Mini 'Glam' Bags for sale!

The ideal Christmas present for the girls in your life! Fill it with treats for a quick Christmas, Birthday or Wedding Shower gift.

Mini Bag
'Glam 50's Lady' design
£8.95
screen printed on ethically produced jute bags from India

This little bag design is now available from Art in the Heart Gallery shop, Bridge Street Peterborough. (opposite Mountain Warehouse).

Some New Bags!

Glam Lady Bags
Screen printed on ethically produced bags from India
30cm x 30cm
£12 each

A bit of a departure from painting, but fun! Some girlie present ideas for Christmas at £12 each! Email me at faye.panchal@googlemail.com if you would like to order one. If I have to post it to you I will let you know the cost before you pay. Payments can be made by bank transfer.

Work in progress

This Fragment commission is based on another section of the same sari I have used as the basis for the Red Paradise Peacock Fragment. 

Final stage: oil paint, oil pastel and enamel on hand made paper. When this is dry the final resin coat will be applied.

a sketch book page

Creating the Red Paradise Bird Fragment

In the summer, I was loaned another fabulous sari from a friend, and have done some sketches from the woven borders and embroidered/embellished sections. I have recently completed a commission based on these new images as well.

Border details and Peacock with flamboyant head feathers!

Another peacock from the woven border

Stage 1 of the fragment. I have used hand made paper again, plus oil paint, and gold enamel paint.

Final addition of oil pastel, to be followed by the final resin coat and framing!

Current Fragment paintings for sale

These two large fragments are on sale at Art in the Heart, Peterborough's newest Art Gallery Shop, http://www.artintheheart.co.uk, along with my new 'mini' series of fragments.

Blue Paradise Peacock
Float mounted in deep White wood frame
£475 

Res Paradise Bird Fragment
Float mounted in deep White wood frame
£485

These five 'mini' fragments are all on sale for £55 each, and are all float mounted in deep wooden frames. The ideal Christmas present!

Yellow Chinese Panel

I have spent several days at the V & A museum over the past 6 months, and this yellow silk Chinese Robe really appealed to me. I am combining elements of antique and current ceramics with the details of the silk robe and its embroideries in a new Panel piece. The panel is mixed media, as usual; oil on Thai paper with a final resin coating. I will be posting some photos of the work in progress in the next few days, so watch this space!

Yellow Chinese Silk Robe: Embroidery Detail

Yellow Chinese silk robe

Dish with peach blossom Yongheng mark 1723-35

Bowl with flowers, Quianlong mark 1736 - 95
Saucer with Peonies and Dragonfly
Quianlong, 1736-95

Roma Sari panel: Bids at £250 so far...

Roma Sari Panel
H 40cm x W 50cm

This small panel has already received bids up to £251, but there is still time to put a bid in! See my earlier post for details or post on my Facebook page if you are interested. All proceeds go to Esther Homes project in India. Thanks for taking the time to view this post!

Mini Blue Peacock Fragment

This 'mini' Blue Peacock Fragment is twice the size of my current 'minis' but still pretty small! Made using the same method and materials as all other Sari Fragments.

Mini Blue Peacock Fragment

Framed in deep 26cm square White frame
Price £175

New 'Mini' Sari Fragments

Mini Red Sari Fragment

Float mounted in white wooden frame
Price £55

These little gems are created using the same method as my larger Sari Fragments, utilising hand made paper, oil paint, oil pastel and enamel and with a final coat of resin. They are all float mounted in white wooden box frames.

Mini Blue Paisley Fragment

Float mounted in white wood frame
Price: £55

Mini Lilac Paisley Fragment

Float mounted in white wood frame
Price £55

Mini Red Paradise Bird Fragment

Float mounted in white wood frame
Price: £55

All these mini fragments are on sale from myself directly (faye.panchal@googlemail.com) or from the new Gallery shop in Peterborough, Art in the Heart  www.artintheheart.co.uk  at the shop's exclusive Christmas Charity shopping night on Monday November 12, and thereafter. Tickets for the event are £5, all of the proceeds going to charity, and can be purchased online at www.artintheheart.co.uk, or from the shop.

Cornish Landscape

Cornish beach

This commission is my first landscape using handmade paper, oils, oil pastels and resin.  To be fairly swiftly followed (!) by some vertical 'scapes which will be mainly sea.....!

New cards for sale at Art in the Heart Gallery and shop

Greeting Card: Oriental Bird

Greeting Card: Paradise Bird

 These cards are available at Art in the Heart Gallery and Shop, Bridge Street , Peterborough.

Christmas Card: Nativity

Christmas Card: Stable

These cards will be available from November 12 at the exclusive evening shopping event and thereafter.
More new Sari fragments are on show and some very new 'mini fragments' will be available from Monday evening's shopping event onwards. More photos later!

'Roma' Sari Panel to be Auctioned for Esther Homes charity

Roma Sari Panel
 approx 40 x 50 cm
Float mounted and framed in a white wood frame.
Bids start at £50

I've donated this Sari Panel to the Esther Homes Project, to be auctioned in aid of the work the charity does to re home, educate and care for women and children in India who are trapped within the sex trade. 

