Under the Umbrella of the Soul

Our latest installation piece on display at the Waterfront Arts Project the Promenade, Southport opens for public viewing on Sunday 30th September, 2pm to 5pm. The exhibition featuring many artists both local and national is titled 'Windows' and features paintings, sculptures installations and photography. The Gallery is free to visit and is open every day from 12pm to 4pm. 

Twisted Pages piece 'Under the Umbrella of the Soul' is a mixed media installation using a variety of our paper manipulation techniques. The piece was inspired by the quote

'The eyes are the window to the soul'

We have created this piece with the help of some of our friends, family and supporters who kindly answered a questionnaire that we created around the subject of the soul. The questions were as follows:

1. What would you say in your own words a persons soul is?
2. Can you describe in a sentence what I would see if I could look inside your soul?
3. If you could choose a colour to represent your soul, what colour would you choose?
4. What would you say that the single most important thing is to you?
5. If you could choose three things that you wanted in life, what would they be?
6. What are you most proud of?

The response that we got was fantastic, the wide variety of honest and interesting answers gave us lots of ideas. We took the answers as our starting point and from them created the newest creation in Twisted Pages portfolio and we are really proud of it!

We would like to say a special thank you once again to all thepeople that helped us on this piece, we couldn't have don this without you :)

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Unfolding Growth

Just a few quick snaps of our latest exhibition on display at Leigh Turnpike Gallery

Warrington Contemporary Arts festival 2012

Twisted pages have been selected to exhibit two pieces at Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival 2012. We are honored and excited to be exhibiting so close to home and this is a great opportunity to really get involved within the community.

The month long event will take place across the town with as advertised 'Art around every corner' A collection of fine art, music, dance and performance to show the wide array of talent across the district. If you would like more information on the festival the website to visit is here:
warringtonartsfestival.co.uk

Art of Ours Chorley, Twisted Pages

Art of Ours...................... and there's

Twisted Pages are very excited that 'imagine if' will be on display a bit closer to home. Art of Ours is a voluntary run fine art exhibition in the heart of Chorley town center. Running for eight week this unique exhibition will change the artist's and work every week keeping the temporary gallery as fresh, new and exciting as it gets!

Find opening times and artists details and other information here's the website,

www.artofours.co.uk

Turnpike open exhibition 2012 Twisted Pages

Twisted Pages have had yet another busy month......Already!!

The turnpike gallery is our local inspiration centre, based in Leigh town center above the library, it's an amazing establishment for artists, education, community events and everything in-between. This year twisted Pages will be entering a brand new handmade paper creation especially designed for the annual open exhibition. 

'Unfolding Growth' is a dramatic scene of hundreds of handmade paper flowers encasing a distressed abandoned table, depicting how in nature something so delicate can also be so powerful. An unstoppable growth unfolding before our eyes.

Turnpike Open Exhibition runs from 22nd September untill 27th October, free entry.

The Eyes Are The Window To The Soul

Our next piece for the Waterfront Arts Project is nearly ready. The next exhibition is titled 'Windows' and we have taken our inspiration from the quote 

' the eyes are the window to the soul'.

We compiled a questionnaire that we sent to various friends, family members and followers on the subject of the soul. This included what colour they would use to describe their soul, what we would see if we could look inside their soul and what they would wish for from life. 

We got some brilliant answers and would like to thank everyone that took part. We used these answers as our inspiration, here are some samples of what we have done so far.

We have used lots of colour, that was picked out from the answers that we got. As you can see we have used the quilling technique quite a bit in these pieces, that will be put together to create a large hanging installation. The delicate and intricate detail of the quilled paper perfectly represents some of the honest and open answers that we were given.

There is still a little more to do but Twisted Pages next piece of paper art work is well on the way. The piece will go to the Waterfront Gallery on the Promenade, Southport , Merseyside some time in mid September (date to be confirmed) This contemporary fine art exhibition that will include local, national and international artists is once again shaping up to be a must see!