NEWS
Bruton Art Society Christmas Card Competition Shortlist 2024
A wonderful selection of 29 artist's creations have been chosen for the shortlist of Bruton Art Society's Christmas card competition for 2024.
These will be sent to the Judges this week. Fen's design is included, but, at the current time, entries are anonymous.
Fen therefore can't enlighten you as to which one is hers! Watch this space for an update over the next couple of weeks.
UPDATE: Fen congratulates Gary Cook for his win with the beautiful Winter Stream .
I look forward to receiving the card!!
Equal 2nd are Winter Shadows by Laurence Belbin and Angel Jophiel by Shelagh Leakey.
Fen's Snowdrops and poem did well to make the selection which she shares with you here.
The full selection is Here
Gallery representation - Cove Gallery, Weymouth
Enjoy a trip to Weymouth's historic quay and pop into Cove Gallery, 9 Trinity Street, Weymouth, DT4 8TW.
The gallery is close to Hope Square and Brewers Quay on the attractive south side of the harbour.
Proprietors Paul and Geraldine are displaying four of Fen's sculptures alongside other amazing artist's creations: ceramics, glasswork, paintings and sculpture.
A wonderful shop to explore!
Pay and display parking available nearby.
Art Unlimited, Bridport 2023 Open Exhibition
Fen has been selected to exhibit her abstract sculpture titled 'Energy Stream' at Bridport's second annual Open Exhibition run by Art Unlimited in September 2023.
This is the second year running Fen has made the finalists.
A wonderful preview night on Friday 15th Sept, opened the fantastic display of Art on view to the public, that can be seen over the next fortnight.
Below photos from the night.
For full details see future exhibitions.
Bruton Art Society 2023 - 70th Annual Exhibition - Award winner.
Fen's work 'Souls Reunion' has received the Joy Barnes 'runner up to best in show' Award at Bruton Art Society's 70th Annual Exhibition in Somerset.
Joy Barnes was the founder of the exhibition and renowned for striving to ensure excellence within the society.
The society have organised a fantastic display of art, well worth a visit, with over 350 other works of art in a wide selection of painting mediums and sculptures for sale.
The exhibition, at the Kings School Bruton, Somerset BA10 0ED, runs until Saturday 26th August; open 10am to 4pm daily.
Ilminster Annual Open Exhibition 2023 - Award winner.
Fen's work 'Crystal Shard' has received the '3D Winner' Award at the Ilminster Annual Open Exhibition 2023 in Somerset, kindly sponsored by Branston.
'Heat 2', her other piece selected for display can be seen in the centre of the gallery.
(Pictures of this piece will be on the site soon.)
It is surrounded by a wonderful collection of over a hundred other works of art: a mixture of paintings, screen prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, glass and framed textile works.
Established and emerging artists living and working in the South West competed for the awards.
The exhibition, at the Ilminster Art Centre TA19 0AN, runs until Friday 16th June; open 9.30am to 3pm Tues to Saturday (2pm on last day).
As part of the prize, Fen will join the other prize winners for another month long show of her work at the Ilminster Arts Centre scheduled for 2nd - 27th January 2024.
'Art Unlimited' Open Art Competition 2022
Fen is delighted to have been selected as one of the thirty finalists in the first annual Open Art Competition for the gallery 'Art Unlimited' in Bridport, Dorset.
Finalists were selected from national entries. Her entry is Souls Reunion .
Owner Howard Flanagan reports 'We have had an incredible response and an extremely high standard, which has made the job of identifying the finalists extremely difficult. The competition has been a very close run so far.'
Exhibition runs from Saturday 22nd October to Saturday November 5th 2022 (Closed Sunday) 10a.m. to 5p.m. at Art Unlimited, The Gallery, 15 South Street, Bridport, Dorset, DT2 3NR
For more details visit the gallery web site.
First Workshop - 5th September 2022
Fen enjoyed a fabulous day delivering her first sculpture workshop.
Designed specifically for the Bruton Art Society, seven of its members were in attendance. The aim was to educate beginners in wax figurative modelling.
Fen demonstrated how to make an armature. Then, guiding students through human anatomy, gradually showed them how to build the muscles up to create a female nude.
A discussion at the end took participants through the journey of transforming their wax into bronze and the foundry process.
All participants achieved wonderful wax sculptures by the close of the session.
Comments from students:
' Excellent tuition, more please.'
"I wish I had a degree in anatomy"!
' Extremely well run. Lots of help & advice and the careful way you set up our learning with no choice made us see things & achieve beyond expectations. Great day.'
' Would like another day to put forms into expression/different postures.'
' Extremely informative in the amount of time available.'
' Most enjoyable, full of learning and creativity. Expertly explained and I felt really listened to and encouraged. Well structured day.'
' Just brilliant.'
Bruton Art Society 68th Annual Exhibition - Award winner.
Fen was delighted to receive the 'Sculpture Award' at the Bruton Art Society 68th Annual Exhibition 2021 in Somerset.
The award was given for her bronze creation entitled 'Circling Round'.
Inspired from the bryophytic world, it explores the free rambling circles in nature juxtaposed with the rigidity of geometry.
Exhibited work was selected from some of the best amateur and professional artists in the South West, all beautifully displayed in an atmospheric and historic venue. 120 artists' creations make up the display of paintings, drawings, sketches, artist prints and sculpture.
The exhibition ran from 21st to 28th August 2021 at the atmospheric & historic venue of King's School Memorial Hall, Bruton.
Ilminster Annual Open Exhibition - Award winner.
Fen was delighted to receive the 'Overall Winner' Award at the Ilminster Annual Open Exhibition 2021 in Somerset.
Established and emerging artists living and working in the South West competed for the awards. Over a hundred works of art were displayed at the gallery with a mixture of paintings, drawings, sculpture, ceramics and framed textile works.
As part of the prize, Fen will join the other six prize winners for a subsequent show of sculpture and paintings at the Ilminster Arts Centre in January 2022.
List of Prize Winners.
Fen D'Lucie - Souls Reunion Overall Winner
Nancy Farmer - A Lovely Line of Duckies Joint Runner Up
Lucy Hawkins - Flax Field Joint Runner Up
Sasha Constable - Phoenix Resting Highly Commended
John Gammans - The Signal Highly commended
Tan(ya) Kingston - Girl in a Turban Highly Commended
Joanne Spencer - Durdle Door Highly Commended
Fen receiving her prize certificate from South West General Manager of Branston Ltd, who kindly sponsored the event.
Fen standing besides her winning sculpture, entitled 'Souls Reunion'.