For all green art enthusiasts this is the event for you!
A charity art auction Art Aid: Embrace will be taking place on Saturday 21st June to raise money to support poor communities in Africa Asia and Latin America adapt to climate change.
The work of around 50 artists from the East Midlands will be displayed in the View from the Top gallery in Nottingham from Wednesday 18th June until the reception and auction on Saturday 21st June.
The many artworks available are:
Painting and Drawing
Mixed Media
Original Printmaking
Ceramics and Sculpture
Photography
Signed Print
So theres something for all art lovers out there!
If youd like an evening of culture treat yourself to a beautiful piece of art and help raise money for those affected by climate change then pop along to the website www.art-aid.org to find out more.
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Changing for the sake of the planet may require falling off of it. It may require a break from that grounded feeling. People may wonder what happened to you or if all is ok. All is fine with me now even though at some points I thought I had ruined my life.
I havent written in awhile because I have been busy changing. It has been a drawn-out process; one where I messed my life up in order to put it back together. What accelerated my change was an artwork and I write today to present it as an exercise.
In December 2007 I was asked to participate in an art exhibit called

Here in the UK (and beyond) you may have heard about Antony Gormleys Fourth Plinth art project called One & Other. The project involves a different member of the public standing on the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square every hour 24 hours a day for 100 days to make a living monument. Each individual may use their hour on the plinth as they wish.

Here in Nottinghamshire a local artist and actress Hazel Ellerby-Sansom has been chosen to stand on the plinth on Wednesday 12th August at 3pm. Hazel has decided that she wants to spend her time celebrating women of the East Midlands (UK) and the traditional craft of patchwork.
So Hazel wants women of the East Midlands to create patchwork squares which will be sewn together to make a quilt. She will display the quilt on the plinth whilst reading out a message for each square. After its time on the fourth plinth the quilt will travel around art galleries in the East Midlands and will finally be auctioned off with the proceeds going to charity. Details of art galleries dates of auction etc are still to be confirmed as this will be an ongoing project.
If youre a woman living in the East Midlands of the UK (it really does need to be the East Midlands only please) then how about you send a green message from the Fourth Plinth? All you need to do is create a patchwork square sized 12

theres a new online art show in town!
Or even better theres an online art show from recycled materials. Yes they are talking trash here..
from the website:
This show is about taking things that are destined for the landfill and turning them into art. Yep were talking trash here. This is

OK Im going to say this one last thing about carrier bags and then Ill leave it for a while! Although this time its not such a negative comment.
Sharon Porteous a textile design graduate from Derby Uni discovered a way to turn those horrible ugly bags into funky fashion accessories. It was by chance that she melted a plastic bag with an iron but soon realised that this could be part of a process to weave them into handbags and wall hangings. Clever eh? And better than going in the landfill!
This article got me thinking about eco-art generally and reminded me of another artist called Sandra Walmsley whose work I saw in a gallery in Norwich last year . I thought that her styles and designs were so beautiful unusual and intricate that I bought a couple of her prints. Based in my second home Norfolk Sandra who has studied both print making and ecology not only creates her own work but runs workshops to teach others how to be artistic in an environmentally friendly way. Why not book in Sandra and Jeffs (a fellow artist) guest house and learn how to make something as lovely as this? Visit their site Impressions Prints at www.impressionsprints.com
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This is a fantastic way to re-use your Christmas cards and in fact any greetings cards.
I know that there are places where you can take your cards to be recycled but if you like crafts or know someone who does then heres a genius idea. Turn your Christmas cards into gift boxes with the power of origami!
The boxes can then be used to put gifts in next year especially those small special items like jewellery. Alternatively you could ask your local craft group if they would like to use them for anything.
If you think that all origami is complicated and difficult then think again. Here is a video that shows you how to make these boxes its very simple I promise.

Im so impressed that Im going to make them for our wedding favours. Admittedly I wont be using Christmas cards they might look a bit out of place in April!
Give it a try!
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