Live model drawing - adult beginners drawing at The Hearth Studio Gallery

The adults beginners Friday morning session at The Studio

12+ class - Tuesdays with Kate

The little people make magic at Tuesday afternoon art class

Fourth Film Evening in Cintsa - Sunday 30 April

DOUBLE SCREENING of Amelie followed by Chocolat. 5:45 for 6pm we press play. 2nd screening at 8:15. Bring picnics, blankets & comfy chairs! We'll have fires for warmth. R20 single screening, R30 double, R50 with wine.

PLOT SYNOPSES

Amelie
Fanciful comedy - French w. English subtitles. Run time 122 mins. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jennet 2001.
Starring Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus.

As a child Amelie is misdiagnosed with a heart defect, so she grows up without much real life contact with others and develops her own fantastical sense of love, beauty and justice. After finding a lost treasure she embarks on a journey of secretly transforming others’ lives with hilarious consequences. Amélie won Best Film at the European Film Awards; it also won four César Awards (including Best Film and Best Director), two BAFTA Awards (including Best Original Screenplay), and was nominated for five Academy Awards.

Chocolat

Comedy-drama. English. Run time 121 mins. Directed by Lasse Hallström, 2000.
Starring Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin, Johnny Depp, Carrie-Anne Moss.

1960s France: Vianne Rocher and her pre-teen daughter move into a conservative town and open a chocolate shop just as lent is beginning. They are met with skepticism and resistance by most of the townsfolk, and shake up the rigid morality of the community even more when Vianne takes up with Roux, the leader of the river drifters. As Vianne begins to work her magic and help those around her, the townspeople are soon won-over by her exuberance and her delicious chocolates - except for the mayor, who is determined to shut her down. Based on the novel of the same name by Joanne Harris. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It was also nominated for eight BAFTAs, and four Golden Globes. Judi Dench won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in the film.

Poetry reading - Friday 28 April 7PM

Works that pass through our shop V

Tersia Vermaak:

HAIKU II - acrylic on canvas, 70 x 51cm - SOLD

Kate Teesdale:

WHISPER (icosahedron) - coloured pencil on paper,
25 x 20cm framed - SOLD

Charlae Barter:

UNTITLED - woodcut and ink on paper, 60 x 46cm framed - SOLD

'Respond' - adults advanced drawing at The Hearth Studio Gallery

The task today was to respond to some zen poetry using coloured ink, watercolours and charcoal.  Three students, three responses.  One student taped two sheets of paper together to create a long landscape:

Third Film Evening in Cintsa - Friday 31 March

The 3rd Film Evening at The Hearth of Cintsa - we're screening Ernest et Célestine at 6pm, followed by The Secret of Kells at 7:30. Bring blankets, deck chairs and picnic baskets and join us under the stars for an evening of animated delight! R20 for single feature/R30 for double/R50 adults w. wine. Shop 3 Atalaia Building, Cintsa Drive, Cintsa East

Brief plot synopses for the two films: 

Ernest et Célestine (French w. Eng subtitles)
This whimsical animation featured at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and was the first animated film to win the Magritte Award for Best Film, among others. Based on the series of books by Belgian author & illustrator Gabrielle Vincent, this comedy-drama features the journey shared by Ernest the troubadour from the surface-dwelling bear world and Célestine the artist & dreamer from the underground mouse world whose unusual friendship is put on trial by their respective bear-fearing and mice-eating communities. Directed by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner. Running time 75mins.

The Secret of Kells
A remote medieval Irish abbey, a forest sprite, a young boy and an ancient unfinished book filled with secret wisdom are some of the elements of this fantastical animation which premiered in 2009 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Directed by Nora Twomey & Tomm Moore. Running time 79mins.

