OPEN STUDIOS 2012. CAVERSHAM
OPEN STUDIOS 2012 CAVERSHAM
Thursday, 17 May 2012
ARTISTS AT STUDIO 21
An exhibition of high quality bespoke Design work, Fine Art and Photography includes: Fine Art Painting & Prints, Leather Handbags, Textiles, Jewellery, and Photography, by: Vicky Baker, Juliet Hookey and Michael Norcross.
Studio Details: Studio 21
Venue Details: 21 Patrick Road, Caversham, Reading, Berkshire. RG4 8DD
Contact: Vicky Baker
Tel: 07795167314
E-mail: vickybaker456@hotmail.com
Directions:
From A4155 Henley Road at the traffic lights junction with Peppard Road, Caversham, turn left down Westfield Road, left at Gosbrook Road, right into Patrick Road, Studio 21 is half way down Patrick Road on the right, a 10 minute walk from Reading station.
Opening Dates and Times:
Sat 19th, & Sun 20th; Times: 11 a.m. – 4.30.m. daily
Sat 26th,& Sun 27th; Times: 11 a.m. – 5.00p.m. daily.
For further details of the artists, scroll down.
Sunday, 29 April 2012
7th May-30th June.
'What do we do when inspired by words or works'?
'What happens when words fail'?
This exhibition is part of the West Berkshire and North Hampshire Open Studios event, which is taking place through the month of May
http://www.arlingtonarts.co.uk/ and click on Visual Arts
Thursday, 5 April 2012
An exhibition of high quality bespoke Design work, Fine Art and Photography includes: Fine Art Painting & Prints, Leather Handbags, Textiles, Jewellery, and Photography, by: Vicky Baker, Juliet Hookey and Michael Norcross.
Studio Details: Studio 21
Venue Details: 21 Patrick Road, Caversham, Reading, Berkshire. RG4 8DD
Contact: Vicky Baker
Tel: 07795167314
E-mail: vickybaker456@hotmail.com
Directions:
From A4155 Henley Road at the traffic lights junction with Peppard Road, Caversham, turn left down Westfield Road, left at Gosbrook Road, right into Patrick Road, Studio 21 is half way down Patrick Road on the right, a 10 minute walk from Reading station.
Opening Dates and Times:
Sat 19th, & Sun 20th; Times: 11 a.m. – 4.30 p.m. daily
July: Sat 26th,& Sun 27th; Times: 11 a.m. – 4.30 p.m. daily.
For further details of the artists, scroll down.
Vicky Baker
| Vicky Baker©2010 |
Email: vickybaker456@hotmail.com. or Tel: 01189464076, or: 07795167314
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
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| Juliet Hookey ©2011 |
Juliet Hookey.
Following on from last year’s body of work I have for the last few months continued to explore the themes of water concealment. This has been through experimentation with photographing different water scenes, but mainly the water’s surface, where the light hits and often blinds us from seeing what’s really there. As a result these images have taken on a more abstract form as the colours and focus are more limited, these images are not manipulated in anyway.
Email: Julietghookey@hotmail.co.uk
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| Michael Norcross©2011 |
Paintings and prints draw on a wide range of subject matter an interest in colour, luminosity, mood and atmosphere. Recent work involves orchids and shadows some of which have a timeless quality. Some of the work exhibited can evoke more complex ideas. The paintings aim to have a sustained aesthetic resonance which will last the test of time and which can be enjoyed and appreciated by anyone.
Email: michaelnorcross@hotmail.co.uk or T:07734441814
Monday, 2 April 2012
http://www.open-studios.org.uk/2012/pages/artist.php?entryID=74#Vicky Baker
http://www.open-studios.org.uk/2012/pages/artist.php?entryID=74#Juliet Hookey
http://www.open-studios.org.uk/2012/pages/artist.php?entryID=74#Michael Norcross
Friday, 30 March 2012
OPEN STUDIOS 2012
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| Juliet Hookey © 2011 |
| Vicky Baker © |
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| M.Norcross © 2011 |
Details to follow shortly
Saturday, 10 March 2012
Exhibition: The Complete Picture Frame Maker, Caversham
Sunday, 20 November 2011
Handmade for Christmas, Court Barn Museum.
