Green Man Tree Calendar
Visual Artist Venessa Lagrand is currently creating a series of green men inspired by the Celtic tree calendar. She has created four pieces so far: Oak, Holly, Ash and Vine. Made of Fimo the pieces are wonderfully detailed.
Venessa was born in Kent and spent her early years in Luxembourg where her father was working until she returned to Cornwall in 1980. Her mother was born in Cornwall and her father is Dutch and both have influenced the direction of her work.
“Cornwall is such an inspirational place for a visual artist with its pure light, surrounded by the sea and ocean, its beaches and wild moorlands. I am also interested in Celtic art since my maternal grandparents were both of Celtic origin, my grandfather Irish and my grandmother Cornish”
You can see three of Venessa’s green men here:
The Spirit of Nature an Exhibition by Chas Alexander
Chas was born in Slough in 1952 and started painting at the age of 8. His career took him into the advertising industry where he worked as a designer, airbrush artist and creative director for some of the leading advertising agencies both within the UK and throughout the world. After leaving the industry in the late 1980′s he spent many years travelling the world, living with many native people, all of which had a profound influence on his work today. He started painting again in 2002. Since then his work has been published in various pagan journals and magazines and he is now working on a new exhibition entitled ‘The Spirit of Nature’ which will be showing in the Littlehampton Museum in West Sussex which runs from 9th June until 21st July 2010. The work will include images of the green man and spiritual places such as a series of Sussex Churches, the balance within nature and some more intricate work of wild flowers and animals. The media will range from oils to acrylic and from watercolour to pastels. This exhibition will be complimented with an outdoor exhibition running at Summer Solstice entitled ‘The Green Man in the Trees’
The launch party starts at 11am on Saturday 12th June in Littlehampton Museum. Admission is free and the proceeds from the sale of work will be donated to three women’s charities, The Goddess Foundation, Sussex International Women’s Day and Women’s Aid Worthing Branch.
Featured artist: Fidelma Massey
These amazing green men were created by our featured artist this month:
Fidelma Massey studied at the School of Art, Dun Laoghaire majoring in Fine Art/Sculpture (Stonecarving, Claymodeling, Drawing and Ceramics). She was engaged in commercial ceramics until 1986, after which time she returned to her original interest in pure sculpture, working with bronze, stone and ceramics. She also makes drawings and stained glass. Fidelma has shown work in many group exhibitions: Royal Hibernian Academy, Sculpture in Context, Iontas, L’Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. She shows work regularly with a number of galleries including the Origin, Hallward, Gormleys and Designyard Galleries in Dublin; the Lavit in Cork; Greenacres in Wexford, the Greenlane Gallery,
Dingle ( and Paris ), the Kilrealig Gallery, Ballinsceligs, both in Co. Kerry, and Strassacker Gallerie, Sussen, Germany.
You can find more about Fidelma’s magical work on her website at: http://www.irishsculpture.com/
