Jelly Artist Shop - Christmas 2022
Join us at Jelly in our space within Broad St Mall for our Christmas Art Shop
Saturday 26 November 10am to 4pm
Sunday 27 November 12pm to 4pm
Meet and buy work directly from local artists and designer makers.
All artists involved in the art shop are Jelly workshop leaders or members of our Associate Artists. Follow Jelly on our social media accounts - @thejellyreading for announcements of participating artists.
Entry is free. You do not need a ticket to gain entry into the Artist Shop. Register your interest and get event notifications by visiting our eventbrite page: https://artshop.eventbrite.co.uk
Saturday 26 November 10am to 4pm
Caroline Streatfield
Susan Cunningham
Gunja Bhatt
Heather McAteer
Mark Webber
Lisa-Marie Gibbs
Sunday 27 November 12pm to 4pm
Caroline Streatfield
Matt Hulse
Squirrel Ink
Gunja Bhatt
Helen Ridley
Mark Webber
Jo Lillywhite
Associate Artist
Caroline Streatfield is a local artist who has received Arts council funding for a project based on the Oxford Rd. she is interested in community and her varied practice consists of still life and portraiture.at the pop up art fair she will be selling cards and giclee prints as well as original paintings
Instagram: @carolinestreatfield
Website: www.carolinestreatfield.co.uk
Caroline will be at Jelly on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 November
Caroline Streatfield
Jelly Workshop/Arts Educators/Associate
Hulse creates out of whatever is to hand – he transforms the everyday into something striking, witty and beautiful.” (Glasgow Short Film Festival). Matt is an artist filmmaker, photographer and performer. In 2017 he was the overall winner of Germany’s prestigious Felix Schoeller Photo Award. He will be selling unique one-off A6 framed digital prints from his eerie Reading-by-Night photography project and selected stills from his award-winning films. “His photographs are extraordinary in every respect,” said Simone Klein of Magnum Photos, “they reveal the existential core element of humanity in disturbingly simple pictures.” (British Journal of Photography)
Instagram: @thisismatthulse
Website: Anormalboy.wordpress.com
Matt will be at Jelly on Sunday 27 November
Matt Hulse
Associate Artist
Originally from Belfast, Heather McAteer is a visual artist who creates works on paper which investigate themes of identity, memory and history. She works predominately in graphite to produce evocative drawings which harness the visual power of light and shadow. Aided by this limited palette, the images exist in a liminal space, hovering between the familiar and alien. Her recent works depict beautiful, cruel landscapes suffused with a melancholic sense of loss and absence.They attempt to reconcile ideas of place and home, in terms of longing and belonging, and are a mediation on youth, memory and mortality.
Instagram: @heathermcateerart
Facebook: @heathermcateerart
Twitter: @heathermcateer
Website: www.heathermcateer.co.uk
Heather will be at Jelly on Saturday 26 November
Heather McAteer
Associate Artist
Mark Andrew Webber is a Reading based artist working with drawing, painting and printmaking. Mark is currently working with complex patterns that arrise from simple abstract patterns so will be selling some of his abstract paintings, as well as some of his linocut prints he did after drawing people in coffee shops a few years ago.
Instagram: @Markawebber
Twitter: @Markawebber
Website: www.markandrewwebber.com
Mark will be at Jelly on Saturday 26 and 27 November
Jo Lillywhite
Mark Webber
Associate Artist
Jo Lillywhite paints vibrant and striking landscapes and animals. She loves to use strong lines and perspective which really draw you in to the picture. And she uses expressive colour combinations which make her subjects and scenes come to life. By using varied marks and brushstrokes, her work is interesting and unique. It is available as originals, prints, cards and cushions
Instagram: @jolillywhiteart
Facebook: @jolillywhiteart
Website: www.jolillywhiteart.co.uk
Jo will be at Jelly on Sunday 27 November
Associate Artist
Illustrator and Artist Helen Ridley creates bright and colourful mixed media paintings, featuring bold shapes and observations, capturing moments from everyday life, and observing the ever changing variations of the natural world whilst injecting a sense of irreverence. She uses watercolours, pens, pencils and pastels to create depth and texture, layering colours and textures help tell the story of the spaces she inhabits. Helen also works as a live event artist and will be creating live portraits as well as selling originals and prints of her abstract watercolour paintings.
Instagram: @helenridleyillustration
Facebook: @helenridleyillustration
Twitter: @ridley_helen
Website: www.helenridley.com
Helen will be at Jelly on Sunday 27 November
Helen Ridley
Associate Artist
Susan Cunningham is an artist who looks at the presence or absence of ‘nature’ within the increasing amount of urban environment we inhabit. Susan has recently produced a series of watercolour illustrations, focussing on bee species that are in decline (in partnership with a local Friends of the Earth Group).
Twitter: @suzanC9
Website: www.susancunninghamart.co.uk
Susan will be at Jelly on Saturday 26 November
Susan Cunningham
Gunja Bhatt
Associate Artist
Gunja Bhatt is an illustrator and passionate plein air painter. Her colourful illustrations are delight to eyes and joy to hearts. Her expressive plein air paintings and urban sketches are full of colour and light with capturing the mood of locations. She loves using watercolours and inks on paper as well as gouache on wooden surfaces like coasters and bookmarks.
Instagram: @artist.gunja
Twitter: @artistgunja
Facebook: @artist.gunja
Website: www.artistgunja.com
Gunja will be at Jelly on Saturday 26 and 27 November
Squirrel Ink
Jelly Workshop/Arts Educator/Associate
Squirrel Inks work explores everyday magic and storytelling. She loves to draw and to make handprinted artworks and cards.
Instagram: @squirrel.ink
Squirrel Ink will be here on Saturday 26 and 27 November
Lisa-Marie Gibbs
Jelly workshop/arts educator/associate
Lisa-Marie will be showing her new book 'Sad girls at bus stops' a series of drawings made over 3 years at Reading Bus stops.
Along with this book there will be a series of new drawings and screen printed t-shirts and other curiosities.
Instagram: @SadGirlsAtBusStops
Lisa-Marie will be at Jelly on Saturday 26 November