Big Ads in a Small World

I have painted some brown glass bottles for the first time to be in the Big Ads in a Small World show at the Truman Brewery, 8 Dray Walk, London E1 6QA. The show runs from 15th - 27th November 2018.  The Ben Oakley Gallery presents seven artists Giles Walker, Word to Mother, Sweler, David Bray, Ben Oakley, Ray Richardson and myself Yvonne Wayling.  As well as my bottles there will be some of my work on canvas and black paper along with a selection of oil paintings, prints, sculptures and installation from the other artists.  You can even get your drawing skills critiqued by Ben Oakley and David Bray in a sketch for criticism event and receive a certificate.

 

88 Notes

88 Notes is the title of a show that Donna Poingdestre and myself are putting together with Samo White; artist and owner of Play Dead Gallery.  I will be showing some new art on paper and some of my lips on cans and painted faces on bottles.  Donna will be showing her paintings that she makes on  rolls of Pianola paper.  The title of the show comes from the number of notes that are on a Pianola and how music when played evokes memories past, present and future.  The show starts from 7pm  Friday 14/09/2018 at Play Dead Gallery 131 Highland Road, Southsea, Portsmouth PO4 9EY.  All are welcome. 

Merry Christmas

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a big thank you to everyone who has supported and encouraged my artwork. Yvonne x

Vertigo

This November I was part of a two woman show at the Ben Oakley Gallery with the lovely Kim Tong. The title of the show Vertigo was about moments of unease and uncertainty and how we try to stabilise while in that altered state.

The show was on for two weeks in November and included large and small canvases as well as several fragile glass objects that I painted.  A retro purple glass vase with the spray painted image of an in angel wrapped around it and a murmuration of birds individually painted on transparent paper that overlapped allowing the image of other shapes to blur through.

If you did not get to see the show you can view it on Google Earth by going to 9 Turnpin Lane in Greenwich London and while at street view click on the white arrows that lead you into the Ben Oakley Gallery and look around. You can also go upstairs in the gallery and look at the paintings of all the other artist that show their work there.

New Painting

Finished this painting on canvas a few days ago reworking an old stencil recutting it in places and adding some new parts.  The red is a lot more vibrant then on the screen as there are several spraypaint shades of reds in the lips and rose.  I have put some hand painted detail in the eyes but only there.  Plan to make a few more paintings using these stencils.

Free Art at Dulwich Festival 2015

The last two weekends I have been busy putting out free art in the Dulwich Open House Art Festival. The bottles I put out had my little Ooh! character face painted on them with spray paint and stencil.  Each had a small label telling the finder that they were a free piece of art and if they liked it they should take it home.

I left some in pretty flower beds, others in Dulwich Park, one in a library, one in a graveyard, one at an East Dulwich restaurant and one at the Dulwich picture Gallery.

If you did find one of my bottles I hope you took it home with you and that you enjoy it. 

Little Painted Bottle

One of a set of Little bottles I painted awhile ago. I plan to make some more of these and new work coming for Leadenhall Market in July.

Leadenhall Market 2014

I am at Leadenhall Market with my art this week - lots of stencilled and spray painted canvas, for the Elevated Art Fair 2014.  The fair is on from 18th - 22nd opening at 11 o'clock and closing at 6 o'clock with a late night on Thursday and a bit of a do from 4 o'clock on Wednesday.

Sclater Street Shoreditch

I have been busy working on some small canvases for a new market that is opening in Shoreditch London. The market is at Sclater Street right next to Shoreditch High Street Station and is open for the first time this Saturday 19th July 2014. I am making small works of art including some painted bottles as I will have a stall to display my work on. Manny Gyumova wrote a wonderful piece about my work on her blog that can be found here http://sclaterstreetstallsblog.com/2014/06/25/yvonne-wayling-2

Just a peek

This last month I have been busy stencil painting a set of champagne bottles for a window display. The reason it has taken so long is because they are all different sizes and I wanted to make them work as a set. Here is just a preview of them, I will post a picture of them soon once they are in the window.

Can You See Me?

My painting 'This is Why' is now in the Ben Oakley Gallery 9 Turnpin Lane, Greenwich Market, London SE10 9JA.

Testing

I've been busy cutting stencils, then testing them to make sure I like them, before spray painting through them onto bottles. I am painting a set of beautiful champagne bottles for a display so I need them to be perfect.

Finished

Finished - spray painted large canvas 80cm x 80cm.  I'm thinking of making another with the stencils and seeing how different it could look. I have put more images of this painting on my Instagram page as I have taken less pictures with my Canon camera.  Need to get back into using that camera.

Large Stencils

I have spent some time cutting a set of large stencils for a canvas 80cm x 80cm.  I am planning to spray paint more detail into the larger and bolder image. This is a look at the beginning of spray painting the first two stencils.

Film of Bottles in Shoreditch

A short film of my bottles in the Far Rockaway window at Shoreditch that I have edited together from small clips that I shot while helping with the display.

Georgie Plays Dead

My painting Georgie Plays Dead is on the wall of the Ben Oakley Gallery in Greenwich this month. Georgie was a friend from college in the 70's who studied sculpture but would also enact spontaneous performance art pieces.  His work was very ahead of its time and people often would laugh at what he was doing. I have since seen sculpture with dead animals, glass weapons, spacemen and old age pensioners wearing machine guns, all ideas that he explored in great detail at the time.  In my painting he is performing the climax of a fight with fake blood and wearing an original 1977 Seditionaries shirt.

Happy New Year 2014

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year 2014

Ducks and Studios

I'm busy finishing paintings, not in my garden, but now in the attic room that I have made into my new studio.  I could not spend another winter working in the cold so I have set up a studio over a couple of weeks, painting walls and adding an extractor fan.  I'm now working as much as I can to get paintings finished for the Flex A&D Affordable Art&Design Fair at Islington Green on the 6th - 8th December 2013.  My work will be on the Ben Oakley Gallery stand and I will be there to help out.
The painting of a duck is inspired by a photo I found that was taken a long time ago by a friend.  It is part of a new set of paintings that I am making using images from my past. I have made a few small canvas and board duck paintings and will be adding the image as a detail on a larger canvas that I am busy spray painting.

Spray Paint on Canvas

I'm back to spray paint and stencils on canvas.  My first canvas since I finished the painted bottles for Far Rockaway.  This is only a detail as I'm starting a larger canvas and adding some other images.  I'm also making five small feather paintings in the same colourway to leave on the street as free street art.  

Shoreditch Window

The Farrockaway restaurant in Curtain Road, Shoreditch opened this weekend and my window display  is in place.  The bottles are stacked back to back so you can also see them from inside the bar.  It was the first time that I had seen them altogether as this is a really big window display and I don't have an equivalent space.  I am really pleased with the finished look.  

These two pictures show close-ups of the bottles in their new home.

Also inside you will find the skateboard and the two small tables that I painted.