The Groyne Series came about from observing the shapes of teenagers and kids playing and jumping into the sea from the sea groynes along the shoreline of the beach in Brighton. These paintings seem to evoke memories of the height of summer for many people and the location could be anywhere in the world.
Hello!Well at last, the summer we’ve all been waiting for is finally here! It’s been the perfect weather for deckchairs….My range of art-print deckchairs have received a lot of interest since the trade show. The Life’s a Beach designwas judged to be a winner in Clevedon Pier’s Design a Deckchair Compeition below. and we’ll be revealing some exciting news as to what’s ‘in-store’ for them very soon.Put it this way, now’s your chance to own a Signed Edition of the Life’s a Beach deckchair – I’m signing the slings until we go into mass production!Did you know that throughout August you can watch a film on the beach? Brighton’s Big Screen is next to the Big Wheel, sand viryually opposite my studio at JAG Gallery – more distractions! Look out for our ‘advertisement feature’ between screenings. Or cut to the chase and have a glggle at us by clicking on the clapper board!
Smart Deco – Make art the fabric of your home Catalogue can be viewed online and is available as a download.
To obtain your copy use this link or go to the home page at www.smartdeco-style.com
If you have an old deckchair and the sling is torn or faded, why not replace it with one of these art print deckchair slings signed by Jacqueline Hammond. And only £50 to you if you’re reading this! (RRP £55.99) at www.jacquelinehammond.co.uk complete with sturdy, teak oil finish, traditional, seaside deckchair priced £129.99, get 10% off by ordering by email to jaxx@jacquelinehammond.co.uk. While stock lasts!!
Tollhouse Gallery – Design a Deckchair Compeitition **WINNER**
Clevedon Pier volunteers ran a nationwide Deckchair Design Competition in the spring. Over 180 designs were submitted by members of the public and by a clutch of celebrities who love Clevedon Pier themselves. Artists from around the UK took part with the winners coming from East Sussex, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Dorset, Bristol, Clevedon, Weston-super-Mare and North Somerset towns and villages.The winners’ chairs are now being exhibited at the Tollhouse Gallery Clevedon Pier in North Somerset. Six designs by well known TV presenters Gyles Brandreth (BBC’s One Show) and Alice Roberts (BBC’s Coast and Time watch), plus a special design by creator of Wallace and Gromit Nick Park are for auction for the Clevedon Pier Charity. Deckchairs designed by rock band The Stranglers and folk band The Wurzels also feature in the auction. Tiny deckchair replicas of all these designs can be purchased to order via the websitewww.clevedonpier.com.
The standard of artworks submitted was very high and the five judges had a real challenge to select the winners. The winning design from a local resident was produced by Jacqueline Hammond who is as an ‘up and coming’ artist based in Brighton. She has been working on a range of deckchair designs launched earlier this year, so the competition was perfect timing and an ideal opportunity for her to show her designs to a new audience. It was actually a couple Jacqueline met at the launch, who are big fans of Clevedon, that suggested she should enter.Jacqueline says ” With my design, you can sit on the beach from the comfort of your own home!”
The winning deckchair designs are on display in the Tollhouse Gallery on Clevedon Pier The Beach, Clevedon BS21 7QA from Friday 26th July till August 20th. Entry to the gallery is free and it is open from 10 to 5pm every weekday and 10 to 6 at weekends. We are also holding two late night openings on Friday 26th and August 16th. See the Deckchair Exhibition on Facebook “Since opening the show the gallery stewards have tried to capture the total visitor numbers, although at times the gallery has been so busy we have lost track! Needless to say with the recent sunny weather we have had several hundred people in the gallery who have admired your design since we opened a week ago. “Jonquil Brooks – Pier volunteer
My deckchair has been out and about since we exhibited it at a trade show earlier in the year.It’s proved a hit with visitors to Portsmouth Spinnaker Tower.
