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Author: Roo Waterhouse
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(Affordable Art Fair Battersea) Spring is Here!
This week I have been busy packing up paintings to send down south for the Battersea Spring Affordable Art Fair
So I thought I’d give you a little Private View of what will be on display at the Fair with Nicholas Bowlby Gallery :
‘By The River’ 2022 oil on canvas 30x40cm
‘Pathways’ 2022 oil on canvas 30x 40cm
‘What The Dickens’ 2022 oil on canvas 40x40cm
‘Look At This’ 2022 oil on canvas40x40cm
‘The Edge of Time’ 2022 oil on canvas 30x40cm
You’ll find these paintings of mine on Stand A5 at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea Park from Thursday March 9th to Sunday March 12th
You can grab yourself FREE TICKETS by using the code NIB-GC at this link:
Best Wishes,
Roo
Portico Library
Last week I had a fascinating time visiting the Portico Library in Manchester.
Such a wonderful atmosphere, surrounded by walls of leather-bound volumes in varying states of wellbeing. Warm lighting from reading lamps, comfy armchairs, mugs of tea on the side tables with folk immersed in reading and research.
What a special place!
I’m very excited to tell you that I will be collaborating with this fabulous library on a project highlighting their beautiful and well-used collection, and promoting their Adopt a Book scheme to help resurrect their more crumbling editions….
I’ll be painting two Shelf Portrait oil paintings.
The first will picture a selection of the more delicate ‘spineless’ books, in need of some TLC, but so fascinating with their variety of under papers: scraps from old newspapers; sheets of hand-written accounts; pages from other books, some upside-down or sideways…
This painting is going to be quite a challenge, but fabulously fun!
The second painting will be representative of the breadth of the Portico’s collection (warts and all, history-wise), and will include some of the skilfully re-bound books, retaining the front and back covers and magically blending them into a new spine with beautifully rendered gold titles.
During September 2023, the Portico Library will be putting the paintings on display, and hosting an event for members and visitors where the conservation team will be giving a presentation about their Adopt a Book scheme, and I will be talking about the paintings. So put Thursday 14th September in your diaries!
The paintings will be for sale, with a percentage of the sale price going to the Portico’s Endangered Book List Fund.
I will also be producing greeting cards from the paintings, which will be for sale in the Portico Library Shop 🙂
So, it’s all very exciting! It was such fun to select the books for the painting and arrange them on the dark wooden shelves – a big thank you to Pat and the rest of the library collections team 🙂
In the meantime, I am immersing myself in a bundle of Pan Paperbacks by the prolific and popular author Agatha Christie. So many classic typefaces to render, and so many delightful scuffs and torn edges 🙂
You can view a little video of me at work here. (I invested in a new phone holder to make it easier to film myself painting, but it attaches to my drawing board and moves whenever I lean on the board, so apologies for the wobbles!!)
Best Wishes,
Roo
Bespoke Shelf Portrait Flyer and Sizing/Pricing Details
Click to view: Roo Waterhouse Art Bespoke Shelf Portrait Flyer 2023
Click to view: RooWaterhouseArt2023-ShelfPortraitPricingGuide
Spring Catalogue 2023
Spring 2023!!
… welcome to the latest Bookshelf Art Card Catalogue from Roo Waterhouse Art.
If you are an existing customer, you can download the PDF Catalogue and handy Order Sheet via the links below:
Roo Waterhouse Art WHOLESALE CATALOGUE SPRING 2023 WEBSITE
If you are an independent bookshop or gift shop, and would like to enquire about placing an order, please contact me at roowaterhouseart@gmail.com 🙂
Festive Greetings !
Thank you all for your lovely messages and orders!
I’ll be packing up the last orders today to post out first class tomorrow, then I’ll be having a little break until the New Year to catch up with myself and my wonderful family 🙂
My very favourite thing to do this time of year is to light my lovely Angel Chimes and sit, watch and listen to the delicate ting-ting-ting of the bells…
Wishing you a very
Merry and Bright
Christmas-time
and a
Peaceful and Cosy
New Year
Roo
P.S.
Last chance today to use your
10% OFF across my online shop 🙂
Simply add the code:
FAIR10
in your basket.
Northlight Winter Fair !!
It’s our annual Winter Fair event at Northlight Art Studios!
Our fabulous studio holders will be hosting stalls to showcase their artistic goodies and gifts 
You all get to come and visit, eat mince pies, buy locally made Christmas presents direct from the makers, win a raffle prize perhaps, drink some mulled wine, make a crafty something and enjoy a little festive feeling!
#hebdenmakeschristmas
Yay!!
So Hebden Bridge!
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Rainbows on the Horizon….
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