Jacqueline Bakowski - personal painting.

Hi
Thank you for not only taking the time to look at my paintings, but also for reading this! I have been painting for the last few years, really for my own enjoyment! When I start on a new canvas, I rarely have a set idea as to how it will look when it is finished - I usually let the colours lead me. Sometimes this results in an abstract finish, sometimes the colours remind me of somewhere I have been, or something I have seen and the painting travels in that direction. Often it doesn't work at all and is painted over with white - I buy a lot of white paint! I have started to add texture too, to make the paintings look less flat - it is quite interesting to see what materials you can use to achieve different effects. To increase my range of skills, I am currently attending a degree course, but painting is still my first love - it gives me great pleasure - I hope they do for you too!
Jacky Bakowski
February 2012


1. New Day, Old Day
£120
Mixed Media














2. Marshland
£100
Acrylics











3. Desert
£80
Mixed Media

















4. Silver Birch 1
£100
Acrylics












5. Lakeside
£100
Acrylic













6. Blue
£100
Mixed media




















7. Solitude
Not For Sale
Acrylics


















8. Winter Beach
£140
Mixed Media











9. City Sunset
£120
Mixed Media












10. Winter Sunrise
£80
Mixed Media














11. Promenade
£35
Mixed Media














12. Honesty
£40
Mixed Media
















Jacky's show lasts from February 3rd - March 2nd and can be viewed at the level best Art cafe monday - friday - 9am - 4pm.

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.

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.

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/































Our show lasts from 25th November - 23rd December and the gallery is open from 9:00 - 4:00 monday - friday.