I am preparing for a display and sale of my artworks at my studio in Bishop’s Stortford in December. My stepmother Margaret Gardiner Ceramics will be prepping her studio right next door with a wide selection of pottery for sale […]
Mounting, framing and packaging paintings takes a while but is actually pretty therapeutic. Who knew?! I’m calling this original watercolour painting ‘Fizzy Afternoon’, because it looks like someone has just popped a bottle of champers over it. ??? Do you […]
Preparing for art exhibitions and also for Xmas stalls is a very new process for me, there’s so much work that goes into making art sale-ready I had no idea! So today I’m mounting, photographing, editing, listing, packaging, labelling, pricing […]
Gabrielle Vickery runs The Arthouse Oasis, a small art studio in Bishop’s Stortford Hertfordshire focusing on drawing, life drawing, painting and paint pouring workshops for beginners.
As someone who struggles with anxiety, and the mood dips that go with, the climate crisis affects my mental health – and, therefore, my wellbeing – greatly. I have some really dark thoughts that leave me feeling powerless. However, in […]
Residencies are impossible for me at the moment even though I always read through the opportunities and wish I could do them! At the moment I am working in “families” rather than series as suggested by a curator who visited […]
The online exhibition of selected black and white drawings from my Beachtime Stories series, curated by Sue Crellin-McCarthy is now live. If you missed the exhibition at The Margate School’s Line gallery, here is a chance to see some of the drawings. The complete series […]
With Greg really busy working on a commission, we decided to keep the momentum going on the project by extending the invitation to draw to other artists; so today (18 June 2019) I went out drawing with artist, Joanna Jones. […]
So this is my last post for the 2018 “progress-tracking” blog (I know it is already 2019). I am still trying to re-connect with painting – there is something of my 15-year old self in the new work, which is […]
Well, so I am doing more painting in the hope that I can only get better at it. This is work in progress …. I’m trying out new materials including aquabord for the Japanese watercolours, which I love using. Frida […]
I have been trying many different effects to create the back drop using watercolours on A1. Stretching the paper and using lots of water to create a back ground
