You've seen it First!

Here is a sneaky peak at my latest picture titled ‘Everyone wants to be a Hero?’

 Everyone wants to be a Hero? | Mixed Media on Canvas | Leanne Broadbent | 2013 |

I hope you all like it!  

The Big Draw 2013

On Saturday 12^th October I was at Beverley Art Gallery leading this years ‘The Big Draw’ 2013. We had a fantastic time with lots of fun, lots of laughs and most importantly lots of drawing!

The participants observed from a life model sat amongst a still life. The model was excellent and sat for long poses for an hour at a time. Between 10am – 3pm, people dropped by with some staying for one sketch and others stayed to create many more!

We had students, children and adults visiting all coming together to create and draw! Here are some pictures from the day!

 

Latest Stock!

Here are three of my latest designs for my pocket mirror collection. I think they would make great little stocking fillers!

They are available to buy through selected stockists and directly from me.

I hope you like them!

My new Christmas Card Design for 2013

My apologies for putting these on my blog so soon but drum roll please…

Here is my new Christmas card design for this year! It is titled 'Christmas Presents!' and is a picture of my cat Poppy and my friends lovely dog Louie who she kindly let me borrow to work from!

Christmas Presents!

And of course here my two popular card designs from last year all available for sale now through my stockists!!!

 Timmy- Santa's Little Helper!

Hannah - Santa's Little Helper!

 

I hope you like them!!!

Macmillan's Biggest Coffee Morning

On Friday 27^th of September I was privileged to be part of Macmillan’s Biggest Coffee Morning at Rag’s Restaurant in Bridlington. This is one of Macmillan's biggest fundraising events were people across the UK hold a coffee morning. All donations on the day are made to Macmillan and in 2012 115,000 people signed up, raising a record £15 million.

My contribution to the event was some lovely home baked goods to go with coffee which I hope people enjoyed! I made Raspberry Swiss Rolls and Lemon Drizzle Slices!

I also had my own stall alongside the local gifting shop Serendipity; we all had a lovely time and met some great people. All in all Rags Restaurants event raised £340.88 which I think is an amazing amount of money going to a very good cause.

 

Here are a few pictures of my stall

 

 



 

And here is Serendipity's Stall

 

Charity Exhibition for a Good Cause!

From Saturday 5^th October till Sunday 20^th October The Riverside in Sheffield will see the special exhibition ‘Don’t Judge a Dog by its Collar!’

This exhibition is a charity fundraising exhibition in aid of Rain Rescue a small pet rescue charity in Sheffield saving the lives of hundreds of abandoned and abused cats and dogs since 2002.

All artworks have been donated by artists from Sheffield and the UK and I am very happy to be amongst those artists who will be exhibiting.

All work will be on sale via auction and works can be bid on at the exhibition or via the facebook page www.facebook.com/RainRescue and money will go directly to the charity. So please give generously it is a really good cause!

All are very welcome to the Preview which will be on Saturday 5^th October were you can meet the dogs and listen to live music!

Venue:  The Riverside

1         Mowbray Street

Sheffield

S3 8EN

 

 

Lots of Previews!!!

It seems this weekend that everyone along the Yorkshire Coast was having art previews and so for the art lover out there, there were lots of previews to choose from!

Friday 6^th September was also the evening of my group exhibition at Ga11ery Eleven in Filey; the ‘untitled’ exhibition is an eclectic mix of anything from seascapes to liquorice Allsorts! The atmosphere was amazing as the gallery was full to the brim; I haven’t been to a preview this packed out in a while so it was great to be part of.

Ga11ery Eleven owner Fiona - Having a good time before doors openned!

 

Lots of lovely wine and nibbles!

 

The exhibition is featuring some of my original artworks alongside my gifting range. Also exhibited is work by Wendy Tate, Caroline Thompson and many more. The exhibition is now on display until Saturday 30^th November!

A mixed of my original art work and gifting range!

My Eco Bags in Baubles!

Artwork by Caroline Thompson

 

This weekend I also visited another preview on Saturday 7^thSeptember featuring the work of two lovely artists Angela Chalmers and Bren Head amongst others at Gallery Forty-Nine in Bridlington. I attended university with Angela so I am very familiar with her beautiful works but I haven’t seen Bren’s work many times before. I was captivated by the haunting beauty of her work and certain areas where the paint layers were striped back and reapplied which gave amazing texture. ‘Bodyscape’ is now on until 28^th September.

Bren Head

Angela Chalmers

 

If you didn't make the previews then there is plenty of time to go and view the exhibitions!