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Local
Arts and Crafts
Locally, we
have an amazingly creative group of artists and craftsmen:
painters, recycling artists, wood turners, etc.
We can organise very
interesting trips
to their homes/studios to see them at work and have the opportunity to
meet them and to
discuss their work. You may also purchase their work, or commission
work, should you wish to.
Robin Bovey
Robin is a biologist by training and has spent many years working in
the environmental conservation field in the UK and since 1984, in
Canada.
For the last fifteen years, he has devoted a lot of energy to
humanitarian work in places such as Afghanistan, Kosovo, Darfur and East
Timor. He taught himself to turn while he was living in Mozambique eight
years ago and his workshop
(www.logs2art.eu) is
adjacent to Gallery Covas
(www.gallerycovas.com)
in the village of Covas. Robin's work has been bought by collectors from
countries in Europe, southern Africa as well as from Canada and the USA.
His pieces have been in exhibitions and on display in Mozambique, South
Africa and Iceland and is for sale in the Gallery. He likes to work with
local woods - windblown timber, wood that would have been used for
firewood or sustainably harvested timber.
Paul Waplington
Born 1938
Nottingham.
Left school at fifteen, trained as Lace Curtain Draughtsman.
1959 - At 21, tour Europe, odd jobbing, mostly in Belgium.
Start Oil Painting.
1961 - Nottingham. Change to Raschel Warp Designing and
Draughting.
Painting in spare time.
1965 - Self-employed designer and draughtsman. Spending summers
in North Devon seascape painting. Exhibits in local art shows.
1967 - Starts painting and drawing local Nottingham landscapes
with figures.
1970 - One-Man Show, Nottingham University.
Starts working three day week and designing, painting the rest
of the time.
Various exhibitions in local galleries.
1975- Awarded Arts Council Grant to paint and draw a series of
pictures of the Lace Trade.
1978- One-Man Show, Midland Group.
"Towards Another Picture" Mixed Show, Midland Group.
"Art For Society" Mixed Show, Whitechapel.
1979 - British Council Exhibition. Mixed, Paris.
"Tolly Cobbold" Mixed Show. Touring.
Commissioned to paint large picture for Babington Community
College, Beaumont Leys, Leicester.
1980 - One-Man Show, Graves Art Gallery.
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 One-Man
Show, Durham DLI Museum and Arte Center.
"Midland View" Mixed Show, Touring.
"What we Have" Mixed Show.
1981 - Complete Beaumont Leys commission with own subject "The
Witche´s Hat"
"Fragments Against Ruin" Mixed Show, Touring.
1982 - May - December
Artist in Residence. The Mappin Gallery.
Later part to be spent in Steelworks, culminating in one-man
show of work produced.
1983- Artist in Residence, Ellis School, Leicester.
Working on commission for Nottingham General Hospital.
"Open Art" Mixed Show The Mappin Gallery.
1984 - Central T.V. "Almost a diary" Half-hour film, (Contrast
Series).
1985 - "Summer in the City" Mixed Show. Icon Gallery.
Brick Mural Project with Sheffield City Galleries.
Completed townscape commission for Sheffield University.
"Human Interest" Mixed Show Corner House Manchester.
1987 - One-Man Show "Eroding Traditions", Galeria da Praça
,Porto, Portugal.
1998 - Phoenix Gallery Foundation in his residence, Portugal
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