BOBBY BRITNELL

TEXTILE and ART courses offering unique learning opportunities for all

In beautiful South Shropshire an area of outstanding natural beauty

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Hi Everyone.


Hope you all survived that heat wave last week. I personally am pleased that it is a little cooler now, but don't want it to rain for our pending art and music festival next weekend........more on this below.


FIrstly, however I have a message from Amanda Clayton who will be teaching here for the LAST TIME next month on 1st, 2nd and 3rd July 2026. Please read on. (Words in italics are my own thoughts)

AMANDA CLAYTON

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"I have always been a ‘planner’ both in my art practice and teaching life and a need for a three-day strategy for this last new course “Paper, Stones, Scissors’ is not any different. It is a culmination of my experiences and I wish to share my very favourite ways to find inspiration and a creative energy for making personal work."


Yes you heard correctly .....Mandy's LAST NEW COURSE


"Exploring paper qualities has its advantages. It is generally less expensive than cloth and there is a wide variety available to access easily. It also allows personalities to come through by making choices. My samples for the workshop have used old papers that I have collected over the years as well as my staple favourites like tracing and waxed. I can provide the papers for the course at a nominal cost if paper is not your ‘thing’. I bring also thirty plus types of thread for you to use throughout the course. Specialist cloth is available too."


What a treat to have specialist cloth, many different threads as as well as papers to use.


"Connections and relationships are so important to our thinking as textile artists. We look at something and can make associations and links within our visual memories. Within this course we will make links with our vocabulary of stitch and our knowledge of cloth. Familiar techniques may be used and seen in a different context. You may start developing stitch from the very first session. Or you may hang back whilst paper entertains you."


That sounds like a clear plan.


"We can also look at generic concepts rather than dwell on something very specific that can start to limit us. For example we may love tracing paper but actually we desire a need to explore transparency. Taking risks and creating opportunities through a cheaper material also has its advantages. We can sometimes be more productive and make choices as we take strengths in our work forward."


A great way to push ideas forward without too much expense.


"Teaching has always been made easier by having your own work challenges and passing ways of solving them on to students. Studio work has benefited from decision making, time management and limitations in the teaching environment.

I have said before that it is difficult to post images/conclusions about what we may produce before we have produced it!

So all I will give you as images, are my starting points. My fifteen objects and a pile of papers."


Might even do this exciting course myself!!!!

"Join me if you feel you want to push your textile practice further for the very last time with me as your tutor………and start collecting those personal objects that have a resonance with you."


Book HERE for a place on Amanda's last course at Moor Hall.

THE BETTWS TRIANGLE

art and music festival 2026

Nina Archer showing at Moor Hall Studio

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Today I want to feature more fully the work of Nina Archer who will be one of the visiting artist to the Bettws Triangle art and music festival 2026 which is coming to us very soon. Nina will be exhibiting her gorgeous work in Moor Hall Studio from 11th to 14th June over the period of the Festival.


Nina is an abstract painter who works in gesso, acrylic and charcoal, recording the edges of land, the darkness and forested valleys, accents of colour and the textural feel of this unique landscape in South Shropshire.


Field

Field

Outcrop Mist

Outcrop Mist

Ridgeway

Ridgeway

THE BETTWS TRIANGLE ART AND MUSIC FESTIVAL

will be taking place on 11/12/13/14 June so I do hope you will be able to join us, to hear some singing and music and also seeing the beautiful art work.


As well as Nina exhibiting at Moor Hall we also have the lovely VAL LITTLEHALES who will be showing her pastel paintings which reflect her love of our landscape: its changing seasons and moods, her love of skies, trees, leafy lanes and of course sheep. Val will be showing her work at Black Mountain Chapel. Val is also one of the performers at Black Mountain during the Festival. Someone not to be missed with the highly amusing tales that she tells.


Image: Val Lttlehales

MUSIC EVENTS

at the Festival



A few small changes to the programme

In addition to the above 'MEET THE BAND', on Saturday at 4.30 at Moor Hall, Rapsquillion, will be also giving a concert in the church on Sunday at 11.30. Do come to both as both will be different.

OTHER CHANGES


Please not that Stephen Clarke is no longer performing, on the Friday in the Church.

Ling Peng will be accompanying Sid Peacock and Ruth Angell on Friday night at Bettws Hall on her Chinese Erhu.

And our very own Ruth Angell is filling in for Alessandro Ruisi on Saturday night again at Bettws Hall

Do visit out website to see all of the performers at this years festival. Make it a family day out and come along and support us and see the work on display. Those keen enough, do book your tickets for an evening event.


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Do check her course on my website along with my courses and the online courses.


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