Mandeep Dhadialla | Commission | The Abbey Pumping Station
26 March 2023
Mandeep Dhadialla is working on a commission at the Abbey Pumping Station referencing interconnected themes of industrialisation, the environment and water usage.
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AA2A Art Residency at Loughborough University | by George Sfougaras
6 February 2023
Painter, printer and researcher, George Sfougaras was accepted on the AA2A scheme to develop his body of work in a residency at Loughborough University. This is his experience. . . . .
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Tim Fowler - painting Potassium
13 February 2022
Watch Tim Fowler's artistic process as he paints his 'Potassium' series
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4 November 2022
Take a look at the LSA exhibition at Newarke Houses Museum, Leicester, showing from 4 November to 18 December 2022
Artist Research Project | Fearon Hall International Art Internship | by Jacqui Gallon
8 October 2022
Video | The Peony Girl - Chinese New Year mural at John Lewis & Partners
29 January 2022
View a video conversation by PUKAAR NEWS and The Peony Girl
Featured Artist | HENRIETTA CORBETT
24 January 2021
I'm currently using the time to explore new ideas, make new work, look at different ways of working and try using new materials. Adventures during lockdown have seen me collecting found objects and creating new pieces from drift wood, discarded metal and garden brambles.
Artist Research Project | Finding the Fallen | by Loz Atkinson
22 August 2020
In July 2019 Artist Loz Atkinson climbed Monte Zatta in Northern Italy to explore the crash site of her Great Grandfather’s Halifax MkII JP237 Bomber, where he and the entire crew perished on 24th June 1944. A new exhibition . . .
Featured Artist | VIVIENNE CAWSON
27 May 2020
Flowers are my main subjects. My love of geometric pattern has been with me for as long as I can remember - I love my garden and I love my studio and sometimes it can be a battle between the two.
7 April 2020
Try this at home!
Jo Sheppard explains the gouache resist and wash-off process
Featured Artist | LISA TIMMERMAN
9 November 2019
"My passion, like most painters, is for how light affects things," says Lisa Timmerman, "But the light through the trees onto the water, with the depth of the deep shadows and the reflections of the changing trees and boats is beauty to another level."
Featured Artist | DAVID CLARKE
24 April 2019
I try to show that by working with computers, not brushes, doesn't mean it can't be art . .but the most challenging part is. . .knowing intuitively when its finished and leaving it alone . . . .
13 March 2019
"Among all the different styles of Chinese painting, I like gongbi the most" says Siyuan Ren, "however the extreme delicacy and meticulousness required is itself a test of patience and spiritual equilibrium".
Featured Artist | LOZ ATKINSON
12 February 2019
A practicising artist for nearly 10 years, Loz has had 3 solo exhibitions and featured in 'The Other Art Fair' and the 'Affordable Art Fair' in London and Bristol. One of her 'Imagined Nebula' paintings is currently travelling through space on the NASA probe OSIRIS-Rex
Sketchbook | John Barradell - My Scottish Island Sketchbook
30 October 2018
Peek into the sketchbooks of John Barradell in his visit to the Scottish islands
Featured Artist | MARK HANCOCK
23 October 2018
"I work closely with my model and try to capture the figure in variety of poses that suggest contemplation, the human condition or simply domestic, daily life," says Mark Hancock.
Featured Artist | FIONA HUMPHREY
29 August 2018
I have roughly two ongoing themes, the sense of self and memory. The former has been with me, fidgeting away in my head for years and I think the memory prints flow from these thoughts," says Fiona Humphrey.
Featured Artist | MICHAEL MORALEE
5 August 2018
"When I was 10 years old, I was given a camera as a birthday present. It was then I decided that I wanted to be a photographer," says Michael Moralee. "All these years later I still love and get excited about making photographs."
17 April 2018
Jane Sunbeam discusses how sketchbooks are vital to her way of working and developing her illustrations and collagraph prints - take a peek into the world of Jane Sunbeam's sketchbooks, where they have a life of their own . . .
Featured Artist | LINDA SHARMAN
22 February 2018
'I feel that painting colour and light and is essential when trying to capture an atmosphere of a place, 'says Linda Sharman . .
10 January 2018
"The line is essential – seeing where action and breaks in action are balanced. I think a great deal about the ‘white’ space – where the paper does its work," says Maxine Dodd, whose drawings of cyclists in action part of her current theme of movement and sport
31 October 2017
Find out about the art of painting in wax - Jo Sheppard on encaustic painting in our new 'techniques' series
Featured Artist | JO SHEPPARD | ENCAUSTIC LANDSCAPES
29 October 2017
“Encaustic is very flexible,” says Jo Sheppard, “layers can be built up, you can pour, flick, splat, introduce collage, encapsulate images. The possibilities are endless and for this reason I have found working with wax very addictive.”
