tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91730228548499073022024-02-20T12:36:27.465-08:00 Robert ParkinNature, Wildlife, Folk and Landscape ArtistRobert Parkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03460051635453281174noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173022854849907302.post-1910646318305259552013-05-25T04:28:00.000-07:002013-05-25T04:28:02.493-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">A few images of the relaxed but rewarding and challenging workshops that I tutor with groups such as the National Trust and the Wildlife Trusts. All these images are from The Old Coastguard Station at Robin Hoods Bay in North Yorkshire. Look out for my workshops this year 2013 </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"> Lunch times are a special treat with both hot and cold food. Soup, hot rolls and piping hot sausage rolls followed by a selection of salads, cheeses, quiche, pickles and chutneys and a wide selection of fruit. In between painting, tea and coffee, all of which goes a long way to make a special day even better with a finished painting to take home.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">People are always amazed, and often overwhelmed that they can finish a painting in a single workshop, just one day. The standard of work they achieve builds masses of confidence for work later when they are at home or for painting outdoors. I try to show style, ideas and techniques that they will not have tried or even attempted before. It's exciting for me to see people, many who have not painted since school days, pick up a brush and be swept away by what they can do.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"> I always demonstrate and take the work step by step. Showing how I work, and bringing along my own work at different stages for people to see and to inspire ideas and confidence. More often than not as a group we work on a defined image, in the case of these images a moorland copse of evergreens and bracken and heather in Autumn. This allows for each individual to see what art is truly about, no two images are ever the same. All who attend bring there own style and ideas to life, even though they don't think they can at first.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">All ages and abilities, side by side, encouraging, chatting, laughing and enjoying playing with an image that they can see develop before them. Always pushing each one, I try to get the most out of what they can do, and encourage them to go a little further with an idea and then step back, re-work a section of the work and then move on again. Come along and try for yourself.</span><br />
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Robert Parkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03460051635453281174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173022854849907302.post-40793592061699109472013-03-27T06:49:00.001-07:002013-03-27T14:38:59.551-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i>'The Hay-wain' A large format drawing in a social heritage series looking at coastal areas and in particular fishing families, agriculture and rural life 1850 - 1914.</i></b><br />
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These drawings illustrate a little of my work in the field of social heritage in the UK, and are an example of detailed study and interpretation.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">This is a rare in-the-field opportunity to paint birds and landscape in an intensive two day tutored course with
international nature artist Robert Parkin. Whether you are a beginner or a more experienced artist, Rob</span><span lang="EN-GB"> will help you to create an inspiring
composition and develop light and techniques while painting in one of the most
remote and wild places in Yorkshire, England. Be inspired to create a work that you can
develop, or a finished painting.</span></span></b></div>
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July 2013. £110.00 per person</span><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #eeeeee;">Cost includes entrance to the YWT reserve at Spurn, refreshments and lunch, all materials and the use of pre-worked reference material. Evening talk and lecture by Harry Watkins, the Spurn Reserve Manager.</span></b><br />
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work swiftly and to capture the spirit of the subject and place we will be
working in ChromaColour acrylic paint (supplied). This can be ‘worked’ in an oil or watercolour technique to suit
your own style and preferences. We will be working on canvas board or stretched
canvas for the finished piece. You are welcome to bring along watercolours if
you wish to work up colour sketches.</i><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">This studio workshop is very special, in a very special
place. Covering two days it will lead both the experienced and the novice
painter to produce a piece of outstanding work, beginning with field work and
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">Spurn Head is a wonderful finger of land that is more an
island than a land spit. Caught between the river Humber and the North Sea it
is home, and a migration stop off, to a varied and ever changing number of
birds. It is also a place to discover other wildlife, often shy and fleeting
that hide among the sheltered dunes and plant cover. All combine to inspire
art. The dynamics of this coastline are very evident at Spurn. The enormous
lighthouse (which you can visit and work from if you wish) and the only
permanently manned lifeboat station in the UK are testimony to the wild
coastline. The extensive mudflats on the Humber side of Spurn play
host to many waterfowl and waders, which are all part of this dynamic shifting
landscape of coastal erosion.</span></div>
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animal spotting - field glasses and/or a scope is recommended. We will have the
opportunity to study the landscape and to record and sketch ideas for the
