tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22724214742617303032012-01-12T17:12:33.616ZAre you someone who enjoys your creative side and finds inspiration in the most unlikely of situations. Are you always asking questions (and often finding so may different answers that you go of in a totally different direction) are you curious about the everyday world? If so then your not alone.Jacqueline Rolls Artist and fun loving personhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10680833327211867138noreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2272421474261730303.post-61203102070748465172012-01-12T17:12:00.000Z2012-01-12T17:12:33.624Z

I have just revamped my website which now incorporates this blog if your interested in reading more visit www.jaxsarts.co.uk Learning how to use wordpress has been a challenge but an interesting one.

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Its been busy time over the Christmas period as I have been busy providing Christmas related workshops ranging from textile  creating handmade decorations and planning for next year. As well as this I needed to take some personal time out to spend time with our son Ashly before he emigrated to Australia on Christmas Day a time of happiness with a sprinkling of sadness mixed in. So now

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With the lack of consistant good natural light at the moment  I decided to improvise and spend most of the afternoon making a light box from many of the great ideas out there in the virtual web world.  I then spent the afternoon photographing some of my new work, the hardest task I found was trying to photograph my latest resin jewelery here are my first attempts, the most difficult is the

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What a busy few days I held another great lino block printing card making session always lots of fun as usual I always love teaching others and gaining back so much myself  always interesting my main problem is that my active mind wants to do so many things and time constraints means that I need to help people to move in and stay focused added to that many people are quiet when then are

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I just wanted to share with you my lovely friend Melissa art work under Quirky Cow designsshes a lovely an a really amusing artist and I just love her website http://www.art-spaces.com/melissasimm/ Ive been busy as usual getting ready for another Lino block printing workshop tomorrow and my stall Andover The Lights Wrapped up Christmas Fair on Saturday.  Making a change from my usual recycled

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A few weeks ago I attended a creative persons get together at the Aspex Gallery cafe in Portsmouth. One of the questions we were asked is if needed to describe what art was how would we describe it? The old saying its as long as it is short often applies in this case with so many perspectives it is never on that wil receive a definitive answer as it is so subjective. I often think of such a

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Hello again, so many people ask me why I don't sell many of the crafts I make for workshops I often considered doing so however as I have said before space is a major concerns.However recently I have decided that as space is limited I should make small things to sell and  have been making a range of recycled jewelry using materials that you will be familiar with such as paper,fabric,wool, wire

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As previously mentioned a few weeks ago I was busily getting ready for a mono printing workshop session, Well I can report that as usual great fun was had by all. I love meeting new people as well as a few students I have met before as always this kind of workshop allows all concerned to try out different things and just play. It always amazes me how many adults love playing and experimenting and

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Robert Davies Goose The Robert Davies drawing exhibition depicts a range of animals who are considered to best of breed contrasted with animals who have been intensely  reared who have now been rescued. Robert captures the character of each of the animals in his drawings. Winchester Discovery Centre asked me  to provide animal sculpture workshops for families responding to his work. We created

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I have just discovered  crafts forum a really useful website for asking craft related questions have a look you might find it of use

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What are you doing this weekend something interesting I hope. I am going to be busy making some animal sculptures examples  from paper and mud rock ready for the children's workshops I will be running in half term which are inspired by the Robert Davies exhibition currently available at the Winchester Discovery Centre http://www3.hants.gov.uk/wdc/wdc/whatson-wdc?search=day&startDate=2011-10-24&

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If your not to far from Winchester in Hampshire then you might want to join me for one my workshops at  Winchester Discovery Centre. As usual this come with a recycling theme including four  jewellery workshops covering paper, wire, plastics and textiles and two  printing workshops-and  just for the festive season and a Christmas keepsakes making decorations session. This year I am also trying

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One of my own fairy wing creations As I am always interested in offering activities that participants can then build on and experiment with at home I have just been organizing  a variety of workshops for adults including making recycled jewelery, lino block printing, fairy wing making and face painting.  I have provided a few examples below of some of the pieces that students will be

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As with most creatives even though I often run regular workshops on a particular theme one of my regular activities is making jewelery from recycled materials. As you would expect I already have a good selection of examples to show people made from a variety of materials including leather, textiles, wire and  paper My main aim is to inspire I never want to make it to to difficult especially as

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When ever I create  a new piece it often find that I am interested in producing several different versions , so taking my initial fairy I decided to re paint  her again using  different color schemes.

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The truth is that I really do not have the room to store them and I tend to make examples to suit as I go along,  this helps to keep the creative flow going as I love the challenge of making a new. My studio is my spare bedroom and as you can see most of the room is taken up with storage and preparation for the next workshop, at the moment  I am getting ready for my peg loom weaving workshops

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If your very lucky you may be relatively near to a scrapstore... these fantastic Aladdins caves are dotted arround the country,  run by a variety of different organisations ranging from local charitys manned by volunteers through to local council recycling team .They all have one thing in common, they gather in materials from businesses and save them from the dustbin and then make them avaialble

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Just to let you know that I am  finally going to get around to updating my JaxsArts website as  its quite a bit out of date now as so much of the information  relates to my community and family focused activities and only briefly touches on the classes etc  that I offer to adults,  so I am planning  to carry out  a total redesign using  Wordpress.. .....In addition to this I keep on meaning to

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As many of my workshops are booked by groups, clubs, schools, museums , councils and  festivals. It has often means that they have also made the arrangements regarding who the participants will be..  Participants have often asked me if  I provide workshops that they could book onto and so as response to their enquiries I decided to start putiing on public workshops myself that they could book