Featured Artist | LESLEY BROOKS
15 September 2017
“Colour mixing has always been a passion,” says Lesley Brooks. “Sometimes a bold gesture or a sensitive brushstroke can yield an amazing outcome.”
Featured Artist | JOHN SYDNEY CARTER
30 August 2017
A Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (FRBS), John Sydney Carter's sculptures can be seen in the cities of Leicester and Cambridge. An affinity to the coast, the sea, sailing, birds and fish are all central to his work; Joan Stephens looks at his career
Featured Artist | LOUISE ELLERINGTON
28 July 2017
"I am very much an instinctual painter working with my gut feelings," says Louise Ellerington. "How I feel about each mark I make is paramount to what stays and what goes..."
19 July 2017
18 July 2017
Scott Bridgwood, Keith Sturgess and Jo Sheppard discuss their fascination with paint in this video by Indigo Blue Media
Featured Artist | ANDREW JACKSON
2 April 2017
I reassess and rework constantly, adding layers. I’m often asked how I 'manage not to smudge it' - I smudge it deliberately and my hands are black when I finish working. . . .
Spotlight | THE ART OF AMBIGUITY - by Lars Tharp
13 November 2016
Lars Tharp discusses Bryan Organ's portrait of David Attenborough, as the drawings go on show in the LSA Annual Exhibition at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
Featured Artist | DANIELLE VAUGHAN
25 October 2016
One of my proudest moments was meeting Claudio Ranieri and having him sign my portrait of him. This year has been amazing for Leicester and I am making portraits of people and buildings in the city.
6 September 2016
"The feeling of escape, the solitude of being next to the sea in the open air for the day whatever the weather is essential to my way of working. There is no other feeling that comes close to being in the open air and painting on the spot."
26 July 2016
"Seeing, thinking, drawing. Constantly discovering new ways to do these three things. I do a lot of drawing and re-drawing. I sometimes start with a doodle, letting my mind wander. I'm looking for an unusual composition or something with a bit of an edge .. "
7 June 2016
I caught Lars on one of the rare free days of domestic relaxation he can enjoy: mostly being a free lance lecturer, consultant in ceramics, cultural tourist operator in both the Far East and in Europe, means he spends a good deal of time away from his home town.. . .Joan Stephens talks to the President of Leicester Society of Artists
Featured Artist | PETER CLAYTON
10 April 2016
"I like to lose my self in a wide range of music while I work," says Peter Clayton – it helps me become more intuitive, I think, and not overwork things. . . .
13 March 2016
I discovered the joy of working with wood at the Coach House, Community Craft Centre . . . I had just gone to repair a little cupboard, but seeing the lathes and band-saws, I immediately began wondering how I could combine my painting with wood-working?...and that was it!
Featured Artist | GILLIAN ADAIR MCFARLAND
1 February 2016
"I began to explore notions of wearing out and holding together", says Gillian Adair McFarland. "I feel we treasure things most at the point we are about to lose them in pushing grounds to their limits, ideas about conservation and preservation emerge." . . .
Video | LSA STUDENT AWARD 2015
10 December 2015
From shortlist to the exhibition preview, the students entering the Award are filmed by Indigo Blue Media including Hannah Tounsend, Huw Janes and Andrew Sales, the 2015 winners.
Video | LSA ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2015
9 December 2015
Follow the organisers and council team as they put together our Annual Exhibition at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery. Filmed in 2015 by Indigo Blue Media
Featured Artist | CHIRSTOPHER BENT
17 November 2015
"I started to look at the abstract quality of skies more closely and to experiment freely with the wonderful shapes and variety of edges in cloud formations," says Christopher Bent. . . .
Featured Artist | CARL SWANSON
16 September 2015
"Art and craft is really a whole series of problems to be dealt with and resolved, says Carl Swanson. I keep my ideas open, looking from different angles, and finding a ways around things to work to a theme". . . .
12 July 2015
"A combination of believing in myself and achieving goals and receiving recognition from others, has meant that I’m determined to continue doing what I do and to do it as well as I can", says Jane French . . .
Featured Artist | DEBORAH BIRD
7 May 2015
"Nature is my fascination and my fear. I love its genius, and beauty but fear the increasing unbalances that we cause," says Deborah Bird . . . .
23 April 2015
"When I draw I clarify my ideas and record what I see," says Mary Rodgers. . . . .
Featured Artist | John Barradell
1 March 2015
"Drawing and looking, which are the same thing in my opinion," says John Barradell . . .
8 January 2015
Jo Sheppard is a professional fine artist. She trained as a teacher and taught art & design in secondary schools until she took a career break . . .
8 January 2015
Jill uses concertina sketchbooks and takes them on holiday and filling them with fast flowing ink drawings . . .
Spotlight | Introducing the LSA Annual Exhibition 2014
8 December 2014
Lars Tharp describes his new role as he takes over as President of Leicester Society of Artists