Posts tagged with ‘art’

  • Healing with Art

    I have always found a therapeutic element to painting, each piece of art is a journey through creation and emotion. Beginning with a spark and enthusiasm of an idea, followed by the eagerness to paint and love of creation. The work starts in the paintings detail, a painstaking process of getting each aspect just right, despair arrives when it all goes wrong and the image in the mind is not matched by the result on the canvas. Somehow it all comes together in the finished work

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  • Automatic drawing, Surrealist Automatism and Auragraphs

    A painting or work of art often begins with a moment or flash inspiration, from that point creativity can flow. Many artists wait for inspiration to strike before beginning work, once the idea arrives in the mind the artist relies on their skills and talents to bring the idea to life on canvas or paper. This method can be thought of as understanding the ‘creativity within the thinking mind’.

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    The Healing Process through Creativity

    Before the pandemic, I was introduced to Hester Ligtvoet, we had briefly met a year or so earlier at the Arthur Findlay College. She is a professional pianist, healer, and energy coach. We were interested in how art and music can be combined with spiritual and energy healing. Working together on a weekly basis, Hester played the piano while I produced charcoal or pastel drawings. We worked with energy and the spirit world to create something focused, healing and unique.

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  • Stuttle painting bursary

    Painting Bursary 2019

    Four talented York sixth formers are the lucky recipients of an annual arts bursary.

    The Alan Stuttle Art Bursary this year has been awarded to four hard working and extremely talented Huntington School art students, Beth Maycock, George Thorby, Jasmine Foo and Niamh Nolan.

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    Painting Bursary 2017

    TWO prestigious annual awards have been presented in memory of a murdered York school girl.

    At Huntington School the Alan Stuttle Art Bursary has been awarded to four hard working and extremely talented sixth form art students: Ellie Duffield, Maddie Hancocks, Lara Cameron and Katie Bolton.

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    Painting Bursary 2016

    Four young artists from a York school have been awarded funds to pursue their careers. Alan Stuttle visited Huntington School to present his Art Bursary to sixth form art students Emma Wiseman, Ella Richards, Selina Broadley and Mae Crook. The annual bursary is presented in memory of Mr Stuttle’s daughter Caroline, a former pupil who was killed while backpacking in Australia in 2002.

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    Painting Bursary 2015

    A TRIO of students from York’s Huntington secondary school have been awarded an art bursary.

    The annual Alan Stuttle Art Bursary this year has been awarded to three talented sixth form art students, Kezia Hulse, Emma Barrett and Emma Wiseman.

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    Painting Bursary 2014

    YORK artist Alan Stuttle has presented cheques for £500 to Huntington School pupils Mathilda Mancey-Jones, Emily Roberts, Kezia Hulse and Beth Jakeman this week. Mr Stuttle presents bursaries each year to students at the school to help them with their studies, and created the reward for young artists in memory of his daughter Caroline

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    Painting Bursary 2010

    This year’s Alan Stuttle Art Bursary has been awarded at Huntington School in memory of Caroline Stuttle. The Alan Stuttle Art Bursary is an annual award made available to Year 13 art students at Huntington. It is in commemoration of Alan’s daughter, Caroline, who was murdered in Australia eight years ago.

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