'Handmade for Christmas', Court Barn Museum, Chipping Campden. 3rd-11th December.
See details below.
Handmade for Christmas. Court Barn Museum
'Handmade for Christmas', Court Barn Museum, Chipping Campden. 3rd-11th December.
Saturday, 5 November 2011
Michael Norcross
Monday, 2 May 2011
OPEN STUDIOS, CAVERSHAM 2011

http://www.qas.org.uk/News_Events/Open-Studios-2011.php
ARTISTS AT QUEEN ANNE'
Welcome to the exhibition, 'Artists at Queen Ann
''Lots of well executed ideas. Worthwhile event. I shall encourage friends to come''.
''Very impressive work around, some exciting ideas and quality techniques utilised''.
These were just a few of the overwhelmingly positive comments from visitors to our Open Studios 2010 exhibition.
This year there will be five artists at Queen Anne’s showing their work as part of the West Berkshire and North Hampshire Open Studios 2011 event http://www.open-studios.org.uk/. An exciting visual arts exhibtion, which takes place in studios and galleries across the west berkshire county. Our exhibition is number 83, in this years catalogue: http://www.open-studios.org.uk/2011/pages/exhibition.php?entryID=533 On show will be, paintings in a variety of media, printmaking, photography, jewellery, textiles and leather handbags. Aswell as work by the art students of Queen Anne’s.
The exhibition will take place in ‘The Elliot Art & Design’ Building which is just a short walk from Caversham centre at Queen Anne's School just off the Henley Road.There is free parking and free entry. Opening times: Saturday 28th, Sunday 29th and Monday 30th May, 2011.
List of Artists:Vicky Baker.
John Blythe.
Sue Diffey.
Juliet Hookey.
Michael Norcross
Friday, 29 April 2011
Vicky Baker
Vicky worked in the field of Theatre, Film and Dance costume as maker and designer for over 14 years where she worked with a wide variety of designers and directors. She has made costumes for such film actors as Glen Close, Julia Roberts, and John Malkovitch. Her film work has included Angela’s Ashes, Love and Rage, Serpent’s Kiss, Moll Flanders, Mary Riley Roan Inish, Playboys.
Her Dance work has included work for: Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Royal Ballet Company, Scottish Ballet, Motionhouse, Women’s Playhouse Trust, Shobana Jeyasingh, Yolanda Snaith, Sankalpam and also for Television Dance on Four. From 1997 until 2002 she designed and made for Indian classical dance.
Theatre work has included productions for The National Theatre, The Barbrican Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Tara Arts, Red Shift Theatre, The Young Vic, and several West End productions, in Sweden and in Holland, where she made work for Sir Elton John’s Aida, designed by Joop Van Den Ende.
Since 2002 she has moved away from Theatre work and has continued working mainly in Textiles, as a designer and maker. Some of her extensive knowledge of garment construction led to visual ideas on form and texture which Victoria has absorbed into her recent designs for bags, which have a line which is reminiscent of the bodice and the curve of the waist. “Shape has always played an important part in theatrical costumes and when making a costume, I have always used a layering technique which makes it strong and durable and this has influenced the technique which I apply to my handbag making”.
John Blythe
John Blythe.
After completing studies at City of Westminster college in 1994 John has been a commercial advertising photographer for over 16 years. While commercial photography has been his primary focus, John continued to develop his personal creative work and more recently has started to create work for exhibition. John's work has previously been exhibited in two group shows at the Association of Photographers gallery in London and at Rosendale School, Dulwich, as part of an artist residency. John continues to work commercially as well as teaching photography at Queen Anne's School and on the Art Foundation course at Bellerbys College, Oxford.
I will be exhibiting images from 2 strands of current work.
The first is a documentary project motivated by my interested in how seasonal light and conditions have a transformative effect on our very familiar and immediate environment. All the images in this collection are taken using a mobile phone camera and are all taken at the moment of experience, not planned or revisited. The images are of places close to home that I pass through all the time, often several times a day, yet my experience of them can be very different from one occasion to another. The images are evocative and contrived in their presentation, designed to representing the peak or extremes of a season, such that the viewer can immediately identify with them. This is an ongoing project started in late 2010 and is the first time these images have been exhibited in print.
