St Cuthberts Mill : Art Event: Patchings Festival 13-15 July 2023

Patchings Art Festival is a leading UK celebration of art, bringing together the art world and those who enjoy art. The event allows you to immerse yourself into the world of painting and indulge in your favourite pastime.

Set in the rolling fields of Nottinghamshire, England, the Patchings Art Centre transforms the large grounds where it resides into a vibrant pop-up village dedicated to art.

St Cuthberts Mill is proud to be one of the leading sponsors at this year’s festival, and we have an excellent line-up of exciting artists who will be painting LIVE at the show.

Inside the ST CUTHBERTS MILL FESTIVAL MARQUEE, experience inspiring painting demonstrations where our artists share tips on how they create their distinctive work.

DAVID BELLAMY
Thursday 13 July Friday 14 July Saturday 15 July

David is a prolific author of watercolour books and responsible for showing a generation how to paint. He is also a regular contributor to Leisure Painter magazine. His paintings are all created from first-hand experience, with his original sketches often showing signs of being done in pouring rain, the washes frozen in intricate patterns, mud-splattered, and even one or two blood-stained. David travels widely in search of subjects to paint and is especially fascinated by mountains, the Artic in its various moods, and the desert scenery in the Middle East. In search for fascinating subjects to paint he has fallen over a crocodile in Kenya, sketched on dog-sledges in Greenland, drawn ephemeral moonlight effects on a glacier in his underwear, and taught spear-hugging Maasai warriors to sketch in Tanzania.

MEDIUM: Watercolour
STYLE: Wilderness landscapes, mountains, coastal and pastoral scenes

→ Coming Soon: David will be sharing his experiences of working at the Patchings Festival in an upcoming blog.

PETER CRONIN
Thursday 13 July Friday 14 July Saturday 15 July

Peter is one of the art experts on Channel 5’s ‘Watercolour Challenge’, where he was an art expert and judge for the Welsh heats of the series. He is also an author of ‘Pure Watercolour Painting’ and ‘Sketching for the Absolute Beginner’ with Search Press. He specialises in pure watercolour with his paintings and is a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. Having painted for the past 40 years, one of his favourite working methods is to get out in nature (in all weathers) with paints, a sketchbook and a hot flask of coffee, plus a trusty pack of sandwiches. Peter loves the natural world and it is in the environment where he is most happy, with the light and atmosphere of the great outdoors driving his urge to paint.

MEDIUM: Watercolour
STYLE: Landscape, marine, harbours, townscapes scenes

SORAYA FRENCH
Thursday 13 July Friday 14 July

Soraya is a regular contributor to The Artist magazine and has also written six books on painting with Harper Collins and Batsford Books. She is a director and former president of The Society of Women Artists and recipient of a number of prestigious awards. Soraya is a contemporary mixed media artists, with her work being particularly known for its expressive and colourful paintings. Use of vibrant colours, light and expressive textures and prominent features in her work. The ambiguity and evocative quality of her paintings leaves something for the viewers imagination.

MEDIUM: Mixed Media – watercolour, pastels, acrylics, inks
STYLE: Musicians, cafés, African markets, flowers, travel scenes

BILLY SHOWELL
Saturday 15 July

Billy is a well-known botanical artist, and leading authority on botanical painting, having written four books on the subject with Search Press including ‘Watercolour Flower Portraits' and ‘Watercolour Fruits and Vegetables’. She is co-president of the Society of Botanical Artists and has won numerous prestigious awards. Billy has a passion for teaching with the heart of her work being her love for flowers and watercolour. On occasion, her work is light-hearted, as the compositions are often joyous and whimsical, with at times referencing her love of fashion design, which she’s previously studied. Billy has recently self-published a new book called ‘The Botanical Shoes’.

MEDIUM: Watercolour
STYLE: Floral botanical paintings

TRY & TEST ST CUTHBERTS MILL PAPERS

Meet the team behind St Cuthberts Mill. We will be running a paper testing area, with lots of different types of watercolour paper for you to experience. Learn about the different surfaces, weights and materials used to make our papers from our on-hand experts, in this informal drop in area, situated in the Art Materials Marquee.

TICKETS

Advanced tickets to the Patchings Festival are now available on the Patchings website:

https://www.patchingsartcentre.co.uk/patchings-festival/

Patchings Festival entrance tickets are £13/£12.

The St Cuthberts Mill performances are an hour long and have an additional £5 fee.

Buy tickets for St Cuthberts Mill Demonstrations

LINKS

To learn more about each artist:

David Bellamy: www.davidbellamy.co.uk

http://davidbellamyart.blogspot.com/

Peter Cronin: www.petercronin.org

www.instagram.com/petercroninartist/