeks - Tuesday 19th & 26th Jan, 2nd & 9th Feb - 10.00 until 12.00 via Zoom - £32

I'll select and share a suitable image to work from each week (or use your own). Use whatever art materials you have or want to use... And we'll all have a fun 2 hour creative time 🙂

Let me know if you're keen on this. I can send more details if you want them. Tell you how to pay. How to access the Zoom sessions and reserve you a space if you want 💗🙂💗

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