10-16th NOVEMBER 2022
ARTSPACE WOODBRIDGE
PAINTINGS * POTS * PRINTS * JEWELLERY * BOOKS
One of us will be at the gallery everyday of the exhibition, please call in if you can
Andrew, Meggan, Amie Cally
ARTSPACE GALLERY, APOTHECARY HOUSE, 64 THOROUGHFARE, WOODBRIDE, IP12 1 AL
ANDREW HASLEN MEGGAN HASLEN AMIE HASLEN FAMILY SHOW
I’m showing some new work alongside my wife’s ceramics and my daughter’s paintings, a real family show, at the Zillah Bell gallery in Thirsk.
The exhibition is on from 5th-20th August, and you can see a lot of the work and more details on the gallery’s website. It’s looking like it will be a very colourful and exciting exhibition.
I’m thrilled to announce that my new book ‘The Art of Gamehawking’ has arrived and is available to buy now.
It has been a long process and a labour of love but after overcoming the obstacles along the way it is wonderful to have the finished book in my hands.
Please take a look at the website to see more details.
There are also a few copies left of the Special Limited Subscriber’s Edition, please find more details here.
“Back in 1977, I was given the opportunity to train and fly a Peregrine Falcon. It was this falcon, Tassa, that Ray Turner wrote about in his classic monograph Gamehawk. I produced the line drawings for this book and have always had an idea that one day I would create a series of paintings to accompany it. Thirty years on, and having been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, I decided that if I was going to do this, then the time was now. As often happens with this kind of project, once started it took on a life of its own and this book was born.
Memories of experiences I had forty years ago fill the pages; recollections, still vivid, of flying Tassa. The paintings I have produced, in many cases, are not highly finished but are deliberately sketch-like in their execution, giving fleeting glimpses, of pheasants, partridges, ducks and grouse as the falcon strikes them. They are studies from the perspective of the hunter and the hunted.“
I’m pleased to have some work included in the Christmas Exhibition at Lavenham Hall Gallery. The show starts on 27th November and is open strictly by appointment only. See more on the Lavenham Hall Website, under ‘news’ on the home page.
Paintings above:
(Framed prices)
Roe Buck, oil, 60 x 80, £1950
Hare and Tractor, oil on canvas, 80 x 100, £2950
Curlews and Merganser, oil on card, 66 x 90, £2500
Some of my work that will be on show at the Society of Wildlife Artist’s annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London. The exhibition can be seen online here
I am very pleased to tell you that my linocut (above) has been accepted for the 2020 Birds in Art exhibition at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconson.
May is my favourite month of the year. A time of new growth and regeneration. Through the combination of cut lino and watercolour I have tried to capture perfect hard edge shapes and fresh hues associated with this time.
A newly arrived whitethroat and painted lady butterfly have both migrated up from Africa only for the butterfly to become a tasty morsel for the whitethroat. A brown hare, another sign of spring, watches on as the drama unfolds while enjoying the warming rays of the sun. Fresh spears of bracken fronds emerge through the colours and patterns of last seasons growth.
Another oil study on the go, painted on unprimed card. Could be a new linocut design…..just need to get the arrangement of the chicks right.
Here’s something I’ve been up to during this lockdown….
Curlew on the tideline, oil study on card, a possible design for a new linocut.
Best of wishes to everyone during this difficult time…I hope you’re well and staying safe.
Andrew Haslen 