Mosaic Fun at Emerald!!!

This Friday, we had the pleasure of hosting a ‘make and take’ Mosaic workshop, by Teresa Mills.

As part of Bucks open Studios, Teresa was at the Emerald gallery space all day and bought along heaps of mosaic kits, shapes, tiles and sparkles.

With a wide range of people taking part, from retired ladies to our youngest mosaic artist of the day ( aged two !), everybody seemed to have great fun and created some mosaic masterpieces to take home!

Using pre-made templates, it was great and accessible fun for all to get creative and make beautiful mosaic's. Watch this space, as we hope that Teresa will return for more workshops in the future.

In the interim, you can of course by Teresa's stunning mosaics, such a 'love' pictured above from the Emerald gallery, as well as some larger and smaller pieces including her fabulous Mosaic kit brooches and badges to take away and make at home.

Find out more about Teresa here : http://www.teresamillsmosaics.com

Bucks Open Studios has began!!!!

First Day of Bucks Open Studios- Ruby's ceramics

So, the first day of Bucks Open Studios went very well, with lots of new little pots in the world that didn't exist before Ruby spent the day in the gallery with her wheel.

(Everybody who threw a pot, Ruby will fire them and return them to the Gallery for collection in a couple of weeks :) )

If you missed it, Ruby is back for a further two full days (10 TIL 6), to let you visit and have a chance to try your hand at pottery- she at the gallery the last two days of Bucks Open Studios at Emerald- That's Friday and Saturday the 1st and 2nd of July. Hope to see you there:)

Please find examples of Ruby's beautiful pottery that’s being exhibited at Emerald as part of the Bucks Open Studios and if you can make it, call in and see all the lovely stuff that’s bursting out of the seams at Emerald's Gallery.

Natasha Newtons Paintings in the Gallery!!

Okay, now contain yourself...I am very pleased to announce the arrival to the gallery space of four new canvas paintings from Natasha Newton. Her work is truly stunning and I don’t think they will be around for long!! Highly desirable and collectable, these paintings are beautifully detailed and so precisely painted. If you love art, you’ll love these.

A wee bit about Natasha:

Natasha Newton is a professional artist and illustrator living and working in Suffolk, England and Paris, France. She has exhibited with many galleries throughout the UK and her work has been selected several times for major shows in London, including winning an award at The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Annual Exhibition.

Her inspirations and influences are wide and varied, but her recent work centres around her love of nature, birds, and a deep fascination with the moon and the stars. Her artwork - once described as 'simultaneously charming and edgy' - often has a slightly surreal or dream-like quality, and has been compared to the work of artists such as Charley Harper, Maurice Sendak and Edward Gorey, among others. Her paintings are in private collections in the UK and abroad, including France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Cyprus, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Ireland, USA, Canada, Australia, and Dubai.

So now you know I have these delightful paintings on exhibition, please pop over and enjoy them, before it’s too late(and they are sold)......Form an orderly queue please!!

Brill to be British!!

Here in Chalfont St Peter, who are celebrating!!

All the shops have joined together to celebrate, St Georges day and now the Royal wedding with style. And we made the headlines too!! Are festivities haven't gone un-noticed....The Daily mail featured our village with an image of our flags and bunting.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173582/THE-WIDER-VIEW-Shame-public-buildings-did-fly-St-Georges-Day-flag-including-BBC-House-Commons.html

Of course, Emerald Framing and Gallery were flying the flag with our High street companions!

Creative Focus- New to Emerald Gallery!

As a gallery space, its wonderful to be able to offer unique artwork, hand crafted by artists in many mediums. Oenone Randall makes quirky sculptures that make you smile, using copper as the basis for her ever expanding portfolio.


Another local Buckinghamshire artist, Oenone works from her home workshop to create a range of copper work with a fun contemporary theme. Emerald exhibits a selection of Oenone's work ranging from a life-size 3D copper flamingo, copper animals to hang in your home, and now excitingly, a range of her unique hand crafted sliver jewellery too.

All of Oenone's work is individually hand made giving each piece its own unique personality.

My favourite addition to the work on display are the hanging words. On exhibition are “love”, “hope” and “joy” each handmade in copper, to bring simple and uplifting words to your home.

Each letter is made using etching and patination to decorate in individual styles.

Great fun and uber stylish artwork with a difference.

http://www.oenonemetalsculptures.co.uk/

Creative Focus- New to Emerald gallery!

I have had the pleasure of exhibiting the stunning mosaic “wall jewellery” handmade by the clever and lovely Buckinghamshire based artist, Teresa Mills.
Emerald currently has a selection of Teresa's “wall jewellery” on exhibition, any of which would be a beautiful statement piece of artwork in anyone’s home, and would be coveted by all your friends and family!

So, let me introduce the artist: Teresa is a graduate of Brighton college of art and she has worked almost exclusively in mosaics over the last fifteen years. Teresa is the author of four books on mosaic art, including the best selling “mosaic artist's bible” which has been published in more than twenty countries. She exclusively creates her mosaic word pictures, and balances her creative process with running mosaic projects in schools and undertaking commission pieces.

The word pictures are created from shaped fibre board which is filled by hand with a variety of materials including traditional millefiore tiles (made in the MURANO works in Venice), glitter tiles, gold leaf, sequins, gems and embellishments handmade from fimo. This combination of materials provides an intense richness to the pieces - each of which is completely unique. To get this exquisite detail takes many hours of careful, patient work.

Lucky for Emerald customers, I now stock these bags of fun from Teresa, so you and yours can complete your own mosaic masterpiece and enjoy wearing it everyday!
These fabulous little bags contain mosaic kits using diamanté or millefiore to create badges and brooches. They come with full instructions and everything you require to make each brooch, including the pre-cut brooch back, the millefiore or diamanté pieces and the glue.

The perfect, affordable gift or project for you to complete and wear with pride.

http://www.teresamillsmosaics.com/