Work in progress

Tersia Vermaak at work on one of her 'Haiku' paintings, and its current state:

'Represent': students go public

Advanced class pressure is on to move outdoors and sketch in a very open space.  Today we went down to the Cintsa East beach entrance to sketch from plants, buildings and moving people.  The result was a great series of story-like drawings. The students had to take these home and 're-present' their captured scenes into larger drawings:

Second Film Evening in Cintsa

Introducing: our second Film Eve, next Friday 17 March. We're screening Basquiat (1996, 106 mins) starring Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Benicio del Toro, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Courtney Love, Claire Forlani, Christopher Walken and Willem Dafoe. It is a biographical drama based on the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat who used graffiti as a foundation to create collage-style paintings on canvas. Directed by Julian Schnabel, it popularises the myth of Basquiat as a young, gorgeous, doomed, yet ultimately transcendent black male artist who gets scooped up by the art establishment of his time. Please join us next Friday at 6:45 for 7pm. R50 with wine or R30 BYO. Hope to see you there!

March statement/what we're really about

Art is often considered an expensive luxury that only a small, elite portion of our society can afford and/or understand.

The Hearth showcases contemporary art products by both local and international artists that cater to a wide range of tastes and are affordable to all wallets.

By opening up an inclusive, free-minded space for exploring, creating, sharing and thinking about an Art that can serve as a vital part of our society's well-being and be a source of dialogue around re-imagining and re-designing our world, we aim to be the metaphorical 'fire in the family hearth' and the creative hub of our village, Cintsa East.

detail from Jeff Rankin's 'Total sacrifice' on display at The Hearth

The Hearth is home to a fine art studio gallery and shop, drawing class, and film theatre where we use art to invite a way of being and seeing that encourages thought, kindness, and intelligent movement through the world, and to challenge the limited cultural constructs that can repress and confine change and growth in our lives.

The common misperception that art is perhaps a product of leisure, no more than an impractical whim acting from the wayward desires and undisciplined senses of the idle or the insane, for example, is deconstructed and transformed into the rather more useful idea that art can be a healthy outlet and portal for sharing a diversity of ideas and for mapping newer, improved philosophies to guide us into life and the future.

Prospective clients, visiting friends and students at work can enjoy a cup of coffee here; young people come and use our art library for inspiration and reference after school; our walls carry a fresh, accessible and uplifting selection of exciting images and ideas that everyone can enjoy and appreciate.  The Hearth also has a small succulent nursery and a garden area at the back which serves as an event venue.

We stock paintings, drawings, prints, calendars, fabrics, illustrations and ceramics.

Film evenings in Cintsa

Something to look forward to here in Cintsa East is a new program of regular film screenings.  We'll start off on Friday 17 February with the Luc Besson's 1988 director's cut of The Big Blue, starring Rosanna Arquette and Jean Reno.  Tickets are R50 with wine/R30 B.Y.O. Regretfully no under 15s allowed.

2017 Schedule for drawing classes at The Hearth

The Hearth Drawing Classes Schedule 2017

Adult Beginners - Wednesdays 18:30 - 20:30 R120 per lesson incl. materials

Adult Beginners - Fridays 10:30 - 12:30 R120 per lesson incl. materials

Adult Advanced - Tuesdays 9:00 - 11:30 R120 per lesson incl. materials

The beginners class:
No experience necessary, just have an interest in drawing or creativity of any kind. This class trains you to see, and to open the bridge between the seeing apparatus of the imagination and the drawing muscles of the hand/body. The class has already begun, however it is flexible to allow drop-in students to attend.

The advanced class: 

Some art-making or other experience working with the creative process is necessary. This class explores the definition of drawing through experimentation and conscious mark-making processes and exposes students to alternative mediums for drawing. Drop-ins welcome.

Some shots from the Adults Advanced class earlier this year - students had to find 'other' mediums to draw for e.g. teabags and soil, and then bring in more conventional mediums such as ink and pen:

Current studio view

Our studio looking more colourful than ever:

Treasures currently held at The Hearth: Ymke Hemminga illustration

Delightful drawing prints on cards by illustrator Ymke Hemminga:

Treasures currently held at The Hearth: T-shirts by Emma Rankin

T-shirts printed by Emma Rankin using original hand-cut woodblocks. Adult and children's sizes available: