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Northlight Winter Fair !!

19 November 2022
Roo Waterhouse
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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!

19 November 2022
Roo Waterhouse
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I have always loved the way my home town of Hebden Bridge shines out on an autumn night, looking cosy and snuggled in the valley, especially in the fog.
Though I’m not sure the new LED street lighting has quite the same warm glow…
My ‘So Hebden Bridge’ Limited Edition print is looking particularly cosy in the window at Spirals Fairtrade, surrounded by other lovely wintery gifts 🙂
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This week it’s all about mugs! Snuggle up with a good book and a cuppa in one of these bookish mugs. You’ll find new stock in my shop of these three designs: Rainbow Penguins, Jane Austen and Bronte Sisters.
Shop Book Art Mugs

Not long now until the Northlight Winter Fair!!

Join me, along with Rach Red Designs, Toby Cotterill Jewellery, Katch Skinner Ceramics, Kate Boyce Art, Don Myers, Pete Leonard and Jane Revitt.

It is just one of the events and open studios happening in and around Hebden Bridge as a part of the Hebden Bridge Open Studios Big Christmas Weekend.

Follow the hashtag #hebdenmakeschristmas on social media to see more for the artists involved 🙂

Best Wishes,
Roo
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(Reasonably) Calm and Collected!

26 October 2021
Roo Waterhouse
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Categories: Art Events, Blog, Events, oil painting

 Hello 🙂

Phew! It’s been a busy old week…

Preparations for my Calm and Collected Exhibition this weekend are well underway and I’ve been buzzing about collecting paintings, framing prints, writing blurbs, and generally trying to pull everything together! As well as still working on a painting I would like to show (there will be a Wet Paint warning!!)

I had a great afternoon browsing around the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea while collecting some paintings. Such a variety of art on display. The highlight for me was the wonderful seaside light and atmosphere reflected in the colours of the buildings in the paintings of Camille Dowse

I managed to find time for family and nature too with a Thames-side walk in the morning sun, admiring the autumn colours in the park in the afternoon and a family feast in the evening 🙂
In celebration of my own architectural heritage (my great-great grandfather being the prolific, much admired Victorian architect Alfred Waterhouse) I have now published a series of 100 Limited Edition Mounted Prints of the original shelf portrait painting ‘Architectural Heritage’ and they are available to buy in my shop 🙂
Shop Architectural Heritage Print Here

There will be a preview evening of Calm and Collected
on Thursday 28th October from 6pm to 8pm
to which you are all invited.
The exhibition is then open on Friday 29th, Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st from 11am to 5pm.

I look forward to seeing you 🙂

Calm and Collected

2 October 2021
Roo Waterhouse
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There is a definite change in the light and the colours up on the moors this week.

Things are starting to feel more autumnal as October marches on, towards…….

A solo exhibition in Hebden Bridge 🙂

Things are hotting up in my studio as I focus on getting a series of new paintings ready for my solo exhibition Calm and Collected at Northlight Artspace at the end of this month.

My Shelf Portrait paintings of collected possessions (not just books!) hold a reassuring stillness and calm. Conjuring up memories, they give us a chance to reflect upon what is important to us in our daily lives and histories.
In my bookshelf paintings I celebrate a love of books – their power, their magic, the joy and the heartbreak they can give us.

There will be plenty of new bookshelves to browse and a series of new domestic shelves (sneak peek below!).

There will be a preview evening on Thursday 28th October from 6pm to 8pm to which you are all invited.
The exhibition is then open on Friday 29th, Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st from 11am to 5pm.

I look forward to seeing you 🙂

Open Studios Open!!

2 October 2021
Roo Waterhouse
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The artists and makers of Hebden Bridge and the surrounding valleys welcome you into their studios this weekend 🙂

You can find out more about the individual artists on the Hebden Bridge Open Studios website

I will be in my studio at Northlight Studios alongside Kate Boyce Art; Toby Cotterill Jewellery; Juliet Blackman Ceramics; Alex Harwood; Sue Turner Ceramics; Red Mouse Designs; Rach Red Designs; Jane Revitt, Catherine Long and Don Myers…. where we will be looking forward to seeing you between 11am and 5pm 🙂

Thank you to The Yorkshire Post today for a lovely feature all about Open Studios..  You can read it here.

And also…

Here is a lovely short film about me and my work made by Sebastian Jennings….

 

What a Fabulous Weekend!

11 July 2021
Roo Waterhouse
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Categories: Art Events, Blog, Events, Shelf-Portraits

We are having such a great Open Studios weekend here in Hebden Bridge!

It is wonderful to have so many visitors and to be chatting with people 🙂 The whole town is buzzing!

We all had such a busy day yesterday – and studios are open again today from 11-5.

 

RIFT: A Northlight Studios Resident Artists Collaborative Exhibition – This weekend!!

25 June 2019
Roo Waterhouse
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Come and see the responses of Northlight Artists to the theme of RIFT..
I will be showing a set of photographs focussing on the rifts in the many lumps of rock around our valley wish inspire, stretch and entertain the climbing enthusiasts from all over….
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Hebden Bridge home for ‘So Hebden Bridge’

3 September 2018
Roo Waterhouse
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A new home in Hebden Bridge for my ‘So Hebden Bridge’ Shelf-Portrait, and a most successful end to my Shelf-Life exhibition at Northlight Art Studios.
Looking forward to taking the remaining new work down to Brick Lane for the New Artist Fair next week…