Jenny Merrison, duty manager at Spinnaker Tower, commented:“The deckchair has become a great talking point for our shop visitors and really brightens up the window! Jacqueline is a very talented artist and we’re delighted to have a piece of her art on display.”Jacqueline Hammond’s Deckchair in the window at Spinnaker Tower – Portsmouth
Magnificent Bastard Productions present an entirely serious Shakespeare play with an entirely shit-faced cast member.
The question is – Dareth one attendeth the play again?
Here’s the review I wrote (whilst shitfaced) after last year’s show.
Too shit tyo get shitfaced enough for Shakespeare (written upon return home and published unedited) I had heard of this act early on and thought it had the potential to go either way. Scripted inerbriatiation bad. Genuine drunk as a lord, evil as Macbeth, good. Extra good if it went proper tits up, on stage and everything. In Shakespeares’s day the scirpt would be embellished by the amount of tankards one had dis quenchenched in thy hour of performancing. Althought pre-ibterigued as a on a whim mainly arts goer I wasn’t even sure wgich friend ahd experessed the dame curiosity anf interest to as feature in Brighton Festoval’s programme entitled @Shitfaced Shajkespeare’ The embarrassment of scripted out of it ness would be too muvh to bear. Like some sort of @who wants to be an othellioanaire. Pre warned after a midday bath, at 2pm I agreed to go bujt thought to myself only thy right to get shitfaced too. Get with the programme. Else I might cringe at the pre rehearsed what dol people do when they are drunk type sjetccjesd. Hence I be gone pre told emcompance a couplet winettas. This was my main fear, scripted shitfacedness. Would the actors be genuinely drunk and it all turn to shit, or would they be slightly inebriated and looser, forgetful with their words leading to it completely turning to shit and brabdished as a load of shit. How would they gauges their intended level of shotfacedness? Pre tell? Give me a line, give me a line slurred Lysander. Well, having now witnessed the performance I can genuinely say I wsas rifgt there with Lysandaer, Demetrias is a twat and it must be fucking uncomfortable pretending to be sleep ed on ye stager floor. MEGA cool, I hearteth the hour behind the most unusual, secret venue @ The Warren, like back stage Churchill Square crossed with council estate block. Mental.. Mazing what a yurt and fairy lights can do to festival up urban neck central. It was fuckin’ brilliant, swearing shapera id @How’s about that then’ more than @How do you as you like it. Whether guniunely pissed enough or not. After the show Lysanders fair maidens procured his rudimentary water and he admitted he didn’t say cunt as much as in |EDinvurgh. A diiferent member of the cast is drunk each night. I’d quite like to compare the comedy of errors that ensues. A Midsummer theobvious choice of mixed amourous intentuons. It lightened the shakesperaren foh, we lah de dahed at the nymophs attempts to stroken with serious spouting bjt chuckled at the fuck it crack ups thatgave it brilliance. There were elements of she’s fucki brilliant toomany times, I twas constantly cracked me up. Whern Lysander went from forgetting his words tyo spouting off Louis/Helena’s the genuine shitfacedness shone through/ I chorkled too early, had to run off mid show for ther low pisswosair but was rifgt there with the programme and having met Lysander after the show would say it was a mid summer dreamt come true! Burp.Hiccup! Un-edited. Jaxx report backs. Over and out for the count. ess of Devonshire!! Magnificant Bastard Productions – http://boxoffice.brightonfringe.org/event.aspx?evId=5217 When: 4 May 19:30 £12 8-9 May 21:00 £10 (£8.50, £7.50 4 for 3) 6 May 21:00 £10 (£8.50, £7.50 4 for the price of 3) 10 May 21:00 £12 5 May 21:00 £12 (£10.50) 7 May 21:00 £12 (£6 2 for 1) [1hr] Venue: View a mapThe Warren – See more at: http://boxoffice.brightonfringe.org/event.aspx?evId=5217#sthash.sJNmzPxm.dpuf
