Some pictures from my last show

http://www.behance.net/gallery/INTO-THE-WILD/7522229

Exhibition Sunday 3rd February 2013

I am so grateful and happy to have had so much wonderful support for the exhibition of this project! We arrived late Saturday night after a detour via Newhaven, all boxes ticked and ready to set up come Sunday morning. Over our tartiflette dinner it occurred to us suddenly, that having made a "NAKED cows Exhibition" sign for the road, we may receive visitors who would be fully expecting to see, not to mention put out if they did not see, some naked cows... so we decided to make some, the results were delightful and if you have not seen them already, then have a look at the slide show on the left. By 11o'clock we had had our first visitors and were ready, pictures hung, cider mulling and snacks awaiting nibbly mouths. And they came! A wonderful turnout of people both local and from further a field. So much positive feed back that all passed in a blur. From where I sat outside, I looked at the cottage, full with people in the warmth, drinking and eating and felt overwhelmed that they had all come. Thank you so much for all your support, thank you David and Marian for agreeing to this project and for hosting the exhibition in the cottage. It has been a wonderful experience which concluded in a very special day! This will be my last post for the Court Lodge Calendar Sketch blog and I hope that you have enjoyed coming along for the journey. If you would like to journey further with me as I prepare for my first solo exhibition in April, you can follow me here http://www.andrewjameshofmeyr.blogspot.co.uk/ with all my love, Andrew James Hofmeyr

Exhibition Sunday

Well, here we are, shopped out and ready to go. The weather is looking promising going from showery a few days ago, to cloudery and hopefully by tomorrow will have it Sunnery. Any weather makers out there if you fancy making some sun without wind I would welcome your intervention! :)
TOMORROW! Sunday 3rd February at Moorhen Cottage, Court Lodge Farm, Wartling, BN27 1RY
Come along and bring some sun, see you tomorrow :)

Framed Pictures!

WOW! Amazing to finally see the pictures framed and so beautiful! Seems that no matter the picture, putting a frame on just makes it look just that much better, I am SOOOOO excited to show you all! It's a bit of a strange one but the last time I had pictures framed was in Taipei when I exhibited at Mary Jane Pizza (its worth checking out the google translation too!) back in 2006, a good 7 years ago! Thank you so much to David at Naked Eye Gallery for doing such an amazing job! Sundays coming! :)

excite, exciting... excited

5 more sleeps till Sunday 3rd February and the Court Lodge Calendar exhibition. Feeling momentous that it all comes together on a single day and that there will be friends there to celebrate with us. Just to let anyone who is going know, the pub will unfortunately be closed on Sunday. We will have some mulled cider for you all and some nibbles too, but feel free to bring along some extra sustenance if need be! 10am to 5pm, Moorhen Cottage, Court Lodge Farm, Wartling, BN27 1RY.

EXHIBITION Sunday 3rd February

Just two weeks to go!
Join us at Court Lodge Organic Farm on the Pevensey Levels for an exhibition of original art works, produced for the 2013 farm calendar.
Pictures framed, cards printed, mulled wine planned,
beautiful models on hand for meet and greet (cows).
Should be a brilliant day!
Looking forward to seeing you there, 10 to 5 :)

EXHIBITION Sunday 3rd February

Ladies and gentlemen, the time has arrived,

Court Lodge Sketch Exhibition!

Sunday 3rd February 2013 - 10:00 to 17:00

Moorhen Cottage, Court Lodge Farm, Wartling, BN27 1RY

Refreshments, greeting cards, prints and original artwork will be available.

Please come along and bring your friends, looking forward to seeing you all there :)

Calendars! :)

Hey all, 2013 Calendars are available, but I'm afraid only by special request. If you would like one then please send an email to mutoyou@gmail.com and I will get back to you with details of prices posting and packaging :) I will also get the rest of the pictures up in the near future and will make prints available. If you would like to see more of the calendar pics then please visit this site http://www.behance.net/gallery/Court-Lodge-Calendar-Sketch/3295794
Merry Berries :)

It's here :)

On sunday the  artwork was scanned thanks to Guy Venables at studio 106 in Hove, after which like a paramedic i rushed home on my bicycle, like a surgeon operated cleanly and efficiently with my photoshop scalpel, deftly uploaded to Marian's vista print account and then called to let her know the time had come to order... and all this before lunch! Thank you all for following and if you'd like a calendar, please contact either marian or myself :)
Lotsa lovely 12-12-12

Nearly there :)

Last night Sylvain came over and we put all of our pictures together to see the work produced during the year. It was brilliant to look back over them and finally to see how they all fit together. I was looking to do a portrait page for December with all the Hardings and farm staff to give a nice community feel but in the end had to admit that portraiture is HARD and not my forte! So instead, Sylvain and I designed a December page together around a Christmass Mandala theme... Ta da, so here some snippets for you and if all goes according to plan, The calendar will be complete by Sunday evening! Will see you all then!
(see sketch-i-ness left and right :)

Higgeldy Jig!

So things have gone a little giggly round the edges, the exhibition will take place at some time early next year but we are sticking to the original dead line for pictures being completed. This means that here is the latest offering of, yes, at last! Cows. I'm thinking they'd make fabulous wall paper if anybody knows how... Then I have two more to finish and Sylvain assures me that she is good to go with three more, all by next Wednesday. We are aiming for scanning on Friday and Calendar ready for print by Sunday! Shew. If anyone is interested in pre-orders, please let me know so we can fluff about numbers and see what needs to be doing :)

Saturday 27th October 2012

Rainbows stretching across the sky, green fields, good company and bitingly cold winds. You can feel that winter is upon us with the icy chill too icy to make stopping in a soggy field to sketch seem appealing, so instead we walked and soaked up the sights. The landscape at Court Lodge Farm has become familiar and it is like visiting a friend for tea, drinking the wildlife and sipping the trees while dunking feet in the fields delectibly. After an hour or so in the fields and with rainbows at the tips of our fingers we sheltered in the pub and at last did some little bit of sketching, this time portraits before joining the Hardings and Rea for an attempted bonfire thwarted by the wetness of the wood. After this, tired and drunk on country we headed Brighton side with me and my head nod nod nodding to the ebb and flow of A road traffic.
Due to unforseeable circumstances we are postponing the exhibition until the new year. The calendar will go ahead with production and be available by the end of November and I will be sure to post notifications as soon as I know more.

This Saturday the 27th October 2012

Hey everyone, We're heading to Court Lodge this saturday the 27th to do some sketching, plan for the exhibition next month and just generally hang out somewhere incredibly positive. With winter well on the way, we all need a little some of something positive, so join us for the penultimate Court Lodge trip, feel free to contact me if you would like to join up or need a little help getting there :)

Calendar sketch July 2012

July sketch! Building some lovely momentum and loving how much you can get done when there are deadlines to meet :) Don't forget we are aiming for the exhibition on the 25th of November at Moorhen cottage, so book the date and start spreading the word.

June 2012

The ball is rolling! I realise I have not come good with May, but here is June and July is close on 80% unless I decide to redo it! Looking forward to November the 25 and asking anyone out there who reads this to please keep an eye out for umbrellas, if you find any, gather and let me know! Happy Monday :)