The second is very much a fine art project exploring form, composition and process. The project combines up to date digital capture and manipulation with classical form and traditional printing processes to create more traditional fine art prints. Image subjects range from figurative to abstract and this series are all created using the cyanotype printing process on watercolour paper. The project combines a process that was developed at the birth of photography in the mid 1800's with images captured using technology that represents the birth of the new age of digital photography.
Sue Diffey
Sue Diffey: BA 2011Medium: Oils, printmaking, drawing, mixed media.
Enquiry summary:
My interest lies in exploring spacial sequences using humble and sometimes repetitive forms.
Enquiry Statement:
“In Quantum Physics even a stationary form or object contains energy which is locked within its atoms. This contained, pure energy is not fixed or determined but in a continual state of flux between matter and anti-matter; perfectly counter-balanced and identical as a mirror image”. This principle is also embraced through Buddhism in the teachings of The Heart Sutra, “Emptiness is Form, Form is Emptiness” My work hopes to celebrate this wonderful juxtaposition of contradictions: stillness and energy.
Sue Diffey was tutored by the late Cecil Collins at Central St.Martins in the 1970s.
http//suediffey.blogspot.com
Juliet Hookey
Juliet HookeyWater conceals a lot from our sight, a combination of elements work perfectly to aid this concealment, light reflection, line of sight, environment all play a part to mask what’s beneath. In my photographs I have looked at ways in which to capture these elements, taking photographs at dawn and dust, on bright sunny days where a lot of reflection is produced and playing with different angles for added effects.
Michael Norcross
| M.Norcross© 2011 |
Studied at: High Wycombe School of Design and Furniture; Cardiff College of Art & Design B.A. Reading University M.A. and Reading University P.G.S.E. and has taught at West Surrey College of Art, Farnham; Strodes 6th Form College, Surrey, and Queen Anne’s School, Caversham. He was a founder member of AADW and exhibited with Artists and Designers in Wales, and exhibited with the New Contemporaries at Islington Art Centre where he was awarded the Dr Henry Rowland prize, and the Royal Academy of Art, London, and later with Rowland, Browse and Delbanco, Cork Street, London. More locally he has exhibited work at The Heart, Farnham; and more recently at Arlington Arts centre; at Studio 21, as part of Caversham Open Studios 2008 and 2009; and West Berkshire and North Hampshire Open Studios 2010. As well as this he has also worked in such diverse capacities as a glider repairer at Chiltern Sailplanes who were at the time repairers to the British Racing team, and also held a British Gaming board licence for five years!
Sunday, 17 April 2011
ARTISTS AT QUEEN ANNE'S
''Lots of well executed ideas. Worthwhile event. I shall encourage friends to come.''
These were just two of the overwhelmingly positive comments from visitors to our Open Studios 2010 exhibition. This year will be no exception and promises to be even more interesting as we have some changes to the artists showing with us in our exhibition: ‘Artists at Queen Anne’s’ which is number 83 in the catalogue this year. The exhibition is by artists who have been invited to exhibit with the Art & Design Department at Queen Anne’s School. On show will be a vibrant selection of work which includes paintings in a variety of media on canvas, there will also be work on paper, printmaking, photographs, jewellery, as well as textiles and leather handbags. In addition there will be a considerable amount of work by students of Queen Anne’s Art Department from all age groups. In the studios there will be work in progress from AS and A level students. Also on display will be a selection of work by past exhibitors at the School’s annual exhibition at the SW1 Gallery, London. The Elliot Art & Design Building is just a short walk from Caversham centre at Queen Anne's School just off the Henley Road. There is free parking and free entry but visitors are requested to sign in and out of the building. Parking is the right on entry at the main gates, on Henley Road. Walk across the front of the main building to the Elliot Art and Design Centre, following the arrows and just ring the bell on:
Saturday 28th, Sunday 29th and Monday 30th May. 11am-5pm Daily.
List of Artists:
Vicky Baker
John Blythe
Sue Diffey
Juliet Hookey
Michael Norcross
Monday, 10 May 2010
QUEEN ANNE'S SCHOOL, ART AND DESIGN EXHIBITION
Open Studios 2010
A short walk from Caversham centre, Queen Anne's School presents a selection of art and design work in fine art, textiles, jewellery, photography and video. The exhibiton is part of Open Studios 2010, West Berkshire and North Hampshire, an arts and craft trail across the two counties.
