Artscope Gallery at Circle hospital Reading

This wonderful changing exhibition is now open for visitors at the weekends.

They are supporting the great Alexander Divine hospice charity.

Art in the Barn, Goring and Streatley Festival 2014.

My work is in the brochure advertising the exhibition!
A wonderful old barn next to a fab pub...good combination and the sun has been out!

Change of use! bedspread!

A present I gave of a hand painted tablecloth on canvas, which turned out to be too big,  has been given a new lease of life as a bedspread. creative thinking at its best!

My Interview

ARTISTS INTERVIEW

Interviewer: Jennifer Crowshaw, owner, SOTA gallery

Name of artist: Roberta Tetzner

                                   

Medium: painting.

Mixed media (including acrylic paint, watercolour, pastel, collage and other media) on canvas

1.    What age did you realise art was something you wanted to pursue?

When I was 12 years old, my painting was held up as an example of good work at school. This was when I realised that Art was for me.

Some time later, I found out that an observational drawing I had once done, had for some years, been used my old art teacher, as an example in his lessons. This was despite the fact that the sugar paper it had been made on was fraying at the edges! Not just an Art Teacher but the School Careers Adviser, too, it was him who suggested I consider studying Art.

2.    Did you study Art after leaving school?

Yes I did, although not at first. My grandfather, a respected surgeon, thought I should study something “sensible” like law or medicine as I had very good academic grades. As I am bilingual in Dutch and English, I chose to study French and Italian with European studies at University. I did this for a year, but realized, that I kept being drawn back to art, spending all my spare time drawing and painting. I also missed the art school environment. So I ended up going back to art school. After several years at College I completed my MA at Brighton University thus combining an academic and artistic education.

3.    What inspires you to create?

The environment around me. This could be travel; a beautiful view; a garden layout or even something as simple as a blossom branch lying on the ground or a tiny weed growing in the grass.

4.    Have you always worked in this medium?

I have worked mainly in acrylic, as I like the speed at which it dries and the varied ways in which it can be manipulated.

5.    What has been your biggest achievement?

Being able to communicate my visual interests to others through the medium of art. It is a very special feeling when someone falls in love with a piece of art you have created.

It makes all the struggling to communicate something visually, worthwhile. The fact that someone understands and appreciates what you want to say is hugely rewarding.

Being selected for the Contemporary Painting Prize FRINGEMK Finalists Catalogue, and the Light Space Time International Online Gallery gave me a special recognition award. My work has also been printed in a Finnish art magazine HESAInprint. 

And last year, my work was used in an independent film, which was screened at the Institute of Contemporary Art in the Mall, London. That was great fun.

6.    Is there an Artist whose work you admire?

Many! And I am continually discovering more! Bonnard, Raoul Dufy, Matisse, Picasso, Howard Hodgkin, Pete Doig, Beatriz Milhazes are simply a few!

7.    How has your work/Style changed over the years?

I have worked in a variety of ways but the core idea has always been the same, to translate they joy and beauty I feel in the world around me, into a piece of art in some way.

8.    Where do you see your art in the future?

I have been working on some larger canvasses at the moment and would now like to mix this with some smaller work. I would like to explore the fine line between abstract and figurative painting further.

9.    If you could live as any artist for just one day who would it be and why?

David Hockney. I think he has been very good at “getting out there” and keeping control at the same time and I would like to learn from him how to market myself better.

   10.         What advice would you give to a young artist just starting   out?

If this is what you want to do, keep at it. There are no shortcuts.

Reading Guild of Artists full member!

I have been upgraded, so am now a full R.G.A. member.



This has meant I could submit my work for a group exhibition in Henley on Thames.

I have just received the great news that my painting sold!
It is always so fab when you know someone has fallen in love with a piece of your work. Very flattering!
This is the baby that has a new home. 'Light Burst' mixed media on tulipwood canvas. I hope I will get to meet the new owners.

Art in Ardington exhibition 3-11 May in Ardington, Oxfordshire, UK

The Art in Ardington exhibition is coming up fast.
This is going to be an exciting indoor and outdoor, mixed exhibition of over 200 sculptures and paintings. Some wonderful work will be on display so let's hope the weather is kind!

https://www.facebook.com/ArtinArdington

I will have these paintings in the exhibition. It is so lovely to be exhibiting paintings with sculpture. seeing other artists work is such a joy and inspiration. So many of us are beavering away in our own studios, this gives a great opportunity to see what others are doing.

SOTA Gallery Whitney

There is a lovely gallery that has now been open for about 18 months in Whitney (on the edge of the beautiful Cotswolds). This gallery SOTA is in a small complex of shops and near a Waitrose and 3 hours free parking! Do go and browse if you are in the area they have some great things.
They have just taken 4 of my flower giglee prints, one of which is beautifully framed in a muted cream/stone colour. I was hesitant to have it framed initially because of the outlay but it really looks amazing. (it is the top image). 'Pink Rose 1' below is another of the prints. So fingers crossed someone will love them...
http://www.sotagallery.co.uk/index.html

I am now a member of the Reading Guild of Artists

Last Wednesday 6 of my paintings were picked up as well as some sketchbooks and notebooks and taken away for evaluation. that evening I as invited to come and discuss my work.
Due to the flooding various roads were closed which ofcourse the GPS could not understand so I was half an hour late...aaaghh! But I got in! I am now a member of the Reading Guild of Artists. It was lovely to talk to fellow artists about your art. It is quite different than  discussing your work with gallery owners...of-course.
here is the website
http://www.rga-artists.org.uk/

More rain and new abstract organic paintings

More rain and more painting.
So here is my next baby.

'Golden Rays'
mixed media on high quality tulipwood canvas
1m x 1m

here a detail

 and here outside
Well now of to do more painting. the deadline for entering work to the exhibition is creeping up fast!

 

new prints and paintings

Rain rain rain! and then SUN! fab!
I have just been to collect my mounted prints and one fabulously framed print from a new local framer. wonderful! as they are all wrapped up I can,t take pics of them....but will when they are!
I am still working on a set of 1mx1m paintings showing abstract organic shapes. see previous image.
ok off to do some more painting. I have just left one to dry for a bit as the colours can change so much.

Happy and Healthy New Year to all!
Wow another year has flown by.
Amsterdam fireworks blew me into 2014. It was great! Celebrating with family and friends was lovely. The colours were spectacular....this may well influence some paintings soon.
I have been working on a new painting. It is not a flower painting as such but has that influence.
It is hopefully going to make it to an exhibition I have been invited to join in at a beautiful country house in Oxfordshire in May.

The exhibition at the Circle hospital in Reading is continuing. I love being part of that. It it so nice to have your work looked at by all sorts of people in such a great modern environment. The artwork in the hospital apparently is greatly enjoyed by both staff and patients. How good is that!
Well... I now had better get on with more painting... good wishes to all.