Saturday the 29th of September

Sometimes things just slide together like puzzle pieces in a butter field, without planning we meet friends and if you're looking for something, it never hurts to sit down for a cup of tea :) After about 20minutes of collating bus timetables between Polegate, Hastings, Bexhill and Eastbourne, I went to sit in the parking lot to have some tea and contemplate Taxi's, and lo there sat Serogo a wonderful man from Papua New Guinea who I've met through Clare's involvement with the Free West Papua Campaign. For those of you who don't know about the independence struggle, please follow the link and have a look. As luck would have it Clare collected us both and Marian was wonderful enough to make us breakfast with some hedgerow jelly, mmm. Think it was half way through a slice of bacon that I suddenly wondered if I was eating one of the pigs from the yard, but felt quite relieved to find them both alive and kicking in their pen opposite the cows! After breakfast I took my leave and wondered into the fields, following fox tracks in the mud and finding Clare and Serogo removing docks from the field which has to be done manually as pesticide's are off limits for organic establishments like Court lodge. and then... an apparition... two people in their pajama's, fun-fur coats and wellies broke through the mud of the horizon and approached to offer me red wine! Smiled into my soul bones when strangers give the biggest, most wonderful hugs, and shook my head all the way back to Brighton, a smile nesting in the corner of my mind, at the improbability of the encounter. Unfortunately I was unable to capture the moment on film but may just end up doing and artists impression of the lovelies coming down the mud track. And the big news! Tentatively, we have agreed on Sunday the 25th of November as the day for the exhibition at Court Lodge to take place at moor hen cottage. I'm thinking umbrella's, mulled wine, barrels with fire and with luck some clear or at least dry sky. I will be exhibiting the works produced throughout the year and calendars WILL be available alongside original artwork... let everybody know!

Saturday 29 September

Hi :)
I will be going out to Court Lodge for a morning visit tomorrow, early! The weather says sun will be blazing and everyone is welcome to join. The aim in this last quarter is to remedy the illusion of the vacuum around the Court lodge Calendar Sketch project. We made it out to the farm in August for some dock removal, but I forgot to post pictures, please see them now! So technically speaking... haha, will be great to see you tomorrow morning!
Positive.

Sunday 29 July 2012

Scattered sunshine with rays of cloud, a cacophony of flowers and a drizzle of bumble bees, bugs, butterflies and other small things like stinging nettles and barbed seeds that collect around the ankles on your socks! Sylven and I arrived mid morning and sat for some time at the 13th century St Mary Magdalene Church, soaking in the sun whilst sitting upon some stumps found in the cemetery. David Harding was hosting a moth talk and bustled off to collect moths from a moth trap and once more was dazzling in his knowledge of local fauna. At moments like that I often find myself wishing that there was time enough to just sit for the whole day and talk about the habits of moths and the worms that they come from... How inspiring to be privy to the accumulation of a life time! After the church we drifted down towards the willow wood where a red fox glimpsed us from beneath the trees and we sat once more on the banks of the pond, simply overwhelmed by green. Green trees, plants, grass, shade, water and at times it seemed the sky too would green out above us and descend. Then walking, or wading through nettles and grass and barbed-bally things and trees and hills and fences to ford and hills to climb and cows and pigs and calves and lovely people... Court Lodge is really astounding, a whole paragraph and I have not even mentioned the flowers! It's over half way now, already into the eighth month and it is wonderful to look back and feel the changes. It is so much more than a graduation of colour, the growing of leaves or the changing patterns of light tracing trees from the sky, but rather an expansion of space. Space that contracts and becomes smaller with each visit but only because it fills with more wonderful things than could ever be described in a life time.

Sunday 29 July 2012

Hi all, Just a quick one to let you know that we will be heading out to Court Lodge Farm this Sunday, hoping that the weather will hold and the drawing flows! Be great to have you all there!

Sunday 24th June 2012

Hello :) Sunday was a wee bit hazy, which was hardly surprising after a night of field party that ended (for us) in a rain shower sometime around first light in the morning. When we emerged from our broken and sodden tent, the sky was gray and the wind was still up. The evening had been delightful between the barns of Disco and live music, the chill tent, cinema and far field indie awning-caravan, Thank you so much for the spirit of MO, had a great time! Due to the inclement weather experienced on waking, we elected to decamp, settling for a few foto's (see right) of Court Lodge from across the river. Nice to get a far off perspective of the farm and a sense of where I've been sketching and how the landscape all fits together. We then decided on a most invigorating swim in the Court Lodge River and some delicious food at the Lamb Inn in Wartling. Much to our delight, the sun came out in at this point in the afternoon and we idled in the church cemetery before heading back to Brighton.
Now, there is talk afoot of preparing the calendar for printing, (already now in July!) and I do believe the fire beneath my behind is about to be stoked :)... expect more from here soon!