studio. I will suggest ways for you to create strong and unusual composition,
and highlight some of my own ideas working alongside each individual workshop
member. Light is all in painting, and I
hope that we can create images that will demonstrate how light combined with
good composition can bring a painting to life. We will be working indoors and
out, and we will have the chance to listen to members of the YWT when they
explain more about Spurn and its wildlife. This workshop offers all who love
wildlife, art and painting the chance to work in the wild and with nature. It
will be intensive and it will be fun. No matter what the weather we will
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To book, or to reserve a place(s) please contact me directly by e-mail <a href="mailto:robert@robertparkin.com">robert@robertparkin.com</a><br />
By telephone on +44 (0)1751 432 948.<br />
Or write to:<br />
Robert Parkin. Cow Syke Farm, Bransdale, Fadmoor, York. YO62 7JL<br />
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Places can be reserved by deposit<br />
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A full itinerary and details (including location and accommodation) will be available by the end of March 2013<br />
PLACES TO EAT and TO STAY.<br />
Places to eat and stay (to suit all pockets) can be found by using the links listed below. Please contact me directly for more information.<br />
<a href="http://www.visithullandeastyorkshire.com/wildlife-trust/plan-my-trip/Puffin-Mark-Businesses.aspx">http://www.visithullandeastyorkshire.com/wildlife-trust/plan-my-trip/Puffin-Mark-Businesses.aspx</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.yorkshire.com/where-to-stay" original_href="http://www.yorkshire.com/where-to-stay">Yorkshire Tourist Board
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A location map for the Spurn reserve and studio workshop area can be found on:<br />
<a href="http://www.ywt.org.uk/events/2013/07/20/really-wild-painting-nature-artist-rob-parkin">http://www.ywt.org.uk/events/2013/07/20/really-wild-painting-nature-artist-rob-parkin</a><br />
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Robert Parkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03460051635453281174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173022854849907302.post-6897043295536687732012-10-08T09:34:00.002-07:002012-10-23T10:06:20.490-07:00Reflective Art. Past Generations.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The two pencil/graphite drawings illustrated show North Yorkshire 'Fisher' Folk from an age now becoming hazy in the mist of time.<br />
They depict a community from 1890 - 1900, that has now all but disappeared, and with it, a way of life hundreds of years in the making. No longer, in all but a few rare cases do you find son, or daughter, following in the footsteps of mother, father, or indeed grandparents as they did when this sight was common on our coasts. So too have gone the traditions and ideas. The knowledge and the trust. Not the fault of the fisherman, or their families, but our fault when we want 'more' fish and cheaper fish on our table. They are the same reasons that farming has undergone radical, and disagreeable change. More for less, the demand of the supermarket, pressure on the farmer and producer and the fisher-folk who sail out to meet all weathers.<br />
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They represent a romantic way of life, hard, challenging and unusual in today's age of commuting and office boredom. For me as an artist they evoke a need to reflect what they were and indeed are. My own family fished the inshore coast of North Yorkshire in the 1500's. This and other work that I do pays respect to that past and to them..<br />
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The following illustration shows a work in progress - the piece above in fact titled 'Four Generations'.<br />
I work up sketches and drawings of individual figures from a number of reference sources before I transfer them to the finished work and then continue the easy bit, drawing them in. Composition is everything in art, any art. With drawing it is very important to understand and 'feel' for the composition, there is no turning back.<br />
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I teach art, and lead studio workshops. I am always amazed and saddened when people come along and you discover that a drawing skill they had when they were a young child has been lost. More often than not in high school through poor teaching and a miss-guided adoration of artists who are household names, but could not draw a square let alone anything else.<br />
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All art, especially 2/dimensional art should be founded on drawing and the ability to see the image on the paper before and when you are working on it. Michelangelo was reputed to have said that in a block of the finest marble - "he could see a figure", all he had to do was set it free. Drawing is the same. The more you draw the more you will see the 'shadow' in the paper, all you must do is bring it to life. Without good composition the shadow will fade.<br />
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Look at the work of the Renaissance. The understanding they had of form, shape, light, shade, depth and perspective. Look at how they could compose and work, and what they produced. Then look at the modern age of 'modernism'. At artists who failed to know a pencil, charcoal or pen. A few, such as Augustus John could use line like it was a gift from God - they are the people I turn too and admire. They and the old masters set the pace for all to follow.<br />
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Work in progress. A long way to go with a drawing such as this. If you compare to the finished image above you will see how far in fact. You can see the images lightly drawn in and I work from left to right to complete the work. In pencil your hand must never touch the paper, and your thoughts must always be four steps ahead.<br />
