ACCNS

The Summer Approaches

Tuesday mornings at Harlesden Library Plus. We continue to explore.

RC aka Emperor Rasco has been working on a sleeve design for his forthcoming CD called simply CRYING. An empty rundown room, a ragged carpet, rain on the windows, a faded bunch of flowers, a dark atmosphere and a phone that will not ring. An album of melancholy songs I'm sure.

... and the limo that will take him to pastures green when his album shakes the big time.

The Emperor has some lyrics to share that may feature on this new album that is in the process of being created at present.

My First Love

She arrived in my life with no notice.
She was warm and very beautiful
Her hair was long and straight
Oh she looked so fair
She was tall and slender
With eyes of heaven
Her smile was like the rising sun
Her walk was full of grace
Oh how I adored her
This woman full of charm.

Now I Have Lost You

It was a hot and sunny September evening when we met
We both thought our love for each other would last
How was I to know so soon you would be out of my life
How was I to know so soon I would be blue
It’s fair to say we loved each other
It’s fair to say our love was true
But now I know our love was not meant to be
Now that I have lost you.
Could it be something I said
Could it be something I had done
Because darling I thought you were the one

MJ continues his exploration of that brightly coloured underworld. These do seem to have a family gathering atmosphere. Maybe even a party atmosphere.

DH and Henri Matisse in the same breath. He explores Matisse's paintings through observation and explorative study. Great work creates great work. Look at that colour.

We hope you enjoyed seeing this work.

Why not explore previous weeks.

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As the groups tutor and facilitator I feel privileged and inspired. To have humbly helped enable it to emerge. This work, this energy and this talent. But I feel culpable. It looks like our group will now come to an end. Will the energy also end. Get extinguished! While the need to make the best use of serious public funding cuts is well understood, the need to continue to nurture talent that has just emerged is vital. In this case, a talent that is vulnerable, lacking confidence and unspoken for. An activity, a means of communication and in the future even a way to contribute. Something that generates for the artist an identity, a sense of possibility and a motivation. I can see the work mature and contribute if given more time and belief. There must be a way.

Charles Molloy - Art and Creative Activities Tutor.

African Caribbean Community Network Service.
May 2011.

© copyright The Individual Artists and ACCNS. 2011. all rights reserved.

Coming on Spring

It's been a winter of content for the Art Group here at Harlesden Library Plus. With the advent of a new Spring, a discontent looms!

The new year heralds changes to the service and we are posting details of those changes elsewhere on the site. Check the information links over on the right.

In the meantime lets have a look at what's been happening Art wise! The group has had much positive feedback from the Slide Show it exhibited as part of Black History month late last year. The exhibition was called 'Colour included'. You can visit the show's website, view the slide show and the video HERE .

Moving on .... People are getting more and more confident with Photoshop and the work keeps turning.
Here are some of our Artists work. Click on an image to see a bigger version.

DH has made an interesting foray into grabbing line drawings from the web and stamping his own colour on them. Making them his own.

Using his own drawings, which we scanned into the computer and which I suggest contain much more power and lightness, a new way to explore his love and skill with colour.

JE. Continues a fascination with fruit. The colour, the shape, the grouping and the potential for beautiful compostion continues to entrance this artist.

RC. Continues to explore his sea and beach images. The artist then ventures inland, to the local village and examines a local street scene, bicycle included.

MJ. The artist finds dangerous places to explore, somewhere. Combining rich stark colour with faces of terror continue to be explored and maybe even resolved.

R. A somwhat new artist amongst us. R explores the potential of the computer for artwork. More careful perhaps and with some hestitation ... but no doubt with interest and a blossoming imagination. We look forward to this artist's future endeavours.

We hope you enjoyed seeing our work.

Have a look at more from previous weeks.

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Charles Molloy - Art and Creative Activities Tutor.

African Caribbean Community Network Service.
March 2011.

© copyright The Individual Artists and ACCNS. 2011. all rights reserved.

Autumn Art at Harlesden

Where has the Summer gone. An Indian Summer is expected me thinks. Lets hope the Sun will shine brighter between now and Christmas. We have been busy here in the Art Group at Harlesden Library for the last few weeks. People are gaining more and more confidence with Photoshop and good work is being produced. The groups attendance is building and we have much new talent to celebrate. We are grateful to Harlesden Library for enabling us to have a couple of folding tables for users to explore their ideas on paper also. Using Computers for more than a couple of hours can often lead to eye strain. But for now, less talk and more Art. Again we would like to thank all the staff at Harlesden Library for their support and patience, and of course we also thank the general public for their patience every Tuesday morning. Now for some Art.

JE has been making very colourful sumptuous fruit drawings.