Clare Melinsky Workshops in February 2013

The planned Clare Melinsky print workshop for next Monday November 19th has been postponed until February, when Clare will be running four new sessions.
 
The February workshops cost £50 including lunch in our cafe, and morning and afternoon refreshments.

Clare will help you design your own works of art.

The workshop dates are: Friday 1st, Saturday 2nd, Saturday 9th and Tuesday 12th February 2013.

Beginners and returning students are welcome; minimum age 16; only six students per session.

And if you are stuck for a Christmas present idea: a workshop could make a great gift for a friend or relative.

Ring 01848 331 553 to book a place. Or email: info@thomastosh.com.

Clare Melinsky Workshops this November

Clare's linocut poster for her workshops

Clare Melinsky is running more of her popular lino cut one-day workshops this November at Thomas Tosh.

Clare will help you design your own work of art, from greetings card designs to special prints you can take home. 

Learn great skills from this respected print maker whose illustrations have graced Royal Mail stamps, Shakespeare and Harry Potter editions, adverts and labels, and newspaper columns. The November  workshops take place on Saturday 3rd, Friday 9th and Saturday 10th, and Monday 19th. Beginners and returning students are welcome; minimum age 16; only six students per session. 

Clare also notes that by attending more than one workshop, you will be able to build on previous work and skills to create more elaborate prints. This might work particularly well for people who choose to attend both the November 9th and 10th workshops.

Each session costs £50 including lunch in our cafe, and morning and afternoon refreshments. Ring 01848 331 553 to book a place. Or email: info@thomastosh.com

Clare is also running workshops in February 2013. The dates are: Friday 1st, Saturday 2nd, Saturday 9th, Tuesday 12th. Booking is now open for those sessions too.

Emma Gray's exhibition flies in

A Plane Perspective from Emma Gray

Our latest exhibition gives a martial twist to the tradition of the Dumfries and Galloway landscape. Slade School of Art graduate Emma Gray has spent the last year scanning the sky over Thornhill and our surrounding areas for low flying military aircraft. 

Emma's distinctive landscapes always stand out, but they've an added dimension with the mechanical might of the RAF. 

The exhibition launches this coming Saturday (8th September), from 10am. Emma will be at Tosh to chat to customers about her new work. You are very welcome. Entry is free and the exhibition runs until 3rd October. Click here to find out more

To Morocco exhibition launch tonight

It's the opening tonight (Friday 3rd August) at 7pm of To Morocco and the Atlas. This is an exhibition two years in the making by artists Jan Coventry and Lewis Waugh. They've followed in the footsteps of Victorian explorer and local hero Joseph Thomson who explored the High Atlas way back in 1888.

This isn't an exhibition stuck in the past. Jan and Lewis's vibrant and colourful works are great contemporary takes on the stunning and often overwhelming  Atlas that Thomson first found 124 years ago.

The married couple's pieces are stylistically very different, but really complement each other. This is a great exhibition that shows passion, love of adventure, and great artistry. It is wonderful to have it here for the height of summer. If you are around Thornhill, it would be lovely to see you. Entry is free.

written by Paul O'Keeffe

Local Types' Last Week

Customers Beth & Val (centre) with Hugh enjoying the Local Types pamphlet.

It's the final seven days of the Local Types exhibition at Thomas Tosh. Hugh Bryden's 'prinstallation' of local nicknames has been amusing lots of customers. Pamphlets of the exhibition are also available. The exhibition runs until 14th July, Thornhill Gala Day.

Hugh's final touches to Local Types

Hugh at work

Hugh Bryden is putting the finishing touches to the Local Types exhibition this week. Thomas Tosh customers have been leaving  suggestions of nicknames to be added to the wall over the past few weeks. Hugh will be putting the last of these up. And this coming Saturday (30th June), he'll be launching the pamphlet of the exhibition. It's filled with his great visualisations of nicknames, and will be a memento once the exhibition disappears forever after the 14th July. The pamphlet launch is at 3pm.

written by Paul O'Keeffe

BATTLE VALLEYS BOOK LAUNCH

Ronald Turnbull's New Book

Local author Ronald Turnbull will be bringing to life the fierce history of some of the finest glens and valleys  in the region next Tuesday (12th June) at Thomas Tosh in Thornhill. 

Ronald will be launching his new book on the historic and violent background of what he calls 'the Battle Valleys'. He'll give a talk with accompanying slide show, and will take part in a question & answer session. 

Entry is free. The event starts at 7.30pm and there's a licensed bar with refreshments. Copies of the new book, priced £16.99 will be available to buy. And Ronald will be happy to sign editions.