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I have just spent  a lovely morning teaching  the basics of Lino Block Printing, and with such a great group of participants, After a bumpy start with the bookings which through my train of thought for a little while I soon got back into the flow and as always time flew by. I always love meeting new people its always  refreshing  and a great experience to enable others to try out a new skill  and

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As always and beyond the everyday things that need to happen I'm busy preparing or activities trying to find time for my own work,  trying to find time to build a website to showcase my own work and already thinking about the end of the year even though we have only just started this one. There are some fantastic opportunities coming up in the next few months, lots of fun being creative outdoors

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Wow I hadn't realized that It has been such a long time since my last post Ive been so busy since my last post ,  providing a series of family alien costume workshops in conjunction with Portsmouth Museums also  making kites at festivals and star lanterns at village halls and working with Winchester Action on Climate Change to provide a recycling / reinventing your Christmas decorations activity

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Hi if you enjoy having lots of fun for free and your in the Southampton area this Sunday come and join in with all the activities at the Open Weekend , http://culturalolympiad2010.wordpress.com/ Ill be their making lots of wings . and if that is to soon for you join us again at the Contact Youth Festival in Romsey next Saturday 31s July http://www.socomusicproject.org.uk/contactfestival/index.html

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Thankfully the last day was much better and we spend the day patching up and pulling everything together outlining etc. As an artist you have an interesting part to play when working on this kind or project which is  linked to realizing an over all vision whilst working working with the participants to allow them the opportunity to interact with the piece and if appropriate add to the overall

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A great project to have been part of , lots of people joined in which was great, unfortunately week 2 and 3 were so wet that  we resorted to interspersing the painting with varnish and the drips still came through. This also meant that we needed to add a final day to the project and hoped for good weather

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The sun was out and a cool breeze a fantastic start to our first day. Our first task was to organize the paints into types and colors. By this stage the first of the days volunteers were starting to appear. The task looked pretty immense we were hoping to get the 1st base coat up we knew that we might not achieve getting all of the top sections completed by the end of the day and another

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Our initial plan had been to use a ohp to project the picture on the hording , although a great idea in normal circumstances , the sunny day meant that this wasn't going to work, so to plan b . scaling up from our plan, not as accurate but the most practical option available to us. The Dart centre manager (Alison) had asked if we could have some help from several of the students and 4 were able

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Three obvious themes came from our first meeting, Pantomime - Treasure / Magical Island and Circus. We decided to spend time thinking about how this might work and set the date for another meeting to bring our ideas together. We had all decided that we wanted to do justice to the children's art work combining their ideas with our own into 3 the 3 scenes linked to the theatre.We also started to 

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Hi I thought I'd share with you my experience of working on a joint mural project at Shamblehurst Junior School in Hedge End, Eastleigh. Several months ago I was contacted by the centre manager ( Alison Neasom ) from the  D@rt Art Center, Hedge End, , to ask me I would be interested on working on a joint mural project with two other artist. The D@rt were having a new theatre built on site and a

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I don't know about you but one of the things I find quite interesting is why we often stereotype people in our community and how often we do this to ourselves. Our age and appearance and even the way we speak and interact are often obvious targets for this kind of thinking and I wont deny that I sometimes find myself doing this myself .. its all to easy to do. The other day I met a lady who told

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Hi to all just wanted to let you know that I have revised my http://www.jaxsarts.co.uk website and have included a how to page. I am planning to film some tutorials to go up on u tube aimed with lots of different activities aimed at different ages. The first topic will be how to make simple fairy wings. Any ideas or requests for future tips please let me know

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I recently attended a artist network meeting in Southampton where Wayne Hemingway ( original co founder of Red or Dead)was the guest speaker. Ever a man with strong convictions he talked about the opportunities and possibilities that were available to him as a young man starting up a business compared to that for a young people today. And this started me thinking. Is it more difficult to start

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I don't know about you but it would be so nice if someone lent me their fairy godmother for a couple of months, I don't want very much just a little time would be great. As many other practising artist will tell you many of us have at least one other job to pay for the bills etc. The problem and indeed the quandary is that often it is very hard to find time to create work that is inspired by your

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I just came across an interesting piece on the community channel where Fran Monks photographer has been meeting people whose ideas are making a difference http://www.communitychannel.org/content/view/3081/75/

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On Friday I went to a artist network meeting in the New Forest ,,  In the afternoon we all worked on a collective exercise where we created a giant blow up sculpture from sellotape and colored bin liners and then inflated it with a large fan . a wonderfully creative exercise producing a interesting piece of artwork  which was then dissembled and this set me to thinking . Had we just created a

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Hi I dont know about you but unfortunately I have to write the occasional report .. My stance has aways been that writing is about expressing yourself and getting the message across.. unfortunately the notion of the written word is an interesting conundrum mainly because it can be interpreted in so many different ways .. I am someone who believes that when a person writes from the heart using 

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I am someone who is a hands on practical person and I love trying out new things .. however sometimes I get stuck on what I am trying to do and I just have to give up and start again... I am always saying to other people that the doing and trying things out is the most important thing however sometimes as they say ( whose they) its hard to practise what you preach....How about you ?  Id love to

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I am by nature someone who is always busy ( most of the time anyway) and I love setting myself new challenges and discovering new things ... for me the taking part and the journey is always the most rewarding part, From learning poi and then fire poi which I always find my self coming back to me .. I am sure it is linked to the almost meditative state that allows me to occasionally quiet my

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I love spending time at festivals :

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November 08...Hello and welcome to my blogg. I am a artist that works with a variety of of mediums including traditional materials, computer graphics and natural and reclaimed materials. In addition to my personal work, I also run my own creative arts business jaxs arts and designs teaching a variety of craft and art activities using predominantly recycled and natural materials as well as cane

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