In the studios: a selection of work by past student exhibitors at the SW1 Gallery, London; two and three-dimensional work, photography and video from all year groups including current GCSE, AS and A2.
In addition to this there is a special Artists Exhibition, which includes work by the following artists:
Victoria Baker: Textiles and Jewellry.
Berverley Brooke-Mee: Water Colours.
Juliet Hookey: Photography and Painting.
Michael Norcross: Painting.
Yael Schmidt: Video.
Jayne Talbot-Wilkin: Ceramics.
Location: The Elliot Art and Design Centre, Queen Anne's School, 6 Henley Road, Caversham Reading.RG 4 6DX.
Entry: free.
Opening Times:
Saturday 29th May 11a.m -5p.m
Sunday 30th May 11a.m -5p.m
Parking is the the right on entry at the main gates, on Henley Road. Walk across the front of the main building to the Elliot Art and Design Centre, following the arrows and ring the bell.
photo: M.Norcross
http://www.qas.org.uk/News_Events/Open-Studios-2010.php
Further information is available inside Caversham library from Monday 17th May - Saturday 29th May 2010
INSIGHT 2010, New Greenham Arts
The Insight 2010, Open Studios Exhibition at The Gallery, New Greenham Arts, Newbury, kicked off this year’s display of the ever expanding creativity at Art & Design Studios across West Berkshire and North Hampshire. This flagship event for Open Studios 2010 was opened by Sir Terence Conran, whose Benchmark Studios at Kintbury, are involved in this event, during May 2010. One of Queen Anne’s students currently studying for her AS examination in Art & Design, was selected to show a painting she completed last year as part of her GCSE coursework. She attended the Private View and reception on Friday 30th April where she was introduced to Sir Terence Conran, who had given an address conveying, at some length, the importance of Art and Craft to this country. He gave his continued support and enthusiasm for the wonderful creativity on display at The Gallery and at associated venues in the Newbury area such as the Found Space exhibition at Arlington Arts:
Please: visit the following websites:
http://www.arlingtonarts.co.uk/
http://www.benchmarkfurniture.com
http://www.open-studios.org.uk/
OPEN STUDIOS CAVERSHAM 2010
Victoria Baker
Vicky Baker trained at Wimbledon School of Art & Design, and comes from a background of 15 years experience as a freelance designer/ maker for Theatre and Film. Vicky has developed individual hand made handbags, with a strong sense of form and line built in a unique fabric: laminated linen; using a layering technique synthesized from the maker’s experience in theatrical costume design and construction, making them strong and durable, dyed and lined in silk, to a high standard of finish. This technique has been extended in work using suede and leather appliqué and more recently some designs purely in leather/suede. Vicky also designs and makes silver and acrylic jewellery, embroidered and appliquéd silk and linen cushions. Vicky lives in Caversham and has been involved in promoting local Caversham artists at Studio 21 for four years.
Currently exhibiting at Arlington Arts:
'Found Space'. http://www.arlingtonarts.co.uk/
http://www.wgdc.org.uk/
OPEN STUDIOS, CAVERSHAM. 2010
Beverley Brooke-Mee
I have lived in Africa all of my life, amongst the warmth and colour of nature and the beautiful array of flowers growing in profusion around me.
In my spare time, I took landscape oil-painting lessons with a Chinese Artist, Eric Forlee, enjoying these very much. His technical skill was advanced and he painted with confidence, producing exceptional results.
He shared his wealth of knowledge on colour blending and textural work with his small group of enthusiastic students- using quick and light, floating brush strokes, to produce intricate detail and outstanding visual impact within a painting. Much of what he taught me has been remembered and utilised throughout my career, assisting in my role as a teacher of Art and as an artist, although I now paint flowers using water-colour and acrylic media.
Each flower possesses unique character and descriptive line. Flowers are joyful natural forms. Capturing their uniqueness and beauty is always a privilege
OPEN STUDIOS, CAVERSHAM. 2010
Over the last few years my work has predominantly been photographic based following on from my degree, but have recently been very keen to start painting again.
