Colours of Life Art Exhibition 2023

artwork by Julie Proctor

Ripple Arts team is excited to welcome artists of all levels, from across London to submit their work for consideration.

Ripple Arts, Art Exhibition provides a great opportunity for talented artists like yourself to gain greater exposure by showcasing your work to a new audience, whilst raising awareness and and funds for Wandle Heritage Ltd Charity (charity number: 1045636) and The Wandle River Community Garden Project.

Overview and our Model
Ripple Arts, Art Exhibition is aimed at showcasing the talents of both emerging and established artists.

The Exhibition Entry Details
You are invited to produce and submit original artworks that represents a creative, unique or personal connection to the theme of ‘Colours of Life’. We will accept work from any individual artist who live or work in the London Area and are able to deliver and pick up their artwork from the venue listed below.

We encourage you to be as free as possible in the expression of your artwork. The work submitted can be any form of 2 dimensional art, including painting, drawings, mixed media, photography. We do not accept large 3 dimensional sculptures, pottery needs to be of a table top size. It can be in any media and of any genre – impressionistic, naturalistic, realistic or abstract.

Initial applications is free. Upon acceptance to the Exhibition a fee of £100 per Exhibition Panel (H2000cm x W70cm) or £175 for 2 panels (H2000cm x 140cm). Initial submissions should be in digital form only emailed to info.ripplearts@gmail.com. You will need to submit 1 hi-resolution image. The submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges with chosen artists to be exhibited. The judges decision is final. You will be able to exhibit as many artworks as can fit into the space provided. Your artworks will need to be delivered ready to hang on Wednesday 22nd March or Thursday 23rd March.

Deliver your art work to:
Merton Priory Chapter House, Chapter Way, Wimbledon, SW19 2RX

The Exhibition will held at :
Merton Priory Chapter House, Chapter Way, Wimbledon, SW19 2RX

Exhibition Dates:
Over two weekends: Friday 24th (Private View)
Open to the public: Saturday 25th March – Sunday 26th March, and  Friday 31st March– Sunday 2nd April.

To give yourself the best chance of gaining maximum exposure please supply your artwork ready to hang, framed or mounted if needed to ensure best presentation.

Prizes
TBC
First Prize (Decided by the judges)
Second prize (Decided by the judges) 
Third prize – Visitors Award (Voted for by the public)

Our Model
Ripple Arts, Art Exhibition aims to sell exhibited artworks through invited well-established London Art Galleries, private sales or online sales. By taking part in the exhibition you agree that your hi-res images can be used for:

a) online, private or corporate sales through Ripple Arts social media
b) for any publicity material (social media and or printed matter)

  • 15% of the sale price of each piece of art goes to the Ripple Arts chosen charity.
  • 5% of the sale price of each piece of art goes to cover administrative costs, and
  • 80%* of the sale price of each piece of art goes to the artist.

* Artists may choose to donate their artwork to Ripple Arts instead, thereby giving 90% of the sale price to the charity with the remaining 10% going towards exhibition and administrative costs. 

Entry and Deadlines
To enter the competition, you must submit all of the following items to info.ripplearts@gmail.com before 10th of March

  • One Hi-resolution image of your original artwork that represents a creative, unique and personal connection to the concept of Metamorphosis.

Entry Specifications
The artwork submitted must be:

  • A unique piece, not a reproduction of others.
  • Signed by the artist as evidence of uniqueness and authenticity and not reproduction
  • from a limited run of 15 or less*
  • No larger than 1 metre wide (unless you are purchasing two boards)

* If exhibiting, artists do not need to send in all prints. This stipulation is to limit the number of prints on the market, so that in the event of any purchase the price is protected and unique to the buyer.

Key dates and deadlines

10th March Deadline to receive high-resolution image and completed,
signed description form and declaration to info.ripplearts@gmail.com

22nd/23rd March Deadline for hanging your artwork at the venue (see
below for the address).

Friday 24th of March Private view at the Chapter House, invitees and artists
6pm – 9pm 

25th, 26th & 31st March-2nd April Artwork exhibited over two weekends to the public at the Chapter House.

Competition results announced at 3pm on 2nd of April, live at the venue.

Artworks to be collected from Merton Priory Chapter House, Chapter Way, Wimbledon SW19 2RX no later than one week after exhibition closes.

