After "The Big Picture"

After an early start to get set-up in the Bridges shopping centre, where Maverickart, Criss Chaney and Liz Shaw were holding free arts activities as part of a project we called "The Big Picture". I was very pleasantly surprised by the sheer number of people who stopped to take part. Everyone was really interested and enthusiastic, with some people sticking around to make a tile in each medium of ceramic, clay to be made into cast glass, and mixed media on primed boards. Thanks everyone who took part!

Criss Chaney and Liz Shaw still have to fire the tiles people did with them but as my tiles don't have to go through the same process I can give you a sneak peek now, and a reminder of what we were doing.

Keep your eyes and ears on the blog for updates when we will be displaying the work, and where.

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Enjoy the artwork!

Jo Howell

Maverickart and Jo Howell Photography

The Big Picture

Today has been a fun day preparing for Friday's project. I will be outside of the Bridges shopping centre in Sunderland from 10am until around 4pm with another 2 artists from creative cohesion, Criss Chaney and Liz Shaw. For more info click here.

So, the idea behind the project is to try to get 100 people to decorate a 3 inch by 3 inch tile in a mixed media way to express a summer memory. At the end of the day I will take the 100 tiles and display them as one large piece of work- a big picture describing a Sunderland summer.

There will also be the option of creating a tile out of ceramics with Liz Shaw to create a similar big picture, and we are hoping to display the work throughout Sunderland once it is finished.

This is tile number 1 by Jo Howell (Jo Howell Photography and Maverickart), and number 14 by Phil Vickery (Phil Vickery Glass).

Just to get the ball rolling and to give you guys something to think about for your tile creations, or cast glass creations with Criss on friday.

See you all there!

Jo Howell

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It's been a while...

For some time now I have been letting myself slip! I haven't updated this blog since 2010, well my esteemed colleagues, things are going to change.

I have a blog on my website that you can also follow just click here, on the website I will be announcing and discussing Jo Howell Photography and Maverickart's projects in a business sense, and I will be using this blog to discuss my working methods, to post basic workings out, and sketchbook pages for discussion.

From now on it's going to be warts and all! But remember this is about experimentation and exploration of my themes, and not necessarily finished products.

I hope you enjoy the posts over the next few months and please feel free to leave comments!

Best wishes

Jo Howell

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