Winter Lights

Group Show
November 22 - 23 / 29 - 30 (Saturday & Sunday only)
11am - 4pm

Tenants and Associates exhibition – unique and original gifts just in time for that
special Christmas Purchase.

Adult Oil Painting Workshop

Tracey Johnson
Saturday November 8th
10am - 4pm
£45 per person. £15 non-refundable deposit.

Oil Painting for adult improvers basic materials and light refreshment
supplied bring a packed lunch.

Book early to avoid disappointment 07703 069697

Painting it out

Tracey Johnson
November 01- 02 / 08 - 09 (Saturday & Sunday only)
11am - 4pm

Recent paintings that attempt to ‘Wash the dust of daily life away from the soul’.
Work that is personal in content and emotive in its communication.

Adult Watercolour Workshop

Tracey Johnson
Saturday November 1st
10am - 4pm £45 per person. £15 non-refundable deposit.

Watercolour Painting for adult improvers basic materials and light refreshment
supplied bring a packed lunch.

Book early to avoid disappointment 07703 069697

Seaside

Brenda Jones Artist’s profile…
October 11 - 12 / 18 - 19 (Saturday & Sunday only)
11am - 4pm

Places by the sea, where people live, work and play. A look at what is unique to
Essex, expressed in paint and other media.
Private view Friday October 10

www.brendajones.co.uk

White Weight

Linda Theophilus Artist’s profile…
September 20 - 21 / 27 - 28 (Saturday & Sunday only)
11am - 4pm

New work exploring themes of weight and counter-balance, through drawings,
sculpture and video.

Printed Fabric Workshop

Open Studios

Group Exhibition
September 13 - 14 (Saturday & Sunday only)
11am - 6pm

As part of Colchester and Tendring Open Studios Cuckoo Farm opens its doors
to the public. This is an excellent opportunity to meet artists and craftspeople in
their workplace, see work in action or take the opportunity to purchase or
commission new work. Includes group exhibition to accompany event.

Outside 2008 SURROUNDS

Group Exhibition
August 16 - September 16 (Saturday & Sunday only)
11am - 4pm

Artists from outside Cuckoo Farm are invited to exhibit alongside tenants in the
grounds of Cuckoo Farm Studios. The theme this year is ‘Surrounds’.

Private view BBQ August 15 at 5pm.

England

Tony McCorry Artist’s website…
August 30 - 31 / September 06 - 07 (Saturday & Sunday only)
11am - 4pm

In a change to the original plans for the exhibition at Cuckoo Farm, Tony McCorry has used the residency to produce a large interconnecting graphite drawing that runs around the three main walls of the gallery.

Entitled ‘ENGLAND’ the drawings fit together to form a single landscape that incorporates numerous motifs from Tony McCorry’s paintings of the British built environment.

McCorry has used the opportunity that working in the space has provided to further explore his memories of the landscape of his childhood - tower blocks, churches, football grounds, rows of shops, and other public buildings - on a larger scale than has previously being possible.

Also on display are a number of small paintings, contrastingly colourful, that feature many of the same components present in the drawing.

Artist Residency

Tony McCorry Artist’s website…
August 02 - August 22
Not open to the public.

Pots and Pam’s

Pam Schomberg Artist’s profile…
July 19 - 20 / 26 - 27 (Saturday & Sunday only)
11am - 4pm

An exhibition of recent hand-built ceramics in both porcelain and stoneware.
Besides the one-off decorative pieces that make up the body of Pam’s work,
there will be wall panels & tiles, jugs, plates, and some fancy cups & saucers.

Summer Art Fair

SUMMER ART FAIR

Saturday and Sunday

12 and 13 July

11am to 4pm

Come and view current work by resident artists,

including oil paintings, watercolours, drawings and glass

Prices from £5 to much more…..plus the opportunity

to commission a special item

Cuckoo Farm Studios

Boxted Road Colchester CO4 5HH

(look for the cuckoo sign just after the A12 bridge)

Cuckoo Farm Printmakers Exhibition

Retro Canvas

The morning will be spent painting up sheets to create your own collage papers and experimenting with limited colour combination and playing with scale, which are the two vital ingredients for a strong design.

