Abigail Penny Artist

27/02/2025

Want to watch a Magic show? You won't believe your eyes when you watch a blank canvas become a work of art! Bring your sketchbooks and imagination to join in with other artists 🎨🖌

-LIVE ART SESSION-

Join me the 3rd of March for another live art session 🙌
Starting from 19:00 until late, expect something dark and grim as per usual.
Feel free to bring your own material to share the space with other creatives for a chilling and relaxed evening.

25/02/2025

Starting 2025 with some Pyrography. I gifted friends plain wooden coffins for christmas and asked them how they wanted them personalised. As you can see each on is VERY different and I got to use alot of different techniques.
I enjoyed doing these very much and wish to do more awesome jobs like this!

I have 20 blank coffins waiting to be personalised! Want one? Get in touch through messenger and tell me your ideas and I'll do my best to make them a reality ✨️

PRICING VARIES ON HOURS TAKEN TO COMPLETE FULL DESIGN.

25/02/2025

After a longer than expected hiatus I feel the winds of change and inspiration taking hold again🎨🖌

19/11/2024

Pyrography Work. Otherwise known as wood burning. The wood was locally sourced from a fallen tree in Clova, the woods inspired the scenes.

10/09/2024

🍂FALL IS UPON US! And you know what that means?🍂
🎃🍁👻

10/09/2024

And I'm back! Took alittle longer than I first thought but I'm back and ready to get Artsy!

24/06/2024

Come join Tantibus and myself at Krakatoa tonight for art session tonight, let's get creating! 🖤🎨

19/06/2024

watch this space! :)

10/06/2024

Hello,

been a long time since I last posted, but there has been a reason for that

2 years ago around this time I made the decision to go back to college, to redo my HND. I had started my HNC in 2016, pregnant and worried I could not do it, but I gave it a shot, I had to leave after giving birth and was on hiatus until my child turned 5. Promised there would always be a space there waiting for me should I decide to comeback. Fair to say that statement was true.
I started back at North East Scotland College (Nescol) August 2022, and I can Proudly say I have finally achieved my Higher National Certificate (2023) and Higher National Diploma (2024). The Journey to achieve this was not the easiest but through it all I would not change a thing, everything worked out the way it needs to. I am blessed to have had such help and support and a lot of “YOU CAN DO IT.”
This time last year I promised myself that upon my return in September I would make give it my all and not hold back! Not only did I pass my projects but got such high praise, acknowledgement and reminded how good I am when I do not let doubt win.
I was honoured and privileged to have had such great lecturers and colleagues to work alongside, all of us at some point or another shedding tears and worrying that success was a long way off. I am mighty proud of everyone who pulled through and made it to the end of this journey and I wish them all the biggest of Success that life I’m sure will give them.
This is the end of an era for me, Education has played a huge role in my life, I have barely known life without structured learning, from Nursery to now I have been a pupil/student for 20 and a half years! Now I have finally achieved my goal of graduating from higher education, I can close this chapter.

Roll on Graduation in October 🎓👩‍🎓

25/06/2023

Art Organisations and Professional Bodies blog post

What are the benefits of memberships to Art Organisations and Professional Bodies? What are the differences between them? I have found they both provide benefits and help artists big and small.
Here are some of my findings for the Aberdeen Artist’s Society, Visual Artists Association.
Aberdeen Artist’s Society, formed in 1827 with the aim of this society was the mutual improvement of painting and the furtherance of art in general in Aberdeen. being re-invented over the past 192 years the society has stuck to the original aims, drawing artists from all over the country to exhibit their work through award prizing, hoping to boost new artist status. The society has a membership programme that offers opportunities for members to exhibit work and attend member-only events. There are 3 types of membership, ordinary, student and honorary. The Ordinary and Student memberships offer discounted submissions for exhibitions, 10% reduction in sales made from the exhibition and a reduction in commission on the sale of works the only difference between them is the price, the student membership being cheaper and only requires a valid student ID.
An example of a professional body that supports the visual arts is the Visual Artists Association, this body supports artists throughout all stages of their careers. The benefits include access to business services, using the best practices and being part of a wider community of artistic mentors and peers. For access to the latest professional insights, enhanced sales, opportunities, guidance, global community, and marketing tools, it is best to become a member, not only to gain these benefits but to also feel apart of a wider body. Also having support, the members can also receive training, mentoring, insurance, and advice also.
Most organisations help build those communities of likeminded individuals that can bounce ideas around one another and help build confidence. Professional bodies help promote the profession, progress the development of the individual and represents their members.

Sources
Aberdeen Artists Society info available at: Aberdeen Artists Society ,(accessed on 20/06/2023)
Membership for AAS available at: Aberdeen Artists Society , (accessed on 20/06/2023)
Visual Artists Association info available at: Visual Artists Association (visual-artists.org), (accessed on 20/06/2023)
Memberships for VAA available at: Visual Artists Association (visual-artists.org), (accessed on 20/06/2023)

25/06/2023

Funding and Exhibition Opportunities Blog Post

Funding Opportunities
Up until recently I didn’t know artists could get funding, I always thought funding only came from attending art programmes at college and art schools, I ended up falling down a rabbit hole I found there are quite a few funding opportunities for artists of all forms from traditional art to performance art, literature to filmography, and depending on where you live and what your creative practice is, the opportunities can both increase and decrease. From the few examples I have looked through, Creative Scotland funding programme supports all forms of art and media. The funding they offer is varied in what type you are looking for, from targeted to Partners Funding. You can apply online or contact them directly to get helpful advice and support in completing your application. One can find this funding by searching the links given by your educational place of attendance, a simple google search or from someone how has sought out funding before. Some funding bodies have certain criteria to receive the funding such as, having a well thought idea for what you want to achieve if given the grant, how you will achieve your goal using the grant, and how you intend to continue on as the artistic creative you are going forward. As artists the cost of materials and media is costly and if you mixed your media up and can be even more expensive, some funding bodies such as creative Scotland. All the funding bodies seem to have one shared goal, to keep the arts live and noticed. A world without art would be a very dull world indeed.
Exhibition Opportunities
The opportunity to have your own exhibition is something one may have to source out by themselves and to some that idea is a dream, for some being a part of a collective is better and shows a varied body of work and for sharing their work online on their own platform for other collective platform such as a college or gallery exhibition. Our class have been given an opportunity to put a piece of our work in a public space, the health village in Aberdeen, this is another good opportunity for your art to be seen by the public. I personally have been approached by a local gallery for my work to be displayed, after the buyer of one of my paintings got the painting framed. They want me to create a few pieces for their shop, to help support local artists.

Sources.
Craft Scotland info available at: Home of Scottish Contemporary Craft - Craft Scotland, (accessed on 18/06/2023)
Creative Scotland info available at: Home | Creative Scotland, (accessed on 18/06/2023)
Arts Council England Funds available at: Arts Council England, (accessed on 18/06/2023)
The Arts Society Grants info available at: The Arts Society Grants | The Arts Society , (accessed on 18/06/2023)
NESCOL CAP Course info available at: Contemporary Art Practice - (nescol.ac.uk), (accessed on 18/06/2023)

20/06/2023

My painting is hanging in the Health Village in Frederick Street :)