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Robert Parkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03460051635453281174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173022854849907302.post-6684852511289607222011-07-26T02:58:00.001-07:002012-11-24T07:04:45.417-08:00Nature Art Uncovered 3/3 Conservation. Nature Art. Coming of Age<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We have seen that with the development of serious scientific research the ‘exploration' of nature took on new meaning.</div>
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The audience for visions and views both of the scientific minutia or expansive scenes of distant places allowed artists to travel and expand their own belief and ideas on nature. Landscape painting itself evolved one avenue toward the portrayal of the exotic - both human and wildlife - as well as the view. Specimens of this new wildlife went far beyond the familiar depicted in painting for generations (or chased and eaten at home) - even the images of<a class="ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch" style="color: #003300;" target="_blank">Hieronymus Bosch</a><span class="ext" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.artistsforconservation.org/sites/default/modules/extlink/extlink.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 12px;"></span> were eclipsed.</div>
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<i>Bosch 'Garden of Earthly Delights'</i><br />
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These specimens, or skins, verified the often unbelievable images that artist's had created on their travels. To the artist came a new market, and one that was expanding, and fast. Old empires had generated new wealth and settled communities in what had been the New World - this presented opportunity. In the case of <a class="ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Rowan" style="color: #003300;" target="_blank">Marian Ellis Rowan</a><span class="ext" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.artistsforconservation.org/sites/default/modules/extlink/extlink.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 12px;"></span> and her work on Australian flora this was perhaps perceived as in some way - not art, or at best, the ‘whim' of idle hands. For years, long before Wildlife Art as a genera evolved, landscape art had laboured under a similar lesser status, considered second class to that of the Grandiose Historic Painter.</div>
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Surprising then, when you consider that many of the great masters developed within their paintings sublime landscape and nature. Consider St. Francis in Ecstasy by <a class="ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Francis_in_Ecstasy" style="color: #003300;" target="_blank">Giovanni Bellini</a><span class="ext" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.artistsforconservation.org/sites/default/modules/extlink/extlink.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 12px;"></span>. This staggeringly beautiful painting encompasses belief in a greater power - it's true. A look at the landscape, and the labours of man are in evidence in almost every corner. But the painting goes well beyond that detail to a belief in the true ‘nature' of faith.<br />
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<i>Bellini 'St Francis in Ecstasy' </i><br />
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St Francis is nature represented - the creator and preserver, or the conservationist perhaps? Living away from the evils of the world, and its corruption, he has chosen nature, or his God in the guise of nature. He is transcending from the mortal, the corruptible - to the divine. These artists were able to represent nature as a prop as well as an ideal. A small part of an image, or in the case of St Francis almost all the image (some of the painting having been lost) but playing a supporting role to that of man as the originator never the less. What did they have in mind in an age of religious fervour? Will we ever truly be able to say? What separates them from us in this human journey of expression?</div>
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We on the other hand live in a world of instant images and messages, purveyed to us in a panacea of sordid forms. There can be few secrets. You, like me, know the world is getting hot, not because you see it, feel it, or measure it, like me - you have been told. Unlike the secrets no doubt whispered in the cloistered walls of religious institutions, as was the case in 1480 when Bellini finished his painting, we all know, it's common knowledge.</div>
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With the expansion of our world, and science, has come knowledge, particularly in regard to what we as humanity, have done to our natural world. So too has come responsibility and guilt. We see photo images of our world in crisis - a human world on the edge of catastrophe, the natural world teetering on a knife edge.</div>
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In the world of human achievement, of painting, sculpture, music, writing, and science, where are the peddlers of magic hiding that can express the fundamental emotion of ‘belief' in nature and therefore humanity - and a future? Well, as yet, not in the world of wildlife art - ‘Nature Art'.<br />
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<i>A wonderful image by Robert Bateman.</i><br />
<i>In the eyes of many people perhaps the worlds leading and most influential nature/wildlife artist.</i><br />
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There are those who have carried the baton, raised the flag, you know them: Bateman, Shepherd, Scott. Each has been a herald, all have created a legacy, all have laid a path - but to where and to what? Scan the pages of Google and see for yourself. Portrayers of beautiful images - yes. Renderers of doomsday scenarios - yes. But time passes. Our art may well be a requiem, a memorial to our natural world and ideals. Is that the best we can do? How many images of a bald eagle in tree tops does the world need? How many owls in a barn do we paint, and for what? We are artists, visionaries - we must escape the silo that wildlife art has become and ask ourselves: why do we paint?<br />