The afternoon will be creating a canvas or two ready to take home and hang on your wall.

Student end of year Show

Second year 3D Design & Craft
June 20 / 21 / 23 (Friday, Saturday and Monday only)
11am - 4pm

Exhibited work of students in the second year of the B.A.Hons 3D Design & Craft
course at Colchester School of Art and Design. The students work on self directed
themes throughout the year and this work confirms them in their chosen specialism
within the broad areas of 3D Design and Craft.

Virtuality: Inside Painting

Edmund Goubert Artist’s profile…
May 31 / June 01 (Saturday & Sunday only)
11am - 4pm

A chance to see residency work presented alongside recent paintings: a show
exploring divergent notions of ‘look and feel’ in painting: between the sensuality of
objecthood and the transient concept of the spectator. A separateness I call
‘virtuality in painting’ or what is ‘inside’ painting.

Artist Residency

Edmund Goubert Artist’s profile…
Not open to the public
May 03 - 30

Transferring studio processes to a larger spatial context: developing a site-specific
painting-installation which will connect ideas developed as part of an ongoing
inquiry into relationships between language, architecture, consciousness-as-structure
and the liquidity of the body. www.egoubert.me.uk/blog

Adult Garden Design Workshop

Natasha carsberg Artist’s profile…
Sunday April 20
10am - 5pm

£45 per person. £15 non-refundable deposit.

How to design your own garden - An Introduction to Garden Design : All materials
provided. Participants to bring dimensions of their garden and own coloured pencils
and paints if desired. Light refreshments provided but bring own lunch.
Book early to avoid disappointment 07779 763866 or 01206 791088

Adult Textile Workshop

Jacqueline Davies Artist’s Profile…
Sunday April 13
10:30am - 4pm
£45 per person. £15 non-refundable deposit.

Block printing on fabric : Designing and creating your own printing blocks to take
home. No experience necessary. Materials and refreshments provided but bring a
packed lunch. Participants may bring extra fabric & t shirts to print on if desired.

Book early to avoid disappointment 07833 575208 or 01206 525452

Assemblage Workshop

Lisa Temple-Cox Artist’s profile…
Sunday March 30
10am - 4pm

£45 per person. £15 non-refundable deposit.

Memory Boxes: experimenting with assemblage : materials provided: wood, glue, basic woodworking tools, some found materials/objects. Participants are asked to bring their own found materials for inclusion in their work. Light refreshments provided but bring own lunch.

Book early to avoid disappointment 07980 357418

Experience 1 : un squelette humain

Lisa Temple-Cox Artist’s profile…
March 08 - 09 / 15 - 16 / 22 - 23 (Saturday & Sunday only)
11am - 4pm

This exhibition is the bare bones of a new creative process, and the work contained within will be akin to a series of experiments in different languages and media.

I am exploring my sense of rootlessness and displacement, as I attempt to create work with integrity and a personal resonance - without ever giving away anything too personal. In essence, this is a body of works in progress as I circle the real issues behind my recent creative impulses.

The title is taken from an old science book I found in France during a residency at the Chateau de Sacy in 2005. This residency had a profound effect on me, and how I feel about much of my work since then references this experience – and in French, ‘expérience’ also means ‘experiment’.

My exhibition will be a show of work made during the past year, and comprises paintings, box assemblages, collages, combines and fascinators.

Private view Friday March 07 all welcome.

Adult Painting Workshop

Lisa Temple-Cox Artist’s profile…

Sunday 2nd March
10am - 4pm
£45 per person. £15 non-refundable deposit.

Flowers in oils: Materials provided: basic oil paints, brushes, charcoal, paper and
one canvas, other canvases can be bought on day at cost. Participants may bring
their own brushes and paints if desired. Light refreshments provided but bring own
lunch.

Book early to avoid disappointment 07980 357418

I’m sorry but I have to tell you

Ron Suffield
February 23 - 24
11am - 4pm (Saturday & Sunday only)
I hope to use this residency and exhibition to address those "vacuum" moments whilst undergoing chemotherapy. By moving away from my normal practice I hope to create an unease in myself that will transfer to the viewer through the work.