Listening to the Landscape

5th - 9th August 2013
Bridge House Art studios
Ullapool

The first of 5 weeks, back to back summer school courses! Glorious midge-free weather was most welcome for this group of students. They went out and about as far away as Achiltibuie collecting ideas and site specific sketches to take back to the studio to develop further.

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Bridge House Art Summer Schools are Go!

We are well and truly into the summer school sessions. This week sees the start of an intensive 5 weeks of back to back creativity. So far this summer we've enjoyed two weeks on the idyllic Tanera Mor, a week of Transformations and two sell-out Playing in Silver weekend workshops.

Eleanor has been a visiting tutor in Edinburgh and Yorkshire, but now she's back and full of her infectious enthusiasm for the rest of the summer school weeks at Bridge House Art's riverside studios.

Meanwhile the flock of' 'Chorus' birds have migrated from Ullapool and are now roosting in a new location. Read on to learn all about recent projects and see some of the amazing work being made by our creative students. Chorus roosting in Westering Home windows

One of the many beautiful objects developed whilst Playing in Silver Transformation in the studio garden

New courses for Autumn / Winter just released:
October - December 2013 Grain and Groove - expressive woodblock printmaking with Tiril Planterose. Starts Tuesday October 29th for 6 weeks. £80 (all materials provided)
Daring to Draw - drawing with Eleanor White. Starts Monday November 4th for 4 weeks. £60 (all materials provided)
Portfolio Booster - two one-day workshops to supplement art college applicants portfolios. Saturday November 9th - Observational drawing and portfolio review with Eleanor White and Christine Morrison Saturday November 23rd - Figure drawing with Sheila Robertson. £70 per day (all materials provided)
January - February 2014 Playing in Silver - Drawing, designing and making jewellery in silver with Merlin Planterose. Starts Tuesday January 7th for 6 weeks. £100 (all materials provided)

Chorus has Flown!

After an initial exhibition at the MacPhail centre, followed by hugely successful roosting in the shop windows on the corner of Argyle Street during the World Skiff Rowing Championship week, the display of wonderfully painted bird boxes then flew a few streets back from the seafront into the gallery space at An Talla Solais, Ullapool Visual Arts on Market Street. The bird boxes have now migrated out of Ullapool and landed safely into the new library at Dingwall.

The community project, led by Bridge House Art's Eleanor White, involved many members of communities from Ullapool and the surrounding areas. It involved photographers, Ornithologists, rangers, and members of the public from all ages and abilities. Yet again, Bridge House Art has created a wonderful display of the creativity and skills to be found locally. The exhibition is flying off to other areas in the near future, look out for updates on where they will be roosting next!