We thought you might be interested in this... Chapman & Bailey Artists Paper Sale March 2012

 
Watercolour Papers, Printmaking Papers, Rolls, Packs 
and more.
Download our March Paper Sale Price sheet to print here
Download an Paper Sale order form to print  here
 

We stock: 

Arches Paper, Moulin De Larroque Handmade Paper, Stonehenge Paper

Chapman & Bailey Artshop - Melbourne
420 Johnston Street, Abbotsford, Vic. 

Contact: Micheal Fitzgerald

E: artmaterials@chapmanbailey.com.au
T: (03) 9417 0500 / (03) 9417 7957
F: (03) 9417 3447

Opening Tonight @ C&B Gallery: The South Yarra Doodles - Works on Paper by Richard Besley

The South Yarra Doodles is a new body of work on paper by Melbourne-based artist Richard Besley. Dripped, rubbed, pushed and pulled across the paper, the pigment in these works acquires a life of its own. Through a process of working and reworking multiple layers of watercolour, pigment, oil stick and charcoal, the image unfolds as a force-field of clamouring surfaces.

In the past, Besley has been preoccupied with nature and natural processes. His earlier compositions are pared-back and mellow, offering up a commentary on those aspects of the physical world that fall somewhere between science and mystery, from the atmospheric conditions of Venus to the movements of tectonic plates.

The South Yarra Doodles represent a shift, both in approach and in context. Besley left his studio in the bush in St Andrews, travelled to New York and London, and returned to settle in South Yarra. As a result, Besley’s practice has opened out to processes of chance, experimentation and play. These works no longer find their origin in phenomena in the physical world. Instead, they are abstract in the purest sense, emerging out of unplanned improvisation. Suspending judgement, Besley has allowed colours to melt and collapse, and shapes to push against one another. This dynamic body of dense, subtle and intense work is born out of a strange form of chance guided by the artist’s hand.

The South Yarra Doodles is Besley’s fifth solo exhibition at Chapman & Bailey Gallery.

View more images here

Exhibition runs 5 - 24 March, Chapman & Bailey gallery, 350 Johnston st, Abbotsford. Phone: +61 3 9415 8666

Email: gallery@chapmanbailey.com.au

Come and check out our fabulous range of Da Vinci brushes at C&B art shops now

New shipment of Da Vinci Brushes in stock The quality, craftmanship and performance of Da Vinci brushes is unsurpassed. Da Vinci brushes are unique in their outstanding features. Da Vinci brushes are handmade using  top quality raw materials. They have excellent colour holding capacity, a lively elasticity and quickly regaintheir original shape when new paint is absorbed. All the features result in a highly precise, elastic instrument. Our brush assortment for oil, tempera and acrylic painting is as comprehensive as the many modern painting techniques. Flat or round-shaped, extra short - short - medium and long length, as well as fresco and filbert shape.   click for more info

Hi everyone, we hope you had a great holiday break.

Just letting you know that C&B Melbourne Artshop and C&B Brisbane are now open.
Come in and have a chat to Toby or Brad about how we might be able to help you in 2012

Toby @ Melb. Artshop:
420 Johnston St, Abbottsford Vic.
Phone: 03 9417 7957 / 03 9417 0500
artmaterials@chapmanbailey.com.au

Brad @ Brissie Artshop:
4 Byres St, Newstead, Queensland 4006
Phone: 07 3666 0028
enquire@chapmanbaileybrisbane.com

Christmas @ Chapman & Bailey

Drop by our artshops to provide you with some inspiration for that perfect gift for that special person and/or yourself. Grab a selection of some of our beautiful things to make sure you are in good supply for  the holiday season. Find us at: Victoria 420 Johnston St, Abbotsford, Victoria. We will be open until Friday 23rd December, 5pm. Vince and Tobey will be happy to help you with all your queries. Ph. 03 9417 7957 Reopening early - Jan. 4th 2012 Queensland 14 Byres St, Newstead, Queensland  We will be open until 1pm Friday 23rd December, 5pm. Phone Brad on 07 3666 0028 Reopening Monday 9th January 2012. Alice Springs 8 Hele Crescent (next to RAFT) Alice Springs, Northern Territory  We will be open until Friday 23rd December, 5pm. Phone Danny on 08 8952 8751 Reopening Monday 30th Jan 2012  Ho Ho Ho !

Chapman & Bailey Stretching Services Goes To the Kimberley

This month Mozart, Oleh and Mark offered the Martumili Artist community a portable stretching service.

Martumili Artist community is in the Kimberley, Western Australia.

At least a 100 canvases were stretched up on site.

C&B sent up and set up a Belle Arti Electro Miller machine, a portable flexible stretcher making machine great for small enterprises who want custom made stretchers quickly and cheaply.

The Martumili community ended up buying the machine when they saw the ease of use and convenience it offered.

Find out more about the The Belle Arti Electro Miller machine here

Howard Arkley : Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art @ Chapman Bailey gallery

Howard Arkely

7 December - 17th December

Limited Edition Fine Art Reproductions released by The Estate of Howard Arkley
Opening Tuesday December 6th 2011
6 - 8pm with opening remarks by
Dr John Gregory, author of Carnival in Suburbia:
The Art of Howard Arkley


The digital archival Fine Art Reproductions are reproduced using pigment ink on 100% cotton fibre mouldmade 256gsm stock.

Prints are an edition of 499 and come in three sizes. They are numbered, accompanied by a Ceritficate
 of Authenticity and have the Estate of Howard Arkley stamp and digital signature.

Images available for viewing on www.kallirolfecontemporaryart.com


Exhibition runs until 17th December


All enquiries: Kalli Rolfe 0417 302 003
@Chapman & Bailey Gallery
350 Johnston St, Abbotsford.
10am - 5.30pm Monday - Friday
11am - 5pm Saturday