Level Best Art Cafe

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Jane Armstrong - Natural Colours

My Art is inspired by the rich colours and shapes that nature itself provides. Having trained as a Textile Designer many of my designs are created from the amazing magnified detail of flowers and leaves. I also have a passion for creating models from paper mache, so I decided to combine both skills by making the model and printing them using my own designs.

1) Phoebe

£90

2) Lucy

£150

3) Josie

£90

4) Poppy

SOLD

5) Shirley

£180

6) Daphne

RESERVED

7) Florence

£70

8) Mabel

£40

9) Summer

£150

10) Miranda

£40

11) Emily

£25

12) Gemma

£25

13) Katie

SOLD

14) Lily

SOLD

15) Milly

£25

16) Olive

£25

17) Vera

SOLD

18) Verity

SOLD

19) Suzie

£25

20) Melissa

SOLD

21) Hen

£75

Papier Mache

22) Snoopy Dog £75

Papier Mache

23) Cat

£25

Papier Mache

Jane's show lasts from 6th January - 3rd february and can be viewed between 9:00am - 4:00pm
monday - friday.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Christmas Workshop

Alison Stockmarr, a local freelance artist came to hold a workshop at the Level Best Art Cafe, making christmas decorations.

We made over the course of the day; rein deer heads from twigs and papier mache, snowflakes and father christmas' and santa corks, using pine cones, corks, velvet, wool and other materials such as googly eyes.

Lastly we fashioned a tree out of a large log and used it to hang our decorations and lit the whole thing nicely. Why don't you come in and get some decoratios for your tree, they look really good.

Launch TheRobin Event

The Back Story

The group who work in the park were working in the sensory garden. On the roof of the little folly was a wooden weaved structure which Yaz the park ranger gave to us. We brought it back to recycle! Jeanette saw the shape of a robin in it. Simon, Jeanette and Jane covered it with papier mache, then gave it a coat of emulsion paint. Colin broke it down into three separate colour areas - white, red and brown. Our trainees painted the colours in, Simon, Christina, Tom and Derek all pitched in and finaly we chose where to paint the eye.

One friday morning we took it outside to photograph. Starting in the road outside we ended up out side Firstsite. The picture was for the poster for the event.

The Event

The launch The Robin event co-incided with the opening of our end of christmas show, show- casing art work made by our trainees at Level Best

Mary Pullen came over from 15 Queen Street "Creatives of Colchester" with the news that they were donating some of the proceedes from their Big Draw Event.

To say thank you we invited them to attend the launch of our auction show as special guests on the 1st of December 2011.

Joe our photographer captured the spirit of the occassion.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Level Best Art Cafe Christmas show

As the year draws to a close, we felt it high time we gave ourselves a showcase at our gallery.
So the art department have created some paintings specially for our christmas show.

These pieces are a part of our 'Launch the Robin' auction and you can bid for them in a sealed envelope.
To see all the work on offer at our flickr page visit the link below
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artcolevelbest/