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.

Pepper

17/4/2016

My latest commissioned pet portrait is complete. This is Pepper! As with all my portraits i used the lovely Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils on a smooth paper with white gel pen as highlights on the whiskers.

If you would like your own portrait like this one or of a person you can find the price list on my Pet & Horse Portrait Page.

"Pepper" Polychromos Pencils and white gel pen highlights on Strathmore Bristol smooth paper, 9" x 12", 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.

Another Place

23/2/2015

Alex's photographs "Look out" and my painting "Another Place", Oil on box canvas, 24” x 12” (1” Depth), 2015.

I chose to paint this image as i had just visited Antony Gormley's "Another Place " myself, so i had a connection with it already and Alex's photographs really captured the emotions i felt whilst i was there. For this canvas i combined two photographs. I loved the colours in the sky and reflections in the water of the top image but i just loved the composition of the second photograph. I think the two have really worked well to make a whole complete painting capturing the mood of "Another Place"

Another Place is a piece of modern sculpture by Antony Gormley on Crosby Beach, Liverpool, UK. It consists of 100 cast iron sculptures of the artist's own body, facing towards the sea, spread out on a 2 mile stretch of beach. In common with most of Gormley's work, the figures are cast replicas of his own body. As the tides ebb and flow, the figures are revealed and submerged by the sea, in order to harness and explore man's relationship with nature.

Storytime

15/2/2015

Storytime was part of the colored pencil magazines challenge for this month and what a task! All that texture and detail took quite a while! I couldn't resist the cute image though especially as i haven't been feeling well recently, it was the perfect tonic!

STORYTIME, Polychromos Pencils on Strathmore Bristol smooth paper, 12" x 9", 2015, Reference photo curtesy of Sally Ford.

Self Portrait

4/2/2015

"Self Portrait", Polychromos pencils on Strathmore Bristol smooth paper, 9" x 12"

After drawing the Snow Baby artwork i just couldn't get the idea of doing a self portrait out of my head!

So here it is! This is me in pencil form! It was very weird looking at myself for hours on end! There were times when i forgot who i was drawing and periods when it didn't even look like me because i was so drawn in to the different areas, it was all a blur to me!

Now i step back and stop fiddling with little bits (I could have gone on forever), i am really happy with the likeness and my first successful self portrait!

Twitter

2/2/2015

There is now another way you can keep up to date with my artwork! I have joined Twitter! Check out my twitter feed and follow me at @Heyworth_Art

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.