Blog - Christine Heyworth

Battle Of The Somme

2/7/2016

This is my artwork to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the battle of the Somme. My painting was inspired by a Poem by The next William Shakespeare, aka Brian Kinlan as a collaborative piece. It is part of a two part pop up gallery. Local artists have all collaborated with Brian depicting their own artistic style based on a chosen poem. The exhibition is now open at Coffeevolution in Huddersfield from 2nd till 3rd July and then in Halifax at The Loom Lounge 9th and 10th July.

Time flies from the poem Grief Of the Dandelions, Acrylic on Canvas 22" x 16", 2016.

Secret Garden

26/3/2016

There's a new painting in the Landscapes and Seascapes gallery! This is a small acrylic painting. I'm loving painting garden scenes at the moment and it's nice to have a smaller piece to add to the collection!

SECRET GARDEN - Acrylic on canvas, 9" x 12", 2016

Serenity

21/3/2016

After having almost a year of using nothing but pencils i decided it was time for a change so i brought the paints back out and painted this serene little scene of a water garden. And i finished it just in time for the first day of spring too! This canvas will be available to buy soon and hopefully there will be prints available too. If you are interested in any of these products please contact me on via my Contact Me page.

SERENITY, Acrylic on canvas, 20" x 16" 2016

Paint Snowy Lights Yourself!

26/6/2015

Do you fancy joining me for my next Pinot and Picasso evening at Craft and Crumpet later on in the year? If you do this is the image we are going to be painting! The stunning Northern Lights in the snow. I painted this today and this original canvas will be making its way to Craft and Crumpet for you all to see. You can either work as a couple, painting across two canvases or singly as i have done here. It will make the perfect picture to hang and show off to family and friends over the festive period, or why not give it as a special hand made present to someone you love.

"Snowy Lights", Acrylic on canvas, 25cm x 20cm, 2015.

Pinot & Picasso Workshop

20/6/2015

Last night's Pino & Picasso workshop at Craft and Crumpet was a huge success and really enjoyable. A great group of people, wonderful food supplied by the lovely Shirley at Craft and Crumpet, candlelight, wine and of course painting, what more could you ask for! Everyone produced fantastic artwork! Some painting the whole scene on their own whilst couples worked as a team painting their canvases to join together. My husband came along with me to paint the other half of my canvas, it was great fun! The next Pinot and Picasso evening is planned for October and will be a winter theme! More news to on that to follow!

Work Produced during the workshop

"Sunset Beach" By Justin Proudman (left) and Christine Heyworth (right), Acrylic on Canvas, 20cm x 25cm (each canvas), 2015.

I'm in the news!

12/3/2015

Cloud 9 Gallery are in todays Rossendale Free Press newspaper and there's a photo of me running one of my Introduction to Acrylic Painting workshops!

Workshop

31/1/2015

Todays acrylic workshop at the Cloud 9 Gallery produced some amazing pantings! This time we were painting one of Alex Taylor's photographs taken at Whitby and Alex also joined in and created his first ever painting, which looks fab!

In Previous classes we hadn't painted a really dramatic sky or water and this photograph worked well with the contrast of textures from a highly textured bright fiery sky to a smooth, tranquil, cool sea. It ended up being quite challenging and all of our paintings changed dramatically over the course the afternoon! The results are outstanding! Well done Alex and Beverley!

This is "Fiery Sky", Acrylic on A4 Canvas.

"Fiery Sky" by Christine Heyworth, Acrylic on A4 Canvas.

Class Paintings, Top Left - Alex's painting and bottom right Beverley's canvas.

Beverley and Alex's paintings with the original photograph.

New workshops for 2015!

29/1/2015

I am delighted to say that i am introducing two brand new workshops to 2015! Following on from the popular Introduction to acrylic painting workshops, i am now running an advanced painting workshop for those who would like to develop their skills further with new techniques and more challenging subjects to paint! I am also offering drawing and shading workshops for those who would like to learn how to draw or would like to develop their own drawing style. We will be drawing and shading with graphite and coloured pencils and creating a lovely drawing to take home.

To join in with the fun take a look at my workshop page to see how to book!

Workshop

14/12/2014

Todays acrylic workshop at the Cloud 9 Gallery produced some amazing work! It was quite a challenging scene to paint especially in the 3 hours, but everyone did so well and came out with their own unique styles! Well done, Beverley, Jennifer and Natalie!

Thank you to my fab brother Philip Heyworth for giving us permission to use his beautiful photograph!

This is "The Water Garden", Acrylic on A4 Canvas.

"The Water Garden" By Christine Heyworth. Acrylic on A4 Canvas.

"The Water Garden" By Jennifer, Natalie and Beverley. Acrylic on A4 Canvas.

The workshop in full swing!

2015 Workshops

16/11/2014

My workshops for this year are now fully booked but i have just added a couple of new dates for the beginning of 2015!

So if you want to start the new year learning something new or re-kindling a passion for painting then please join me for an arty afternoon down at the cloud 9 gallery!

This is also a great opportunity to buy a friend or family member a place on my workshop as a surprise Christmas gift!

See my workshop page for further details! /workshops.html