I have always been inspired by my environment, local landscapes in particular which is evident in both my painting and my photographic work. In photography I find I’m always looking for the unusual, creating images from different and varied angles, using view points that are not normally seen in Landscape Photography.
With my paintings I combine local landscape scenes with unusual paint mediums for a rich tactile quality.
OPEN STUDIOS, CAVERSHAM. 2010
From the summer of 2007 my paintings were essentially about representation. I found irony and interest in consumer objects, the fetishism of food in the media, and the discarded. These combine with an interest in colour, and creating mood and atmosphere. I deliberately chose the still life form which has to a large extent been abandoned by contemporary artists and so has ‘low status’. It seems to be appropriate form to use for the consumed and abandoned subject matter and an interesting challenge to recycle it as something worth more than just a second glance.
OPEN STUDIOS, CAVERSHAM. 2010
Yael SchmidtTransporter, Video Installation
The installation consists of multiple life-size videos projected onto low white plinths. Each projection sees a person engaged in a typically private activity such as sleeping, bathing and day dreaming. The 'bathers' and 'sleepers' are filmed from above and projected from the ceiling. The standing figures are projected onto plinths, which are attached to the walls of a gallery space. The floor projections suggest the arrangement of a graveyard whilst those on the walls become more conventional windows to other spaces.
My video recordings are in many ways like still images and for the most part movement is reduced to miniscule activity such as breathing. At times these individuals shift, turn or scratch then return to an almost motionless pose of preoccupation. Each video recording is a different length (of time) ranging from 40 seconds to 5 minutes. The projections are looped, fading in and out of the plinths and are set up in relation to each other to provide a rhythmic visual experience. In the interim time between projections the plinths as a structure are seen clearly and emphasised as sculptures in their own right.
My work is concerned with consciousness and stretching time through moving still imagery. I am concerned with imagery that is “charged” with implications and disconnect from its origin: in this case the private activity of sleep, bathing or daydreaming is frozen, lengthened then “locked” into a plinth. My interest tries to bring into focus the fragile ethereal nature of projections with the construction of sculptural installations that are transient openings to another reality.
Future exhibition: http://www.goodengallery.com/
http://www.goodengallery.com/exhibitions/10_physicology/
OPEN STUDIOS, CAVERSHAM.2010
Jayne Talbot-Wilkin
In this series of pots, I have taken my inspiration from Bronze age ceramics discovered in Cyprus. There are some wonderful examples displayed in the British and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
Having been asked to exhibit my work in Northern Cyprus, I wanted a quick and easy way to produce my ideas, so I have made and used plaster moulds.The decoration is simple and geometric incised lines as on the originals.
I hope the cypriot people will find a link within my work to their cultural heritage.
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Thursday, 14 January 2010
STUDIO 21,CHRISTMAS 2009
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On another subject, someone left their glasses here. They are prescription glasses,so if anyone has missed some, they are still here. Please don't hesitate to contact me.
Friday, 16 October 2009
STUDIO 21, 13th-15th November,2009
STUDIO 21 Caversham Artists Exhibition Vicky Baker
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Sally Bettridge. Ceramics
From her West Berkshire workshop, Sally Bettridge produces a wide range of slip decorated earthenware. She employs traditional techniques in her work, applied to a contemporary design approach resulting in functional domestic ware that is light, lively and thoroughly modern.Christine Brewster
A contemporary functional basketmaker, I use tried and tested traditional techniques to make robust useable baskets with a distinctive style. All my willow baskets are unique and are made by my own hand using English grown materials.Jo Dewar
Nina Krauzewicz

I live and paint in Caversham in Reading and have a passion for the natural world and our place in it, a concept which is reflected in much of my art. Recent work includes a series of illustrations based on the Celtic Ogham Tree Calendar, inspired by early writings - the Norse Edda, Merlin and King Arthur, old Herbals – which often reveal deep connections with nature. My latest project follows from a trip to Ireland in search of the Ogham stones. These monuments were erected up to the coming of Christianity, at a time of change from old to new beliefs, and their settings in wild places and old churchyards perhaps reflect how in life and death we are bound to the natural world.
Susie Vignoles

contact details: 0208 948 6505 or email at timvignoles@btopenworld.com