The Judge Panel

Ron Newsham Ieva_bee Dina Klumbys

For more question or information you can contact us :

e: info.ripplearts@gmail.com

Marketing and administration team

Anna Stoitsova Vassie Vasseva

Ideas to decorate your home with small things like bottles or paper.

Merry Christmas to all from Bee Creative Art Hub team. We happy to share our ideas and event, we making it, enjoying or organising. This year was hard to all of us as organising events was one of the unpredictable and most of the time impossible. But don’t get too sad we have many ideas holding in our mind and getting ready for better days. The most important now to be patient and do things you can do now. So even Christmas is over, I would like to share couple of my videos I made on our YouTube channel but this ideas I am sure you can use it even for every day projects to decorate you home. This time I am talking about bottles and how to decorate them in two different way. What you need is air dry clay, bottles and fairy lights, or epsom salt, PVA glue and bottle for other idea how to make frosty look.

Bottle Decorating ideas for home decor this holidays

The other idea was to make tree decorations made out of paper. This was very simple but effective way to make it by refusing the patterned paper from old William Morris print calendar. What you need is just pretty paper cut in stripes a wire and some beads if you want. You can use gold spray paint to spay the other side of strips. Hope you enjoy this ideas and stay creative at home.

Christmas decorations from paper

Christmas Wreath making

This is the time when we ready for decorating our homes and lifting our spirits to Christmas mood. This Christmas is very special and different then never before with 2020 starting with COVID Pandemic and all the changes we had in our life. That’s why it is great time to reflect and give us some beautiful time with family to create cozy safe palace to finish this year. This year I decided to make Christmas wreath from things I found on my walks in the local park. So I was collecting branches, cones, berries and other items to decorate the wreath. I hope you will enjoy watching my video tutorial and get inspired to make your own wreath from special item you would like to add.

making wreath
Christmas Wreath
Christmas Wreath using dry oranges

The Cure of Touch

The Cure of Touch movie

The Cure of touch project started a year ago when Ieva_bee Artist and Ksenia Fedorova Fine Art Photographer joined our thoughts and ideas of how humans are integrated into Nature and how everything is interconnected. All this was possible and easy to deliver because of that time when we could touch and communicate without fear of anything.

The cure starts with understanding. The action of touch begins with the skin. We may not be aware of this, but many of us need to correct some aspects of our relationship with the help of our bodies.

The key to understanding how our bodies feel is to be found in the simple ability to give and receive touch.

The classic work of Ashley Montagu “Touch”(1986) describes how touching the skin affects the physical health of people of all ages, from birth. Research shows that children who are more likely to be touched have a higher survival capacity than those who are not.

Touch also facilitates empathy, it promotes self-disclosure.

Communication with nature is a moment when we not only hear the micro- and macrocosm around us, but also our own inner voice. We smell the clean air, when we touch, we build a personal relationship with what is around us.

Communicating with nature strengthens social bonds and makes us much less angry or irritated.

Now, rethinking it, we understand how it is no coincidence that it ends only now because soon after we ended the photoshoot the lockdown happened, and all kinds of restrictions due to COVID-19, a series of moves, and changes.

This project now could tell about the importance of social contacts, that only by uniting, we will be able to end this difficult period. Let the communication now turn into virtual forms and the Merton Art Festival got adopted to the situation itself and got virtual too.

It is necessary to share your creativity, be inspired by other works, and rejoice for other success to continue.

The Cure of Touch pictures

If you interested in purchasing the photo print. Visit our shop http://www.beecreativearthub.com/product-category/art/

We wish you all stay safe and keep contact with your relatives and friends if you need any held and support please contact us or visit https://www.mind.org.uk

September like New Year to us

September 2020 is going to go to our history as being so unpredictable in regards of planing and trying to balance between happiness of school start with worried what will happened next. It is important to not loose our positive view to life and continue working even it is many sad things happening due to Covid-19. But we are ready and we want you to give as much great creative and mindful activities as possible because we believe in art. New workshops we would like to introduce you today :

Fiorella macrame workshops

Our team is growing and Fiorella Boho Vibes Craft ladies will show you how to make this lovely Plant Pot hanger so don’t miss and book your session.

book your session here

Mindfulness drawing session mid morning from 11am-12.30pm refreshments provided from Willow Bough Tea Room. We will find the peace with our mind and enjoy calm time creating. Booking is essential

Mindfulness Drawing sessions
book your session here

Perfume Making with essential oils great for your health and home ready for winter season.

