Maryhill Art Group

Continuing from last week’s theme of spring growth we probed the branchy twisting shapes within trees, more easily seen before all the leaves come out. Thinking about the graceful shapes and sense of wisdom that trees convey, we were free to make more artworks and… Read More »Mysterious shapes and energy of trees

The buds of spring and shoots, and young green leaves inspired us over two nights at Maryhill Art Group. We used our senses to look closely at the buds, daffodils and other spring shoots and flowers we had brought in, also smelling the scents. After… Read More »Spring growth and life emerging

See if you can decode this curious creative piece of writing-drawing by one of participants, it has a rocky theme. Kindly supported by Glasgow Connected Arts Network

Freedom in open spaces and big marks! Continuing from last session’s rocky theme of rocks under the earth in Glasgow, we took this into wider dimensions with more spacious scenes of sea, islands, birds. This was influenced also by the rock and raked gravel dry… Read More »Expansive vistas, soaring gannets, flying marks

Inspired by the rocks under our feet in Glasgow, from the carboniferous to the metamorphic hundreds of millions of years ago. We drew and doodled from our rock collection as well as from our imagination, thinking about lava rising up through the sea to create… Read More »Lava rising from patterns of earth and rock

After some relaxing doodles of love hearts to celebrate the group being on Valentines day, with some joyful Ryokan poetry, we picked up the cityscape-cosmos theme again with some smaller doodles first then prepared for a large piece. One of the group brought in an… Read More »Love is in the air, with satellites whizzing by the stars

‘Art is magic’ ‘Art is explosion’ Two quotes by the Japanese 20th Century sculptor and painter Okamoto Taro. His large sun and moon heads inspired us to develop some drawings based on the heavens and its deep connection to us in the city environment. We… Read More »Exploring the cosmos, with a slice of watermelon ?

In the last two sessions of Maryhill art group in 2018, with it getting closer to Christmas (and also the fact that the centre staff asked if we could make some decorations for the building) we had festive pattern themed groups. Folk seemed to take… Read More »Snowflakes and festive natural patterns

Continuing our mysterious doodly journey into the environment of sea and shore, we began with some imaginative doodles of the moon above the sea, inspired by some old poems. Thinking about the sea creatures and kelp and coral, we also wrote a few words about… Read More »Swimming through the kelp forest