For the past year, I have donated a percentage of the sales of all my Sari inspired paintings to the Esther project, and for example, £120 of donations has bought 1 month's education for 6 girls. So I am hoping a lot more can be raised through the sale of this painting, as all proceeds will go to Esther homes.

The painting is on show at Kingsgate Community Church, Staplee Way, Peterborough. Bidding slips are available at the Kingsgate Resource centre, or by contacting me via Facebook and I will put you in touch with Ralph Turner who runs the charity.

Peterborough Open Exhibition: Lata's Sari

Lata's Sari

Just a quick update on this large panel piece, it is at present hanging in the Peterborough Museum Art Gallery as part of Peterborough's first Open Exhibition. The Exhibition runs until 23 November and has some wonderful work from artists, photographers and sculptors from the Peterborough area. Free entry.

Summer Sketch book: Week3 Venice

A sleeping Gondolier.....

 Again spent 2 days walking and sightseeing continuously so time for one drawing!I have a hundred photos of Venice and as many drawings that I still need to do!

Rome: view across the Ponte St Angelo

I've snuck this drawing in as it was done in Italy, but on an earlier trip this year in February to Rome, but it belongs in the 'Europe Sketch book' so here it stays.

Summer Sketch Book: Florence

Florence was amazing! Endless photographs and endless wanderings through the Ufizzi so little time for sketching. Especially wonderful in the evening. We ate at a restaurant called the Fox and the Cat

The imposing front entrance of Palazzo Vecchio

The twins in a cafe in the square, Dad queuing outside the Uffizi while we drink the most expensive coffee yet on this holiday! Our turn to queue next....

Summer Sketch book Week 2: Tuscany & Florence

Vineyards and Olive Groves, the Strada Blanca showing white and chalky

The Castle had extensive vineyards and Olive groves, producing wine and oil which was sold only in the locality. Fab stuff! Brought some home and understand why the Italians don't want to export their best! The 'White Roads' indicate this is a bona fide wine making region.

A tiny farm house perched on a near vertical hillside

There were about 6 farm houses in the valley across from the Castle/Farm we stayed in, some vary large and some tiny, just a few rooms, but most in warm shades of terracotta and apricot.

Two farms in the Valley

Farm in the valley

Another on the left side of the valley

Summer Sketch Book: days 5 & 6 Milan/Tuscany

A sword hilt in the Museum in the Castello Sforzesco

A whistle stop tour of the Ducal castle in Milan and then onto Tuscany! As we turned off onto more minor roads, and as they climbed upwards the views became spectacular, a welcome relief from the flat landscapes surrounding the motorway from Milan. That was the only downside of Italy - endlessly boring motorways!

Another hill top Fortress farm, across the Valley

This was the view from the terrace on our first evening in the Torre at Castiglionchio. More to come...

Summer Sketch Book: Days 4&5 Switzerland

My only drawing!

Switzerland was a real highlight for me, but as we spent every day walking for hours I was so shattered I hardly drew a thing. Shame. I actualy did two portraits in the youth hostel before I did this quick view, my excuse is I was too tired after that to do more than this scribble. A lovely lady was celebrating her 50th birthday with her mum who was 90 (!!) by spending a month walking in Switzerland, mum's birthplace. As a joint birthday present they asked for a portrait of the two of them which I did and forgot to photograph for the journal...I'm hoping I see it one day as part of one of the lady's own travel log.

Summer sketch book: Day 3 Avallon,France

Avallon, south of Paris, en route to the Swiss/French border. We stopped longer than intended in this fortified medieval town, everywhere I looked there was a house to draw...many photographs later I settled on this one. I'll do a few more in time from the photos I took. Amazing views over the wooded valleys from the outer wall area of the town. Eating the best pizza in Europe (according to my son!)

My favourite sketch of the whole trip! a Washed-yellow house just by the Church

1st stage of drawing

The lane behind the yellow house and the church. My husband in the blue t-shirt

Europe Road Trip: Day 2

One of the spectacular lily ponds. Lilies just opening to the sun

Day 2: Giverney, Monet's wonderful home and Garden just north of Paris. Thankfully the sun was out. Pilot pen and aquarelle pencils, incredibly quick when you have fellow tourists breathing down your neck!

The iconic green bridge. How I prefer drawing to photography! I can pretend it wasn't swarming with tourists!

Delightful white wrought iron chair and table at cafe.  

Summer Europe Road Trip: sketchbook ay 1 &2

Street in Boulogne-Sur-Mer

Summer 2012 holiday to Florence through France, Switzerland and Italy. I made an attempt to do a drawing every day on our 5 day trip plus while in Florence and Venice.

Day 1: Boulogne-sur-Mer. First stop en route from Calais to Florence.  Went into the old walled area of the town, gorgeous shops and houses. Not enough time to do more than a swift bit of window shopping! Next stop Giverney.

A pilot pen and some aquarelle pencils. I actually like this first stage of the drawing best