Aromatherapy session
Book your session here

Canvas Painting art lesson for Adults. Great way to learn new hobby and enjoy painting.

Canvas Painting Art lessons
Book your session

Upcycling Furniture workshops great why to learn how to make old furniture to new.

Upcycling furniture workshops
book your workshop here

Hope to see you at our New and updated Bee Creative Art hub Studio

Project using air dry clay & IOD moulds

This video explains and show you how to use air dry clay with mould shapes and how to paint with chalk paint. For any round surface when you sticking the moulds would be good to use UHU all purpose glue and hold for 5min when glue got sturdy. After painting the pot and mould with paint wait till paint will dry and with masking tape stick the mould to hold till it drys through the night because air dry clay when it dries it shrinks and might get out of the surface or crack. but that is not a big problem you can leave it as it if your aiming for old rustic look or you can fill it with hot glue. After all dry use protector like varnish or wax to go around the pot. I would recommend for outdoor use the varnish and for indoor wax.

For this project I use mermaid and classic elements moulds if you like the look you can purchase mermaid moulds at our store http://www.beecreativearthub.com/product/sea-sisters/

air dry clay http://www.beecreativearthub.com/product/air-dry-clay/

chalk paint http://www.beecreativearthub.com/product-category/fairy-chic-chalk-paint/

Making a Table

To make the table form scratch or from old to new before starting make a measurements of what sizes and high you need. For this project I used table top from old table that we got from one local pub that was closed. It was solid wood table top that we cut to the sizes we needed. After that we sanded and made ready for painting. For the Legs we wanted to use modern metal frame that we order from online shop. You can find lots of options you want for your table we suggest to do your research. I did use Fairy Chic Chalk Paint to cover up all the table and decorated top with gold foil leafs. to match the table top with legs I spray the legs half way with gold spray paint. Then I painted the top with matt finish varnish and last screw-in the legs. Try it yourself hope it will inspires you to change your old table to new.

video how to make the table.

Organise your jewellery

Artistic hanger to suit your interior

Being an artist and love to wear lots of accessories I was having hard time to organise my jewellery box. I was getting bigger and bigger jewellery boxes but every time was the same tangle necklaces issue. when I got the idea! If necklace would be hanging it would work much better and I could see what I have. This how this hanger was born. I found the cupboard door and some handles I bought on sale. Then I looked at my interior design and match the colours I have around which was blue till and green. I you look at colouring wheel it is always good to look for contrast colours which means opposite colours that will compliment the colours you have and will give a great effect so I choose redish pink colour. All tutorial you can watch at our Youtube Channel Bee Creative Art Hub.

Free tutorial how to make jewellery hanger

To make this project you will need:

  • cupboard door
  • three handles
  • IOD transfer of your choice
  • IOD stamps like Bohemia
  • Fairy chic chalk paint of your choice but I used for
  • back ground Lorelei
  • Ariel
  • Tiana
  • for frame Calypso
  • Maraja
  • dry brush onto with Tiana
  • for stamping I use Doria and Calypso
  • to seal it all and before putting the IOD transfer I used Matt finish varnish

I wish you great time creating your hanger and lets upcycle the world.

Bee Creative Art Hub YouTube Channel for project to try

Flowers in the Vase

For this project you will need

  • Fairy Chic Chalk Paint colours used Molly, Giselle, Alice, Sen, Parisa.
  • IOD Stamps Lady of Shalott
  • IOD Transfers (using leafs from Flora Parisiensis) However you can use some cut outs from magazine or napkins for decoupage
  • IOD stamp Craqualure
  • Canvas board A4 size
  • Water bottle spray

Getting ready for Christmas

Christmas tree decorations

I love this time of the year, when it gets dark and we spend more time indoors meeting friends and family. This is special time to reflect your year, what was done, what you achieved or would like to do more. When I look back of my year I always thank myself of things I done and feel very grateful what I have. What I love most is the moment I go to my attic and take out Christmas boxes look through decorations and that history I am building with my family and my children. We have lots of made things that we always happy to see again on our Christmas tree and around the house. I think Christmas should be about family and history we build together, reflecting to ourself and others and enjoy the best of us. That is way this year I would like to promote more sustainable Christmas, to look through things we have maybe change or update by just painting over or make it out of things that we have around the house. At this time of age when we consume so much I would like to think also about the planet as it is the home not just for humans but for all living beings. So hope you enjoy our video that we made with my daughter Joana. Have a wonderful Christmas.