Monday 8th August saw Joanne holding a full day workshop in clay and ceramics.
After drawing their designs the junior students produced small sculptures which were then painted and taken home.
On this occasion they could not take home the pottery produced on the wheel due to the lack of drying time but they enjoyed the experience of working clay on a potter wheel.
Saturday 16th July saw Jeans workshop taking place in the studio with students working on Japanese bag accessories
The Studios collaboration with the
Garden Gorillas @Stomps Allotment have born fruit or in this case vegetables The gang cut and pulled cabbage, and broad beans which were prepaired, cooked and eaten in accompaniment with a salad of lettuce, radishes and beetroot
The Studio were busy over the weekend of the 8th 9th 10th July at the Sheffield Food Festival promoting the GARDEN GORILLA's See blog for more details The studio are pleased to welcome two students from Ecclesfield School who are joining us on a 2 weeks work experience where we hope it prove to be an enjoyable learning curve for both the students and the studio.
Sad News from the Coterie Club
The 'Coterie Kids Club' was created so that parents with children could spend 5 mins with them in colouring and creating 3D animal shapes which they could take home, all free and available all day, every day in the foyer, no need to book in,.
just stop and do it.
Due to lack of interest in the 9 months it has been running the creatures have felt so alone and neglected that they have all left and gone to other places
The 'Coterie Kids Club are sad to lose Douglas Dog, Crystal Cat, Hoochy Poochy Houncynthia Spider All the hedgehogs, the creatures and butterflies not forgetting our fishy friend Fin McCool.
The good news is that they are avilable to take up residnce in some other place where they would be looked after.
Jean Golbys textile workshop was featured around the theme of gifts bags each of which was a gift in its own right not withstanding the gifts which may go into them.
Just to prove that art has no age barriers and turning the old saying " You are never to old to learn" on its head that "You are never to young to start" is exemplified by this work of Elenor and Nataile Ward who spent a day in the studio exploring the theme of animal patterns.
23/08/2010
such was the inspiration of our last junior work that a further day class was held for a larger group of 7 junior 'Coterieists' which again explored the animal theme. Go to our blog page for a full review.
The finished work on canvas shows a virtuosity of thought and a potent of thing to come.
11/10/2010
'Coterie Kids Club Projects for October
The 'Coterie Kids Club' was created so that parents with children could spend 5 mins with them in colouring and creating 3D animal shapes which they could take home, all free and available all day, every day in the foyer, no need to book in,.
just stop and do it.
Due to lack of interest in the 9 months it has been running the creatures have felt so alone and neglected that they have all left and gone to other places
Fantastic and magical things are taking place on the Campus during October in a collaboration of fantasy and spooky things involving ‘Coterie Gallery & Fine Art Studio’, ‘Hullaballoos Children’s Play Centre’ and ‘Stomps’ after school Club.
In the Gallery foyer the Coterie Kids Club have Origami creatures to colour in and then take it away for FREE; they have Snakes, Butterflies, Ladybirds, Tortoises as well as some cats and dogs all looked after by Harriett and Humphrey Hedgehog.
Take part in the ‘Coterie Kids Club Conker Colouring Competition’ by collecting your FREE conker from Hullaballoos, colour it in, take it back to Hullaballoos and have it displayed in the Gallery foyer.
Mid month the creatures in the foyer will be joined by the Belfry Bats and Spiders from the Spinners Club for you to make, colour in and take away for FREE, all ready for Hullaballoo’s massive ‘Halloween Tea Time Party’ on Wednesday 20th October 2010. where the kids can feed, play, see, and take part in all sorts of scary and other things.
Leave the kids and collect later 5-7pm. Book now for this event. £7.50
During the school holidays ‘Stomps’ after school club will again be having two full days of their previously successful and oversubscribed activity days with guest artists attending during part of each day with projects to take kids on a mythical journey of the imagination, the results of which they can take home for FREE.
On Thursday 28th Joanne from the Studio will take the kids on a journey of creativity involving artwork, colours and collage, whilst on Friday the studio’s textile artist Jean, will have them making masks, bats, spiders and other horrible things ready for Halloween.
All this is in addition to other activities taking place.
Book with Stomps for this event. £6 for full day activities inc art tuition and all materials
See a display of Wizard Wands where would be apprentice wizards can have an opportunity to obtain an apprentice wand that has been created from the depths of the earth and forged in the studio.
Persons purchasing these wands will have to comply with the terms and conditions of the Wizards Guild in so much that they will not turn their siblings into frogs or toads or other nasty things, and definitely not magic them to have warts.
Grown ups have not been left out, with two café’s, art exhibition in the gallery and Craft shop selling original art, jewellery, and craftwork at direct from the artist prices either for yourself or as gifts.
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The Studio will be losing two of its students in September having been accepted at Teeside and Newcastle Universities for degrees in film/Vidio and Fine Art respectively.
We wish them all the best and look foreward to following their progress
The studio recently welcomed a visitor from Australia today (such is our reputation) in the form of 'Coterie' student Barbara Cooper's daughter 'Jenny' which coincided with an 'art in progress' pastel work by Barbara of an Australian sunset, taken from an image which had in turn been taken by Jenny and sent to her mother.
No doubt the finished artwork will be winging its way back to Australia from where it originated, How cool is all that?
GARDEN GORILLA ALLOTMENT NEWS
www.gardengorilla.co.uk On Thursdsay 21st April it was decided to create a Garden Gorilla allotment to be run by the children from the 'Stomps' after school club which is situated next door to the studio. The site had been a place filled with builders rubble and turfed over, subsequently contained a lot of stones and bricks.
Day one was spent opening up the site
A small part of what was taken out.
Over the next few days retaining boards were erected and the plot double dug.
S
ite levelled ready for planting
Planting time
Watch this site
Check out the labels which have been created and painted by the junior gorillas for the rows.
No little white plastic ones for these guys.Is this brilliant or what?
See the new body of minature landscapes on Anthony's home page
all are oil on canvas.2"x2" (5x5cms)
for sale at cost of the canvas the artwork is free.
Les at Haworth
Les is currently exhibiting a solo exhibition at Hawarth Art Gallery, Accrington from the 13th January to the 28th February 2010
"Shadows & Reflections" can be seen on
www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk 
Les with exhibitions in the Bell Gallery at Howarth, Accrington
The Studio are represented at the Great Sheffield Art Show at the Octagon on 9, 10, 11th July with works by Anthony and Joanne
It is also represented at the Rotherham Open from the 1st May to 12th June
with work by Anthony, Joanne, and Jean.
Further details to follow nearer the date.
Jean Golbys textile workshop was featured around the theme of gifts bags each of which was a gift in its own right not withstanding the gifts which may go into them. 