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<i>'I see you' Rob Parkin</i><br />
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It is not sufficient to say that we work in celebration of our natural world, or, in fact any of the obvious and trite claims that we make as nature artists. Nor indeed is it enough to shake a box, or rattle a tin in the hope of attracting charity - ‘merely' to support nature. It is not enough. Within AFC lies a precious opportunity, a place for challenge, debate, for re-focus, and renewed hope. The gauntlet lies at our door. The hill just got steeper, and we need to shift gear only if we want the natural world, (not humanity, detached as it is from the heartbeat of the natural world) to have the equivalent of an ‘Arab Spring'. As Jeff Whiting of AFC said in my recent debate with him on this topic, "We need to build on forums to show our leadership as artists and galvanize means to enact change as a group." I would add: To build on our shared history, past and present as artists and humanitarians.</div>
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If Bellini were standing where we stand today, if Darwin stood beside him, and, if Bosche were to pick up his brushes knowing what we now know, what work would they create? Would it indeed need paint, words, a chisel? Our images, yours and mine, carry the expectation of generations. More important, they carry the silent cry of hope for those, not only human, yet to come. We have been writing letters in the sand for millennia, taken, cast away, in the hope that they will settle at some stage onto fertile soils. We are still here. Nature Art has come of age, can we rise to the challenge? Do you ‘believe', and if so - in what?</div>
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Robert Parkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03460051635453281174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9173022854849907302.post-24661434483856841652011-06-17T11:59:00.000-07:002011-07-01T11:02:27.454-07:00Nature Art Uncovered ( 1 of 3)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">First published: Artists for Conservation (blog page 2010)<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nature Art Uncovered: a personal view.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">In 1504 Hieronymus Bosch, living in the low countries of Northern Europe, applied the last touches to an image that has puzzled the world ever since. ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ (1503-1504)</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights</a> </span><br />
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Running from left to right it would seem to suggest a utopian world yet as we scan the work we become aware of a series of human frailties that end in the ultimate damnation of the human race.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Woven within this fabric lie some of the most wonderful and amazing images of the natural world: the realistic and accurate portrayal of birds, of wildlife divided between good and evil, of the owl as a bird of night and evil. Birds of water, woodland and meadow stand side-by-side with creatures more at home in a modern horror movie: all of them are linked to the lives of people as they pass through their own time span on Earth, from light into darkness. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Corners of the painting reflect the illustrations Bosche would have been familiar with in ‘books of hours’, personal prayer books. For the monks or clergy who worked for so many hours to illustrate these wonderful and enchanting books the natural world was something they observed and worshipped every hour of every day. That worship took place in a landscape we now can only imagine and envy. It was rich in wildlife, from the monastic garden to the fields they toiled in, to the woodland, forest and river that they held in grace from the crown. For them the richness of that world was a gift from God, one to be thankful for and to rejoice in. What better than to take the plants and flowers of the garden and the countryside, the birds and wildlife from the landscape and weave this into the fabric of worship within the illustrations of their books. For them, the observation of detail was all important. Its representation was not burdened by categorisation but by a simple desire to depict nature. It was work ‘inspired by nature’ and celebrating the world around them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">The great master Albrecht Durer drew inspiration from nature to create an image that would seem as alive and fresh to us today as four centuries ago. Its enchanting detail remains as much an icon to those who love nature art today as to those who loved art then. Every individual strand of fur visible, his beautiful watercolour of a young Hare is a dedication to his talent of observation. He left a legacy to other artists, especially in print making. </span><br />
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Nature art is as old as art itself. For what intrinsic reason our ancestors created images of wildlife on cave walls we can never be entirely sure – we can only guess. What we do know is that ‘natural’ art evolved to include many of our greatest artists and their work. Unencumbered by a rigid classification they produced work in celebration of what they saw and felt. Over the coming weeks I will explore how our human interest in discovery and knowledge has led to a genre, a label that can be a liability to our expansion as artists and as human beings.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rob Parkin</span><br />
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