New designs for 2013... Cups and hooks!

'Four cups and hooks - Round and round'

'Four cups and hooks - Springtime!'

'Four cups and hooks - Topsy turvy love'

Do get in touch if you would like to buy some :)
www.helainasharpley.co.uk

Guinness Park Royal Brewery commission...

I was lucky to exhibit at the first MADE London event last October, where I was showing a large piece with a tree dominating a Parisian Park building.  I sold that over the weekend, and also received this commission, based on the same composition....

My messy desk...

The finished piece...

From the side - the tree was sticking out quite far!

The beautiful shadows cast....

The client chose this building as he'd worked there...

From the side...

Cheshire church commission...

A couple got in touch late last year, to see if I would make them a special commission of the church where they got married. It was a beautifully quaint black and white church, which looked lovely in wire....

I made the church first, see the drawing behind...

It was on a square board...

The 'props' made the wire stick out quite far from the board.  Please note - these are shadows cast on the board, not pencil drawings!  (Some people often get confused by this!)

I liked how detailed and 'cute' it looked once made...

View from above...

Do get in touch if you'd be interested in discussing a commission :)
www.helainasharpley.co.uk

'Continuous lines' exhibition...

Over the past year I have been working in primary schools across the Kirklees area, delivering wire workshops based around each schools' locality.  The culmination of this is an exhibition, showing three of the schools' final pieces alongside some of my own artwork.  Everyone is invited to see the amazing work these talented young artists have created.  The exhibition runs 12th - 23rd February, with the private view 6 -7.30pm on Tuesday 12th.  The gallery at The West Yorkshire Print Workshop is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10.30 - 6, Saturday 10.30 - 3.

Lampposts lampposts...everyone loves a lamppost!

Just before Christmas I was asked to make work to send to the Affordable Art Fair in Hong Kong...exciting!  So, this week I've been making lampposts...

'La Rambla' lamppost drawing...



The wirework of 'La Rambla' lamppost

ooh look at all those twiddly bits!

The development...

Still alot of work to do...

Trees!

Andrew Stone of Black Orchard Photography took some great photos for me last week, of recent pieces.  Here are two pieces which feature trees!  :o)  The weeping willow tree in The Cam piece took me over 2days to make!  There was ALOT of wire used and was extremely heavy in the end.  This piece is currently in 'East Anglia Revealed' exhibition at Byard Art.

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The Cam, Trinity Bridge, Cambridge

The Pumphouse, Battersea

Swan!

This week's work...

I have had a busy week, and finally got all the work posted - here's a few of the pieces I've been working on..

Peterhouse Entrance , Cambridge (for 'East Anglia Revealed' exhibition at Byard Art)

Whitby Beach hut...

This is one of three beach huts I sent to The Art Cafe in Whitby at the start of the month...check out the shadows! :0)

Bus museum...

I have been to the bus museum today in Ravensthorpe... the name 'museum' is perhaps a little misleading ;0) but here are the two prettiest buses.

Leeds Leeds Leeds...

Today has been a mixed and tiring day, but excellent!  Here are my highlights, I know Samantha will share hers too... although we were together, so they may be similar! :0)

Ducks on the roof!

The Artists book fair at the lovely Parkinson building

Leeds city museum... an almost symmetrical building!  My favourite kind of building!

La shark

The Maccabees!

Leap year postcards...

I was googling 'vintage postcards' today, for some inspiration, and came across some lovely examples of Leap year postcards on a wedding blog.  http://www.lovemydress.net/blog/leap-year/  Hope you like them!

Catalogue of Extraordinary Objects...

Helaina and I went to collect some fairies from The Platform Gallery in Clitheroe recently. On route we stumbled upon a ‘Vintage Fair’ in a little place called Whalley. The fair had little to offer in the way of real ‘Vintage’ but we did find a fantastic studio book….

 

 

 

 

Lampposts of Milan...

Here are some better photos (courtesy of Andrew Stone of Black Orchard Photography) of the lamppost pieces I sent to the Affordable Art Fair Milan, which started on Wednesday night... and all sold by Thursday evening!  An excellent start to the year!

Shadows...

One day last week (definitely not this week, as it's minus a billion in the studio) the sun was shining through our gorgeous windows and casting these amazing shadows...

Helaina's  - Clare College, Cambridge

Samantha's drawing... what's that coming over the hill, is it a monster??  Nope, it's a bottom warming fairy!!