THE GREAT AERONAUTICAL HUNT

11 June 2015

Sherie at Patchway Community College has instigated and devised a project utilising Filton’s history in aeronautics. Each one of nine schools has been participating in tracing the heritage of Concorde and the like whilst putting it into an ARTS AWARD project for the local schools. Matt has been working between the schools to brief the making and decorating of a ‘Globe and 8 Planes’. Each school has been given a different subject (Birds, Butterflies, Dinosaurs, Sci-Fi, Rainforest, Space etc) and will produce mood boards highlighting their designs for the finished models. They will then present these to Matt who will guide them on how to achieve their final designs. These will then form an ‘opening exhibition’ at the R.W.A on the 7th July before being distributed around Bristol as part of the Great Aeronautical Hunt.


ILLUSTRATION WEB-IGNORANCE

11 June 2015

Writing for jobs and work can be a tough task, every letter and image is well judged and well balanced, the tone is poured over and sometime hours are spent just to get it right and to strike the correct tone for the respective recipient. After a letter or application is sent the person writing waits patiently, then impatiently for a reply, checking every day. It remains in the mind till a resolution has been met. How IGNORANT then is it that companies like ‘Illustration Web’ (an Artist’s Agent) and many others, can’t even be bothered to send a ‘Thanks but, no thanks letter’. This is even more galling when 5 or 6 people from the same company have been included. This seems to be the ‘trend’ these days. So, there would be some retribution held when (eventually) these people will be out of work and need replies to their job applications. Just saying. There is NO EXCUSE for IGNORANCE in polite society.


BARBRA STREISAND: In The Beginning C.D

11 June 2015

Matt was approached and asked if he would ‘donate’ the use of some of his Barbra Streisand images for an upcoming project. Viewing it as free publicity and a stipulation that his website be included the ‘Project ended up being a CD called ‘Barbra Streisand; In The Beginning’. It was certainly a higher profile product than he had envisaged (The CD is available on Amazon) but it was certainly flattering to have been asked and see the product in print.


KINGS FOREST ART WEEK

11 June 2015

After teaching ‘ART’ at Kings Forest School as part of their ‘Master Class’ sessions for the past year, Matt was asked to teach for the week during ART WEEK. Part of that brief was for students to design a ‘Shaun the Sheep’ using BRISTOL as a theme. He then had to interpret the designs and produce a finished, painted idea whilst working with the pupils. ART WEEK had a full exhibition at the end of that week and was a great success. It’s so good to see schools encouraging ART.


PAPER ARTS OPEN DAY/BROADMEAD BRISTOL

11 June 2015

Matt was asked to take an open air “life’ drawing class as part of the Paper Arts ‘Open Day’ In May. It was a blistering hot day but it was well attended and everything went well.


LIFE DRAWING

11 June 2015

After “time out’ for actually ‘doing’ Life drawing it was great to participate rather than teach. Matt and fellow artist Lloyd Lewis attended a Life class in Stokes Croft to just DRAW! This is one of the new studies.


LANDSCAPE

11 June 2015

A new commission that turned out rather well. Matt was asked to paint this scene for a wedding present in May 2015. It was a particularly memorable and iconic scene to the wedded couple, but it’s looseness and tranquillity made it a painting to be proud of.