Paint with Pammy

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If you are new to painting or looking to develop your artistic talent, you have come to the right place.

Pammy's art club is a weekly painting group for artists with varying skills from beginners to professional and the one thing in common is the love of painting. Meeting weekly in Berriew Mid Wales, we share ideas, socialise and paint with likeminded artists and students.

We wanted to share our painting club with you and showcase some of our paintings, If you are interested in joining our group or would like to sign up for a our next painting classes feel free to email learn2paint.co.uk 

Currently we are running level one,two and three evening painting classes at the Chapel and have limited places available for our new correspondence painting classes, inconjunction with Coleg Powys and also have a Saturday afternoon art club.

If your interested in joining give us a call 01686 640722 for more information

   Chapel House Gallery and Art studio 

   Evening class students at work

 The Art Of Egg Crafting

Pamela Jones holds a goose egg that she has smoothed to a silken finish and with a gem marker inscribes a complex trellis such as faberge himself might work. The diamond edged drill then cuts through the shell, carving it out to leave a delicate lattice,writes Carolle Doyle.

This is the world of egg crafting and one that has enthralled Pamela for the past 15 years. In glass cabinets around the walls of the one time chapel that is now her home, studio and classroom. Ostrich and emu eggs sit upon intricate stands whilst goose eggs dangle on chains from brass spirals.

Some are carved and some open with tiny brass hinges to reveal a  swan or a baby, in one egg that has been turned into a teapot, a Chinaman. Many more are beautifully painted, many with birds that look out from the eggs with jewel bright eyes.

Pamela, points out that an ostrich egg is painted to depict the ascension of Christ. On the reverse a stairway shimmers with angels descending through the thin, eggshell blue ether. I look from the egg to the chapel wall in front of me for it bears the same scene. When she came here 9 years ago Pam wanted to paint something in sympathy with the building and so, Taking her theme from the egg, she painted a great mural across the entire wall. Christ lingers in Gethsemane and the angels,those smae angels that decorate the egg,are descending to meet him. "You see, he was going home was'nt he?  she says.

Pamela feels that she too has come home here to this chapel a mile or so from the black and white village of Berriew that lies between Welshpool and Newtown. Cosy cottage rooms open on to what was once the chapel itself with its high windows through which the light streams. Light that makes this vast space an ideal artist's studio. 

One wall is devoted to Pamela's paintings and her latest work, 'Macaw's feathers,' is still on the easel. The body of the room is taken up with a long table upon which, easels and water pots are set awaiting the students who fill the chapel house in spring and autumn. Pamela is an outreach tutor for Coleg Powys and as such she teaches art for level one two and three over nine weeks twice a year.

Other people find there way here of course, for Pamela's studio is also her gallery. She sells at the occasional craft fair and since joining Valley Arts and Crafts, her work will be for sale at their Lake Vyrnwy gallery and shop. Her eggs are brought by collectors worldwide but secretly, she grieves for those she has sold for each one has taken many hours of work. Pam has decided to hold an egg-crafting workshop in the summer so she can share this absorbing pass-time with others.

All sorts of people find their way here, she says. It may be quiet and away from the bustle of every day life, for that is what attracts not only Pamela, but visitors who come to admire the chapel house and her amazing artwork. from Aprils 2007 edition of North,Mid Wales & Borders Living. 

email Pammy @ learn2paint.co.uk