This the blog of the Kingsley School, Bideford, Devon, Art Department. A special place to see artwork done in the studios at the school by all age groups and a portal for research links and ideas for the students that work with us.

Thursday, 30 April 2009

Alex Stapleton

Jacky Chen
Alex Stapleton

Simon Taylor
Emma French

Jess Myers
Tim Hosgood

Rosie Klymow
Emma Summerfield

Harriet Gregory
Oliver Tjorwelund

Hannah Myers
Hannah Myers

Jacob Sharpe
Some of this terms Year 10 artwork  exciting things continuer to happen in the studio

Tuesday, 21 April 2009













A2 & AS Exams this week good luck to you all







All entries for Biosphere T-shirt competition by the 15th May

Entry forms from the Art Department or
http://www.northdevonbiosphere.org.uk/admin/images/Biosphere%20Reserve%20Tee%20Shirt%20Competition.pdf
Cut & paste this into your webbrowser

Monday, 13 April 2009

A local competition for all Kingsley budding artists to have a go at'

Have a go and come and show me in the Art Department

BIOSPHERE TEE-SHIRT COMPETITION

"We are looking for 2 designers one aged between 5 and 11 years old and the other from 12 to 19 years old. Could you be one of them?

The North Devon's Biosphere Reserve are teaming up with Goldcoast Oceanfest and Saltrock to develop a t-shirt that will be sold to raise funds for the special wildlife projects in the Biosphere Reserve. Could your creativity be used to help save otters and dormice?

Why not give it a go? Once the designs have been submitted, the panel of judges will select the best design from each of the age groups. The designers will be then work with the Saltrock Creative team to enhance their designs and make them production ready. The T-shirt will be launched at Goldcoast Oceanfest, where the winners will have free entry.

Profits from the sales of the shirts will go to North Devon Biosphere Foundation, which supports projects for the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in wonderful North Devon.

Wednesday, 25 March 2009

Artists we have looked at this week in the department


Wham - Roy Lichtenstein

Kurt Jackson
Myra - Marcus Harvey


Marilyn - Andy Warhol






GCSE week completed. The trials and the tribulations and the crises overcome. Those who prepared well managed better as always. 






GCSE artwork           
       



Monday, 2 March 2009

Burton Gallery exhibition and thoughts for GCSE

Kingsley Art Department wins £100 prize at The Burton Gallery in Bideford Devon for its input into the Torridge Schools Exhibition. Two of the highlights of a visual feast were two large pieces ............

Barack Obama by Year 9 group


















Self-portrait in oil by Matt Howe

















Thoughts for GCSE













Reversal 
I'm Dreaming of  a White Christmas - Richard Hamilton 
The negative image. Hamilton did a number of this picture in both painting and printmaking. He did a series of prints of I'm dreaming of a white Christmas and also a "black Christmas". Remembered as the first Pop Art artist from the UK. You can see in the screenprint below a more painterly/drawn quality to the image than the previous one which was the larger painting.















Year 9 Project - Overhead Land Study after 
Peter Lanyon

Porthleven 1951

















Zennor Storm 1958